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Music : Anderson, L - Orchestral Works, Vol 1
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Anderson, L - Orchestral Works, Vol 1 by: David McCallum, John Blackshaw, Derek Hannigan, Jenny McLaren, Neville Graham List Price: £5.99 Childrens Toy Shop Price: £4.98 You Save: £1.01 (17%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0636943931325 Label: Naxos Manufacturer: Naxos Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Naxos Release Date: December 31, 2007 Running Time: 62 minutes Studio: Naxos Sales Rank: 42751 MPN: 8559313 Disc 1:
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 Rating:  - America's Iconic Light Music ComposerTo those of us of a certain age, the music of Leroy Anderson represents the ne plus ultra of American light symphonic music. From the mid-1930s on Anderson was encouraged and his music was played frequently by Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops. It wasn't long before his music was being played by practically every ensemble in the country. One of his pieces, 'Blue Tango', even topped the popular hit parade for almost four months in the early 1950s. This CD is said to be the first in a series that will present all of Anderson's extant works, and it contains not only such familiar pieces as 'Fiddle-Faddle', 'Bugler's Holiday', 'Belle of the Ball', 'Blue Tango', and 'The Classical Jukebox' but others that are almost completely unknown, including ... Read More: Rating:  - Fiddle-Faddle to you too, sirBefore getting this disc I knew a handful of Anderson's works but nothing here. This album is the first in a projected series of his complete orchestral works, with some premiere recordings promised (on this volume, the Sousa-like Governor Bradford March). My test of a good "light music" disc is, if by the end I don't feel a desperate need to listen to something like Reger's solo viola music then it's a good one. This went down a treat. My own preferences are for the quirkier pieces, the quirkiest of all being The Classical Jukebox, complete with needle-stuck-in-groove effect (which the booklet notes point out will not have any meaning for listeners below a certain age - thanks, make me feel old, why don't you!). But everything is enjoyable here. ... Read More: |
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