| An appealing programme, whose high-spots include York Bowen’s entrancing 1925 miniature, The Way to Polden, the dreamy Bolinge Hill by Peter Thompson and Frank Bridge’s Three Sketches | ||
| — Gramophone |
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Fand is rounding off 2021 with the release of a work by a new composer to the catalogue: Walter Leigh. Although now an unfamiliar name, he was a highly promising young English composer whose death in the Second World War was a major loss for British music. One of his most famous and successful compositions was the comic opera Jolly Roger (or The Admiral’s Daughter), which met with great critical success in the early 1930s and ran in London’s West End for 199 performances.
John Mitchell has arranged the Jolly Roger Overture for piano duet with characteristic panache. The resulting show piece is great fun and sets a splendidly nautical scene, complete with a humorous quotation from Rule, Britannia and even a wry dig at Beethoven’s 5th…
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