The Best Of British Light Music

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Audio Samples

Album Summary

Performer

• Vernon Handley

Conductor

• Handley, Vernon

Ensemble

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Composers

• Robert Farnon (Composer/Conductor) (1917 - 2005)
• Anonymous
• Trevor Duncan (1924 - 2005)
• Edward Little White (1910 - 1994)
• Arthur Wood (1875 - 1953)
• Ron Goodwin (Composer/Conductor) (1925 - 2003)
• Eric Coates (Composer) (1886 - 1957)
• Ronald Binge (1910 - 1979)
• Arthur Benjamin (1893 - 1960)
• Anthony Collins (1893 - 1963)
• Vivian Ellis (Composer/Piano) (1903 - 1996)
• Charles Ancliffe
• Haydn Wood (Composer) (1882 - 1959)
• Ernest Tomlinson (Conductor) (1924 - )
• Ernest Bucalossi

Notes & Reviews:

Recording information: Blackheath Halls (04/16/1997/04/17/1997).

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Works Details

Goodwin, Ron : 633 Squadron :: Main Theme

• Performer: Vernon Handley
• Conductor: Vernon Handley
• Running Time: 2 min. 40 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Film Score
• Written: 1964

Ellis, Vivian : Coronation Scot, for orchestra

• Performer: Vernon Handley
• Conductor: Vernon Handley
• Running Time: 2 min. 49 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Farnon, Robert : Westminster Waltz, for orchestra

• Performer: Vernon Handley
• Conductor: Vernon Handley
• Running Time: 2 min. 52 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Waltz

Coates, Eric [Composer] : London Suite :: Knightsbridge

• Performer: Vernon Handley
• Conductor: Vernon Handley
• Running Time: 4 min. 16 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1933

Coates, Eric [Composer] : London Suite :: Covent Garden

• Performer: Vernon Handley
• Conductor: Vernon Handley
• Running Time: 4 min. 55 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1933

Ancliffe, Charles : Nights of Gladness, waltz

• Performer: Vernon Handley
• Conductor: Vernon Handley
• Running Time: 4 min. 51 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Waltz
• Written: 1912

Anonymous : Mexican Hat Dance

• Performer: Vernon Handley
• Conductor: Vernon Handley
• Running Time: 4 min. 24 sec.

Binge, Ronald : Sailing By, for orchestra (theme for BBC Radio 4's Late Night Shipping Forecast)

• Performer: Vernon Handley
• Conductor: Vernon Handley
• Running Time: 2 min. 45 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1963

Wood, Haydn : London Landmarks Suite :: The Horse Guards, Whitehall

• Performer: Vernon Handley
• Conductor: Vernon Handley
• Running Time: 3 min. 40 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1946

Binge, Ronald : Elizabethan Serenade, for orchestra

• Performer: Vernon Handley
• Conductor: Vernon Handley
• Running Time: 2 min. 53 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1951

Duncan, Trevor : Little Suite :: March

• Performer: Vernon Handley
• Conductor: Vernon Handley
• Running Time: 3 min. 8 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1960

Benjamin, Arthur : Jamaican Rumba

• Performer: Vernon Handley
• Conductor: Vernon Handley
• Notes: Composition written: 1938.
• Running Time: 2 min. 18 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1938

Tomlinson, Ernest : Silverthorn Suite :: Concert Jig

• Performer: Vernon Handley
• Conductor: Vernon Handley
• Running Time: 3 min. 43 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Coates, Eric [Composer] : By the Sleepy Lagoon, valse serenade for orchestra

• Performer: Vernon Handley
• Conductor: Vernon Handley
• Running Time: 3 min. 53 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1930

White, Edward Little : Puffin' Billy, for orchestra

• Performer: Vernon Handley
• Conductor: Vernon Handley
• Running Time: 3 min. 46 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Collins, Anthony : Vanity Fair, for orchestra

• Performer: Vernon Handley
• Conductor: Vernon Handley
• Running Time: 3 min. 56 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Farnon, Robert : Jumping Bean for orchestra

• Performer: Vernon Handley
• Conductor: Vernon Handley
• Running Time: 2 min. 24 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Bucalossi, Ernest : Grasshoppers' Dance

• Performer: Vernon Handley
• Conductor: Vernon Handley
• Running Time: 2 min. 59 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1905

Wood, Arthur : My Native Heath :: Barwick Green

• Performer: Vernon Handley
• Conductor: Vernon Handley
• Running Time: 3 min. 13 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1925

Coates, Eric [Composer] : The Dam Busters, march for the film score

• Performer: Vernon Handley
• Conductor: Vernon Handley
• Running Time: 3 min. 33 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: March
• Written: 1954