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Track(s) taken from CDA67400

Dance of an ostracized imp

composer
1940

New London Orchestra, Ronald Corp (conductor)
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: 3 minutes 21 seconds

Cover artwork: Green Park. Robert Buhler (1916-1989)
Royal Academy of Arts, London
 

Reviews

‘Ronald Corp has few rivals in conveying one prerequisite element of this repertoire—charm’ (BBC Music 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)

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

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

‘This fourth compilation, in Hyperion’s hugely successful British light music is another winner … some eighty minutes of sheer delight’ (MusicWeb International)

‘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)
Frederic Curzon (1899–1973) was a stalwart of British light music and a fine craftsman. As head of the light music department of Boosey & Hawkes, he was also responsible for encouraging many younger composers. London-born, he studied violin, cello, piano and organ, became pianist in a London theatre orchestra, and by the age of twenty was conducting and composing for silent films. Later he was active as a cinema organist but concentrated increasingly on composition. We hear his wittily titled and whimsically conceived Dance of an Ostracised Imp (1940). Whatever the title means, it seems to capture the spirit of the piece admirably!

from notes by Andrew Lamb © 2002

Other albums featuring this work

British Light Music Classics
CDS44261/44CDs Boxed set (at a special price) — Download only
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