SPIRIT OF THE TIMES

Vignettes and portraits of past eras 1850-1939

arr. Lars Payne and Daryl Griffith

Souvenir d'amour

Palm Court-Gypsy-Viennese  arr. Lars Payne

ORIENT-EXPRESS

London to Constantinople - The legendary journey captured in music

Meridian

CDE 84466

GRIFFITH Orient Express
WRIGHT  Dainty Lady, Intermezzo
CHARROSIN  Keep Moving

POUGNET  Aubade  arr. Geehl

OLIAS  Paris Urchin  arr. Ehme
HARTLEY  Five Minutes with Waldteufel Waltzes
KRUGER-HANSCHMANN  Farmer's Breakfast  arr. Danczak
KRUGER-HANSCHMANN  In the Park Café  arr. Danczak
WINKLER  Spinning Top, virtuoso intermezzo arr. Mielenz
KOMZAK  München-Wien, ein Sinn Op.154

MOZART  La finta giardiniera (Overture) K196  arr.Sabac-el-Cher
STOLZ  Easter Parade in Vienna
KORNGOLD  Marietta's Song  (The Dead City) arr. Artok
SCHNEIDER  Lehár in Three-Four Time

KALMAN  Grand Palotás de la Reine  arr. Feigel 
RENNER  Gypsy Blood

KNUMANN  Roumanian Gypsy Fantasia

KROME  Bulgarian Dance
RAYNERS  Fatima, an Eastern Waltz  arr. Reeves

Meridian CDE 84416

Charlotte Page, Soprano

MOZART  Il Rè pastore (Overture)  arr.Haensch
MUSSORGSKY  Gopak  arr. Weninger
ELGAR  Chanson de nuit Op.15 No.1

ELGAR  Chanson de Matin Op.15 No.2
TCHAIKOVSKY  Danse russe (Swan Lake) arr. Lars Payne
MASCAGNI  Intermezzo sinfonico (Cavelleria Rusticana) arr. Bastini
GOUNOD  O Divine Redeemer! (Repentir)  arr. Lars Payne
WAGNER  Album Leaf (Albumblatt)  arr. Weninger
MENDELSSOHN  Fantasia on themes from A Midsummer Night's Dream  arr. Schreiner
HANDEL  Arioso (Dank sei dir, Herr)  arr. Lutz
BRAHMS  Selection of Brahms Hungarian Dances  arr. Charrosin
GRIEG  Solveig's Song (Peer Gynt)  arr. Lars Payne
SIBELIUS  Valse Triste Op.44  arr. Schmelling
ARENSKY  Intermezzo Op.13  arr. Zeitlberger

DEBUSSY  La plus que lente, valse  arr. Lars Payne
GLAZUNOV  Sérénade espagnole Op.20 No.2 (Spanish Serenade) arr. Foulds

R. STRAUSS  Morgen! Op.27 No.4  arr. Wilke

Meridian

CDE 84361

WINKLER  Scandinavian Express

WINKLER  Toulouse

VECSEY  Valse Triste

CHARROSIN  Snow-Flakes

GEIGER  Roumanian Gypsy Dance

GROTHE  Illusion

COATES  Bird Songs at Eventide

BOULANGER  Da Capo

KROME  Sunshine over Capri

MARLAND  Piccadilly Prelude

JOYCE  Phantom of Salome

FLETCHER  Reconciliation

DOSTAL  To Wander Around the World

FOULDS  Kashmiri Boat Song

RITTER  Geigen Polka

RITTER  Errinerung

RIXNER  Ready, Steady, Go!

THE PALM COURT

Music from the Age of Romance and Elegance

Meridian

CDE 84264

MARTIN  Evensong

WALDTEUFEL  Amour et printemps

DVORAK  Songs my Mother Taught Me

BRAHMS  Hungarian Dance No.5

GLAZUNOV  Meditation

DVORAK  Slavonic Dance No.8

TCHAIKOVSKY  Panorama

SULLIVAN  Mikado Quadrille

HEUBERGER  Opera Ball Waltz
VALDEZ  Serenade du Tsigane
EILENBERG  Serenade des Mandolines
YOSHITOMO  Geisha and Butterfly

MEYER-HELMUND  Russian Suite, An Evening in St.Petersburg:

1.Moonlit Night in Winter Time

2.With the Russian Gypsy Orchestra

3.In the Troika

GERSHWIN  Swanee

Meridian CDE 84307

Miranda Keys, Soprano

Donald Maxwell, Baritone

COLERIDGE-TAYLOR  Demande et Réponse
d'AMBROSIO  Chanson Napolitaine Op.37 No.1

d'Ambrosio  Valse Op.37 No.3
MONTI  Czardas
CZIBULKA  Winter Stories, waltz Op.366

CLAY  She Wandered Down the Mountainside
SULLIVAN  Cachucha (The Gondoliers)
SULLIVAN  Casilda Gavotte  arr. Czibulka

KOMZÁK (Jnr)  Mikado Waltz

JENSON  Murmuring Breezes

GODARD  Berceuse (Jocelyn)

FIBICH  Poème  
KOMZÁK (Sen)  Storm Galop Op.156

SVENDSEN  Romance Op.26

CZIBULKA   Love's Dream After the Ball

WOODFORDE-FINDEN  Four Indian Love Lyrics:
1.The Temple Bells
2.Less Than The Dust
3.Kashmiri Song (Pale Hands I Loved)
4.Till I Wake
FRANCIS THOMÉ  Andante religioso

Meridian CDE 84308

Miranda Keys, Soprano
Donald Maxwell, Baritone

Air de Ballet (Marriage à la Mode)

Mascarade (Merchant of Venice)

Romanza (The Toy Cart)

The Duenna's dance, Serenade, Gavotte, Fandango (The Duenna)

Now in Her Westering Flight (Fountain of Youth)

Ah me, When Shall I Marry Me? (She Stoops to Conquer)

The Phantom Ride

The Song of Soloman

Waltz, Valse gracieuse, Valse lente, Rêverie (Lady of the Camellias)

While Alexis Lay Prest (Marriage à la Mode)

What's all this talk about love? (She-Shanties)
Much Ado About Nothing (Overture)

Five Centuries of Love: 1570 The Yeoman, 1660 The Courtier

1770 The Cynic, 1860 The Emigrant, 1910 The Motorist

The Sirens of Southend

Hornpipe for Double Bass and Piano

Selection from the Musical comedy 1066 and All That  

LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN

Oscar Wilde

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST

Oscar Wilde

OLIVER TWIST

Charles Dickens adapted by Alan Bleasdale

Director: Renny Rye
Screenwriter: Alan Bleasdale
Story: Charles Dickens
Executive Producer: Alan Bleasdale

Music:  Paul Pritchard