American Light Music Classics (Includes The March of the Toys, Holiday for Strings & The Teddy Bear's Picnic)
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SOUSA / ANDERSON / GERSHWIN / MacDOWELL / GILLIS / RODGERS / GOULD / etc
American Light Music Classics (Includes The March of the Toys, Holiday for Strings & The Teddy Bear's Picnic)
New London Orchestra conducted by Ronald Corp
[ Hyperion / CD ]
Release Date: Tuesday 30 May 2000
This item is only available to us via Special Import.
'These lovely old tunes have a freshness and charm akin to the best light-hearted literature or illustration from the same period. A splendid successor to the previous volumes' (Gramophone)
'These guys can take on the Boston Pops any day!' (Classic FM)
'A lovely, irresistible record' (The Birmingham Post)
'Une collection indispensable aux amateurs du genre! (Diapason, France)
22 delightful tracks altogether, sparklingly played, as usual, by Ronald Corp and his band of merry men and women of The New London Orchestra. Their manifest joy in making this recording is very apparent in this happy disc.
Tracks:
The Washington Post (Sousa)
Whistling Rufus (Mills)
Pavanne (Gould)
Nola: A Silhouette (Arndt)
The Whistler and his Dog (Pryor)
Belle of the Ball (Anderson)
The Arkansas Traveller
The Teddy Bears' Picnic (Bratton)
To a Wild Rose (MacDowell)
Blaze Away! (Holzmann)
Chanson 'In Love' (Friml)
The Toy Trumpet (Scott)
Promenade (Gershwin)
Plink, Plank, Plunk! (Anderson)
the March of the Toys (Herbert)
Holiday for Strings (Rose)
Narcissus (Nevin)
Symphony No 5 and a half 'A Symphony for Fun' (Gillis)
The Carousel Waltz (Rodgers)
