EMR CD077 | DETAILS
  EMR CD077
   
 

CHASING MOONBEAMS

   
  Paul Guinery (pf.)
   
  EAN 5 060263 500698

Pianist and Radio 3 presenter Paul Guinery enchants and delights in his second disc for EM Records, which follows on from the astounding popularity and success of his best-selling ‘Dicky Bird Hop’ (EMR CD064). From the adorable bounciness of ‘Larry the Lamb’, through the lyricism and charm of Quilter’s ‘English Dance’, to the witty syncopations of Madeleine Dring’s ‘Times Change’, this disc is guaranteed to raise the spirits, bring a sigh of happy nostalgic reminiscence and captivate even the most jaded of hearts.

TRACK LISTING AND AUDIO EXTRACTS
     
Joseph Tunbridge (1886–1961)
1. ‘BLUE BLAZES’ (Foxtrot) (1919)  
       
Iris Taylor (Fred Hartley) (1905–1980)
2. ‘DREAMY AFTERNOON’ (1939)  
       
Sherman Myers (Montague Ewing) (1890–1957)
3. ‘CHASING MOONBEAMS’ (1938)  
       
Richard Addinsell (1904–1977)
4. ‘INVOCATION’ from ‘JOURNEY TO ROMANCE’ (1945)  
       
Billy Mayerl (1902–1959)
5. ‘FIRESIDE FUSILIERS’ (1943)  
       
Edward German (1862–1936)
6. ‘BOURRÉE’ (1889)  
       
Reginald Foresythe (1907–1958)
7. ‘SERENADE FOR A WEALTHY WIDOW’ (1933)  
       
Billy Mayerl (1902–1959)
8. ‘THERE’S A STAR IN THE SKY’ from ‘CHEER UP!’ (1936)  
       
Roger Quilter (1877–1953)
9. ‘ENGLISH DANCE’, op. 11 no. 3 (1910)  
       
Richard Addinsell (1904–1977)
10. ‘WALTZ SEQUENCE’ from ‘THE GREENGAGE SUMMER’ (1961)  
       
Douglas Brownsmith (1902–1965)
11. ‘LARRY THE LAMB’ (1939)  
       
Madeleine Dring (1923–1977)
12. ‘TIMES CHANGE’ (pre-1947)  
       
Herman Finck (1872–1939)
13. ‘IN THE SHADOWS’ (1910)  
       
Edward German (1862–1936)
14. ‘GRACEFUL DANCE’ (1891)  
       
Harry Engelman (1912–2002)
15. ‘IVORY ANTICS’ (1937)  
       
Cyril Scott (1879–1970)
16. ‘VESPERALE’, op. 40 no. 2 (1904)  
       
Ray Mellin (Sidney Harrison) (1903–1986)
17. ‘CRAZY PAVING’ (1936)  
       
Stanford Robinson (1904–1984)
18. ‘VALSE SERENADE’ from ‘TUESDAY SERENADE’ (1944)  
       
Billy Mayerl (1902–1959)
19. ‘STRANGER IN A CUP OF TEA’ from ‘CRAZY DAYS’ (1937)  
       
Ivor Novello (1893–1951)
20. ‘IN THE CLOUDS (A FROLIC)’ (1912)  
       
Madeleine Dring (1923–1977)
21. ‘WALTZ FINALE’ (1961)  

 

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