Rachel Speirs - Fabulous Sir JohnSir John Manduell (1928 2017) was a pivotal figure in British music as composer, BBC producer, first principal of the Northern Royal College of Music and founder of the European Opera Centre. Beloved and revered by musicians, yet someone whose name is shamefully little known outside the music and broadcasting professions. This album is a sequel to 'Songs for Sir John' (DDA 25210) which in tribute to Sir John presented works by 16 composers from more

Highlights include a duo between pianist Jenkins and Liebman on Ellington's In a Sentimental Mood

Both works are quite special

often writing in a more abstract and severe style than his late-Romantic music for the movies

This two record set is a love letter to the seven-inch single

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and embraced the precise down-strokes and valve-amp hum of a very New York lineage

released in 1970 on RCA and produced by Chet Atkins and Waylon Jennings

we read: 'Along with the harmonically highly expressive opening chorus and the simply set chorales on familiar melodies from Christmas songs

that is probably much closer to the 'home concert' of the period than to the standard modern recital

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all these phases inspired his art

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