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British musician (1902-1959)
- piano
- United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- pianist, composer, conductor
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2019-09-19 05:48:00
Elizabethan Serenade: The Best of British Light Music (CD review)
Various conductors and orchestras. Naxos 8.553515.Let me admit my unabashed sentimentality here and now by recommending this disc as one of the most attractive I've come across. This year or any year. (Naxos put this compilation together for release in 1996). The music on the program is the best of what the British call "light music," trifles for orchestra. These little jewels include Eric Coates's "By the Sleepy Lagoon," "Knightsbridge March," and "Dam Busters March"; Albert Ketelbey's "Bells across the Meadows," "In a Monastery Garden," and "In a Persian Market"; Haydn Wood's "Sketch of a Dandy"; Ernest Tomlinson's "Little Serenade"; Ronald Binge's "Sailing By"; Arthur Benjamin's "Jamaican Rumba"; Edward White's "Puffin' Billy"; Billy Mayerl's "Marigold"; and a host of others, twenty tracks in all, over seventy-eight minutes' worth, wonderfully played, and generally well recorded. Ernest Tomlinson The conductors are Ernest Tomlinson, Andrew Penny, Adrian Leaper, and Gary Carpenter. The […]
2015-11-29 05:20:00
This Week in Toronto (Nov. 30 - Dec. 6)
[…] recital at Koerner Hall on Sunday Dec. 6 at 3 pm. On the program are works by Chopin, Mozart, Liszt and Mendelssohn. The recital is already sold out but do check with the box office for returns. http://tso.ca/en-ca/concerts-and-tickets/2015-2016-Season/EventDetails/All-Tchaikovsky.aspx Pianist-lawyer Linda Ippolito is giving a noon hour recital at the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre on December 1st. Billed as Preludes and Pralines, Ippolito is playing some of her favourite works by Bach, Rachmaninoff, Debussy, Prokofiev and Billy Mayerl. Here's the link to a pdf file of her complete program - http://files.coc.ca/pdfs/concert151201.pdf Be sure to line up ahead of time to ensure a seat. Tafelmusik Director Ivars Taurins This being December, we can expect a plethora of Christmas programming. Here are three that caught my eye. Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra is presenting Bach's Christmas Oratorio, with soprano Jana Miller, countertenor Benno Schachtner, tenor James Gilchrist, and baritone Peter Harvey, under the […]
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