Album Description
The world famous Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra inaugurates a major new series on Avie with appropriate panache. The first orchestra to create their own label, they re-launch RLPO Live, in conjunction with Avie, with a disc featuring the Father of British Light Music, Eric Coates. Signature tunes mingle with rarely heard works, taking you back to an era of confidence and exuberance. On the podium is the young light music, jazz and screen music specialist John Wilson, whose enormous collection of Coates memorabilia and intimate knowledge of his music are unsurpassed.
As Classic FM's Orchestra in North West England, the RLPO taps into 7 million listeners with regular broadcasts of their recordings. The new RLPO live series will result in three to four releases a year of new material as well as previously unreleased and otherwise unavailable recordings from the valuable RLPO archive.
Personnel:
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, John Wilson (conductor)