Jul 25, 2021 | Light Music Gems, Ramblings, Videos
Ronald Binge (1910-79) The YouTube footage is scenes of Dublin. Very attractive. To avoid confusion, Binge was English (born in Derby); he was also Mantovani’s arranger, cascading strings and all. (Elizabethan Serenade makes me cry!) A rather lovely piece of...
Feb 26, 2021 | Light Music Gems, Ramblings, Videos
… La Marche Lorraine by French composer and conductor Louis Ganne (1862-1923, pictured), a favourite piece of my father’s, Donald Keith Anderson, who would have been 95 today. The recording linked to below is splendid, but alas the performers are not...
Feb 11, 2021 | Light Music Gems, Ramblings, Videos
Dusk by Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (1889-1960). Not heard it in years, so I am now pleased to catch this “slow waltz” as per the link below, courtesy of the Iain Sutherland Concert Orchestra and its eponymous...
