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The British Light Music Classics Series

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by: New London Orchestra

Release Date November 06, 2006

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British Light Music Classics, Vol 4

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from: Hyperion

Release Date November 04, 2002
Many record companies are currently reporting great success with issues and reissues of British light music dating from the first half of the twentieth century. This Hyperion issue is the fourth in such a series, and it gets a welcome and a recommendation from me.

Here are 17 items altogether, offering 78 minutes of quality light entertainment, and a hint that the bottom of the barrel has not been reached yet by any means. Of course, Eric Coates and Albert Ketèlbey are represented, and there is the highly distinguished “Petite Suite de Concert” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. A favorite of mine, dating from the days of 78s, is the Doge’s March. It also, in more recent years, proved a popular item to include in the ... Read More:

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Foulds - Dynamic Triptych; April Evening; (2) Short Indian Works

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from: Warner Classics

Release Date April 10, 2006
I was delighted to discover the music of John Foulds, the now almost forgotten English composer, through the CBSO and Sakari Oramo's first disc of his music which was released on Warner Classics in 2004. Foulds (1880-1939)was, like Holst, fascinated by Indian music and, like his other contemporary Vaughan Williams, by modal music. Combine this with his use of whole-tone scales (a la Debussy) and quarter tones and you get an idea of what a rich musical brew he cooks up in his works. They are colourful, dramatic and full of energy. This is romantic music but with a cutting edge due to that unsual musical pallette he uses. The "Dynamic Triptych" is a piano concerto that crackles with energy. The first movement sounds a little like Prokofiev with its ... Read More: