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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 |
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 |
LEROY ANDERSON
Anderson: Orchestral Music, Vol. 3 (Incls 'Plink, Plank, Plunk!' & 'The Syncopated Clock') BBC Concert Orchestra / Leonard Slatkin (with Catherine Moore, trumpet) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Jul/2008 ] "A great disc - and I am looking forward to what I imagine will be the fourth and final CD?" (MusicWeb July 2008) |
THE BEST OF LONDON
The Best of London (Incls 'London Transport Suite', The Westminster Waltz', 'London Again Suite' & 'St. Paul's Suite') BBC Concert Orchestra / Royal Philharmonic / Bournemouth Symphony / Royal Artillery / Band Royal Ballet Sinfonia / etc [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2008 ] A rousing collection of music evoking Britain's capital city in all its pomp and glory. CD 1 takes the listener on a nostalgic journey though British light music from Sullivan to Farnon, whilst CD 2 embraces traditional classical music from all eras. |
CLIFTON PARKER
The Film Music of Clifton Parker (Includes 'treasure Island' & 'sink the Bismarck!') BBC Concert Orchestra / Rumon Gamba [ Chandos Movies / CD - released 4/Feb/2005 ] "Clifton Parker's claim to fame rests on his film music and specifically on Seascape from Western Approaches. He had a real gift for sea music both tender and stormy. Don't miss it." - MusicWeb Feb 2005 |
JOHN ADDISON
The Film Music of John Addison (Includes 'A Bridge Too Far' & 'the Charge Of The Light Brigade') BBC Concert Orchestra / Rumon Gamba [ Chandos Movies / CD - released 22/May/2007 ] "One of the very best of Chandos's British film music series with Gamba and the BBC Concert Orchestra on top form" (MusicWeb Sept 2007) |
