Tuesday 17 July 2012

Tour London in music

Tour London through music. The city is gridlocked by the paranoid Olympics, so you can't do it any other way. Even the government is saying "Don't go into town!".  Which defeats the purpose of the whole exercise. I'd be at the Wigmore Hall tonight for Prégardien/Drake but can't face traffic mayhem. Go if you can, it will be good.

So enjoy In London Town : A musical tour of the historic sights of London, a new release from independent label SOMM records. Visit the Tower, Rotten Row, the Royal Thames and take in the Blitz, too.  Visualize!
1. Concert Overture: Me And My Girl (The Lambeth Walk) Noel Gay, arr.Iain
Sutherland
2 Knightsbridge March (The Household Brigade & Harrods) Eric Coates
3 Westminster Waltz (Big Ben & Westminster Bridge) Robert Farnon
4 Rotten Row (Hyde Park) Wally Stott
5 Covent Garden (The Historic Flower Market) Eric Coates
6 Overture: Yeomen of The Guard (The Tower of London) Sir Arthur Sullivan
7 London Fantasia (The London Blitz) Clive Richardson
8 Get Me To The Church On Time (My Fair Lady - Theatre Royal, Drury Lane)
Lerner & Loewe
9 Greensleeves (Hampton Court Palace) Arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams
10 Four Dances: Merrie England (At the Court of Queen Elizabeth I) Sir
Edward German
11 London Bridge is Falling Down (Tower Bridge) Alan Abbott
12 Elizabethan Serenade (Buckingham Palace) Ronald Binge
13 Prelude: Water Music (Diamond Jubilee Pageant on The River Thames) G.F.
Handel
14 Three English Dances (The Historic Mayfair) Roger Quilter
15 The Sea Hawk (Main Title) (Greenwich: Cutty Sark & The Maritime Museum)
Erich Korngold

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