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British Light Music Vol.7: Docker - 3 Contrasts, Scenes de ballet, Pastiche Variations | Naxos - British Light Music 8574322

British Light Music Vol.7: Docker - 3 Contrasts, Scenes de ballet, Pastiche Variations

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Label: Naxos - British Light Music

Cat No: 8574322

Barcode: 0747313432271

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 13th May 2022

Contents

Artists

David Presley (oboe)
William Davies (piano)
RTE Concert Orchestra

Conductor

Barry Knight

Works

Docker, Robert

Air and Jig
» Air
Blue Ribbons
Contrasts (3)
Fairy Dance Reel
Legend
Pastiche Variations
Scene du bal
Scenes de ballet
Tabarinage
The Spirit of Cambria

Artists

David Presley (oboe)
William Davies (piano)
RTE Concert Orchestra

Conductor

Barry Knight

About

Robert Docker was one of the giants of light music – a composer and arranger whose works graced stage, screen, radio and television. Two of his best pieces were written for piano and orchestra: Legend, which can rank alongside Addinsell’s Warsaw Concerto (Naxos 8554323); and the brilliantly witty inventions of the Pastiche Variations. Not only was Docker a distinguished orchestrator, he was also a rich melodist as his classic Scène du bal illustrates, while the composer’s impish humour can be savoured in Tabarinage. Docker’s early training as a classical violist fully equipped him to explore the British pastoral tradition in the languid and beautiful Air.

Fanfare wrote on its first appearance in 1995 (8223837): ‘This latest instalment in Marco Polo's ‘British Light Music’ series offers a virtual modern-day apotheosis of the venerable “palm court” salon music of a century or more ago.’ ‘Excellent notes by conductor Barry Knight, who leads the RTÉ Concert Orchestra of Ireland in immaculate and idiomatic readings … Another essential contribution to the recorded library of light concert music’.

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