MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: British Light Classics (Incls 'Shepherd's Hey', 'Bells Across the Meadow' & 'Portrait of a Flirt')

MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: British Light Classics (Incls 'Shepherd's Hey', 'Bells Across the Meadow' & 'Portrait of a Flirt') cover $17.00 Low Stock add to cart

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MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: British Light Classics (Incls 'Shepherd's Hey', 'Bells Across the Meadow' & 'Portrait of a Flirt')
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Charles Groves / Studio Two Concert Orchestra, Reginald Kilbey / Philharmonia Orchestra, John Lanchbery

[ EMI Classics for Pleasure / CD ]

Release Date: Monday 21 July 2008

"This is music to cherish and enjoy and these performances are top notch. The sound is generally very good...Don't be without this scrumptious disk."
(MusicWeb Nov 2008)

What exactly is Light Music? It can most easily be defined by its emphasis on instantly accessible and catchy melodies - as Andrew Gold, Head of the BBC's Light Music Unit from 1965 to 1969 said: "Light Music is where the tune is more important than what you do with it". Much of it is instantly familiar to more mature listeners through its use in the genre's heyday - the 1930s, 40s and 50s - as theme tunes for radio and television.

"Plenty more to amuse and invigorate of course; nostalgia runs riot in the "Bonus tracks"...those of you who warmed your bones on the gruel of the times should enjoy the theme tunes to Top of the Form, The Archers, In Town Tonight (a frisky Sidney Torch in charge of proceedings) and that bastion of the seafaring race, the Late Night Shipping Forecast."
(MusicWeb October 2008)

"This is music to cherish and enjoy and these performances are top notch. The sound is generally very good - some of the extras are of an older vintage and thus sound more boxy but don't let that worry you, the transfers are excellent. The notes are brief but give enough information about the collection. Don't be without this scrumptious disk."
(MusicWeb Nov 2008)

Tracks:

1. The Merrymakers - Miniature Overture (Coates)
2. Knightsbridge March from London Suite (Coates)
3. Elizabethan Serenade(Binge)
4. The Watermill (Binge)
5. In a Persian Market (Ketèlbey)
6. By the Sleepy Lagoon - Valse (Coates)
7. Calling All Workers March (Coates)
8. Country Gardens (Grainger)
9. Irish Tune from County Derry Londonderry Air (Grainger)
10. March from A Little Suite (Duncan)
11. In a Monastery Garden (Ketèlbey)
12. Dusk from Fancy Dress (Gibbs)
13. Mock Morris (Grainger)
14. Shepherd's Hey (Grainger)
15. Bells Across the Meadow (Ketèlbey)
16. Oxford Street (March) (from London Again - Suite) (Coates)
17. Devil's Galop(Williams)
18. Barwick Green (from My Native Heath Suite)(Wood)
19. Marching Strings (Top Of The Form) (Martin)
20. Sailing By (Binge)
21. Portrait of a Flirt (Farnon)