Golden Age
of Light MusicWar And Peace - Light Music of the 1940's
Guild GLCD 5171
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Golden Age
of Light Music War And Peace - Light Music of the 1940's Guild GLCD 5171 |
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| 1. Down the Mall, for band (2:32) | |
| Composer | John Belton |
| Performer | Charles Shadwell and his orchestra |
| 2. Stardust (3:15) | |
| Composer | Hoagy Carmichael (1899 - 1981) |
| Performer | Percy Faith and his orchestra |
| Date Written | 1927 |
| 3. Footlights (Concert waltz) (4:14) | |
| Composer | Eric Coates (1886 - 1957) |
| Performer | Light Symphony Orchesrtra / Eric Coates |
| 4. Spitfire Prelude & Fugue, for orchestra (from film score "The First of the Few") (4:10) | |
| Composer | William Walton (1902 - 1983) |
| Performer | Halle Orchestra / Sir William Walton |
| Performer | Laurance Turner (Violin) |
| Date Written | 1942 |
| 5. A Cocktail of Happiness, for pops orchestra (2:58) | |
| Composer | Wynford Reynolds |
| Performer | Wynford Reynolds and his orchestra |
| Date Written | 1944 |
| 6. Girls in Grey, television newsreel march (2:38) | |
| Composer | Charles Williams (1893 - 1978) |
| Performer | Queen’s Hall Light Orchestra / Charles Williams |
| 7. Humoresque No. 7 for piano in G flat major, B. 187/7 (Op. 101/7) (2:37) | |
| Composer | Antonin Dvorák (1841 - 1904) |
| Performer | David Rose and his orchestra |
| 8. El Alamein, for piano & orchestra (7:48) | |
| Composer | Albert Arlen (1905 - 1993) |
| Performer | Jack Payne and his orchestra |
| Performer | Peggy Cochrane (Piano) |
| 9. On a Spring Note (2:54) | |
| Composer | Sidney Torch (Sidney Torchinsky) (1908 - 1990) |
| Performer | Queen’s Hall Light Orchestra / Sidney Torch |
| 10. Boogie Woogie Moonshine, for pops orchestra (for the film "Piccadilly Incident") (3:44) | |
| Composer | Anthony Collins (1893 - 1963) |
| Performer | Louis Levy and his ‘Music from the Movies’ |
| Performer | Henry Bronkhurst (Piano) |
| 11. Voice of Industry, march for pops orchestra (2:48) | |
| Composer | Jack Beaver (1900 - 1963) |
| Performer | The New Century Orchestra / Sidney Torch |
| 12. Willie the Whistler, for pops orchestra (2:17) | |
| Composer | Robert Farnon (1917 - 2005) |
| Performer | Queen’s Hall Light Orchestra / Charles Williams |
| 13. Starlight Roof Waltz, for orchestra (2:59) | |
| Composer | George Melachrino (1909 - 1965) |
| Performer | The Melachrino Orchestra / George Melachrino |
| 14. A Matter of Life and Death: Prelude (4:04) | |
| Composer | Allan Gray (Josef Zmigrod) (1902 - 1973) |
| Performer | Queen’s Hall Light Orchestra / Charles Williams |
| Date Written | 1946 |
| 15. Olympic Games March, for pops orchestra (3:00) | |
| Composer | Ronald Hanmer |
| Performer | The New Century Orchestra / Sidney Torch |
| 16. The Fairy and the Fiddlers, for pops orchestra (3:29) | |
| Composer | Edward Little White (1910 - 1994) |
| Performer | New Concert Orchestra / Jay Wilbur |
| 17. Bonaventure, for pops orchestra (2:58) | |
| Composer | Frederic Curzon (1899 - 1973) |
| Performer | New Concert Orchestra / Frederic Curzon |
| 18. American Serenade, for pops orchestra (4:12) | |
| Composer | Louis Alter (1902 - 1980) |
| Performer | Meredith Willson and his orchestra |
| 19. Marche fantastique, for pops orchestra (3:13) | |
| Composer | Leighton Lucas (1903 - 1982) |
| Performer | Leighton Lucas and his orchestra |
| 20. Short Overture to an Unwritten Opera, for orchestra (4:10) | |
| Composer | Don Gillis (1912 - 1978) |
| Performer | New Concert Orchestra / Rae Jenkins |
| Date Written | 1945 |
| 21. Royal Cavalcade, for pops orchestra (2:45) | |
| Composer | Albert W. Ketèlbey (1875 - 1959) |
| Performer | The Louis Voss Grand Orchestra |
| 22. The Phantom of the opera, score to the radio broadcast of 1943 (5:55) | |
| Composer | Edward Ward |
| Performer | Mantovani and his concert orchestra |
| Performer | Guy Fletcher (Piano) |