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Best of British Composers Light Music 5 CD Box Set Classical Piano EMI Classics
The very best of British music, with the finest British artists: after a disc of such evergreen light favorites as Elizabethan Serenade and the Dam Busters march, Sir Richard Rodney Bennett takes us from the dizzy displays of Billy Mayerl to the dark despair of Constant Lambert. The late Richard Hickox reveals the charm of the English miniature and presents three string masterpieces; in between, the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, in definitive accounts of 19th- and 20th-century anthems. EMI Classics is proud to release the latest installment to the popular British Composers Series which celebrates British composers both past and contemporary.
Disc 1:
1 III. Dance in the Twilight. - Springtime - Suite (1963 Digital Remaster)
2 Vanity Fair
3 Punchinello - Miniature Overture
4 Little Serenade
5 Miss Melanie
6 Waltz for string orchestra
7 Elizabethan Masque
8 Portuguese Party
9 Siciliano
10 VI. Joyousness. - Moods - Suite
11 Elizabethan Serenade
12 III. Montmatre. - Paris - Suite
13 Lullaby for Penelope
14 Portrait of a Flirt
15 Rouge et noir
16 3. March. - A Little Suite
17 The Boulevardier
18 The Watermill
19 Tabarinage
20 I. Jaunting Car. - The Ring of Kerry
21 Impression of a Princess
22 Wood Nymphs - Valsette
23 The Dam Busters
Disc 2
1 Marigold, Op.78 (1996 Digital Remaster)
2 Punch. - Puppets Suite Op. 77
3 Ace of Hearts. - Four Aces
4 Antiquary. - Piano Exaggerations
5 Shallow waters
6 The Printer's Devil (Theme and Transcription). - 3 Syncopated Rambles
7 Sleepy Piano. - Piano Exaggerations
8 Railroad rhythm
9 The Rout Trot T42
10 Elegiac Blues
11 Valsette brute. - Dejeuner dansant
12 Raguette extra-sec. - Dejeuner dansant
13 Folk-Tune
14 Elegy (1996 Digital Remaster)
15 Bliss
16 Old Sir Faulk (1996 Digital Remaster)
17 I. Overture (Allegro). - Concerto for solo pianoforte and nine players
18 II. Intermede (Andante recitando). - Concerto for solo pianoforte and nine players
19 III. Finale (Lugubre). - Concerto for solo pianoforte and nine players
Disc 3
1 Overture to a Comedy
2 1. Allegro giocoso. - Three English Dances Op. 11
3 2. Allegro scherzoso. - Three English Dances Op. 11
4 3. Allegro non troppo, ma con spirito. - Three English Dances Op. 11
5 Siesta
6 By the Tarn Op. 15 No. 1
7 1a. Rainbow Land. - Where the Rainbow Ends - Suite
8 1b. Will o' the Wisp. - Where the Rainbow Ends - Suite
9 2. Rosamund. - Where the Rainbow Ends - Suite
10 3. Fairy Frolic. - Where the Rainbow Ends - Suite
11 4. Goblin Forest. - Where the Rainbow Ends - Suite
12 Mediterranean
13 An Old Song
14 Morris Dance (Act 4). - Henry VIII
15 Shepherd's Dance (Act 1). - Henry VIII
16 Torch Dance (Act 1). - Henry VIII
Disc 4
1 Hail, gladdening light (3rd-century Greek, trans. J. Keble)
2 And I saw a new heaven (Revelation 21. 1-4)
3 Greater love hath no man
4 Faire is the heaven (Spenser)
5 Vox dicentis. Clama (Isaiah 40. 6-11)
6 Like as the hart (Psalm 42. 1-3)
7 Set me as a seal upon thine heart (Song of Solomon 8. 6-7)
8 The Lord is my shepherd Op. 91 No. 1 (2003 Digital Remaster)
9 A Hymn of St Columba (Regis regum rectissimi) (attrib. St. Columba)
10 Let all the world in every corner sing (George Herbert)
11 I love the Lord (Psalm 116. 1-4 & 7-9)
12 Ascending into Heaven (Me receptet Sion illa) (Hildebert of Lavardin)
13 One foot in Eden still, I stand (Edwin Muir)
Disc 5
1 Introduction and Allegro for string quartet and string orchestra Op. 47
2 Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
3 I. Allegro. - Sonata for strings
4 II. Presto. - Sonata for strings
5 III. Lento. - Sonata for strings
6 IV. Allegro molto. - Sonata for strings
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