In recent years, light music has undergone a welcome renaissance. John Toal surveys the repertoire, from salon music by Elgar, through the golden age of Eric Coates and Haydn Wood , up to the present day and the music of Malcolm Arnold and Richard Rodney Bennett. Eric Coates Overture: The
Merrymakers
LSO, conductor Charles Mackerras
Anthony Collins Vanity Fair RTE Concert Orchestra, conductor Ernest Tomlinson
Haydn Wood Variations on a Once-
Popular Humorous Song Slovak RSO, conductor Ernest Tomlinson
Elgar Salut damour
Nigel Kennedy (violin), Steven Isserlis (cello), Peter Pettinger (piano)
Charles Williams The Devil's Galop
Ronald Hammer Changing Mood No 2 Vivian Ellis Coronation Scot
Radio theme tunes
Billy Mayen The Jazz Master; Hollyhock The Composer (piano)
Ernest Tomlinson First Suite of English Folk Dances Slovak RSO, conducted by the Composer Producer Terry Black
Repeated next Monday 11.30pm