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The Merrymakers - British Light Classics / Iain Sutherland

1 CD / Musical Concepts / 2012-08-14

Works: Eric Coates: The Merrymakers, a miniature overture; Springtime Suite; Trevor Duncan: The Girl from Corsica; Ernest Tomlinson: Little Serenade; Suite of English Folk Dances; Hamish McCunn: Sutherland'...
Conductors: Sutherland, Iain
Ensemble: ; Concert Orchestra

For over four decades I conducted the BBC's Light Orchestras in programs like Melodies for You, Invitation to Music, Music While You Work, Friday Night...continue...

Silent Noon - a collection of British songs by Britten, Quilter, Purcell, Vaughan Williams et al. / Operababes, Janet Haney, piano

1 CD / Warner Classics / 2012-06-26

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: House of life; Roger Quilter: Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal for voice & piano, Op. 3/2; Drink to me only with thine eyes; John Ireland: If there were dreams to sell; Benjamin B...
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Ensemble: OperaBabes

In 2001, two opera singers were discovered busking in London's Covent Garden and almost overnight were thrust into the global media spotlight, releasing two albums,...continue...
Recording information: Potton Hall & Vega Music Studios (04/2011)....continue...

British Cinema and Theatre Orchestras

1 CD / Guild / 2005-04-01

Works: G. Groitzsch: The Juggler, for pops orchestra; Ernest Bucalossi: Grasshoppers' Dance; Jerome Kern: Show Boat, musical in 2 acts; The Cat and the Fiddle, musical in 2 acts; Felix Arndt: Nola; Percy Fl...
Performers: Bollington, Al; His Majesty's Theatre Orchestra; Maclean, Quentin M.
Conductors: Muscant, Joseph; Anton, Arthur; Pethers, William; Starkey, Emanuel; Tours, Frank; Burston, Reginald; Manning, Charles; Greenbaum, Hyam; Crean, Richard; Dam, Alfred van; Westfield, Frank; Geraldo

Personnel: Quentin MacLean (organ).

Recording information: Paramount Theatre, London, England (1927-1939); The New Hippodrome, Coventry, England (1927-1939); The Plaza Theatre, London, England ...continue...

The Grand Passions of Albert W. Ketèlbey / Godwin, et al

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2004-03-23

Works: Albert W. Ketèlbey: In the Moonlight, poetic intermezzo for orchestra; In a Persian Market, intermezzo-scene for chorus & orchestra; Bells Across the Meadows, characteristic intermezzo; The Cock...
Conductors: Godwin, Anthony
Ensemble: Palm Court Theatre Orchestra

"Albert Ketelbey was a classically trained musician who, after composing a number of serious works turned to what was then called light music to make...continue...

Elizabethan Serenade - The Best of British Light Music

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 1996-09-30

Works: Eric Coates: By the Sleepy Lagoon, valse serenade for orchestra; London (London Every Day), suite for orchestra; The Dam Busters, march for the film score; Frederic Curzon: Robin Hood, suite for orch...
Conductors: Penny, Andrew; Leaper, Adrian; Tomlinson, Ernest; Carpenter, Gary

Phase 4 Stereo - In a Monastery Garden - Albert Ketèlby

1 CD / Decca Import / 1996-01-01

Works: Albert W. Ketèlbey: In a Monastery Garden for chorus & orchestra; Wedgewood Blue, for orchestra; In the Mystic Land of Egypt for tenor, chorus & orchestra; Bells Across the Meadows, characterist...
Performers: Sakanov, Josef
Conductors: Rogers, Eric
Ensemble: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Ketelbey's often distinctively evocative, exotic sounding works made him one of the most beloved composers in England during his lifetime. He was also among the...continue...