Mayerl, Billy

Ludwig van Beethoven Invents Jazz

1 CD / Virgin Classics / 2011-11-15

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for Piano no 32, Op. 111; Johannes Brahms: Sonata for Cello no 2, Op. 99; Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition; Claude Debussy: Children's Corner; La plus que len...
Performers: Braley, Frank; Capucon, Renaud; Collins, Michael [Conductor/Clarinet]; de Peyer, Gervase; Ivaldi, Christian [Piano]; Lagerspetz, Juhani; Lee, Noel [Piano]; Meyer, Sabine [Clarinet]; Nat, Yves; Pommie...
Conductors: Mackerras, Charles, Sir; Rattle, Simon, Sir; ; Zedda, Alberto; Klemperer, Otto; Marshall, Wayne; Järvi, Paavo; Metzmacher, Ingo
Ensemble: ; Melos Ensemble of London

Ludwig van Beethoven invented jazz. That statement might seem enough to provoke a paroxysm from a musicologist, but, with a passage in his final piano...continue...

British Composers: A Celebration / EMI

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2011-05-03

Works: Edward Elgar: Wand of Youth Suite no 1, Op. 1a no 4; Symphony no 1 in A flat, Op. 55; Ave Maria, Op. 2 no 2; Quartet for Strings in E minor, Op. 83; Ave verum corpus, Op. 2 no 1; Falstaff; Dream Chil...
Performers: Allen, Thomas; Andrew Davis [Conductor/Organ]; Baker, Janet, Dame [Mezzo-soprano Vocal]; Bennett, Richard Rodney [Composer]; Bowen, John; Bramma, Harry; Brown, Wilfred; Dilkes, Neville; Donohoe, Pete...
Conductors: Collingwood, Lawrance; Willcocks, David; Boult, Adrian; Walton, William; Harding, Daniel; Robinson, Christopher; Wordsworth, Barry; Finzi, Christopher; Bliss, Sir Arthur; Goodall, Reginald; Davies, M...
Ensemble: ; Birmingham Contemporary Music Group; Britten String Quartet; London Music Group; The Band of the Royal Military School of Music Kne

Taking a panoramic view of British music between the ends of the 19th and 20th centuries, this fascinating collection features some 30 composers. From the...continue...

The Golden Age of Light Music: Orchestral Gems in Stereo

1 CD / Guild / 2010-08-10

Works: Tolchard Evans: Lady of Spain (Linda española); Jerome Kern: She Didn't Say Yes, song (from "The Cat and the Fiddle"); Jule Styne: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; Charles Trénet: La Mer (Beyond t...
Conductors: Dragon, Carmen; Weston, Paul; Barker, Warren; Cugat, Xavier; Baxter, Les; Salinger, Conrad; Bregman, Buddy; Jones, Leslie; Morely, Angela; Trotter, John Scott; Yorke, Peter; Silvester, Victor; Jenkin...
Ensemble: ; 101 Strings Orchestra; Victor Silvester & His Silver Strings

This latest Guild CD in The Golden Age of Light Music Series attempts to recreate the excitement felt by record collectors around 50 years ago...continue...
Ahh, the glory of stereo -- it is so difficult to impart what a difference it made when it first became generally available on records in 1958; for audio nuts, it was a dream come true, whereas for th...continue...

Mayerl: A Miscellany for Solo Piano Vol 2 / Leslie De'Ath

1 CD / Dutton Laboratories / 2009-09-08

Works: Billy Mayerl: Look Lively, for piano; Evening Primrose, for piano; Hollyhock, a syncopated impression for piano, Op. 80; Mistletoe, for piano; Loose Elbows, for piano (from Piano Exaggerations); Slee...
Performers: De'Ath, Leslie

The Canadian pianist Leslie De'Ath follows the success of his first Billy Mayerl anthology for Dutton, which was an 'Editor's Choice' in Gramophone magazine, with...continue...

A Miscellany for Solo Piano - Billy Mayerl / Leslie De'Ath

1 CD / Dutton Laboratories / 2008-11-11

Works: Billy Mayerl: Leprechaun's Leap, for piano; In My Garden; Syncopated Rambles (3), for piano; Postman's Knock, for piano; Insect Oddities, for piano; Beguine Impromptu, for piano; Contrasts (3), for p...
Performers: De'Ath, Leslie

Canadian pianist Leslie De'Ath presents an unmissable and toe-tapping survey of the light-hearted and jazzy piano music of British composer Billy Mayerl. De'Ath's virtuosity and...continue...

British Light Miniatures - Vintage TV & Radio Classics

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2007-03-27

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: Sea Songs; Billy Mayerl: Marigold; Gilbert Vinter: Waltzing with Sullivan; Eric Coates: Sound and Vision; Fritz Spiegl: Radio 4 UK Theme; Clive Richardson: Holiday Spirit; Arn...
Performers: Vinter, Andrew
Conductors: Murphy, Paul; Sutherland, Gavin
Ensemble: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

This compilation includes many tunes familiar from their use in British radio and television programmes. Few of them have been re-recorded since the days of...continue...

British Composers Conduct - and Other Rarities

1 CD / Dutton Laboratories / 2007-03-20

Works: Granville Bantock: Heroic Ballads (2) for orchestra; Two Hebridean Sea Poems, for orchestra; Billy Mayerl: Sennen Cove, tone poem for orchestra, Op. 58; Norman O'Neill: The Bluebird, incidental music...
Performers: Fear, Arthur
Conductors: Bantock, Granville; Mayerl, Billy; O'Neill, Norman; Salter, Lionel; Goossens, Eugene, Sir; Robinson, Stanford; Clifford, Hubert; Phillips, Montague

Classics - The Piano Music of Billy Mayerl / Eric Parkin

3 CD / Chandos Records / 2005-07-26

Works: Billy Mayerl: The Legends of King Arthur, impressions (6) for piano, Op. 64; Japanese Pictures (3), for piano, Op. 25; April's Fool, for piano; The Harp of the Winds, for piano; Marigold, a syncopate...
Performers: Parkin, Eric

Billy Mayerl was one of the most brilliant figures in British music life between the two World Wars - a kind of English Scott Joplin...continue...

A Classic Thanksgiving - We Gather Together

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2000-07-01

Works: Antonio Vivaldi: Autumn (The Four Seasons); Concerto for Violin in E major, Op. 8 no 1/RV 269 "Primavera"; Concerto for Strings in G major, RV 151 "Alla rustica"; Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony no 6 in...
Performers: Greed, David; Nishizaki, Takako
Conductors: Gunzenhauser, Stephen; Ward, Nicholas; Lloyd-Jones, David; Wordsworth, Barry; Kopelman, Jozef; Carpenter, Garry
Ensemble: ; Capella Istropolitana; Northern Chamber Orchestra

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