Number of Discs: 2
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Warner
Catalogue: 0887962
Release: 2011
Size: 675 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
CD 01
01. Coates: By the Sleepy Lagoon
02. Coates: Calling All Workers
03. Ketèlbey: In a Persian Market
04. Coates: The Merrymakers – A Miniature Overture
05. Coates: Knightsbridge March from London Suite
06. Grainger: Irish Tune from County Derry ‘Danny Boy’
07. Grainger: Mock Morris
08. Ketèlbey: In a Monastery Garden
09. Grainger: Country Gardens, BFMS 22
10. Grainger: Shepherd’s Hey
11. Williams: The Dream of Olwen
Gibbs: Dance Suite, Op. 82, “Fancy Dress”
12. III. Dusk (Waltz)
13. Ketèlbey: Bells across the Meadows
14. Bath: Cornish Rhapsody
15. Coates: Oxford Street (from London Again suite)
16. Williams: Devil’s Galop
Wood: My Native Heath, Suite
17. IV. Barwick Green
18. Martin: Marching Strings
19. Binge: Sailing By
CD 02
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, “The Man in the Street”
Wood: Paris – Suite
12. III. Montmatre
13. Osborne: Lullaby for Penelope
14. Farnon: Portrait of a Flirt
15. Hartley: Rouge et Noir
Duncan: Little Suite
16. I. 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
From the Sleepy Lagoon to the Dam Busters, from Knightsbridge in a Jaunting Car to a Monastery Garden: all the classic tracks collected here are immediately appealing, and a great many of them instantly recognisable. Whatever ‘light music’ may mean—and the question has exercised some fine minds over futile years—as presented here it is, in Denis Norden’s words, ‘not just tuneful round the outside, but tuneful right through’.