Number of Discs: 5
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Warner
Catalogue: 0289892
Release: 2011
Size: 1.35 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
CD 01
Coates: Springtime – Suite
01. III. Dance in the Twilight
02. Collins: Vanity Fair
03. Curzon: Punchinello – Miniature Overture
04. Tomlinson: Little Serenade
05. Binge: Miss Melanie
06. Langford: Waltz for string orchestra
07. Bayco: Elizabethan Masque
08. Vinter: Portuguese Party
09. Dexter: Siciliano
Wood: Moods – Suite
10. VI. Joyousness
11. Binge: Elizabethan Serenade
Wood: Paris – Suite
12. III. Montmatre
13. Osborne: Lullaby for Penelope
14. Farnon: Portrait of a Flirt
15. Hartley: Rouge et Noir
Duncan: A Little Suite
16. 3. March
17. Curzon: The Boulevardier
18. Binge: The Water Mill
19. Docker: Tabarinage
Hope: The Ring of Kerry
20. I. Jaunting Car
21. Coates: Impression of a Princess
22. Coates: Wood Nymphs
23. Coates: Dam Busters March
CD 02
01. Mayerl: Marigold, Op.78
Mayerl: Puppets Suite Op. 77
02. Punch
Mayerl: Four Aces
03. Ace of Hearts
Mayerl: Piano Exaggerations
04. Antiquary
05. Mayerl: Shallow Waters
Mayerl: 3 Syncopated Rambles
06. The Printer’s Devil (Theme and Transcription)
Mayerl: Piano Exaggerations
07. Sleepy Piano
08. Mayerl: Railroad Rhythm
09. Bliss: The Rout Trot
10. Lambert: Elegiac Blues
Williams: Déjeuner dansant
11. Valsette brute
12. Raguette extra-sec
13. Goossens: Folk-Tune
14. Lambert: Elegy
15. Bliss: Bliss
16. Walton: Old Sir Faulk
Lambert: Concerto for solo pianoforte and nine players
17. I. Overture (Allegro)
18. II. Intermède (Andante recitando)
19. III. Finale (Lugubre)
CD 03
01. Gardiner: Overture to a Comedy
Quilter: Three English Dances, Op. 11
02. 1. Allegro giocoso
03. 2. Allegro scherzoso
04. 3. Allegro non troppo, ma con spirito
05. Walton: Siesta
06. Goossens: By the Tarn, Op. 15 No. 1
Quilter: Where the Rainbow Ends – suite
07. 1a. Rainbow Land
08. 1b. Will o’ the Wisp
09. 2. Rosamund
10. 3. Fairy Frolic
11. 4. Goblin Forest
12. Bax: Mediterranean
13. Warlock: An Old Song
German: Henry VIII
14. Morris Dance (Act 4)
15. Shepherd’s Dance (Act 1)
16. Torch Dance (Act 1)
CD 04
01. Wood: Hail, gladdening light (3rd-century Greek, trans. J. Keble)
02. Bainton: And I saw a new heaven (Revelation 21: 1-4)
03. Ireland: Greater Love Hath No Man
04. Harris: Faire is the Heaven
Naylor: Vox dicentis
05. Clama (Isaiah 40: 6-11)
06. Howells: Like as the Hart
07. Walton: Set me as a seal upon thine heart
08. Berkeley: The Lord is my Shepherd, Op. 91 No. 1
09. Britten: A Hymn of Saint Columba
10. Leighton: Let all the world in every corner sing (George Herbert)
11. Harvey: I love the Lord
12. Weir: Ascending Into Heaven
13. Maw: One foot in Eden still, I stand (Edwin Muir)
CD 05
01. Elgar: Introduction & Allegro for strings, Op. 47
02. Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Walton: Sonata for String Orchestra
03. I. Allegro
04. II. Presto
05. III. Lento
06. IV. Allegro molto
The very best of British music, with the finest British artists: after a disc of such evergreen light favourites 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.