Truly Great Dance Melodies - Victor Silvester & His Ballroom Orchestra

Advantages: One of Beethoven's finest symphonies.
Disadvantages: None from me, but some will say "classical music is boring".

...recommendations and is the best of his three recordings. Great drama and value. EMI. Philharmonia Orchestra / Klemperer - Klemperer's 1955 stereo recording is by far the most satisfying of his other recordings of the Seventh, and while it is missing most of the repetitions, it is a very good version for its time with vivid sound. Available on EMI's "Great Recordings of the Century." SCORED FOR 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani and strings © berlioz... Read review

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Advantages: great big band music
Disadvantages: none

...The Glenn Miller Orchestra UK was founded by Ray McVay in the 80's . This was done after talks with the Glenn Miller Estate, who had listened to many of Ray McVay's tracks. Who is Ray McVay? Ray McVay was born in the late 30's in Scotland. He became a professional musician at the tender age of 13 as a rocking sax player. In the 50's he became a music director for many big names such as Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran, Conway Twitty and Billy Fury. As Rays name got bigger and better known in the music industry, and fronted his own show band known as the Ray McVay Orchestra. He started to play for the Mecca Organization playing around the country before headlining at Mecca's big venue, the Lyceum Ballroom in London's west end.. Ray McVay then became a household name in the UK when he was featured on the TV... Read review

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Advantages: A great recording of popular and familiar works with excellent sound and performance values
Disadvantages: Absolutely none whatsoever

...of the architect Victor Hartmann, a friend of Mussorgsky's. Hartmann's death was followed by an exhibition of about 400 of his drawings, sketches, designs and watercolours that inspired Mussorgsky to create a suite of ten pictures as a memorial to his friend. The individual pieces are linked by a recurring melody that Mussorgsky called a "Promenade." In 1922, in response to a commission from Serge Koussevitsky's "Concerts symphoniques," the composer Maurice Ravel, who greatly admired Mussorgsky, took on the job to orchestrate the Pictures using a very colourful palette of orchestral colour that he uses in a very "contemporary" way, thus creating the most popular arrangement of the work known to us. The first performance took place on October 19, 1922. Incidentally Rimsky-Korsakov also orchestrated a number of pieces in 1891 and they were published... Read review

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