Golden Age of Light Music: The Pianist In The Spotlight

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Album Summary

Performers

• Lou Stein (Piano)
• Norrie Paramor (Piano)
• Alberto Semprini (Piano)
• Semprini
• Pierre Dorsey (Piano)
• Winifred Atwell (Piano)
• Dolores Ventura (Piano)
• Robert Farnon
• Bill McGuffie (Piano)
• Morton Gould (Piano)
• William Hill-Bowen (Piano)
• Melachrino Orchestra
• Roberto Inglez
• Bernie Leighton (Piano)
• Otto Cesana
• Billy Mayerl Rhythm Ensemble
• Sidney Torch (Organ)
• Stanley Black (Piano)
• Latin Quarter Orchestra
• Art Waner (Piano)
• Pall Revellers
• Carroll Gibbons (Piano)
• Raie Costa (Piano)
• George Greeley (Piano)
• Roger Williams (Piano)
• Paul Weston
• George Shearing (Piano)
• Don Ferris (Piano)
• David Rose
• Joe Henderson (Piano)
• Joe Henderson (Piano)

Conductors

• Black, Stanley
• Cesana, Otto
• Dorsey, Pierre
• Farnon, Robert
• Fontaine, Bill
• Gould, Morton
• Inglez, Roberto
• May, Billy
• Melachrino, George
• Noble, Ray
• Ornadel, Cyril
• Paramor, Norrie
• Riccardo, Alberto Fernanco
• Rose, David
• Shepherd, Bill
• Slaney, Ivor
• Torch, Sidney
• Waner, Art
• Weston, Paul
• Williams, Roger [Piano]

Ensembles

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• Billy Mayerl Rhythm Ensemble
• Carroll Gibbons & His Boy Friends
• Pall Mall Revellers

Composers

• David Rose (1910 - 1990)
• Norrie Paramor (1914 - 1979)
• Ray Martin (1918 - 1988)
• Robert Docker (1918 - 1992)
• Ronald George Munro
• Nick Kenny
• Raie Da Costa
• Nicholas Brodszky (1905 - 1958)
• Jerome Kern (1885 - 1945)
• Richard Addinsell (1904 - 1977)
• Ivor Slaney (1921 - 1998)
• Hoagy Carmichael (1899 - 1981)
• Alberto Fernanco Riccardo Semprini (1908 - 1990)
• Robert Keys
• Victor Young (1900 - 1956)
• Marvin Fisher
• Lou Stein (1922 - 2002)
• Kurt Weill (Composer) (1900 - 1950)
• Manfred Dreilich
• Maurice Burman
• Harry Warren (Composer) (1893 - 1981)
• Francis Craig (1900 - 1966)
• Edmundo Zaldívar

Notes & Reviews:

As the title implies, this volume of Guild’s Light Music Series puts the piano on center stage.

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Young, Victor : Love Letters

• Performer: George Greeley (Piano)
• Running Time: 3 min. 36 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Craig, Francis : Near You, song

• Performer: Roger Williams (Piano)
• Conductor: Roger Williams
• Notes: This selection is a mono recording.
• Running Time: 2 min. 49 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Brodszky, Nicholas : Because you're mine

• Performer: Paul Weston
• Conductor: Paul Weston
• Running Time: 2 min. 55 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Vocal
• Written: 1952

Fisher, Marvin : Nothing Ever Changes My Love for You, song

• Performer: George Shearing (Piano)
• Conductor: Billy May
• Running Time: 4 min. 37 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Rose, David : Concerto for Piano no 1 in C minor

• Performers: Don Ferris (Piano); David Rose
• Conductor: David Rose
• Running Time: 2 min. 51 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Concerto

Kern, Jerome : Swing Time

• Performers: Joe Henderson (Piano); Joe Henderson (Piano)
• Conductor: Bill Shepherd
• Running Time: 2 min. 22 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Stein, Lou : Soft Sands, for piano & pops orchestra

• Performer: Lou Stein (Piano)
• Conductor: Bill Fontaine
• Notes: This selection is a mono recording.
• Running Time: 2 min. 28 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Paramor, Norrie : Silly Billy, for piano & pops orchestra

• Performer: Norrie Paramor (Piano)
• Conductor: Norrie Paramor
• Notes: This selection is a mono recording.
• Running Time: 2 min. 10 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Addinsell, Richard : Invitation Waltz, for piano & pops orchestra (from "Ring Around the Moon")

• Performers: Alberto Semprini (Piano); Semprini
• Conductor: Alberto Riccardo
• Notes: This selection is a mono recording.
• Running Time: 3 min. 3 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Waltz

Edmundo Zaldívar : Carnavalito, for piano & pops orchestra

• Performer: Pierre Dorsey (Piano)
• Conductor: Pierre Dorsey
• Notes: This selection is a mono recording.
• Running Time: 2 min. 48 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Martin, Ray : Vendetta

• Performer: Winifred Atwell (Piano)
• Conductor: Cyril Ornadel
• Notes: This selection is a mono recording.
• Running Time: 2 min. 25 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Slaney, Ivor : Georgian Rumba, for piano & pops orchestra

• Performer: Dolores Ventura (Piano)
• Conductor: Ivor Slaney
• Notes: This selection is a mono recording.
• Running Time: 2 min. 25 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Kern, Jerome : Can I Forget You?, song (from the film "High, Wide and Handsome")

• Performers: Robert Farnon; Bill McGuffie (Piano)
• Conductor: Robert Farnon
• Notes: This selection is a mono recording.
• Running Time: 3 min. 23 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Weill, Kurt [Composer] : My Ship, song for voice & piano (from "Lady in the Dark")

• Performer: Morton Gould (Piano)
• Conductor: Morton Gould
• Notes: This selection is a mono recording.
• Running Time: 5 min. 11 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 02/1940-11/1940

Docker, Robert : Legend, for piano & orchestra

• Performers: William Hill-Bowen (Piano); Melachrino Orchestra
• Conductor: George Melachrino
• Notes: This selection is a mono recording.
• Running Time: 3 min. 57 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Carmichael, Hoagy : Heart and Soul

• Performer: Roberto Inglez
• Conductor: Roberto Inglez
• Notes: This selection is a mono recording.
• Running Time: 3 min. 22 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Dreilich, Manfred : Starlight (after E lucevan le stelle from Puccini's Tosca)

• Performers: Bernie Leighton (Piano); Otto Cesana
• Conductor: Otto Cesana
• Notes: This selection is a mono recording.
• Running Time: 2 min. 53 sec.

Munro, Ronald George : Punch and Judy Polka, for ensemble

• Performer: Billy Mayerl Rhythm Ensemble
• Ensemble: Billy Mayerl Rhythm Ensemble
• Notes: This selection is a mono recording.
• Running Time: 2 min. 57 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Riccardo, Alberto Fernanco : Mediterranean Concerto, for piano & pops orchestra

• Performer: Sidney Torch (Organ)
• Conductor: Sidney Torch
• Notes: This selection is a mono recording.
• Running Time: 6 min. 42 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Concerto

Burman, Maurice : Jungle Bird, for piano & pops orchestra

• Performer: Stanley Black (Piano)
• Conductor: Stanley Black
• Notes: This selection is a mono recording.
• Running Time: 3 min. 11 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Kenny, Nick : While a Cigarette Was Burning, song

• Performers: Latin Quarter Orchestra; Art Waner (Piano)
• Conductor: Art Waner
• Notes: This selection is a mono recording.
• Running Time: 2 min. 42 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Keys, Robert : City Centre, for ensemble

• Performer: Pall Revellers
• Ensemble: Pall Mall Revellers
• Notes: This selection is a mono recording.
• Running Time: 2 min. 37 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Warren, Harry : 'MR. Dodd Takes the Air' - Film Selection Am I In

• Performer: Carroll Gibbons (Piano)
• Ensemble: Carroll Gibbons & His Boy Friends
• Notes: This selection is a mono recording.
• Running Time: 2 min. 45 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1937

Costa, Raie Da : At the Court of Old King Cole, song

• Performer: Raie Costa (Piano)
• Conductor: Ray Noble
• Notes: This selection is a mono recording.
• Running Time: 3 min. 3 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Vocal