The Golden Age of Light Music - An Introduction

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Album Summary

Performers

• Robert Farnon
• Queen's Hall Light Orchestra
• Sidney Torch (Organ)
• Andre Kostelanetz
• Ray Martin
• Charles
• David Rose
• Mantovani (Violin)
• London Promenade Orchestra
• Morton Gould
• Danish State Radio Orchestra
• George Melachrino (Voice)
• Melachrino Orchestra
• Kingsway Symphony Orchestra
• Arthur Gleghorn (Flute)
• Reginald Kell (Clarinet)
• Joseph Lewis
• Leroy Anderson
• Percy Faith
• Frank Chacksfield & His Orchestra

Conductors

• Anderson, Leroy
• Camarata, Toots
• Chacksfield, Frank
• Clifford, Hubert
• Collins, Walter
• Deveraux, Georges
• Farnon, Robert
• Goodwin, Ron
• Gould, Morton
• Green, Philip
• King, Reginald
• Kostelanetz, Andre
• Krish, Serge
• Leon, Jack
• Lewis, Joseph
• Mantovani, The Orchestra
• Martin, Ray
• Melachrino, George
• Rose, David
• Torch, Sidney
• van der Linden, Dolf
• Williams, Charles
• Yorke, Peter

Ensemble

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Composers

• Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849)
• Edward MacDowell (1860 - 1908)
• Trevor Duncan (1924 - 2005)
• Leo Peter (1905 - 1976)
• Robert Farnon (Composer/Conductor) (1917 - 2005)
• Jonny Heykens (1884 - 1945)
• David Rose (1910 - 1990)
• Charles Ancliffe
• Edward Little White (1910 - 1994)
• Eric Coates (Composer) (1886 - 1957)
• Leroy Anderson (1908 - 1975)
• Dolf van der Linden (1915 - 1999)
• Haydn Wood (Composer) (1882 - 1959)
• Sidney Torch (1908 - 1990)
• Warren
• Harold Arlen (1905 - 1986)
• Philip Green (1911 - 1982)
• George Melachrino (1909 - 1965)
• Angela Morley (1923 - 2009)
• Arthur Benjamin (1893 - 1960)
• Hart / Layman
• Richard Rodgers (1902 - 1979)
• Donald Phillips (1913 - 1994)
• Robert Busby
• Morton Gould (Composer/Conductor) (1913 - 1996)

Notes & Reviews:

Personnel: Arthur Gleghorn (flute).

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Works Details

Farnon, Robert : Gateway to the West

• Performers: Robert Farnon; Queen's Hall Light Orchestra
• Conductor: Robert Farnon
• Running Time: 2 min. 57 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Torch, Sidney : Going for a Ride

• Performer: Sidney Torch (Organ)
• Conductor: Sidney Torch
• Running Time: 2 min. 47 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Rodgers, Richard : Spring is Here

• Performer: Andre Kostelanetz
• Conductor: André Kostelanetz
• Running Time: 3 min. 30 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Heynkens, Jonny : Serenade

• Conductor: Ron Goodwin
• Running Time: 2 min. 30 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Warren : Martinique

• Performer: Ray Martin
• Conductor: Ray Martin
• Running Time: 3 min. 13 sec.

Phillips, Donald : Skyscraper Fantasy

• Performer: Charles
• Conductor: Charles Williams
• Running Time: 3 min. 53 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1940

Rose, David : Dance of the Spanish Onion

• Performer: David Rose
• Conductor: David Rose
• Running Time: 2 min. 53 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Arlen, Harold : Out of This World, song (from the film "Out of This World")

• Performer: Mantovani (Violin)
• Conductor: The Mantovani
• Running Time: 3 min. 6 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Busby, Robert : Paris to Piccadilly

• Conductor: Georges Deveraux
• Running Time: 3 min. 4 sec.

Ancliffe, Charles : Festive Days

• Performer: London Promenade Orchestra
• Conductor: Walter Collins
• Running Time: 3 min. 15 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Green, Philip : Ha'penny Breeze, film score :: Theme

• Conductor: Philip Green
• Running Time: 4 min. 10 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1950

Gould, Morton : Tropical

• Performer: Morton Gould
• Conductor: Morton Gould
• Running Time: 2 min. 28 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

White, Edward Little : Puffin' Billy, for orchestra

• Performer: Danish State Radio Orchestra
• Conductor: Hubert Clifford
• Running Time: 3 min. sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Melachrino, George : First Rhapsody

• Performers: George Melachrino (Voice); Melachrino Orchestra
• Conductor: George Melachrino
• Running Time: 4 min. 15 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849) : Fantasy-Impromptu for piano in C sharp minor, Op. 66, CT. 46

• Performers: Kingsway Symphony Orchestra; Arthur Gleghorn (Flute); Reginald Kell (Clarinet)
• Conductor: Toots Camarata
• Running Time: 3 min. 25 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1834

Coates, Eric [Composer] : London Bridge, March

• Performer: Joseph Lewis
• Conductor: Joseph Lewis
• Running Time: 3 min. 59 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: March

Morley, Angela : Mock Turtles

• Performers: Queen's Hall Light Orchestra; Robert Farnon
• Conductor: Robert Farnon
• Running Time: 2 min. 14 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

MacDowell, Edward : To a Wild Rose

• Conductor: Peter Yorke
• Running Time: 3 min. 21 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1896

Anderson, Leroy : Plink, Plank, Plunk!

• Performer: Leroy Anderson
• Conductor: Leroy Anderson
• Running Time: 2 min. 24 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1951

Benjamin, Arthur : Jamaican Rumba

• Performer: Percy Faith
• Conductor: Leroy Anderson
• Notes: Composition written: 1938.
• Running Time: 3 min. 7 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1938

Duncan, Trevor : Vision in Velvet

• Conductor: Jack Leon
• Running Time: 3 min. 14 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

van der Linden, Dolf : Riding into Happisness, for orchestra (Grand Canyon)

• Conductor: Dolf van der Linden
• Running Time: 2 min. 33 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Hart / Layman : Dancing Princess

• Performer: Frank Chacksfield & His Orchestra
• Conductor: Frank Chacksfield
• Running Time: 2 min. 15 sec.

Peter, Leo : Dainty Lady

• Conductor: Reginald King
• Running Time: 2 min. 43 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Wood, Haydn : Frescoes Suite, for orchestra :: Bandstand

• Conductor: Serge Krish
• Running Time: 3 min. 55 sec.
• Period Time: Modern