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The primary audience for this disc will be located in Britain, where the music will all have the distinctive half-familiarity of television and radio themes, but even non-British listeners can have a good time with the music. The situation in Britain was different from in America, where by the 1950s a good deal of music written for television had been stamped by popular idioms. Here, although a few pieces were written specifically for broadcast purposes and a few others came from the vast libraries of stock themes employed by British broadcasters, most of the music had an independent existence prior to being attached to a specific broadcast show. American television producers also drew on preexisting music, of course (it's hard, if you're of a certain age, not to think of Chet Huntley when you hear the scherzo of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9), but not to the same extent. Thus the album includes music by such famed figures as Ralph Vaughan Williams and Eric Coates in addition to composers more closely associated with British light music genres. Marches, waltzes, and related locomotive genres are well represented on the program, and listeners interested in knowing what they're getting into here can sample the sprightly but circumspect Out of the Blue March, track 16, by Hubert Bath. It wasn't intended as the theme for a television sports program, but that's what it became. Why? It has the qualities that television music still has today: it's both interesting enough and deferential enough that if you hear it day in and day out it begins to seem like an old friend rather than making you tired of it. Almost all the music on the disc has this quality, which should give British listeners a trip down memory lane and provide non-Britons with pleasant listening that may also illuminate some of the wasys classical music found its way into vernacular musical life in the last century. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under Paul Murphy and Gavin Sutherland plays with a slightly sentimental enthusiasm that's entirely appropriate to the circumstances, and the studio recording avoids a big concert-hall sound that could have stultified the music. Recommended to anyone Anglo or just anglophilic.
© TiVo
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Sea Songs (Ralph Vaughan Williams)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer - Paul Murphy, Conductor
2007 Naxos 2007 Naxos
Marigold
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - Paul Murphy, Conductor - Billy Joseph Mayerl, Composer - Andrew Vinter, Performer
2007 Naxos 2007 Naxos
Waltzing with Sullivan (Gilbert Vinter)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - Gilbert Vinter, Composer - Paul Murphy, Conductor
2007 Naxos 2007 Naxos
Sound and Vision (ATV March) (Eric Coates)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - Eric Coates, Composer - Paul Murphy, Conductor
2007 Naxos 2007 Naxos
Radio 4 UK Theme (Fritz Spiegl)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - Paul Murphy, Conductor - Fritz Spiegl, Composer - Manfred Arlan, Composer
2007 Naxos 2007 Naxos
Holiday Spirit (Children's Television Newsreel, Friday Night Is Music Night) (arr. J. Bell) (Clive Richardson)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - John Bell, Composer - Clive Richardson, Composer - Paul Murphy, Conductor
2007 Naxos 2007 Naxos
Imperial Echoes (BBC Radio Newsreel, CBC Night News Bulletin) (arr. D. Bowden) (Arnold Safroni)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - Gavin Sutherland, Conductor - Arnold Safroni, Composer - Don Bowden, Composer
2007 Naxos 2007 Naxos
Top Dog (The Men from the Ministry) (Ivor Slaney)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - Gavin Sutherland, Conductor - Ivor Slaney, Composer
2007 Naxos 2007 Naxos
A Thousand Kisses (The Gold Rush) (arr. C. Kottaun) (Archibald Joyce)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - Archibald Joyce, Composer - Paul Murphy, Conductor - Celian Kottaun, Composer
2007 Naxos 2007 Naxos
Parisian Mode (What's My Line?) (arr. B. Thomson) (Woolf Phillips)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - Woolf Phillips, Composer - Paul Murphy, Conductor - Bert Thomson, Composer
2007 Naxos 2007 Naxos
Willow Waltz (The World of Tim Fraser) (Cyril Watters)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - Gavin Sutherland, Conductor - Cyril Watters, Composer
2007 Naxos 2007 Naxos
Non-Stop (ITV News Bulletin) (arr. I. Slaney) (Ivor Slaney)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - Gavin Sutherland, Conductor - John Malcolm, Composer - Ivor Slaney, Composer
2007 Naxos 2007 Naxos
Winter Sunshine (arr. G. Zalva) (George Melachrino)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - Gavin Sutherland, Conductor - George Melachrino, Composer - George L. Zalva, Composer
2007 Naxos 2007 Naxos
Paris Promenade (William Hill-Bowen)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - Gavin Sutherland, Conductor - William Hill-Bowen, Composer
2007 Naxos 2007 Naxos
Paris Métro (William Hill-Bowen)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - Gavin Sutherland, Conductor - William Hill-Bowen, Composer
2007 Naxos 2007 Naxos
Out of the Blue (arr. K. Papworth) (Hubert Bath)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - Gavin Sutherland, Conductor - Hubert Bath, Composer - Keith Papworth, Composer
2007 Naxos 2007 Naxos
Barnacle Bill (Blue Peter) (arr. G. Zalva) (Ashworth Hope)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - Gavin Sutherland, Conductor - Ashworth Hope, Composer - George L. Zalva, Composer
2007 Naxos 2007 Naxos
A Little French Suite: Galop (Alan Langford)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - Gavin Sutherland, Conductor - Alan Langford, Composer
2007 Naxos 2007 Naxos
Dance Revels
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - Paul Murphy, Conductor - Montague Phillips, Composer
2007 Naxos 2007 Naxos
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - Paul Murphy, Conductor - Montague Phillips, Composer
2007 Naxos 2007 Naxos
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - Paul Murphy, Conductor - Montague Phillips, Composer
2007 Naxos 2007 Naxos
Widespread World (Rediffusion London Call Sign) (arr. G. Sutherland) (John Dankworth)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - Gavin Sutherland, Composer, Conductor - John Dankworth, Composer
2007 Naxos 2007 Naxos
Album review
The primary audience for this disc will be located in Britain, where the music will all have the distinctive half-familiarity of television and radio themes, but even non-British listeners can have a good time with the music. The situation in Britain was different from in America, where by the 1950s a good deal of music written for television had been stamped by popular idioms. Here, although a few pieces were written specifically for broadcast purposes and a few others came from the vast libraries of stock themes employed by British broadcasters, most of the music had an independent existence prior to being attached to a specific broadcast show. American television producers also drew on preexisting music, of course (it's hard, if you're of a certain age, not to think of Chet Huntley when you hear the scherzo of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9), but not to the same extent. Thus the album includes music by such famed figures as Ralph Vaughan Williams and Eric Coates in addition to composers more closely associated with British light music genres. Marches, waltzes, and related locomotive genres are well represented on the program, and listeners interested in knowing what they're getting into here can sample the sprightly but circumspect Out of the Blue March, track 16, by Hubert Bath. It wasn't intended as the theme for a television sports program, but that's what it became. Why? It has the qualities that television music still has today: it's both interesting enough and deferential enough that if you hear it day in and day out it begins to seem like an old friend rather than making you tired of it. Almost all the music on the disc has this quality, which should give British listeners a trip down memory lane and provide non-Britons with pleasant listening that may also illuminate some of the wasys classical music found its way into vernacular musical life in the last century. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under Paul Murphy and Gavin Sutherland plays with a slightly sentimental enthusiasm that's entirely appropriate to the circumstances, and the studio recording avoids a big concert-hall sound that could have stultified the music. Recommended to anyone Anglo or just anglophilic.
© TiVo
Details of the original recording : 75:49 - DDD - Enregistré au Studios Angel à Londres en novembre 2005 et avril 2006 - Notes en anglais
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 22 track(s)
- Total length: 01:15:36
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Naxos
- Area: Angleterre
- Genre: Classical
- Period: Light Music
2007 Naxos 2007 Naxos
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