Tomlinson:Slovak Radio Symp Or
Release Date: 31 May 2000
Label: Marco Polo
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 730099351324
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: TOMLINSON
Description
Ernest Tomlinson (b. 1924) Long regarded as one of the leading figures in the field oflight music, Ernest Tomlinson was born at Rawtenstall, Lancashire on 19th September, 1924 into a musical family. He started composing when he was only nine, atabout the same time that he became a choirboy at Manchester Cathedral, where hewas eventually to be appointed Head Boy in 1939. Here, and at Bacup and RawtenstallGrammar School, his musical talents were carefully nurtured, and he was onlysixteen when he won a scholarship to Manchester University and the RoyalManchester (now Northern) College of Music. He spent the next two yearsstudying composition, organ, piano and clarinet until, in 1943, the war effortdemanded that he leave and join the Royal Air Force. Defective colour-visionprecluded his being selected for aircrew and the new recruit, having hisrequest to become a service musician turned down on the grounds that he was toohealthy to follow such a career, found himself being trained as a Wireless Mechanic,notwithstanding that many of the components he was required to work with were colour-coded.(The future composer, however, was duly delighted with his assignment, which hethoroughly enjoyed and which almost certainly contributed to a later interest inelectronic music). He saw service in France during 1944 and 1945, eventuallyreturning to England where, with the cessation of hostilities, he was able toresume his studies. He finally graduated in 1947, receiving the degree ofBachelor of Music for composition as well as being made a Fellow of the RoyalCollege of Organists and an Associate of the Royal Manchester College of Musicfor his prowess on the King of Instruments. Ernest Tomlinson then left the North of England and headedsouth to London where, for several years, he worked as a staff arranger forArcadia and Mills Music Publishers, providing scores for radio and televisionbroadcasts as well as for the stage and recording studios. He maintained hisinterest in the organ by taking up a post at a Mayfair church, butincreasingly, composing came to play the dominant rôle. He had his first piecebroadcast in 1949 and by 1955, when he was able to earn his living entirely bycomposing, he was to be heard on the radio with his own Ernest Tomlinson LightOrchestra and later with his group of singers. While not neglecting thelarger-scale forms, including several works in symphonic-jazz style, the firstof which, Sinfonia '62, won the million-lire First Prize in the Italiancompetition for "Rhythmic-Symphonic" works, three concertos, aone-act opera Head of the Family, a ballet Aladdin, Festival of Song forchorus and orchestra as well as a substantial and varied body of works forchoir and music for brass and wind bands, it was as a writer of light orchestralpieces that he was to become best-known. In this area, he has produced aconsiderable number of works ranging from overtures, suites and rhapsodies todelightful miniatures, of which Little Serenade i
Tracklisting
Nishizaki:Nzso:Judd:Dou Dou
Tomlinson:Slovak Radio Symp Or
Tomlinson:Slovak Radio Symp Or
Soloists
Nizhizaki/Gumma So/Shek
Goodwin:New Zealand Symp Orch
Walter:Razumovsky Symp Orch
Pollack
