Скачать или смотреть Herman Finck and his Orchestra - Christmas Memories: A Dream Phantasy (arr. Finck) (1928)

Herman Finck's disc of Christmas Memories - recorded on 9 October 1928 - certainly strikes the right note. As always, his orchestrations are of the highest quality.

Finck made many recordings conducting the Palace Theatre Orchestra and other orchestras. From his early Odeons to his later Columbias, they are invariably excellent. He was obviously a first-rate musician, and in particular a talented arranger and conductor.

From Wikipedia: Herman Finck (November 4, 1872 – April 21, 1939) was a British composer and conductor of Dutch extraction. Born Hermann Van Der Vinck in London, he began his studies training at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and established a career as the musical director at the Palace Theatre in London (from 1900 until 1920), with whose orchestra he made many virtuoso recordings. During these decades, he was also a principal conductor at the Queen's Theatre, at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and at Southport. Finck was a prolific composer throughout the 1910s and 1920s. He composed around thirty theatre shows of most types - operettas (such as Decameron Nights), ballets (like My Lady Dragon Fly), incidental music, revues (annual revues Round the Map and The Passing Show were especially popular), plus songs, 'mood music' for the silent cinema and many light orchestral pieces - suites such as Vive La Danse and Marie Antoinette, marches such as Pageant March, Guards Parade March, Splendour and Victory and the individual genre movements Dancing Daffodils, Dignity and Impudence, Land of Roses, Penguin Parade and Queen of the Flowers. Finck also conducted the first record album ever made (in 1909) of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite...The Palace Theatre was famous not only for its orchestra, but also for the beautiful Palace Girls, who had many dances composed by Finck in their honour. In 1911 the Palace Girls performed a song and dance number, which was originally called 'Tonight', but became hugely popular as a romantic instrumental piece 'In The Shadows'. Finck also conducted the first London stage production of Show Boat, in 1928. His illustrated autobiography, 'My Melodious Memories' was published in 1937.