Older listeners will enjoy trying to remember the programmes to which the music was attached. Everyone can sit back and enjoy some well-shaped music in a lighter vein.

…this piece is better know as the theme music to Children’s Television Newsreel in the 1950’s but for me it is always evocative of the thrill of arriving at the on holiday destination and going for that first walk along the seashore. From the upward string motive of this piece the music just swings along. It is perfectly happy music with never as much as a reflective backward glance. The strings sweep the tune towards a slightly statelier ‘trio’ theme but the main them pervades the entire piece. Much use is made of tuned percussion and muted brass which gives a kind of jazzy feel to this music…