Light Music

[Pulcinella]

I first came across him as the composer of the companion piece (Dynamic Triptych) to a Lyrita performance of RVW's PC:

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7949403--vaughan-williams-foulds-piano-concertos

Subsequently acquired as part of this 2CD set:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Foulds-Apotheosis-Triptych-April-England-Pictures/dp/B00DEOTR30/ref=sr_1_3?crid=2KJQA0JAAAB2U&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.EarPwZnmx7hCKHtPdsgMRA5VeBQC4rtIvi2hu0RmDQ0WJI4FyZKeo_xBINhT6DPom8M3biFsRHS_DUeU92MJlg.QCbI2ontrBH7ZPmip_5naJVZCfycqyo7782xsAlNUWI&dib_tag=se&keywords=Foulds+dynamic&qid=1727112646&s=music&sprefix=foulds+dynamic%2Cpopular%2C74&sr=1-3

I wasn't aware that he had written 'Light Music'.

[Pulcinella]

Currently listening to this:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/British-Light-Music-Eric-Coates/dp/B0000241D4/ref=sr_1_10?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.hVhBS6Y6TYDA-0VCLqmN3ybq14fXAjXuBvsz32YlWHZodGUCOzjdkwegstIij_ZRMR8ifoPtcGT5kGQj4iNXOjBcgcQQq04CEHxTi_k3naRqz4pf9JwhSZaDE2X03HLdYLB-eb2psn3S7nZNeYbfMGfvNHPSREiBjlrDEoH9Oa69BkxlmxfwxnBl_piJxmr3woYEz7F04MkiaudCWHDu_ACOLK8WuInZ_BpwI2kL0Os.qgVddKzMrvhxqnk41r4DsTnURl298JDaYJt70RUfl6U&dib_tag=se&keywords=Light+music&qid=1727113006&s=music&sr=1-10

included in this set (actually bought for the Anthems from King's!):

https://www.amazon.co.uk/British-Composers-Best-Various-Artists/dp/B0056H0SO0/ref=sr_1_4?crid=1WUC1O3LXJR3H&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.VouJ_09IIrPVALfw9fwRxWXjCaEAnpT8jRsdU-rFkjfYvHwua4StxuGXGicaueP7OJ5OxIGCLawFq-mpjju8esSo9f6oru66zlLx7L3vZE2FIQJUrR9xttvd8TeW1XP2Pc_Up50fsB9dLMDwDKU8wOOECb4nE_M_LKF_rcPy2zr3FsF-RFhXzKvsoVNEkbSmvtl7tskegPgoWc68kGqhwguKYSFvwQR1vkpGAp3bFx0.T0rinw5zQNFMmJXIiUB7swfjUr0PhT73g5FtKed8D70&dib_tag=se&keywords=best+of+british+cd&qid=1727113159&sprefix=Best+of+british%2Caps%2C90&sr=8-4

[hmvman]

Currently listening to this:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/British-Light-Music-Eric-Coates/dp/B0000241D4/ref=sr_1_10?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.hVhBS6Y6TYDA-0VCLqmN3ybq14fXAjXuBvsz32YlWHZodGUCOzjdkwegstIij_Z RMR8ifoPtcGT5kGQj4iNXOjBcgcQQq04CEHxTi_k3naRqz4pf9 JwhSZaDE2X03HLdYLB-eb2psn3S7nZNeYbfMGfvNHPSREiBjlrDEoH9Oa69Bkxlmxfwxn Bl_piJxmr3woYEz7F04MkiaudCWHDu_ACOLK8WuInZ_BpwI2kL 0Os.qgVddKzMrvhxqnk41r4DsTnURl298JDaYJt70RUfl6U&di b_tag=se&keywords=Light+music&qid=1727113006&s=mus ic&sr=1-10

Lovely disc - I have a copy in my collection

It has that Coates recording of the Dambusters on it.

[LMcD]

I first came across him as the composer of the companion piece (Dynamic Triptych) to a Lyrita performance of RVW's PC:

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7949403--vaughan-williams-foulds-piano-concertos

Subsequently acquired as part of this 2CD set:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Foulds-Apotheosis-Triptych-April-England-Pictures/dp/B00DEOTR30/ref=sr_1_3?crid=2KJQA0JAAAB2U&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.EarPwZnmx7hCKHtPdsgMRA5VeBQC4rtIvi2hu0RmDQ0WJI4FyZKeo_xBINhT6DPom8M3biFsRHS_DUeU92MJlg.QCbI2ontrBH7ZPmip_5naJVZCfycqyo7782xsAlNUWI&dib_tag=se&keywords=Foulds+dynamic&qid=1727112646&s=music&sprefix=foulds+dynamic%2Cpopular%2C74&sr=1-3

I wasn't aware that he had written 'Light Music'.

A nice selection can be found on Dutton Epoch CDLX 7252.

[edashtav]

I first came across him as the composer of the companion piece (Dynamic Triptych) to a Lyrita performance of RVW's PC:

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7949403--vaughan-williams-foulds-piano-concertos

Subsequently acquired as part of this 2CD set:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Foulds-Apotheosis-Triptych-April-England-Pictures/dp/B00DEOTR30/ref=sr_1_3?crid=2KJQA0JAAAB2U&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.EarPwZnmx7hCKHtPdsgMRA5VeBQC4rtIvi2hu0RmDQ0WJI4FyZKeo_xBINhT6DPom8M3biFsRHS_DUeU92MJlg.QCbI2ontrBH7ZPmip_5naJVZCfycqyo7782xsAlNUWI&dib_tag=se&keywords=Foulds+dynamic&qid=1727112646&s=music&sprefix=foulds+dynamic%2Cpopular%2C74&sr=1-3

I wasn't aware that he had written 'Light Music'.

Very much so: he had to put "bread and pullet' on the family table and would leave no stone unturned. Once upon a time his Keltic Melody was ubiquitous.

[Serial_Apologist]

I first came across him as the composer of the companion piece (Dynamic Triptych) to a Lyrita performance of RVW's PC:

I wasn't aware that he had written 'Light Music'.

Very interesting, if uneven composer, Foulds. Experimented with microtones in some works, and later envisaged new cross-generic scores combining Western orchestral instruments with those of India.

[LMcD]

It was an excellent programme. At the risk of being off-topic it was good to have another programme about light music on BBC radio. I must admit that to my shame I hadn't realised it was Ernest Tomlinson's centenary today. By coincidence I was presenting a programme of Eric Coates' music to my recorded music group yesterday.

Ernest Tomlinson is among the composers lined up for FNiMN on Friday, alongside John Williams and Hoagy Carmichael and others.

[Petrushka]

I've a vague memory of Ernest Tomlinson being a panellist on a BBC TV music programme in the late 1960s/early 1970s. I think it was chaired by Steve Race and one of the others on the panel was Trevor L. Sharpe former director of music of the Coldstream Guards.

I may be mixing up different programmes but can't for the life of me remember what it was called. I do remember Tomlinson, though.

[LMcD]

I've a vague memory of Ernest Tomlinson being a panellist on a BBC TV music programme in the late 1960s/early 1970s. I think it was chaired by Steve Race and one of the others on the panel was Trevor L. Sharpe former director of music of the Coldstream Guards.

I may be mixing up different programmes but can't for the life of me remember what it was called. I do remember Tomlinson, though.

Steve Race was the question-master on 'My Music', which was broadcast on Radio 4 and regularly featured Messrs Muir and Norden. We used to attend recordings at the Commonwealth Institute in Kensington.

[Cockney Sparrow]

I first came across him as the composer of the companion piece (Dynamic Triptych) .......
Subsequently acquired as part of this 2CD set:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Foulds-Apotheosis-Triptych-April-England-Pictures/..........

The Apex 2 CD Oramo/Birmingham Foulds recordings show up now as Warner Classics discs Catalogue No. 825646152568 and 825646299966 (in Naxos Music Library).

(As does the “English Anthems” Kings/ Cleobury - Warner Classics - Parlophone 0077775441857).

[......Coates, and others...] ....................... included in this set (actually bought for the Anthems from King's!):

https://www.amazon.co.uk/British-Composers-Best-Various-Artists/........

[Petrushka]

Steve Race was the question-master on 'My Music', which was broadcast on Radio 4 and regularly featured Messrs Muir and Norden. We used to attend recordings at the Commonwealth Institute in Kensington.

I used to listen to 'My Music' but the programme I'm trying to recall was definitely on TV and definitely featured Ernest Tomlinson on the panel.

[LMcD]

I used to listen to 'My Music' but the programme I'm trying to recall was definitely on TV and definitely featured Ernest Tomlinson on the panel.

'It Strikes A Chord', broadcast on BBC 1 on 22/12/1967.

[Petrushka]

'It Strikes A Chord', broadcast on BBC 1 on 22/12/1967.

That's the one!

[Cockney Sparrow]

I've a vague memory of Ernest Tomlinson being a panellist on a BBC TV music programme in the late 1960s/early 1970s. I think it was chaired by Steve Race and one of the others on the panel was Trevor L. Sharpe former director of music of the Coldstream Guards.

I may be mixing up different programmes but can't for the life of me remember what it was called. I do remember Tomlinson, though.

There is an obituary online (The Independent) which is pretty detailed - and interesting :

"From 1967 to 1994, Race presented the panel game My Music, acting as his own researcher and carefully selecting his own guests. He was a smooth, urbane presenter and his regular guests included Ian Wallace, best known for singing Flanders and Swann's comic songs, as well as Denis Norden and Frank Muir."

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/steve-race-musician-and-broadcaster-best-known-for-his-association-with-the-programme-my-music-1715941.html

I haven't hit a paywall....

[Petrushka]

'It Strikes A Chord', broadcast on BBC 1 on 22/12/1967.

If you enter the title into the search on BBC Genome you will see some amazing names who appeared on the panel throughout the series even among the student contenders, some of whom subsequently became well known. I think I watched most of those programmes. Amazing stuff!