Gillis, Don

The Golden Age of Light Music: Composer Conducts, Vol. 2

1 CD / Guild / 2011-09-13

Works: Arthur Bliss: March from "Things to Come," for orchestra, Op. 53, F. 131d; Alfred Newman: Pinky; Don Gillis: Symphony no 5« "A Symphony For Fun"; Robert Farnon: State Occasion for orchestra; Pe...
Performers: Cohen, Harriet; Ewing, Montague; Ketelbey, Albert W.; Sandford, Arthur
Conductors: Bliss, Sir Arthur; Newman, Alfred; Gillis, Don; Farnon, Robert; Yorke, Peter; Green, Philip; Coates, Eric [Composer]; Melachrino, George; Lucas, Leighton; Collins, Walter; Clifford, Hubert; Novello, ...
Ensemble: ; Neapolitan Novelty Band

Guild continues its series within its Light Music series with this second volume of composers conducting their own music. These must be counted as historic...continue...

Golden Age of Light Music: The Lost Transcriptions, Vol. 1

1 CD / Guild / 2011-05-10

Works: George Gershwin: Strike up the Band; Song of the Flame, song (for Song of the Flame, operetta by various composers); Jerome Kern: Swing Time; Ed Claypoole: Ragging the Scales, for pops orchestra; Dav...
Performers: Whiteson, Lou
Conductors: Torch, Sidney; Faith, Percy; Rose, David; van der Linden, Dolf; Spitalny, Phil; Stevens, Leith; Dragon, Carmen; Melachrino, George; Green, Philip; Bluestone, Harry; Williams, Lewis; Robinson, Eric; D...

Transcription Recordings refers to recordings of live performances made for use by broadcasting organizations before the advent of audio tape. During World War II transcriptions...continue...

The Golden Age of Light Music: War And Peace - Light Music of the 1940s

1 CD / Guild / 2011-01-11

Works: John Belton: Down the Mall, for band; Hoagy Carmichael: Stardust; Eric Coates: Footlights (Concert waltz); William Walton: Prelude and Fugue "Spitfire"; Wynford Reynolds: A Cocktail of Happiness, for...
Performers: Bronkhurst, Henry; Cochrane, Peggy [Piano]; Fletcher, Guy [Keyboards/Guitar]; Turner, Laurance [Violin]
Conductors: Shadwell, Charles; Faith, Percy; Coates, Eric [Composer]; Walton, William; Reynolds, Wynford; Williams, Charles; Rose, David; Payne, Jack; Torch, Sidney; Levy, Louis; Melachrino, George; Wilbur, Jay;...

This volume in the series of Light Music on Guild concentrates on music written during the 1940s, a time that had a major impact on...continue...

Don Gillis: Twinkletoes and Other Works / Ian Hobson, et al

1 CD / Albany Records / 2008-03-01

Works: Don Gillis: Twinkletoes, for orchestra; Rhapsody for harp & orchestra; Concerto for Piano no 1 "Encore Concerto"; Short Overture to an Unwritten Opera, for orchestra; Rhapsody for trumpet & orchestra
Performers: Bednarczyk, Krzysztof; Hobson, Ian [Piano]; Sikorzak-Olek, Anna
Conductors: Hobson, Ian [Piano]
Ensemble: Sinfonia Varsovia

In both the "Encore" Concerto and the Harp Rhapsody (written for the NBC Symphony's Edward Vito), one can hear some very serious thoughts being bandied...continue...

Don Gillis: Symphony no. 3, etc / Hobson, Sifonia Varsovia

2 Super Audio CD / Albany Records / 2007-08-01

Works: Don Gillis: Symphony "X" ("The Big D"); Tulsa; Symphony no 3 "A Symphony of Free Men"
Conductors: Hobson, Ian [Piano]
Ensemble: Sinfonia Varsovia

Gillis was a populist American composer who wrote music that, in his own words, "kids could whistle in Waxahachie or Dubuque." Conductor Ian Hobson has...continue...

Canadian Brass / Three Nights with Canadian Brass [DVD]

1 DVD Video / Opening Day Recordings / 2007-02-13

Works: Samuel Scheidt: Galliard battaglia a 5; Johann Sebastian Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565; Fugue in G minor, BWV 578 "Little G minor"; W.C. Handy: St Louis Blues; Michael Kamen: Quintet fo...
Conductors:
Ensemble: Canadian Brass

Don Gillis: Symphonies no 1, 2 & 5 1/2 / Ian Hobson, et al

1 Super Audio CD / Albany Records / 2006-11-01

Works: Don Gillis: Symphony no 1 "An American Symphony"; Symphony no 2 "A Symphony of Faith"; Symphony no 5 1/2 "A Symphony for Fun"
Conductors: Hobson, Ian [Piano]
Ensemble: Sinfonia Varsovia

"If you're looking for music that offers the style of, say, Gershwin, but in larger forms, then Don Gillis is your guy. His first two...continue...

Don Gillis: Symphony no 7, etc / Hobson, Sinfonia Varsovia

1 Super Audio CD / Albany Records / 2006-04-01

Works: Don Gillis: Portrait of a Frontier Town, for orchestra; The Alamo, for orchestra; Symphony no 7 "Saga of a Prairie School"
Conductors: Hobson, Ian [Piano]
Ensemble: Sinfonia Varsovia

"I cannot speak highly enough of the playing of the Sinfonia Varsova under Hobson's committed and affectionate leadership, set forth in warm, expansive sound. The...continue...

Don Gillis: Paul Bunyan Overture, etc / Ian Hobson, et al

1 CD / Albany Records / 2005-06-01

Works: Don Gillis: Paul Bunyan; Symphony no 6 "Mid-Century U.S.A."; Symphony no 5 "Im Memoriam"
Conductors: Hobson, Ian [Piano]
Ensemble: Sinfonia Varsovia

Gillis: Symphony no 4 / Hobson, Sinfonia Varsovia

1 CD / Albany Records / 2004-12-01

Works: Don Gillis: Symphony no 4; Concerto for Piano no 2
Performers: Hobson, Ian [Piano]
Conductors: Hobson, Ian [Piano]
Ensemble: Sinfonia Varsovia

"Hobson brings a wealth of buoyant rhythm and catchy tune-spinning to this music, and the Poles are clearly having a ball. Frivolous, joyous, or what...continue...

Guido Cantelli - The NBC Broadcast Concerts

4 CD / Testament / 2004-07-01

Works: Gioachino Rossini: Le siège de Corinthe (The Siege of Corinth), opera; Béla Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra, Sz 116; Franz Schubert: Symphony no 2 in B flat major, D 125; Giorgio ...
Performers: Balsam, Artur; Hollander, Max; koff, Mischa; Miller, Frank
Conductors: Cantelli, Guido
Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra

Perhaps the best way to sum up the significance of the performance in Testament's 3 boxed sets of Cantelli's 1949-50 NBC Symphony broadcast recordings is...continue...

American Light - Gillis: Star-Spangled Symphony, etc

1 CD / Albany Records / 2003-11-01

Works: Don Gillis: Star-Spangled Symphony; Amarillo, A Symphonic Celebration; Symphony no 8 "A Dance Symphony"
Conductors: Hobson, Ian
Ensemble: Sinfonia Varsovia

"All this stuff sounds just dandy, full of catchy tunes and broad humor, and the Polish players have the idiom down pat. Sonics are a...continue...

Don Gillis: Symphony no 5 1/2, Saga of a Prairie School, etc

2 CD / Dutton Laboratories / 2003-06-01

Works: Don Gillis: Symphony no 5 and a 1/2 "A Symphony for Fun"; Symphony no 7 "Saga of A Prairie School"; The Alamo; Portrait of a Frontier Town; The Man Who Invented Music
Performers: Kilty, Jack
Conductors: Gillis, Don
Ensemble: New Symphony Orchestra

Gillis: Symphony X, Concerto, Ballet, etc / Miller, et al

1 CD / Albany Records / 2000-09-01

Works: Don Gillis: Symphony "X" ("The Big D"); Shindig; Concerto for Piano no 1 "Encore Concerto"; Symphony no 5 1/2 "A Symphony for Fun"

American Light Classics / Ronald Corp, New London Orchestra

1 CD / Hyperion / 1998-08-01

Works: John Philip Sousa: Washington Post; Kerry Mills: Whistling Rufus; Morton Gould: American Symphonette no 2; Felix Arndt: Nola; Arthur Pryor: The Whistler and His Dog, caprice for band; Leroy Anderson:...
Conductors: Corp, Ronald [Composer]
Ensemble: New London Orchestra

With its high "nostalgia" factor, this CD is going to give a great deal of pleasure and put a smile of recognition on lots of...continue...

The Great Thankgsgiving / Mormon Tabernacle Choir

1 CD / Sony Classical / 1995-11-14

Works: George William Warren: God of our fathers; Joseph Frederick Wagner: Ballad of Brotherhood; Jean Sibelius: Masonic Ritual Music, Op. 113; Ralph Vaughan Williams: A Song of thanksgiving; O clap your ha...
Performers: Asper, Frank; Cook, Susan; Cundick, Robert; Foster, Charles; Noyes, David; Schreiner, Alexander; Van Wagenen, Robert; Visher, Kathy
Conductors: Condie, Richard P.; Ottley, Jerold
Ensemble: Mormon Tabernacle Choir; Philadelphia Brass Ensemble