CD 1 [79.20][1] Sleigh Ride (Winternacht) 5.30[2] Marche caprice (ed & arr. Beecham) 4.00[3] Over the hills and far away (ed. Beecham) 12.57[4] A Dance Rhapsody no. 2 7.40[5] -[9] A Dance Rhapsody no. 1 12.01[10] On the Mountains (Paa vidderne) 12.17Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Thomas Beecham[11] -[15] Promotional presentation by Sir Thomas Beecham in October 1948 for the launch of the 78rpm set of A Village Romeo and Juliet 25.02CD 2 [78.50][1] The Walk to the Paradise Garden from A Village Romeo and Juliet (arr. Beecham) 9.45[2] A Song of Summer 11.19[3] Irmelin Prelude 5.44London Symphony Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli[4] Late Swallows (arr. Fenby) 10.49Hallé Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli[5] Rehearsing Appalachia (16.VII.1970) 2.32[6] -[22] Appalachia - Variations on an Old Slave Song with final chorus 37.19 (rev. & ed. Beecham)Ambrosian Singers (chorus master: John McCarthy)Hallé Orchestra/Sir John BarbirolliCD 3 [75.50][1] Paris - The Song of a great City 21.49Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Charles Mackerras[2] In a Summer Garden 14.12Hallé Orchestra/Vernon HandleyTwo Pieces for Small Orchestra[3] No. 1 On hearing the first cuckoo in Spring 5.42[4] No. 2 Summer night on the river 6.23[5] Intermezzo from `Fennimore and Gerda' (arr. Fenby) 4.54London Philharmonic Orchestra/Vernon Handley[6] -[8] Piano Concerto in C minor 22.40Piers Lane, pianoRoyal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Vernon HandleyCD 4 [78.55][1] -[4] Florida, suite (Revised and edited by Sir Thomas Beecham) 38.15[5] -[27] Brigg Fair - An English Rhapsody 16.02Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Richard Hickox[28] Summer Evening (arr. Beecham) 6.30[29] La Calinda from Koanga (arr. Fenby) 4.05[30] Air and Dance 4.05[31] Intermezzo & 2.13[32] Serenade from Hassan (arr. Beecham) 2.23Northern Sinfonia of England/Richard Hickox[33] -[34] Two Aquarelles, arr. Fenby 4.11The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields/Sir Neville MarrinerCD 5 [76.50][1] Lebenstanz (Life's Dance) 15.21[2] -[5] North Country Sketches 26.46Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Charles Groves[6] -[13] Sea Drift (Whitman) 25.02John Noble, baritone/Liverpool Philharmonic ChoirRoyal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Charles Groves[14] Cynara (Dowson) 9.30John Shirley-Quirk, baritoneRoyal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Charles GrovesCD 6 [69.30][1] -[3] Violin Concerto 27.14Yehudi Menuhin, violinRoyal Philharmonic Orchestra/Meredith Davies[4] -[6] Double Concerto for violin, cello and orchestra 21.50Yehudi Menuhin, violin/Paul Tortelier, celloRoyal Philharmonic Orchestra/Meredith Davies[7] -[11] Cello Concerto 24.37Jacqueline du Pré, celloRoyal Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Malcolm SargentCD 7 [79.00]ALL WORKS ARRANGED BY ERIC FENBY 1906-1997[1] Dance* 2.36 Two Pieces for flute and strings*[2] 1. La Calinda 3.36[3] 2. Air and Dance 4.56[4] -[8] Five Little Pieces for small orchestra 9.50[9] -[12] Sonata for String Orchestra 28.54*Elena Duran, fluteBournemouth Sinfonietta/Eric Fenby[13] -[16] String Quartet 28.44Britten QuartetPeter Manning & Keith Pascoe, violinsPeter Lale, viola _ Andrew Shulman, celloCD 8 [78.40][1] -[3] Violin Sonata No. 1 22.50[4] -[6] Violin Sonata No. 2 13.32[7] -[9] Violin Sonata No. 3 17.10Yehudi Menuhin, violin _ Eric Fenby, piano[10] Légende in E flat 8.15Tasmin Little, violin _ John Lenehan, piano[11] -[13] Cello Sonata 14.19Moray Welsh, cello _ Israela Margalit, piano[14] Dance for Harpsichord 2.21Igor Kipnis, harpsichordCD 9 [67.00][1] Twilight Fancies (Evening Voices) (Bjørnson; English: Copeland) 3.49Ian Bostridge, tenor _ Julius Drake, piano[2] -[3] To be sung of a summer night on the water (wordless) 4.15Choir of King's College, Cambridge/Sir Philip Ledger[4] Wanderer's Song (Symons) 3.35Baccholian Singers of LondonRogers Covey-Crump, Ian Partridge, Ian Thompson, Paul Elliott, tenorsIan Humphris, Stephen Varcoe, baritone; Michael George, Brian Etheridge, bass[5] Heimkehr (The Homeward Journey) (Vinje) orch. Sondheimer 4.40Marjorie Thomas, mezzo-sopranoRoyal Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Thomas Beecham[6] Twilight Fancies (Evening Voices) (Bjørnson) orch. Beecham 4.12[7] Whither (Autumn) (Holstein) orch. Beecham 2.42[8] The Violet (Holstein) orch. Gibson 1.53Elsie Suddaby, sopranoRoyal Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Thomas Beecham[9] Whither (Autumn) (Holstein) orch. Beecham 2.45[10] The Violet (Holstein) orch. Gibson 1.48[11] I-Brasîl (MacLeod) orch. Heseltine (Warlock) 2.45[12] Klein Venevil (Bjørnson) [sung in German] 1.51Dora Labbette, sopranoLondon Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Thomas Beecham[13] Twilight Fancies (Evening Voices) (Bjørnson) 4.18[14] Cradle Song (Ibsen) 2.13[15] The Nightingale (Welhaven) 2.03Dora Labbette, soprano _ Sir Thomas Beecham, piano[16] Irmelin Rose (Jacobsen) } 4.20[17] So white, so soft, so sweet Is she (Johnson)[18] Le ciel est, par-dessus le toit (Verlaine) 4.24[19] La lune blanche (Verlaine)Dora Labbette, soprano _ Gerald Moore, piano[20] To The Queen Of My Heart (Shelley) 4.47[21] Love's Philosophy (Shelley)Heddle Nash, tenor _ Gerald Moore, piano[22] Caprice and Elegy 9.25Beatrice Harrison, celloChamber Orchestra/Eric FenbyCD 10 [79.10][1] Eventyr (Once upon a time) 16.14Hallé Orchestra/Vernon Handley[2] -[27] Hassan, Incidental music (Flecker) 62.56Martyn Hill, tenor _ Brian Rayner Cook, baritoneBournemouth Sinfonietta ChoirBournemouth Sinfonietta/Vernon HandleyCD 11 [75.08][1] -[8] Songs of Sunset (Dowson) 29.31Dame Janet Baker, mezzo-soprano _ John Shirley-Quirk, baritoneLiverpool Philharmonic ChoirRoyal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Charles Groves[9] An Arabesque (Jacobsen) 11.38John Shirley-Quirk, baritoneLiverpool Philharmonic ChoirRoyal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Charles GrovesA Mass of Life (from Nietzsche: Also sprach Zarathustra)[10] -[14] FIRST PART 33.41CD 12 [1] -[8] SECOND PART [66.07]A Mass of Life (from Nietzsche: Also sprach Zarathustra)Heather Harper, soprano _ Helen Watts, contraltoRobert Tear, tenor _ Benjamin Luxon, baritoneLondon Philharmonic ChoirLondon Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Charles GrovesCD 13 [78.15][1] -[5] Requiem 30.35Heather Harper, soprano _ John Shirley-Quirk, baritoneRoyal Choral SocietyRoyal Philharmonic Orchestra/Meredith Davies[6] -[11] Idyll (Once I passed through a populous city) (Whitman) 21.32Heather Harper, soprano _ John Shirley-Quirk, baritoneRoyal Philharmonic Orchestra/Meredith Davies[12] A Song before Sunrise 6.09Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Malcolm Sargent[13] -[17] Songs of Farewell (Whitman) 19.23Royal Choral SocietyRoyal Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Malcolm SargentCD 14 [61.16]Koanga[1] -[16] Prologue, Act 1 & 2CD 15 [76.32]Koanga[1] -[13] Act 3 & Epilogue 51.34[14] -[17] The Song of the High Hills (wordless) 24.58Liverpool Philharmonic ChoirRoyal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Charles GrovesCD 16 [68.10]A Village Romeo and Juliet[1] -[22] Scenes 1 - 4 (inc.)CD 17 [68.46]A Village Romeo and Juliet[1] -[15] Scenes 5 & 6 41.26John Alldis Choir/John AlldisRoyal Philharmonic Orchestra/Meredith DaviesIllustrated talk by Eric Fenby 27.20CD 18 [78.24]Fennimore and Gerda[1] -[15] Pictures 1 - 11 (inc.)Danish Radio ChorusDanish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Meredith Davies