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CDA66968

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Recording details: October 1996
St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Oliver Rivers
Engineered by Tony Faulkner
Release date: March 1997
Total duration: 75 minutes 50 seconds

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GRAMOPHONE EDITOR'S CHOICE

'Should more than satisfy those who like a good tune! Many of the old favourites here will be forever associated with radio and television signature tunes … Nostalgia is the key to many of thse pieces, but a collection such as this reminds us that the thing which really binds this collection together is the quality of the music itself' (BBC Music Magazine)

British Light Music Classics, Vol. 2
New London Orchestra, Ronald Corp (conductor)
London Suite  Eric Coates (1886-1957)
1
Movement 3: Knightsbridge  [4'34]
Two Parisian Sketches  Percy Fletcher (1879-1932)
2
No 2: Bal masqué  [6'35]
3
The Grasshopper's Dance  [4'10]  Ernest Bucalossi (1863-1933)
My Native Heath  Arthur Wood (1875-1953)
4
Movement 4: Barwick Green  [3'20]
5
Rouge et noir  [2'46]  Fred Hartley (1905-1991)
6
The Peanut Polka  [2'56]  Robert Farnon (1917-2005)
7
Carriage and Pair  [2'49]  Benjamin Frankel (1906-1973)
London Landmarks  Haydn Wood (1882-1959)
8
Movement: The Horse Guards, Whitehall  [3'50]
Little Suite  Trevor Duncan (1924-2005) & Leonard Charles Trebilcock (1924-2005)
9
Movement: March  [3'18]
10
Sailing by  [2'50]  Ronald Binge (1910-1979)
11
Portuguese Party  [3'19]  Gilbert Vinter (1909-1969)
12
Beachcomber  [3'13]  Clive Richardson (1909-1998)
13
In the shadows  [5'54]  Herman Finck (1872-1939)
14
Tabarinage  [3'28]  Robert Docker (1918-1992)
15
Sanctuary of the heart 'Méditation religieuse'  [4'50]  Albert W Ketèlbey (1875-1959)
16
The Westminster Waltz  [2'58]  Robert Farnon (1917-2005)
17
Carissima  [3'41]  Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
18
Girls in grey  [2'38]  Charles Williams (1893-1978)
19
The Runaway Rocking-Horse  [3'59]  Edward White (1910-1994)
Robin Hood Suite  Frederic Curzon (1899-1973)
20
Movement 3: March of the Bowmen  [4'42]
British Light Music Classics 1 (CDA66868) was one of the best-selling CDs of 1996 and put lots of smiles on people's faces. In fact it is still – late January – in the charts. Its success has inspired this second disc which contains another 20 well-known favourites spanning the century, the earliest being Bucalossi's Grasshopper's Dance from 1905 and Herman Finck's In the Shadows from 1910. Once again many of the pieces will be familiar as radio and TV signature tunes – to 'Down Your Way', 'Dr Finlay's Casebook', 'TV Newsreel', 'The Archers' and, from the 1940s, 'In Town Tonight', the first broadcast of which brought tens of thousands of requests to the BBC for the name of the introductory music, Eric Coates's march Knightsbridge.

Volume 1 was also praised for its sound. Like that one, this volume was recorded by ace engineer TONY FAULKNER. Altogether another very happy record and certain to be one of 1997's best sellers.

 
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