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CDA67148

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Recording details: August 1999
St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Tony Faulkner & Oliver Rivers
Engineered by Tony Faulkner
Release date: March 2000
Total duration: 77 minutes 21 seconds

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GRAMOPHONE CRITICS' CHOICE

'Throughout, Corp ... has one great asset – charm, and I defy you not to sit listening to these appealing morceaux without a permanent grin on your face' (International Record Review)

'If you've a soft spot for this kind of repertoire you'll love it' (BBC CD Review)

'Ronald Corp and the New London Orchestra play with their familiar accomplishment and affection and, if anything, an even surer grasp of pace than before. The CD is gratifyingly full and excellently recorded. More, please!' (Gramophone)

'Corp’s performances are sumptuous' (Sunday Times)

'An artfully cherry-picked selection played with affection and zest, which will leave you with a warm glow – and perhaps a feeling of regret that no one writes music like this any more' (Classic FM Magazine)

British Light Music Classics, Vol. 3
New London Orchestra, Ronald Corp (conductor)
Paris  Haydn Wood (1882-1959)
1
Movement 3: Montmartre  [3'47]
2
Melody on the move  [2'42]  Clive Richardson (1909-1998), arr. Ronald Hanmer (1917-1994)
3
In party mood  [4'01]  Jack Strachey (1894-1972)
4
The girl from Corsica  [4'37]  Trevor Duncan (1924-2005) & Leonard Charles Trebilcock (1924-2005)
The Runaway Girl  Lionel Monckton (1861-1924), arr. Carl Kiefert (c1855-1937)
5
Extract: Soldiers in the park 'Oh, listen to the band'  [3'51]
6
Valse septembre  [5'22]  Felix Godin (c1864-1925) & Henry Albert Brown (c1864-1925), arr. Adolf Lotter (1871-1942)
7
Miss Melanie  [2'25]  Ronald Binge (1910-1979)
8
Pink Lady Waltz  [5'25]  Ivan Caryll (1861-1921), arr. Henry Marcellus Higgs (1855-1929)
9
Portrait of a flirt  [2'44]  Robert Farnon (1917-2005)
10
Siciliano  [4'27]  Harry Dexter (1910-1973)
11
In a Persian market  [6'15]  Albert W Ketèlbey (1875-1959)
New London Light Opera Chorus
12
Theatreland  [3'19]  Jack Strachey (1894-1972), arr. Don Bowden (1906-1966)
13
Songe d'Automne  [4'46]  Archibald Joyce (1873-1963)
14
Alpine Pastures  [3'40]  Vivian Ellis (1903-1996), arr. Sidney Torch (1908-1990)
15
Little Serenade  [3'31]  Ernest Tomlinson (b1924)
16
Woodland Revel  [3'10]  George Melachrino (1909-1965)
17
Lady of Spain  [3'02]  Tolchard Evans (1901-1978), arr. Fred Hartley (1905-1991) & Ken Warner (1902-1988)
18
Smiles, then kisses  [4'26]  Charles Ancliffe (1880-1952)
19
On a Spring note  [2'31]  Sidney Torch (1908-1990)
20
Music everywhere 'Rediffusion March'  [3'20]  Eric Coates (1886-1957)
Another collection of favourites from an earlier generation - indeed from three earlier generations. Again the titles may not be familiar but in most cases the melodies will be. In Party Mood, for instance, may furrow a few brows until it starts to play, when it's safe to say that everybody in Britain over a certain age will immediately recognise it as the signature tune of the BBC's long-running 'Housewives Choice'. Alpine Pastures (1955) will be scarcely less familiar through its use as signature tune of another long-running radio series, 'My Word'. The first two volumes each included something by Albert W Ketèlbey and this one presents perhaps his best-loved piece, In a Persian Market from 1920, evoking images of camel-drivers, jugglers and snake-charmers, and heard here complete with its chorus of beggars. The earliest piece on the disc dates from 1898 - Lionel Monckton's Soldiers in the Park from The Runaway Girl. It's perhaps better known by the first line of its chorus, 'Oh, listen to the band!' Valse Septembre by Felix Godin has recently enjoyed renewed exposure in the film Titanic. We hear it here in the original orchestration.

21 delightful tracks altogether, sparklingly played, as usual, by Ronald Corp and his band of merry men and women of The New London Orchestra. Their manifest joy in making this recording is very apparent in this happy disc.

 
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