British Light Music Classics - 1
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Composer: Eric [Composer] CoatesComposer: Geoffrey Toye
Composer: Anthony [1] Collins
Composer: Robert Farnon
Composer: Sydney Baynes
Composer: Frederic Curzon
Composer: W. Meyer Lutz
Composer: Ronald Binge
Composer: Charles Williams
Composer: Cecil Armstrong Gibbs
Composer: Edward Little White
Composer: Albert W. Ketelbey
Composer: Archibald Joyce
Composer: Vivian [Composer/Piano] Ellis
Composer: Charles Ancliffe
Conductor: Ronald Corp
Orchestra: New London Orchestra
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 1996-06-10
Music Label: Hyperion UK
Soundtracks:
- Calling All Workers
- The Haunted Ballroom
- Vanity Fair
- Jumping Bean
- Destiny
- The Boulevardier
- Pas De Quatre
- The Watermill
- The Devil's Galop
- Dusk
- Puffin' Billy
- Bells Across The Meadows
- The Old Clockmaker
- Dreaming
- Elizabethan Serenade
- Coronation Scot
- Nights Of Gladness
Music reviews of British Light Music Classics - 1
Music Review: Many middlebrow masterworks in the mix
Rating: 5 Stars
Eric Coates' "Calling All Workers" and Edward White's "Puffin' Billy" (used as Captain Kangaroo's theme music!) are the two main reasons to buy this first-rate CD. The former work, from 1940, is an elegantly rousing and structurally flawless march in symmetrical binary form, with the second section making its final appearance in augmentation, the note values doubled for wonderful dramatic effect. Such by-the-book perfection is news when encountered in Mozart or Beethoven, and it should be given its due here. The equally effective "Puffin' Billy" is breezily structured by comparison, with a minimum of thematic material transformed through theme and variation and frequent modulations into a charming and satisfyingly complete train journey. The piece is repetitious as can be, but it doesn't sound that way, and therein lies the miracle of its composition. These two works steal the CD, hands-down.But there are several close seconds, including the marvelous, Satie-worthy "The Boulevardier," and "The Haunted Ballroom," a piece that evokes the title in a way that is almost spooky. And there's a corny but lovely piece by Albert ("In a Persian Market") Ketelbey called "Bells Across the Meadows." Ketelbey cunningly and cleverly suggests the bells of the title through the subtlest of means--namely, bells sounding in the distance. Across the meadows, almost. But the music works, and that's all that matters.
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