Name: GALM 89: Holiday for strings
Price: 11.5 USD
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Release Date: 16th Jan 2012
Catalogue No: GLCD5189
Label: Guild
Series: The Golden Age of Light Music

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01 Belle Of The Ball

02 Beyond The Blue Horizon (from the film 'Monte Carlo')

03 Love Is Sweeping The Country

04 Dance Of The Slave Maidens (also known as 'Stranger In Paradise') (from 'Prince Igor')

05 Thanks For The Memory

06 Serenade To Double Scotch

07 Gigi (Theme from the film)

08 Cumana

09 The Willow Waltz

10 Perfidia

11 Bouquet

12 The Most Beautiful Girl In The World

13 Adios

14 Then You May Take Me To The Fair (from 'Camelot')

15 Time Waits For Me

16 Spending Spree

17 Nurseryland

18 On The Loose

19 The Rebel (Music from the film) Main Title Theme

20 The Rebel (Music from the film) Oo-La-La

21 Vanessa

22 Faraway Music

23 The Singer Not The Song - Theme from the Film

24 Strolling Home

25 Periwinkle

26 Jeunesse

27 Romance In The Breeze

28 Holiday For Strings

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As the title of this CD clearly suggests, the emphasis in this collection is on strings, although in the interests of variety the other sections of the orchestra also get their opportunity to shine. That immensely talented American composer Leroy Anderson sets the tone with his landmark Belle Of The Ball, leaving the equally gifted David Rose to complete a selection of 28 light music cameos with an extended version of his famous Holiday For Strings. Rose is widely credited as the man who injected short, bright pieces of instrumental music with an infectious string sound in the 1940s that would be emulated by many musicians during the following decades. Both have earned their place in Light Music’s Hall of Fame, but a glance through the list of numbers on this CD confirms that they were not alone in creating the pleasing sounds that once appealed to the majority of music lovers. Ron Goodwin, George Melachrino, Percy Faith, Cyril Ornadel, Robert Farnon, Frank Cordell, Philip Green, Charles Williams and Dolf van der Linden fully deserve to share the limelight, and ‘newcomers’ this time include Jack Shaindlin and Frederick Fennell, two eminent American conductors who will surely be included in future Guild compilations.

GALM 89: Holiday for strings

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