Giles, Ian > Classical Period

Hush a Bye: Music for Children - gentle lullabies and quiet music

1 CD / Gift of Music / 2012-10-30

Works: English Traditional: Hush a Bye Baby; Traditional: Sleep My Baby; Mervyn Burtch: Sleep, my gentle child; Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne for piano no 2 in E flat major, Op. 9/2, CT. 109; Anonymou...
Performers: Banks, Jon [Harp]; Giles, Ian; Souter, Martin; Spring, Matthew; Stowe, Sara

Gentle lullabies and quiet music combine to form this special program of music to invite sleep. Unlike most calming programs, this release relies on real...continue...
Includes work(s) by Anonymous....continue...

The Music of Dickens and His Time / Giles, Healey, Hill, Humphries; The Seven Dials Band

1 CD / Warner Classics / 2012-03-27

Works: American Traditional: College Hornpipe; John Pyke Hullah: Some Folks Who Have Grown Old, song; English Traditional: The Rat Catcher's Daughter; Begone Dull Care, folk song; The Workhouse Boy, folk so...
Performers: Eddy, Rachel; Giles, Ian; Healey, Tim; Knight, Margaret; Sartin, Paul; The Seven Dials Band; Underwood, Giles; Watson,, Christopher, Jr.
Conductors:
Ensemble: The Seven Dials Band

American Record Guide, July / August 2012
This is one of the best programs I've seen that connects music with literature. The music is a delight...continue...
This collection of vocal and instrumental music is made up of pieces associated in one way or another with Charles Dickens' life and work. The majority of them are popular tunes he refers to in his no...continue...