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New London Orchestra
	THE GEISHA CDA67006 The performance is exuberant, with a strong cast and lively playing under Ronald Corp The Telegraph I suspect that you’ll be enchanted Journal into Melody The cast is a choice one…Ronald Corp…draws precision playing from the New London Orchestra and a vigorous attack from the New London Light Opera Chorus Opera Now Ronald Corp conducts everything with a bounce and lift….this is an enterprising ‘first’… I long to hear more…. Let us hope it is the beginning of a series Gramophone
	POULENC – Aubade & Sinfonietta and HAHN – Le Bas de Beatrice d’este CDH55167 A scintillating recording debut…in admirably off-the-beaten-track repertory The Observer
	SATIE - Parade, Trois Gymnopédies, Mercure, Trois Gnossiennes, Relache CDA66365 Stunningly played and recorded. This recording is not merely highly recommended, but essential Fanfare (USA)
	PROKOFIEV – Music for Children, including Winter Bonfire & Peter and the Wolf CDA66499 A most attractive concert Hi Fi News [A] distinctive and appealing release Fanfare (USA)
	VIRGIL THOMSON – Louisiana Story, The Plow that Broke the plains CDH55169 Hyperion’s recording is faultless; the notes… are sagacious and rewarding. If your interest is in American music or in film scores, this is indispensable American Record Guide Not to be missed
	MILHAUD - Le carnival d'aix, Le Boeuf sur le Toit, L'Apothéose de Moliére CDH55168 Captivating The Gramophone
	BRITISH LIGHT MUSIC CLASSICS, VOLUME 1 CDA66868/cassette KA66868 ….promises to be the cult hit of the year…it shows an expertise revealed by a marvelous recording and loving performances by the New London Orchestra under Ronald Corp… Stephen Pettit
	BRITISH LIGHT MUSIC CLASSICS, VOLUME 2 CDA66968/cassette KA66968 Just as delightful (as volume1)… A must for anyone at all given to nostalgia Edward Greenfield
	BRITISH LIGHT MUSIC CLASSICS VOLUME 3 CDA67148 Like its predecessors, this disc contains pieces that to listeners in their forties will be like mother's milk . . . Perfection of a kind is what light music classics are all about. Clive Richardson's Melody on the Move, Trevor Duncan's The Girl From Corsica, Ronald Binge's Miss Melanie - these are exquisitely constructed miniatures, hauntingly melodic, magically if obviously orchestrated, with a sweet emotional charge that high seriousness can only allude to. Cavil apart, Corp's performances are sumptuous. Paul Driver
	BRITISH LIGHT MUSIC CLASSICS VOLUME 4 CDA67400 The mixture is as before - lots of well-known melodies, the titles and composers of which we all have trouble remembering, except perhaps for Eric Coates's By the Sleepy Lagoon (forever associated with 'Desert Island Disc'), In a Monastery Garden, and perhaps Jamaican Rumba. Marching Strings will be familiar to all as the signature tune of 'Top of the Form'. A couple of the titles seem not to have been heard for many years, although once popular, such as The Doge's March from 'The Merchant of Venice' incidental music, and particularly the haunting Keltic Lament of John Foulds which it seems hasn't been recorded in many a long year. The CD also contains a complete performance of the Petite Suite de Concert of Coleridge-Taylor, containing the well-known Demande et Réponse
	EUROPEAN LIGHT MUSIC CLASSICS CDA66998 …they’ve now cast their net wider and landed a fine catch of fifteen delightful pieces John Brunning
	AMERICAN LIGHT MUSIC CLASSICS CDA67067 Easy listening, yes, but produced with formidable skill. Ronald Corp and the New London Orchestra play the whole sequence with verve and dedication. Patrick O’Connor These lovely old tunes have a freshness and charm akin to the best light-hearted literature or illustration from the same period. A splendid successor to the previous volumes Gramophone These guys can take on the Boston Pops any day! Classic FM A lovely, irresistible record The Birmingham Post Une collection indispensable aux amateurs du genre! Diapason, France
	THE MAID OF THE MOUNTAINS CDA67190 Encouraged by the success of The Geisha, The Maid of The Mountains - the smash hit of 1917 - was recorded. A more romantic tale than The Geisha, it has probably even more hit numbers, the most famous of which are A bachelor gay, Love will find a way, Husbands and wives and A paradise for two. There are also humerous interludes from Richard Suart. All in all well over an hour's tuneful and good-natured entertainment with a strong cast directed by the master of English light music, Ronald Corp.
	SULLIVAN - The Golden Legend CDA67280 During the Victorian era The Golden Legend was second only to Handel's Messiah in popularity and is regarded by Sullivan experts as his finest concert work. Never before recorded in its entirety, Hyperion and Ronald Corp, with support from the Sir Arthur Sullivan Society and The D'Oyly Carte Charitable Trust, have resurrected this masterpiece. During the summer of 1886 following on from the huge success that was The Mikado, Sullivan hid himself away in a cottage in Yorktown and composed a secular cantata that Gilbert was to recognise as "the biggest thing you've done". Scenes following the premiere at the Leeds Festival on October 15th transcended any known before, with the audience on its feet waving programmes and hats, climbing on chairs and hurling flowers. The choir had formed an opinion of its own of the work at rehearsal, and had accumulated bouquets under their chairs to launch at the composer.
	SULLIVAN - The Prodigal Son CDA67423
	Rutland Boughton Aylesbury Games Concertos CDA67185 This world-premiere recording demonstrates the versatility of the English composer who for too long has been associated only with The Immortal Hour. Although there is this association with Boughton, it was as a composer of large-scale choral and orchestral works that he first drew attention to himself in the early years of the twentieth century, and it was to orchestral music that he returned in the 1920's when circumstances forced him to abandon is operatic experiments.

New London Children's Choir
	THE FAMILY TREE SOMMCD 209 Like any good composer, the line of distinction between music for adults and music for children is blurred because Roe never condescends. This is not only good music but entertaining as well. The New London Children's Choir is first-rate. Critics' Choice American Record Guide.
	A Ceremony of Carols; Friday Afternoons & Three Two-part Songs NAXOS 8.553183 Ronald Corp directs bright, refreshing performances of a delightful collection of Britten choral pieces... A splendid bargain. Penguin Guide It's a delightful program, well performed and recorded. American Record Guide - Nov/Dec 1996 ...has to be one of the season's best bargains. Yorkshire Evening Post
	Charlotte Church dream a dream SonyCB 811CDKCF
	Roberto Alagna The Christmas Album EMI Classics 5 57017 2
NLCC are also on - Chandos disc of Carmen, and Turandot and a Christmas disc of Roberto Alagna