Wood, Haydn

Great British Composers, Vol. 1: Coates, Johnson, Wood, Curzon, Bliss, et al. / London Symphony Orchestra

1 CD / Guild / 2012-11-13

Works: Eric Coates: London (London Every Day), suite for orchestra; Haydn Wood: Moods Suite; Frederic Curzon: Dance of the Ostracised Imp, for orchestra; Arthur Bliss: Things to Come; Richard Addinsell: Bli...
Conductors: Johnson, Eric; Williams, Charles; Curzon, Frederic; Bliss, Sir Arthur; Mathieson, Muir; Robinson, Stanford; Farnon, Robert; Torch, Sidney; Dumont, Cedric; Buchhold, Heinz; Liter, Monia

Guild begins a series within their series of The Golden Age of Light Music. This one features light music by great British composers....continue...

British Light Classics - works by Bayco, Coates, Curzon, Docker, Farnon, Grainger, Hartley, Ketelbey, Tomlinson et al. / Groves, Alwyn, Lanchbery et al.

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2012-01-10

Works: Eric Coates: By the Sleepy Lagoon, valse serenade for orchestra; Calling All Workers, march for orchestra; The Merrymakers, a miniature overture; Knightsbridge March; Oxford Street, march for orchest...
Performers: Adni, Daniel [Piano]
Conductors: Mackerras, Charles, Sir; Kilbey, Reginald; Lanchbery, John; Vinter, Gilbert; Groves, Charles, Sir; Dunn, Vivian, Sir; Alwyn, Kenneth; Williams, Charles; Torch, Sidney; Martin, Ray; Weldon, George; Co...

From the Sleepy Lagoon to the Dam Busters, from Knightsbridge in a Jaunting Car to a Monastery Garden: all the classic tracks collected here are...continue...

Elgar: The Fringes of the Fleet

1 CD / SOMM / 2011-10-11

Works: John Ansell: Plymouth Hoe (A Nautical Overture), for orchestra; Windjammer Overture, for pops orchestra; Edward Elgar: The Fringes of the Fleet, pieces (4) for baritone solo, 3 baritones & orchestra;...
Performers: Lester, Nicholas; Meikle, Laurence; Rock, Duncan; Williams, Roderick [Bass-Baritone Vocal]
Conductors: Higgins, Tom

The major work on this recording is Elgar's The Fringes of the Fleet, here receiving its first fully professional orchestral recording in 92 years....continue...
Recording information: All Hallows Church, Gospel Oak, London NW3 (05/09/2009/05/10/2009)....continue...

Golden Age of Light Music: From the Vintage Vaults

1 CD / Guild / 2011-07-12

Works: Lionel Monckton: The Arcadians, overture to the musical for orchestra; Zez Confrey: Buffoon, novelty rag; Haydn Wood: Rondel / Mina, medley for pops orchestra (after Edward Elgar); Ernst Fischer: Arp...
Conductors: Wood, Arthur; Wood, Haydn; Gaden, Robert; Hartley, Fred; Weber, Marek; Raybould, Clarence; Geczy, Barnabas Von; Lorand, Edith; Wilbur, Jay; Campoli, Alfredo; Goehr, Walter; Sandler, Albert; Hylton, J...

This latest release in Guild's Light Music Series features famous composers of symphonies, marches, jazz and just about everything in-between. This varied selection, mainly from...continue...

The Golden Age of Light Music: Lightly Classical

1 CD / Guild / 2011-02-08

Works: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Flight of the Bumblebee; Claude Debussy: Clair de lune (Suite bergamasque); Gustav Holst: St. Paul's Suite; William Walton: Façade Suite no 2; Peter DeRose: The Lamp Is ...
Conductors: Challet, Pierre; Morley, Angela; Walton, William; De Vol, Frank; Torch, Sidney; Gamba, Piero; Williams, Charles; Munro, Ronnie; Green, Philip; Jones, Leslie; Kostelanetz, André; Carroll, David; ...

The collection of music on this recording proves that the so-called boundaries between light and classical music are not insurmountable; that many composers had lighter...continue...

The Best Of British Light Music

1 CD / Sony Classical Import / 2010-07-27

Works: Ron Goodwin: 633 Squadron; Vivian Ellis: Coronation Scot, for orchestra; Robert Farnon: Westminster Waltz, for orchestra; Jumping Bean for orchestra; Eric Coates: London Suite; By the Sleepy Lagoon, ...
Performers: Handley, Vernon
Conductors: Handley, Vernon

Recording information: Blackheath Halls (04/16/1997/04/17/1997)....continue...

The Golden Age of Light Music: A Trip to the Library

1 CD / Guild / 2010-07-13

Works: Harry Rabinowitz: Livin' It Up, for orchestra; Trevor Duncan: The Girl from Corsica; Paul Dubois: Jacarada Melody, for orchestra; Bruce Campbell: Popsy, for orchestra; Jack Beaver: Helicopter Journey...
Conductors: Dumont, Cedric; Farnon, Robert; van der Linden, Dolf; Rehfeld, Kurt; Warren, Walker; Roger, Roger; Arden, Theo; Devereaux, Georges; Collins, Walter; Torch, Sidney; Melachrino, George; Robinson, Stanf...
Ensemble: ; Hudson Ensemble

Summertime

1 CD / Champs Hill Records / 2010-05-25

Works: George Gershwin: Porgy and Bess; Samuel Barber: Songs (4), Op. 13; The Monk and His Cat, song for voice & piano (Hermit Songs), Op. 29/8; Edward Elgar: Op. 16; Gabriel Fauré: Clair de lune, Op. ...
Performers: Johnson, Graham [Piano]; Lott, Felicity [Soprano Vocal]

Three centuries of song are represented here, and, as BBC Music Magazine's Hilary Finch put it "such is the skill of Johnson's programming that the...continue...
Recording information: Music Room, Champs Hill, Pulborough, Sussex (04/06/2000-04/09/2000)....continue...

Lionel Sainsbury: Violin Concerto; Wood: Violin Concerto

1 CD / Dutton Laboratories / 2010-05-11

Works: Lionel Sainsbury: Concerto for Violin Op. 14; Haydn Wood: Concerto for Violin in A minor; Adagio from Violin Concerto in B minor
Performers: McAslan, Lorraine
Conductors: Wordsworth, Barry; Sutherland, Gavin

On this an indispensable program for all lovers of romantic violin concertos, violinist Lorraine McAslan plays gorgeous violin concertos by Haydn Wood and Lionel Sainsbury....continue...
Recording information: The Colosseum, Town Hall, Watford....continue...

Haydn Wood

1 CD / Symposium / 2009-12-08

Works: Haydn Wood: A May-Day Overture; Mannin Veen; Homage March, for orchestra; Moods; Three Famous Pictures, for orchestra; Evening Song, An, for orchestra; London Landmarks Suite; Paris; The Quietest Thi...
Performers: Booth, Webster; Cochrane, Peggie; Foort, Reginald; McCormack, John [Tenor Vocal]; Schneider, Edwin; Wood, Haydn; Ziegler, Anne
Conductors: Wood, Haydn; Torch, Sidney; Somers, Debroy; Braithwaite, Warwick

This compilation was made in honor of the 50th anniversary of Haydn Wood's death. Wood wrote ballads and love songs for his wife and together...continue...

Sailing By

2 CD / Decca Import / 2009-08-18

Works: Ronald Binge: Sailing By, for orchestra (theme for BBC Radio 4's Late Night Shipping Forecast); The Watermill; Albert W. Ketèlbey: In a Monastery Garden for chorus & orchestra; In a Persian Ma...
Performers: Hulse, Gareth
Conductors: Heller, Walter; Rogers, Eric; Lewis, Paul [Composer]; Nabarro, Malcolm; Sutherland, Gavin; Fennell, Frederick; Wilson, John; Gerhardt, Charles; Wick, Denis

The World of Epoch

1 CD / Dutton Laboratories / 2008-11-11

Works: Robert Farnon: Captain Horatio Hornblower, suite from the film score; David Dubery: Mrs Harris in Paris, for recorder & string orchestra; Haydn Wood: Suite of Four Edward Elgar Songs, transcriptions ...
Performers: Gibbs, Robert; McAslan, Lorraine; Mead, Steven; Owen, Martin; Scott, Ian; Trusler, Matthew; Turner, John; Williams, Roderick [Bass-Baritone Vocal]; Wu, Mary; Young, Alistair
Conductors: Wilson, John; McKenzie, Philip; Lloyd-Jones, David; Vass, George; Handley, Vernon; Bell, Stephen; Corp, Ronald [Composer]; Horovitz, Joseph; Wordsworth, Barry; Sutherland, Gavin; Drummond, David; Yat...
Ensemble: ; Camerata Ensemble

'The World of Epoch' is a mid-priced sampler containing twenty tracks that highlight the classical and light music repertoire featured in Dutton's Epoch series. Composers...continue...

Best of London - Sullivan, Elgar, Handel, Holst, Walton, etc

2 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2008-07-29

Works: Arthur Sullivan: Yeomen of the Guard; Eric Coates: London (London Every Day), suite for orchestra; London Calling, march; London Again, suite for orchestra; Haydn Wood: London Cameos; London Landmark...
Performers: Knowles, Martin; Larkin, Mathew; Lenehan, John [Piano]; Linell, Dorothy
Conductors: Penny, Andrew; Leaper, Adrian; Kingston, Geoffrey A.; Wordsworth, Barry; Sutherland, Gavin; Tomlinson, Ernest; Daniel, Paul; Griffiths, Howard; Summerly, Jeremy; Bakels, Kees; Edison, Noel

A rousing collection of music evoking Britain’s capital city in all its pomp and glory. CD 1 takes the listener on a nostalgic journey though...continue...

Marine Band Retrospective

1 CD / Altissimo / 2008-05-20

Works: Umberto Giordano: Andrea Chénier; Emmanuel Chabrier: España, rhapsody for orchestra (also vers. for 2 pianos); Haydn Wood: Mannin Veen; Camille Saint-Saëns: Suite algérienne, Op...
Conductors: Foley, Timothy

As a new century in the history of the concert band begins, the United States Marine Band enjoys a more vast and diverse repertoire than...continue...
Recording information: Center for the Arts, George Mason University, Fairfax, (06/03/2002-06/07/2002)....continue...

British Light Music Classics / Corp, New London Orchestra

4 CD / Hyperion / 2006-11-14

Works: Eric Coates: Calling All Workers, march for orchestra; London (London Every Day), suite for orchestra; Music Everywhere (Rediffusion March); By the Sleepy Lagoon, valse serenade for orchestra; Geoffr...
Performers: Scott, Ruth
Conductors: Corp, Ronald [Composer]

77 tracks of golden nostalgia on 4 compact discs, including the music made famous as the signature tunes to Music While You Work, The Secret...continue...

Joyousness - The Music of Haydn Wood

1 CD / Guild / 2006-07-01

Works: Haydn Wood: London Landmarks Suite; Moods Suite; Three Famous Pictures, for orchestra; Longing, for orchestra; Roses of Picard (Song Intermezzo), for orchestra; Cities of Romance Suite, for orchestra...
Performers: Foort, Reginald; Gardner, Freddy; Wood, Haydn
Conductors: Preston, Robert; Wood, Haydn; Leon, Jack; Crean, Richard; Yorke, Peter; Shadwell, Charles; Williams, Charles; Farnon, Robert; Krish, Serge

For its first disc devoted to a single composer, Guild presents what could be called the "authentic performing editions" of this music. For many years,...continue...
Personnel: Freddy Gardner (saxophone); Reginald Foort (organ)....continue...

The Well-Tempered Zither

1 CD / CD Baby Independants / 2005-08-09

Works: Traditional: Old English Dances from the John Playford Collection of 1650; Quittez Pasteurs, old French Noël; Johann Pachelbel: Canon (Johann Pachelbel); Johann Sebastian Bach: Sheep May Safely ...
Performers: Curtis, Jane

British Light Music Premieres Vol 2

1 CD / Dutton Laboratories Import / 2005-06-14

Works: Philip Lane: Overture on French Carols, for orchestra; Concertino for flute & small orchestra (after John Field); Haydn Wood: British Rhapsody, for orchestra; Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Variations, for...
Performers: Anderson, John; Stinton, Jennifer
Conductors: Sutherland, Gavin; Thomson, Neil; Bigg, Julian

As witnessed by the perennial appeal of Proms concerts, the 'light music' tradition is still alive and well in Britain. This disc is the second...continue...

The Golden Age of Light Music - The 1930s

1 CD / Guild / 2005-01-01

Works: Arthur Wood: Ballerina Suite; Leon Jessel: Wedding of the Rose; Eric Coates: Four Ways, suite for orchestra; L. Noiret: Tea Dolls' Parade; John Ansell: Plymouth Hoe (A Nautical Overture), for orchest...
Performers: BBC Dance Orchestra; Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; Campoli, Alfredo; Foort, Reginald; Hylton, Jack; Leslie Jeffries & His Orchestra; London Symphony Orchestra; West End Celebrity Orchestra; Whiteman...
Conductors: Shadwell, Charles; Hylton, Jack; Lewis, Joseph; Ansell, John; Greenwood, Clifford; Goehr, Walter; ; Wood, Haydn; Campoli, Alfredo; Kunneke, Eduard; Weber, Marek; Whiteman, Paul; Jeffries, Leslie; Hal...
Ensemble: ; BBC Dance Orchestra; Fred Hartley's Quintet; Jack Hylton Orchestra; Leslie Jeffries Orchestra; Light Symphony Orchestra; London Palladium Orchestra; London Symphony Orchestra; New Light Symphony Or...

Personnel: Reginald Foort (organ)....continue...

The Golden Age of Light Music - 1940s - Louis Levy

1 CD / Guild / 2004-07-01

Works: Byron Lloyd: Music In The Air; Cole Porter: Just one of those things, song (from "Jubilee"); Clive Richardson: Melody on the move, for orchestra; Richard Rodgers: Out of My Dreams, song (from "Oklaho...
Performers: Coates, Eric [Composer]; Goehr, Walter; Gould, Morton; Hans May; Melachrino Orchestra; Melachrino, George; Pollikoff, Max; Queen's Hall Light Orchestra; Rose, David & His Orchestra; Stanley Black Orc...
Conductors: Torch, Sidney; Ternent, Billy; Williams, Charles; Black, Stanley; Gould, Morton; Goehr, Walter; Rose, David; Preston, Robert; Melachrino, George; Sandler, Albert; Coates, Eric [Composer]; May, Hans; ...

The Golden Age of Light Music - An Introduction

1 CD / Guild / 2004-06-01

Works: Robert Farnon: Gateway to the West; Sidney Torch: Going for a Ride; Richard Rodgers: Spring is Here; Jonny Heykens: Serenade; Warren: Martinique; Donald Phillips: Skyscraper Fantasy; David Rose: Danc...
Performers: , Charles Williams & His Concert Orchestra; Anderson, Leroy & His Pops Concert Orchestra; Danish State Radio Orchestra; Faith, Percy & His Orchestra; Farnon, Robert [Composer/Conductor]; Frank Chacks...
Conductors: Farnon, Robert; Torch, Sidney; Kostelanetz, André; Goodwin, Ron; Martin, Ray; Williams, Charles; Rose, David; Mantovani, The Orchestra; Deveraux, Georges; Collins, Walter; Green, Philip; Gould, ...

Personnel: Arthur Gleghorn (flute)....continue...

Bird Songs at Eventide

1 CD / Hyperion / 2003-12-01

Works: Eric Coates: Bird Songs at Eventide, song for voice & piano; Josephine McGill: Duna; Charles Wakefield Cadman: At Dawning, song for voice & piano (or orchestra), Op. 29; Cécile Chaminade: The Li...
Performers: Hough, Stephen; White, Robert

'If these ardent renderings ... do not find a place in your heart then you should wonder what your heart's made of' (Classic FM Magazine)

'Hyperion...continue...
Personnel: Robert White (tenor); Stephen Hough (piano).

Recording information: 06/06/1995-06/07/1995....continue...

More songs my father taught me / Allen, Martineau

1 CD / Hyperion / 2003-08-01

Works: English Traditional: Water o' Tyne; The Salley Gardens (or Maids of Mourne Shore), traditional melody; Eric Coates: I Heard You Singing for voice & piano; The Green Hills of Somerset; Star of God; Al...
Performers: Allen, Thomas; Martineau, Malcolm

"Thomas Allen [is] unafraid to open his heart, mind and wonderful voice to these striking lyrics and memorable tunes of the home-entertainment era. The direct,...continue...

Songs my father taught me / Allen, Martineau

1 CD / Hyperion / 2002-03-01

Works: Edward Cockram Purcell: Passing By; Phyllis Tate: The Lark in the Clear Air; Arthur Sullivan: My dearest heart, song for voice & piano; The Lost Chord; Wilfrid Sanderson: Until; Haydn Wood: Love's Ga...
Performers: Allen, Thomas; Martineau, Malcolm

'I was amazed, listening to the rich warmth of Thomas Allen's voice, just how many of these songs I knew... Popular, enduring tunes encapsulating a...continue...

Thomas Hampson - A Portrait

1 CD / EMI Classics Import / 2001-10-30

Works: Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Die tote Stadt (The Dead City); Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser; Franz Lehár: O Vaterland, du machst bei Tag, for voice & piano (or orchestra) (from"Die lustige Witwe");...
Performers: Alpher, David; Criswell, Kim; Guzelimian, Armen; Hampson, Thomas; Mason, Molly; Parsons, Geoffrey; Ungar, Jay
Conductors: Luisi, Fabio; Welser-Möst, Franz; Plasson, Michel; Pappano, Antonio; Norrington, Roger; McGlinn, John; Gemignani, Paul

English String Miniatures Vol 3 / Lloyd-Jones, Royal Ballet

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2001-10-01

Works: Carlo Martelli: Persiflage, for string orchestra; Gerald Finzi: Prelude for String Orchestra in F minor, Op. 25; Romance for String Orchestra in E flat major, Op. 11; Gustav Holst: Brook Green Suite,...
Performers: Gibbs, Robert
Conductors: Lloyd-Jones, David
Ensemble: Royal Ballet Sinfonia

In addition to music by two senior members of the twentieth century English musical community, Gustav Holst and Gerald Finzi, this third volume includes works...continue...

English String Miniatures Vol 2 / Lloyd-Jones, et al

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2001-03-01

Works: Frank Bridge: Sally in Our Alley, for string quartet, H. 119/1; Cherry Ripe, for string quartet, H 119/2; Sir Roger de Coverley, H 155; Edward Elgar: Sospiri; Haydn Wood: Fantasy Concerto, for orches...
Conductors: Lloyd-Jones, David
Ensemble: English Northern Philharmonia

This second volume of English String Miniatures offers a form of music in which English composers have shown considerable facility, often serving a widespread amateur...continue...

The Romantic Piano Concerto Vol 23 - Holbrooke, Wood

1 CD / Hyperion / 2000-02-01

Works: Joseph Holbrooke: Concerto for Piano no 1, "The Song of Gwyn ap Nudd"; Haydn Wood: Concerto for Piano in D minor
Performers: Milne, Hamish
Conductors: Brabbins, Martyn
Ensemble: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

These two English piano concertos in the grand romantic tradition were written at almost the same time (Holbrooke 1908, Wood 1909) and wereundoubtedly inspired by...continue...

My Secret Heart / Ben Heppner

1 CD / RCA Records / 1999-11-09

Works: Charles Gilbert Spross: Let All My Life Be Music; Vittorio Giannini: Sing to my heart a song; Charles: Let My Song Fill Your Heart; Ivor Novello: Perchance to Dream; King's Rhapsody; Noel Coward: Bit...
Performers: Heppner, Ben
Conductors: Tunick, Jonathan
Ensemble: London Philharmonic Orchestra

Ben Heppner has been hailed as one of the great heldentenors of our time. He has successfully recorded and performed the Germanic romantic repertoire but...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

Richard Tauber in London

1 CD / Testament / 1996-01-10

Works: Cole Porter: Night and day, song (from The Gay Divorcee); Paul A. Rubens: I love the moon; Franz Lehár: Dein ist mein ganzes Herz (You Are My Heart's Delight) (from "Das Land des Lächelns")...
Performers: Kahn, Percy; Laye, Evelyn; Tauber, Richard
Conductors: Walter, Gustav; Collinson, Frank

All of the World's Most Beautiful Melodies! / McCann, et al

5 CD / Chandos Records / 1995-10-17

Works: Antonin Dvorák: Gypsy Songs, Op. 55; Rusalka; Charles Gounod: Ave Maria; Faust; Johannes Brahms: Songs (5) for voice & piano, Op. 49; Edward Cockram Purcell: Passing By; Giacomo Puccini: Madama ...
Performers: Hicks, Malcolm; Lindley, Simon; McCann, Phillip; Newsome, Roy; Robertson, Ian
Conductors: Parkes, Major Peter; Langford, Gordon; Blackledge, Douglas; Newsome, Roy
Ensemble: ; Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber Ensemb; Black Dyke Band; Sellers Engineering Band

Rita Hunter in Concert - Verdi, et al / Victor Morris

1 CD / Tall Poppies / 1994-02-01

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Aida, opera; Don Carlos; Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana, opera (melodramma) in 1 act; Ivor Novello: King's Rhapsody; Dancing Years; Giacomo Puccini: Gianni Schicchi, opera; La ...
Performers: Hunter, Rita; Morris, Victor

The World's Most Beautiful Melodies Vol 3 / Phillip McCann

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1992-09-01

Works: Haydn Wood: Roses of Picardy; James L. Molloy: Love's Old Sweet Song; George Bennard: The Old Rugged Cross; Luigi Arditi: Il bacio; Traditional: Danny Boy "Londonderry Air"; Shepherd's Song "La Bayl&...
Performers: Lindley, Simon; McCann, Phillip; Newsome, Roy
Conductors: Newsome, Roy; Blackledge, Douglas
Ensemble: Sellers Engineering Band

More of the World's Most Beautiful Melodies / Phillip McCann

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1992-01-01

Works: Giacomo Puccini: La bohème; Giuseppe Verdi: Aida, opera; Scottish Traditional: Over the Sea to Skye (a.k.a. "The Skye Boat Song"); Haydn Wood: A Brown Bird Singing for voice & piano; Dermot Ma...
Performers: Hicks, Malcolm; McCann, Phillip
Conductors: Parkes, Major Peter; Langford, Gordon
Ensemble: Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber Ensemb; Black Dyke Band