Various Artists - Background Music 2 / VariousWith an increasing popularity for making Home Movies comes a need for suggested background music, here collected in 1964. As the liner notes describe: "A moving picture, whether it is of the professional or the home made variety, needs special background music to bring it to life." the music, very much in the style of Hollywood film music from that era (60s), is all orchestral compositions, and is presented in "moods" such as infectious "Bistro Time"

Predominantly live recordings from Munich

the 10 Études sur des traits d'orchestre for solo viola (1928)

5 postcards and bookmark

Even when she (rarely) broaches gentler rhythms

Written only six years apart

Nothing is known of Bobby Grant who sang two songs in 1927 but recorded nothing else

he was the star name on the bill at fundraising concerts and performed in new works such as Deidamia and Alexander's Feast

Each afternoon

Wolfgang Helbich - Hamburg Admiralty Music 1723

Bohuslav Martinu is nevertheless a composer who is difficult to categorise and the word that seems to best suit his music is 'cosmopolitan'

Doris Duke and even a few tracks by Swamp himself

Sinéad Cusack