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STANLEY BLACK
The Film Music of Stanley Black (Incls 'Sands of the Desert' & 'Jack the Ripper') BBC Concert Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth, conductor [ Chandos Movies / CD - released 3/May/2005 ] 'As the CD notes by Mervyn Cooke aptly put it, this music represents 'a lost age of innocently witty film writing'. As ever Chandos has done this repertoire proud with a luminous and full-bodied recording.' - Gramophone |
WILLIAM ALWYN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Alwyn: Prelude / Blackdown / Peter Pan Suite / Ad Infinitum / etc (with music by Vaughan Williams, York Bowen & Hubert Parry) BBC Concert Orchestra, John Wilson [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 12/Dec/2009 ] "This is a wonderful collection of little-known, long-forgotten British music. But what approachable, melodic, evocative, dramatic works they are." (MusicWeb Recording of the Month Dec 2009) |
LEROY ANDERSON
Anderson: Orchestral Music, Vol. 4 (Incls 'Irish Suite' & 'Scottish Suite') BBC Concert Orchestra / Leonard Slatkin (with Kim Criswell, soprano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 10/Oct/2008 ] "This fourth volume may seem to be mainly something of a gathering in of less well-known material and unusual, long-forgotten vocal arrangements of a few favourite pieces. Nevertheless they are delivered with such enthusiasm and joie de vivre, that... |
LEROY ANDERSON
Anderson: Orchestral Music, Vol. 5 (Incls 'Goldilocks') BBC Concert Orchestra / Leonard Slatkin (with Kim Criswell, soprano & William Dazeley, baritone) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Dec/2008 ] "'Goldilocks' is a real discovery and here is given a really dashing and sympathetic performance that should win for an overlooked show plenty of deserved new friends." ClassicalSource.com |
RICHARD ARNELL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Arnell: Ballet Music: The Great Detective & The Angels BBC Concert Orchestra / Martin Yates (conductor) [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 20/Aug/2008 ] "... there's no lack of energy and swagger here ... Yates and his musicians have the full measure of both works and Dutton provides a fine, spacious, and colorful audio environment for the record, too. Highly recommended." Fanfare |
ROBERT FARNON / SIDNEY TORCH / STANLEY BLACK / RON GOODWIN / etc
Showtime: 25 years of BBC Concert Orchestra favourites BBC Concert Orchestra / Roderick Dunk (conductor) [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 12/Dec/2009 ] Recorded: The Colosseum, Town Hall, Watford, 29-30 September 2009 |
MONTAGUE PHILLIPS
Revelry Overture / Symphony in C minor / Sinfonietta in C minor / etc BBC Concert Orchestra / Gavin Sutherland (conductor) [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 23/Jun/2006 ] “Filed under ‘light’ this may be, but this neglected music has true symphonic stature...Now here really is something!...Phillips’s voice, so eloquently served here by fine performances and recording, deserves to be heard not just as light music but... |
EDWARD GERMAN
Symphony No. 2 in A minor (The ËœNorwich) / The ËœLeeds Suite / etc BBC Concert Orchestra / John Wilson [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 26/Apr/2008 ] Dutton Epoch's series of Edward German Symphonies is now completed by this disc...This is tuneful music of some stature, and the BBC Concert Orchestra and their conductor John Wilson make a terrific case for scores that were once popular favourites. |
EDWARD GERMAN
Symphony no.1 in E minor / Overture “ The Tempter / Hamlet “ Symphonic Poem / etc BBC Concert Orchestra / John Wilson [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 10/May/2008 ] "Under the exceptionally talented and versatile young conductor John Wilson, the always-reliable BBC Concert Orchestra provides rich and resonant realizations of these lovely gems of Edwardian ethos - all premiere recordings - which one hopes will... |
EDWARD GERMAN
Much Ado about Nothing / The Tempter / Romeo and Juliet (Incidental music) BBC Concert Orchestra; John Wilson (conductor) [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 1/Apr/2012 ] BBC Concert Orchestra, John Wilson |
