DICKY BIRD HOP - Light Music Piano Classics. Jack Strachey (1894–1972): ‘THEATRELAND’ (MARCH); Geoffrey Toye (1889–1942): 'THE HAUNTED BALLROOM’ ; Ronald Gourley (1896–1957) : ‘THE DICKY BIRD HOP’; Benjamin Dale (1885–1943): ‘PRUNELLA’ (INTERMEZZO); Sir Noël Coward (1899–1973): 'MAZURKA’, 'PAS DE DEUX’, 'HORNPIPE’; Richard Addinsell (1904–1977): ‘INVITATION WALTZ’; Jack Strachey : ‘IN PARTY MOOD (BONNE COMPAGNIE)’; Edwin York Bowen (1884–1961): 'SERIOUS DANCE’ ; Haydn Wood (1882–1959): 'LOVELORN’ (INTERMEZZO); Vivian Ellis (1903–1996): 'ALPINE PASTURES’; Sandy Wilson (1924–2014): 'THE CENTENARIANS’ WALTZ’; HUBERT BATH (1883–1945): 'CORNISH RHAPSODY’; Billy Mayerl (1902–1959): 'JILL ALL ALONE’; Madeleine Dring (1923–1977): 'PINK MINOR’, 'BLUE AIR’, 'BROWN STUDY'; Eric Coates (1886–1957) : ‘VALSE’ (World Première recording) ; Sir Arnold Bax (1883–1953): ‘OLIVER’S SLEEPLESS NIGHT’; Geoffrey Wright (1912–2010) : ‘TRANSATLANTIC LULLABY’; Richard Addinsell : ‘WARSAW CONCERTO’. Paul Guinery (pf.)
Catalogue Number: 03Z013
Label: EM Records
Reference: EMR CD064
Format: CD
Price: $16.98
Description: EM Records is delighted to present ‘Dicky Bird Hop’: an anthology of light piano music performed by Paul Guinery, who has had a long and rich association with EM Records’s parent, The English Music Festival. The disc showcases the craftsmanship and joyous inventiveness of this genre, the works born of their composers’ dedication and sheer love for music. As Guinery writes in his introduction to the recording in the booklet notes: “Most of the pieces are admittedly upbeat but I don’t think there’s any harm in being cheered up. Frivolity is not the same as superficiality. In any case, why feel guilty?”
