Leader, Philip Whiteway
Conductor, E. Godfrey Brown

Colin Campbell's suite 'Princess Gioia' is selected from a children's ballet bearing the same title. The ballet was first produced at the Court Theatre in 1918, and in the following year several excerpts were given by Madame La Foy at the Royal Academy of Music - other excerpts were also given at the Winter Gardens, Bournemouth. In 1924 the 'Princess Gioia' Suite was performed at Buckingham Palace by the string band of the Royal Regiment of Artillery, to whose musical director, Major E.C. Stretton, M.V.O., R.A., the Suite is dedicated. The orchestral suite has been a popular item in the repertory of light music for many years, and is scored for the unusual combination of strings, single wood-wind, one horn, two trumpets, one trombone, percussion, harp and celeste. The difficult horn part was played in the original production by Aubrey Brain, who remarked to the composer, who was conducting, that he 'should have called it a horn concerto.'
The Selection of Scottish Tunes is what the composer humorously describes as a 'Scotch Hotch-potch' and incorporates the following well-known tunes: 'Caller Herrin'', 'Charlie is my darlin'', 'Loch Lomond', 'Duncan Gray', 'John Anderson my Jo', 'A Hundred Pipers', 'Flora Mac-Donald's Farewell', 'Fhir a Bhata', 'Ho ro, my nut-brown Maiden', 'Scots wha hae', 'There's nae luck aboot the hoose'.