Music for Metro-Land / Music for Monitor


Película Documental | Fecha de estreno: 31/03/2015 | Medio: CD
 

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# Pista Artista/Compositor Duración
TEMPERANCE SEVEN LP + 1 (1960)
1.Tiger Rag (from John Betjeman's film, Metro-Land) 
2.Seven and Eleven (from Ken Russell's Monitor film, Shelagh Delaney's Salford) 
3.The Eton Boating Song 
4.Laughing Blues 
5.Hard-hearted Hannah 
6.When the Midnight Choo-choo leaves for Alabam 
7.Yes Sir, That's My Baby 
8.My Mamma's in Town 
9.I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles 
10.Abie, Abie, My Boy 
11.Alexander's Rag Time Band 
12.Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home 
 
Music for METRO-LAND (1973)
13.ROY FOX AND HIS BANDBuild A Little Home 
14.THE SAVOY HAVANA BANDMasculine Women & Feminine Men 
15.JACK HYLTON AND HIS ORCHESTRAThe Sunny Side of The Street 
16.MELVILLE GIDEONGolfing Love 
 
Music for MONITOR
17.DAG WIREN & Eacute;N: Marcia, from Serenade For Strings, Op. 11 (The theme of Huw Wheldon's long-running cultural television programme) 
 
A POET'S LONDON (1959)
18.JOHN BETJEMAN Olympic Girl 
 
ANTONIO GAUDI (1961)
19.PAUL HINDEMITH: Symphony Mathis der Maler (Matthias the Painter)Engelkonzert / Angelic Concert (Overture) 
 
LOTTE LENYA SINGS KURT WEILL (1962)
20.LOTTE LENYAMoritat vom Mackie Messer (Mack the Knife) from Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera) 
 
BARTÓK (1964)
21.Piano Concerto No. 2 / Adagio 
# Pista Artista/Compositor Duración
ELGAR Portrait of a Composer (1962)
1.Nimrod from The Enigma Variations 
2.Introduction and Allegro 
 
THE DEBUSSY FILM (1965)
3.Syrinx, for solo flute 
4.Jardins sous la pluie (Gardens in the Rain), from Estampes 
5.Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Fawn) 
6.De l'aube à midi sur la mer from Trois Esquisses Symphoniques: 
7.Danse profane from Danses pour harpe et cordes 
 
ISADORA DUNCAN
8.ERIK SATIEGymnopedie No. 1 
 
DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Dante's Inferno (1967)
9.JOHN IRELAND THE: Forgotten RitePrelude for Orchestra 
10.WILLIAM WALTONTouch Her Soft Lips and Part, from Henry V 
 
FREDERICK DELIUS Song of Summer (1968)
11.On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring, from Two Pieces for Small Orchestra 
12.A Song of Summer 
Manda tu crítica

 

First time on CD for the debut LP of The Temperance Seven, a Top Twenty LP hit in 1961 in an edition that is also a wider celebration of the music of the Edwardian era and inter-war years. The set includes music from Ken Russell's precocious, loving dramatised documentaries and short films for Huw Wheldon's long running cultural television show Monitor and for Humphrey Burton's Omnibus that followed later in the '60s, along and song selections from John Betjeman's still heart-warming 1973 documentary Metro-land, in which Betjeman, with very characteristic eloquence and good humour, describes the rise of Suburbia.


• Formed in the mid-fifties, The Temperance Seven were at first part of the 'trad jazz' scene that had flourished in post-war Britain. As the movement matured into the early 1960s, the group took a highly entertaining and for a time hugely successful left hand turn to have fun with the music of the '20s and '30's, applying light-hearted art school attitudes involving period costumes and whimsical names; sending up the whole era with impeccable style and tremendous irony.


• Arguably the most singular group in the history of popular music, the Temperance Seven signed to Parlophone soon after their Argo debut and achieved the seemingly impossible when in 1961, their George Martin produced single disc 'You're Driving Me Crazy' soared to No.1 on the UK chart.


• The follow-up 'Pasadena' almost repeated the trick, breaking into the Top 5. The success of these initial singles and the subsequent chart hits ushered in an intensive period of concert and cabaret appearances, broadcasts and films for the Temperance Seven, including It's Trad Dad! (1962), Richard Lester's first feature film. The band took part in the 1961 Royal Variety Performance and made their West End debut in The Bed Sitting Room by Spike Milligan and John Antrobus, which ran for six weeks at the Mermaid theatre in 1963.


• The Temperance Seven, while not a comedy group, as such, did much to clear the ground for the irreverent and surrealistic humour of Monty Python and did more than suggest the historic costume style that would be adopted by The Beatles for Sgt Pepper.


• 'When the dust has settled and his envious detractors are long forgotten, Ken Russell may well be recognised as the greatest and most imaginative of all British film directors.' Alex Cox


• Everything seemed to revolve around Ken Russell in the 1970s. He effectively invented the pop promo with Twiggy and The Boyfriend and with The Who's Tommy and scandalised audiences with The Devils, one of the most censored films of all time.


• A decade earlier he had wanted to make a film about the art of The Temperance Seven for Monitor but couldn't get it past his boss. The group did, however contribute music to his feature on Shelagh Delaney, the Salford girl who had written A Taste of Honey. The early Russell shorts for the BBC range thrillingly across the artistic landscape of the day and remain fascinating and indispensable television ; from the remarkable Catalan architect Antonio Gaudi, to the songs of Kurt Weill, a survey of Young British Artists (Pop Goes the Easel) and features on such composers as Bartok and Prokofiev, culminating in his famous feature on Elgar, which proved to be a sensation.


• The edition is adorned by sensuous music from the Elgar programme and from Ken Russell's subsequent features for Monitor and Omnibus on the troubled Pre-Raphelite poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the irrepressible dancer Isadora Duncan, The Debussy Film, with Oliver Reed a cauldron of brooding intensity as the French composer, and the spellbinding Song of Summer, a film about the the last years of Frederick Delius, a remarkable and moving story told from the perspective of his amanuensis, Eric Fenby.



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