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'Hope & Glory' is one of the best series around at the moment (although we don't get much of it down here in Malta!) not least owing to its colourful and engaging music drawn mainly from the mainstream classical repertoire. We have all had the experience of a tune lodging involuntarily in our minds so the idea of packaging all the main themes of the production into a CD, although not new, is a laudable way to win classical converts. Do you remember 2001, A Space Odyssey? Being a huge fan of Lenny Henry (of Chef! fame), I couldn't help but be drawn to these selections! There are some lovely contributions here, especially the arrangement of Mozart's 'Rondo alla Turca' from the Budapest Strings and a genial 'Kanon' with the Neues Bachissches Collegium Musicum. The largest selection (for some strange reason) is drawn from the Supraphon catalogue and includes a stodgy Third Movement from Beethoven's Eighth under Vaclav Neumann and a dreamy Water Music Hornpipe with the Budapest Strings. Not really top-drawer stuff but anyway. Otherwise a well-filled compilation of excerpts that should add a few more classical music lovers to the ranks!

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Gerald Fenech

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