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Granville Bantock, Billy Mayerl, Norman O'Neill
British Composers Conduct & Other Rarities
Genres: Special Interest, Classical

Track Listings (22) - Disc #1
1. Cuchullan's Lament - Sir Granville Bantock
2. Kishmul's Galley - Sir Granville Bantock
3. Caristiona - Sir Granville Bantock
4. Sea Reivers - Sir Granville Bantock
5. Sennen Cove-Tone Poem Op.58 - Billy Mayerl
6. Dance Of The Mist Maids - Norman O'Neill
7. Dance Of Fire And Water - Norman O'Neill
8. Dance Of The Stars - Norman O'Neill
9. Dance Of The Hours - Norman O'Neill
10. Call Of The Island & Interlude - New Light Symphony Orchestra
11. Prelude And Call (Finale) - New Light Symphony Orchestra
12. Announcement - Lionel Salter
13. The Fairies Dance - Lionel Salter
14. Wedding March - Lionel Salter
15. Judith: Opera In One Act - Sir Eugene Goossens
16. Cue 22A: David - Sir Wlliam Walton
17. Cue 29 (With Barbaric Dancing And Wild Shouts) - Sir Wlliam Walton
18. Cue 21 (David In Saul's Tent) - Sir Wlliam Walton
19. Pax Vobiscum - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
20. Lavender Blue - BBC Northern Orchestra
21. Annoucement - Montague Phillips
22. In Praise Of My Country - Montague Phillips

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All Artists: Granville Bantock, Billy Mayerl, Norman O'Neill, Walter Leigh, Eugene Goossens, William [composer] Walton, John St. Anthony Johnson, Hubert Clifford, Spoken Word, Montague Phillips, Lionel Salter, Stanford Robinson, London Promenade Orchestra, Court Symphony Orchestra
Title: British Composers Conduct & Other Rarities
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Dutton Labs UK
Original Release Date: 1/1/2007
Re-Release Date: 3/20/2007
Album Type: Import
Genres: Special Interest, Classical
Styles: Opera & Classical Vocal, Forms & Genres, Symphonies, Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music, Historical Periods, Modern, 20th, & 21st Century, Symphonies
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 765387976620

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Fascinating musical curios

Mark Conlan | San Diego, California | 04/13/2008

(3 out of 5 stars)

"A collection of fascinating musical curios by little-known British composers (Sir William Walton is the closest to a major "name" here) in recordings from the 1920's to the 1950's, expertly rehabilitated by Michael Dutton. Ironically, the best tracks are inspired by the plays of Sir James M. Barrie -- Walton's "The Boy David" cues (judging from the numbers on the records -- 21, 22A and 29 -- he wrote a lot more for this play and it's a pity the rest of it is lost!) and Norman O'Neill's "Mary Rose," a fascinating piece of music that, as Alfred Hitchcock (who in the 1960's co-wrote a film script based on the play) said, sounds like Debussy's haunting nocturne "Sirènes." Also especially noteworthy are the ballet music from Eugene Goossens' opera "Judith" and Billy Mayerl's "Sennen Cove," which sounds a good deal like the light-classical pieces Ferde Grofé wrote for Paul Whiteman. If this CD has a flaw, it's that too many of the pieces sound similar even though nine different composers are represented; they tend to fall into the quiet, pastoral mode so beloved of British composers of the period. But much of this music is worth hearing."