The Merrymakers: British Light Classics

 
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The Merrymakers: British Light Classics
Concert Orchestra, Iain Sutherland

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Release Date: Tuesday 10 July 2012

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"This is a really splendid collection - the epitome of British light music standing out in a crowded market. I wish there had been more from Sutherland. Are there other tapes for a second collection? I hope so and so will you if you seek this one out."
(MusicWeb July 2012)

"For over four decades I conducted the BBC's Light Orchestras in programmes like Melodies for You, Invitation to Music, Music while you Work, Friday Night is Music Night and their annual International Festival of Light Music…Radio Clyde transmitted "live" my "Pops at the Philharmonic" concerts, and I also conducted the light orchestras of Europe; With the exception of the BBC Concert Orchestra, these orchestras no longer exist, so I have put together a selection of favourite pieces, hoping to bring back the glamour of the Golden Age of Light Music" (Iain Sutherland)

"This is a really splendid collection - the epitome of British light music standing out in a crowded market. I wish there had been more from Sutherland. Are there other tapes for a second collection? I hope so and so will you if you seek this one out."
(MusicWeb July 2012)

Tracks:

1 Overture: The Merrymakers (Eric Coates) 4:28
2 The Girl from Corsica (Trevor Duncan) 3:48
3 Little Serenade (Ernest Tomlinson) 3:03
4 Dance in the Twilight (from Springtime Suite - Eric Coates) 4:55
5 Sutherland's Law Theme (Hamish McCunn arr Iain Sutherland) 3:31
6 March: Things to Come (Arthur Bliss) 3:58
7 The Watermill (Ronald Binge) 3:03
8 Playful Scherzo (Peter Hope) 3:45
9 Dusk (from Fancy Dress Suite - Cecil Armstrong Gibbs) 3:13
10 Seventeen Come Sunday (Vaughan Williams) 3:19
11 Theme from Limelight (Charlie Chaplin arr Reg Tilsley) 3:46
12 Overture: The Arcadians (Lionel Monckton arr Arthur Wood) 5:15
13 The Dream of Olwen (Charles Williams) 3:19
14 English Dance No.6 (Malcolm Arnold) 1:29
15 My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose (Trad arr Gordon Langford) 3:57
16 Mexican Hat Dance (Trad arr Peter Hope) 4:16
17 Suo Gan (Trad arr Adrian Staines) 3:11
18 Dick's Maggot (from Suite of English Folk Dances - E.Tomlinson) 2:38
19 Bells Across the Meadow (Albert W Ketèlby) 4:28
20 Overture: Tam o' Shanter (Malcolm Arnold) 8:21