EMR CD072 | DETAILS
  EMR CD072
   
 

BUTTONHOLE & TAILS
   
  The New Foxtrot Serenaders
   
  EAN 5 060263 500674

The late-evening performances of The New Foxtrot Serenaders have been a highlight of each English Music Festival for the past six years, resulting in much toe-tapping and even dancing in the aisles; and EM Records is delighted to have committed this scintillating band, with its suave and charming band-leader Graham Wright, to compact disc. Works featured on the disc include favourites such as ‘Run, Rabbit, Run’, ‘Could You Please Oblige Us with a Bren Gun?’, ‘Mad Dogs and Englishmen’ and ‘Keep the Home Fires Burning’; and other works range from ‘Love Is the Sweetest Thing’ to Noel Gay’s ‘Leaning on a Lamp-Post’. These nostalgic works are presented in previously unrecorded arrangements by the late John Ashworth, pianist and arranger to the band for many years, and to whose memory the recording is dedicated.

TRACK LISTING AND AUDIO EXTRACTS
     
ALL WORKS ARRANGED BY JOHN ASHWORTH
       
Sir Noël Coward (1899–1973)
1. ‘MAD DOGS AND ENGLISHMEN’ (World Première recording)  
2. ‘DANCE, LITTLE LADY’ (World Première recording)  
3. ‘POOR LITTLE RICH GIRL’ (World Première recording)  
       
Ray Noble (1903–1978)
4. ‘LOVE IS THE SWEETEST THING’ (World Première recording)  
       
Ivor Novello (1893–1951)
5. ‘WE'LL GATHER LILACS’ (World Première recording)  
       
Harry Parr-Davies (1914–1955)
6. ‘SMILE WHEN YOU SAY “GOODBYE” ’ (World Première recording)  
       
7. FIRST WORLD WAR MEDLEY  
       
Sir Noël Coward (1899–1973)
8. ‘COULD YOU PLEASE OBLIGE US WITH A BREN GUN?’
(World Première recording)		  
       
Ivor Novello (1893–1951)
9. ‘KEEP THE HOME FIRES BURNING’ (World Première recording)  
       
Phil Park (1907–1978) and Harry Parr-Davies (1914–1955)
10. ‘WISH ME LUCK (AS YOU WAVE ME GOODBYE)’
(World Première recording)		  
       
11. FLANAGAN AND ALLEN MEDLEY  
       
Noel Gay (1898–1954)
12. ‘LEANING ON A LAMP-POST’ (World Première recording)  
       
Ray Noble (1903–1978), Jimmy Campbell (1903–1967)
and Reg Connelly (1895–1963)
13. ‘GOODNIGHT, SWEETHEART’  
       
Ross Parker (1914–1974) and Hugh Charles (1907–1995)
14. ‘WE’LL MEET AGAIN’ (World Première recording)  

 

REVIEWS
Beautifully shaped by Benjamin Frith... Beguiling sounds, graced by the tawny richness and unexaggerated line of Richard Jenkinson’s cello playing... The sense of purpose and sureness of line of Ian Venables’ music is pure oxygen.
EMR CD31 | BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE
Exquisitely rewarding... Ravishing accounts.
EMR CD029 | CHOIR AND ORGAN
This is music of great beauty and integrity and the performances fully do it justice. It would be criminal to let it pass you by.

EMR CD028 | INTERNATIONAL
RECORD REVIEW

The Bridge Quartet approach these pieces with a sympathetic and insightful warmth, and confirm their ambassadorial credentials for British chamber music. A lovely, radiant disc.
EMR CD025 | Gramophone
Duncan Honeybourne’s playing is astonishingly affectionate, yet never saccharine... Honeybourne plays with suave confidence.
EMR CD024 | INTERNATIONAL PIANO
Rupert Marshall-Luck is an ideal interpreter: generously but not effusively lyrical; agile and athletic... The warm, folk-song like slow movement is at times almost painfully beautiful, with a shimmering pastoral central section... Marshall-Luck is, again, indefatigable and keenly picks up on the work’s melancholic strain.  Finely recorded and with comprehensive booklet notes, this is a must for fans of 20th-century English repertoire.
EMR CD023 | THE STRAD