Composer: Eric Coates
Orchestra: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Andrew Penny
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Naxos
Catalogue: 8555194
Release: 2022
Size: 263 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. By the Sleepy Lagoon
Springtime Suite
02. I. Fresh Morning
03. II. Noonday Song
04. III. Dance in the Twilight
05. Saxo-Rhapsody
06. Footlights Waltz
Four Ways Suite
07. I. North
08. II. South
09. III. East
10. IV. West
11. The Eighth Army March (Version for Orchestra)
12. Lazy Night
13. Last Love
14. High Flight March
Eric Coates was a master of refined and beautiful melodies, making him a household name during the golden years of British light music in the first half of the 20th century. The Four Ways Suite takes us to all four points of the compass, including exotic China and the jazz rhythms of America, while Springtime evokes both sweeping optimism and soulful memories of a lost age. The virtuoso Saxo-Rhapsody is one of the era’s major saxophone works, and By the Sleepy Lagoon remains famous as the signature tune to BBC Radio’s “Desert Island Discs”. High Flight March was to be Coates’ last composition.