Hyperion Records | British Light Music Classics, Vol. 1

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CDA66868

Recording details: December 1995
St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Oliver Rivers
Engineered by Tony Faulkner
Release date: May 1996
Total duration: 76 minutes 31 seconds

CLASSIC CD READERS' RECORD OF THE YEAR
GRAMOPHONE EDITOR'S CHOICE / RECORD OF THE MONTH / CRITICS' CHOICE

'Music that will make older readers revel in nostalgia and younger listeners discover an abundance of charming tunes that will spin around in their heads for days … An entrancing collection packaged in warm, ravishing sound' (BBC Music Magazine)

'For light music specialist and general music lover alike, this collection should prove pure delight' (Gramophone)

'The noble but under-rated tradition of British light music played to the manner born by Corp and his band who, if anything, improve on the original recordings' (Classic CD)

'Espléndido disco' (CD Compact, Spain)

British Light Music Classics, Vol. 1

New London Orchestra, Ronald Corp (conductor)

LISTEN TO ALL EXTRACTS

1		Calling all workers [3'20] Eric Coates (1886-1957)
2		The Haunted Ballroom [8'15] Geoffrey Toye (1889-1942)
3		Vanity Fair [3'53] Anthony Collins (1893-1963)
4		Jumping Bean [2'24] Robert Farnon (1917-2005)
5		Destiny [8'29] Sydney Baynes (1879-1938)
6		The Boulevardier [3'55] Frederic Curzon (1899-1973)
7		Pas de quatre [3'39] Wilhelm Meyer Lutz (c1829-1903)
8		The Watermill [3'45] Ronald Binge (1910-1979) Ruth Scott (oboe)
9		The Devil's Galop [3'12] Charles Williams (1893-1978)
		Fancy Dress Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (1889-1960)
10		Extract: Dusk [6'07]
11		Puffin' Billy [3'40] Edward White (1910-1994)
12		Bells across the meadows [4'40] Albert W Ketèlbey (1875-1959)
13		The Old Clockmaker [3'12] Charles Williams (1893-1978)
14		Dreaming [6'04] Archibald Joyce (1873-1963)
15		Elizabethan Serenade [3'20] Ronald Binge (1910-1979)
16		Coronation Scot [2'57] Vivian Ellis (1903-1996)
17		Nights of gladness [5'39] Charles Ancliffe (1880-1952)

Britain has a fine tradition in the creation of quality light music - music of the sort that plumbs no intellectual or emotional stimulation, but lifts the spirits with ingratiating melodies decked out with consummate craftsmanship. In this collection are gathered some of the classics that the genre has produced over a period from Victorian times to the second Elizabethan age. Seventeen tracks of music universally recognizable: many of the pieces have introduced television and radio broadcasts for years: Calling All Workers (Music While You Work); Devil's Galop (Dick Barton - Special Agent); The Old Clockmaker (Jennings at School); Coronation Scot (Paul Temple Detective Series); Puffin' Billy (Children's Favourites); The Watermill (The Secret Garden). The disc also includes Jumping Bean, claimed to have been used as a signature tune around the world more times than any other piece!

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