Light music is orchestral music, which originated in the 19th century and continues until the present day. The style is a less "serious" form of Western classical music, featuring usually shorter orchestral pieces of mood music or concert music. Light music is often grouped with 'Easy Listening". On our stations playlist you will hear a mix of instrumental light music and excerpts from traditional forms of music. (beautifulmusic.uk, beautifulinstrumentals.com and classicalmusic.network)
GUILD LIGHT MUSIC...recordings
Guild Light Music is a world-wide label, restoring the cream of the vast light music repertoire of yesteryear with original recordings by the composers or by artists associated with them. The originals have been outstandingly transferred, enhancing their unique qualities to ensure this music is fast reaching today's new audiences.
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VIDEO: Canadian-born Robert Farnon (1917-2005) was one of the finest light music composer / arrangers of the post-war years in England. From a recent Guild CD, splendidly played and recorded in 1948, he conducts the Queens Hall Light Orchestra in his own composition "Grandstand." (Guild GLCD 5220.)
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