Box of Delights - British Light Music Gems - Phyllis Tate • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor • Sir Granville Bantock • Cecil Armstrong Gibbs • Elisabeth Lutyens

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth, conductor
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Simon Joly, conductor

Label: Lyrita
Copyright: 2007 Lyrita Recorded Edition, England
Catalogue number: SRCD.214
UPC/EAN: 5020926021427
Format: CD
Analogue / Digital recording: DDD
Number of discs: 1
Total playing time: 71.32
Price: £ 14.99 (+ postage & packing)

Tracks 1 - 4: Recorded at Walthamstow Town Hall, 8 March 1988 & Henry Wood Hall, 31 August 1989, Producer: Andrew Cornall, Engineer: John Dunkerley
Tracks 5 - 20: Recorded at Henry Wood Hall, 31 August, 1 & 2 September 1989, Producer: Andrew Cornall, Engineer: John Dunkerley

"This pleasing selection of scores adds up to an attractive collection of ‘light music’ ... The performances here are consistently fine and stylish and relayed in excellent sound – a ‘box of delights indeed!" Colin Anderson, www.classicalsource.com Click here to read the full review

"Lyrita did not shy from British light music and there was always an anthology strand within the Lyrita vinyl line-up ... This is a fascinating collection which offers some surprising and always engaging perspectives on British light music ..." Rob Barnett, www.musicweb-international.com Click here to read the full review

"Amidst the excited flurry of the monthly Top Gun Lyrita releases comes this gentler morsel ... Nothing over-serious here – just charming fare all round, finely played and conducted ..." Jonathan Woolf, www.musicweb-international.com Click here to read the full review

London Fields (1958) Phyllis Tate (1911 - 1985) 13.14
1 1 Spring time at Kew 2.35
2 2 The Maze at Hampton Court 2.11
3 3 St James’ Park – a Lakeside Reverie 4.57
4 4 Hampstead Heath – Rondo for Roundabouts 3.31
Four Characteristic Waltzes Op.22 (1899) Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875 - 1912) 13.14
5 No. 3 Valse de la reine 4.30
Three-fours, Valse Suite Op.71 (1909) (orch. Norman O’Neill) Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875 - 1912) 13.14
6 No. 2 Andante 2.47
7 No. 5 Andante molto 4.12
Russian Scenes (1899) Sir Granville Bantock (1868 - 1946) 14.18
8 1 At the Fair – Nijni Novgorod 3.01
9 2 Mazurka 2.35
10 3 Polka 2.42
11 4 Valse 3.44
12 5 Cossack Dance 2.16
Fancy Dress, dance suite Op.82 (1935) Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (1889 - 1960) 17.22
13 1 Hurly-Burly 3.08
14 2 Dance of the Mummers 3.40
15 3 Dusk (Waltz) 5.11
16 4 Pageantry (Processional) 5.23
En Voyage, suite for full orchestra (1944) Elisabeth Lutyens (1906 - 1983) 15.02
17 1 Overture (En Voyage) 3.11
18 2 Channel Crossing (La Traversee) 4.03
19 3 Yvette (La Dieppeoise) 3.03
20 4 Paris-Soir (City Lights) 4.45