GALM 51: Going Places

Release Date: 15th Nov 2008
Catalogue No: GLCD5151
Label: Guild
Series: The Golden Age of Light Music

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01 Fantasy On National Airs - Early One Morning, The Ash Grove,The Campbells Are Coming, Londonderry Air

02 Going Places

03 Enchanted Isle

04 Mexican Interlude

05 Park Avenue Waltz

06 Cabaret Time In Paris (Selection)

07 Moon Of Manakoora

08 El Rancho Grande (My Ranch)

09 Streets Of New York

10 Call Of The Casbah (theme from ITV serial “Destination Downing Street”)

11 Monte Carlo

12 Mediterranean Serenade

13 Viennese Lantern Waltz (also known as Lights Of Vienna)

14 Southwest Territory

15 Scherzo: Avignon (based on ‘Sur Le Pont d’Avignon’)

16 Adios Mexico

17 Taj Mahal

18 Fiesta Argentina

19 Mediterranean Cruise

20 Cryin’ For The Carolines

21 The Poor People of Paris (La Goualante Du Pauvre Jean)

22 Irish Fantasy - Songs To Remember No. 4

23 Persian Nocturne

24 London By Night

25 Aarhus Tappenstreg (Aarhus Tattoo)

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The title of this collection is self-explanatory, but it is far more than just a selection of pieces associated with different parts of the world. Once again Guild has discovered a rare recording, never before made available commercially, which will appeal to everyone interested in television nostalgia. It is a response to the inclusion of Scherzetto for Children in the "Childhood Memories – Volume 2" CD (GLCD 5144). This was the piece commissioned by the BBC in the early 1950s as a prelude to children's TV programmes each day. A similar work depicting the music of the four countries of the British Isles – England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland – was heard every evening. Max Saunders was the composer of Fantasy on National Airs and, as with the Scherzetto, the piece (believed to have been recorded in 1951) was performed by the BBC Television Orchestra conducted by Eric Robinson. These two works have not previously been available on any commercial recordings, so a unique part of British television history has now been preserved for posterity. Another 'first' on this CD is an arrangement by Ronald Hanmer (from his own private collection) of the French folksong Sur le Pont d'Avignon.

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