HUBERT CLIFFORD
Hubert Clifford: The Cowes Suite, A Pageant of Youth, Voyage at Dusk, Hunted and other works BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Ronald Corp [ Dutton / Vocalion / CD - released 1/Dec/2017 ] Australian-born Hubert Clifford started his musical career in Melbourne but came to England in 1930 and remained there for the rest of his career. He taught music in a boys' grammar school, moved to the BBC and then became Alexander Korda's music... |
CECIL ARMSTRONG GIBBS
The Crossings / Suite in A for Violin and Orchestra / The Cat and the Wedding Cake / etc Charles Mutter (violin) Ben Dawson (piano) / BBC Concert Orchestra, Ronald Corp [ Dutton Epoch SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/May/2016 ] This varied selection of tuneful but largely unfamiliar orchestral music by Cecil Armstrong Gibbs includes the delightful suite from his collaboration with Walter de la Mare, the "fairy play" Crossings. Gibbs's music is very much an escapist art,... |
HERBERT HOWELLS / RONALD CORP
Cello Concertos Alice Neary (cello) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Ronald Corp (conductor) [ Dutton / CD - released 1/Feb/2015 ] Cellist Alice Neary's championship of Herbert Howells' three-movement Cello Concerto (now in a performing edition by Jonathan Clinch) and conductor Ronald Corp's own recent Cello Concerto make for a rewarding coupling in the best Dutton Epoch... |
EUROPEAN LIGHT MUSIC CLASSICS
European Light Music Classics (Includes Parade of the Tin Soldiers, The Entry of the Boyars & The Skaters Waltz) New London Orchestra, Ronald Corp [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 30/Oct/2014 ] 'Another tasty compilation that will sell like hot cakes' (Classic CD) |
JOHN FOULDS
Orchestral Music Vol. 3 [Incls 'Miniature Suite, Op. 38'] BBC Concert Orchestra, Ronald Corp [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] "Lively, affectionate-sounding performances under Ronald Corp's sympathetic direction have been pleasingly captured by the Dutton microphones." (Gramophone) |
RONALD CORP
Things I Didn't Say Edward Batting (organ) / Apsara, Ronald Corp [ Stone / CD - released 2/Jan/2013 ] The title's that of a choral cycle setting 20 poems by Steve Mainwaring about his dying mother. Corp's setting are fluidly melodic and sensitively responsive. Nine shorter pieces also feature. |
RONALD CORP
Dhammapada Apsara / Corp [ Stone / CD - released 2/Jan/2013 ] The eight voices of Apsara invest their considerable collective experience in establishing a rich and clear sound. Their tonal palette spans the gamut from ethereal purity to romantic warmth, applied with discrimination and admirable good taste |
Corp/Mcaslan/Daniel/New London
Hurd: Orchestral Music & Pop C [ Dutton / 2 CD - released 12/Nov/2012 ] |
FREDERIC AUSTIN
Symphony in E / Rhapsody: Spring / Overtures Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Douglas Bostock / Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Ronald Corp [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 10/May/2012 ] |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
A Ceremony Of Carols / Friday Afternoons / Three Two-part songs New London Children's Choir, Ronald Corp [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2012 ] "Ronald Corp directs bright, refreshing performances of a delightful collection of Britten choral pieces... A splendid bargain." - The Penguin Guide |
RONALD CORP
And all the Trumpets Sounded (with Hurd - The Shepherd’s Calendar) Mark Stone, Roderick Williams (baritones) / New London Children’s Choir & Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Ronald Corp [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 20/Dec/2011 ] |
GEORGE MACFARREN
Robin Hood (complete opera) Nicky Spence / Kay Jordan / Magdalen Ashman / Victorian Opera Orchestra and Chorus / Ronal Corp [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 20/Nov/2011 ] "Macfarren's Romantic English opera Robin Hood has waited 150 years for a first recording, and though Ronald Corp's Victorian Opera forces sometimes sound stretched, they capture its genial Merrie England swashbuckle...Connoisseurs of ripe Victoriana... |
RUTLAND BOUGHTON
Boughton: The Queen of Cornwall (complete music-drama) Heather Shipp, Joan Rodgers, Jacques Imbrailo / New London Orchestra, Members of The London Chorus, Ronald Corp [ Dutton Epoch / 2 CD - released 20/Aug/2011 ] "For me this opera was quite a revelation and it makes one wonder what other treasures of Boughton await rediscovery." (Editor's Choice Gramophone Sept 2011) |
RONALD CORP
The Ice Mountain New London Children’s Choir / Members of the New London Orchestra / Ronald Corp [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Jul/2011 ] "Corp's transparent, evocative scoring for an ensemble of seven players is one of the opera's greatest strengths. Naxos' sound is clear, well-defined, and nicely balanced, with an immediate presence." (Allmusic.com) |
MICHAEL HURD
Pop Cantatas John Addison (narrator) / Alexander Wells (piano) / Members of the New London Orchestra / New London Children’s Choir / Ronald Corp [ Naxos / CD - released 4/May/2011 ] "The works on this Naxos disc are lightly jazzy and must have turned generations of children on to concert music. They make confident and fearless communion with West End show-time, dance-band drum-kit and light Radio 2 style middle-of-the-road... |
JOHN FOULDS
Orchestral Music Vol 2: Indian Suite / Suite Française / Henry VIII Suite / etc BBC Concert Orchestra / Ronald Corp [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 20/Nov/2010 ] Recorded at The Colosseum, Town Hall, Watford, 8-10 March 2010; St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, 15 July 2010 |
JOHN FOULDS
Orchestral Music Vol 1: Keltic Suite / Suite Fantastique BBC Concert Orchestra / Ronald Corp [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 30/Aug/2010 ] "Outstanding? Abosolutely!" International Record Review pick of the month (Oct 2010) |
ELINOR REMICK WARREN
The Legend of King Arthur / Along the Western Shore / Suite for Orchestra / etc Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Ronald Corp / BBC COncert Orchestra, Martin Yates [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 12/Dec/2009 ] Don't miss this delightful collection of colourful and tuneful complete orchestral music by the American west coast composer Elinor Remick Warren. Warren, whose life spanned the twentieth century, lived from 1900 to 1991 and was known as a leading... |
BACEWICZ
Music for string orchestra New London Orchestra, Ronald Corp [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Nov/2009 ] "…a thoroughly rewarding survey of a composer who deserves to be much better known. Ronald Corp and his New London Orchestra are generally persuasive in what is often quite tricky instrumental writing: the recording is fine." Gramophone Magazine,... |
G Corp
Duplates From The Elephant House Volume 2 [ G Corp / CD - released 10/Mar/2008 ] Originally released in 2002, this is the second amazing 'Dubplates from the Elephant House' CD - re-issued due to popular demand, since the success of Volume 3. |