Hyperion Records | British Light Music Classics, Vol. 4

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CDA67400
Archive Service; also available on CDS44261/4

Recording details: April 2002
St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Mark Brown
Engineered by Julian Millard
Release date: September 2002
Total duration: 75 minutes 48 seconds

EDITOR'S CHOICE (GRAMOPHONE)
BEST BUY (CLASSIC FM MAGAZINE)

'respectfully and meticulously played … this impeccably produced program – like its three predecessors – remains a precedent-setting endeavour that is sure to elicit grateful appreciation from many quarters' (Fanfare, USA)

'Ronald Corp has few rivals in conveying one prerequisite element of this repertoire – charm' (BBC Music Magazine)

'The playing is exuberant, the recording ripe' (The Evening Standard)

'The playing struck me as even finer than in the past and the sound … first class, as before' (Hi Fi News)

'infectious stuff, delivered with corresponding relish' (Yorkshire Post)

'Le travail entrepris par Corp et Hyperion est remarquable, sans concession à la qualité instrumentale ou sonore' (Répertoire, France)

'This fourth compilation, in Hyperion’s hugely successful British light music is another winner … Some eighty minutes of sheer delight' (musicweb.uk.net)

British Light Music Classics, Vol. 4

New London Orchestra, Ronald Corp (conductor)

LISTEN TO ALL EXTRACTS

1		Marching Strings [2'45] Marshall Ross (1918-1988) & Ray Martin (1918-1988)
		Ring of Kerry Peter Hope (b1930)
2		Movement 1: Jaunting Car [2'46]
3		High Heels [3'13] Trevor Duncan (1924-2005) & Leonard Charles Trebilcock (1924-2005)
4		Dance of an ostracized imp [3'21] Frederic Curzon (1899-1973)
		A Keltic Suite, Op 29 John Herbert Foulds (1880-1939)
5		Movement 2: Keltic Lament [4'14] Michal Kaznowski (cello)
6		Rhythm on rails [2'47] Charles Williams (1893-1978)
7		By the sleepy lagoon [4'03] Eric Coates (1886-1957)
8		Jamaican Rumba [2'06] Arthur Benjamin (1893-1960)
9		In a monastery garden [5'53] Albert W Ketèlbey (1875-1959)
10		A quiet stroll [2'55] Charles Williams (1893-1978)
		Two Parisian Sketches Percy Fletcher (1879-1932)
11		No 1: Demoiselle chic [3'59]
12		Cavalcade of youth [3'40] Jack Beaver (1900-1963)
13		Elizabethan Masque [2'16] Fredric Bayco (1913-1970) Ruth Scott (oboe)
14		Shepherd Fennel's Dance [5'31] Henry Balfour Gardiner (1877-1950)
15		Thrills [6'04] Charles Ancliffe (1880-1952)
		The Merchant of Venice Frederick Rosse (1867-1940)
16		Extract: The Doge's March [4'55]
		Petite suite de concert, Op 77 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912)
17		Movement 1: La caprice de Nanette [4'00]
18		Movement 2: Demande et réponse [4'56]
19		Movement 3: Un sonnet d'amour [4'01]
20		Movement 4: La tarantelle frétillante [2'23]

Here's another CD to add to our ever-popular ‘British Light Music Classics’ series, again under the sprightly baton of Ronald Corp. The mixture is as before - lots of well-known melodies, the titles and composers of which we all have trouble remembering, except perhaps for Eric Coates's By the Sleepy Lagoon (forever associated with 'Desert Island Disc'), In a Monastery Garden, and perhaps Jamaican Rumba. Marching Strings will be familiar to all as the signature tune of 'Top of the Form'. A couple of the titles seem not to have been heard for many years, although once popular, such as The Doge's March from 'The Merchant of Venice' incidental music, and particularly the haunting Keltic Lament of John Foulds which it seems hasn't been recorded in many a long year. The CD also contains a complete performance of the Petite Suite de Concert of Coleridge-Taylor, containing the well-known Demande et Réponse ('Question and Answer').

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