Belle November 2025

Tracks include Sister Sledge’s ‘We Are Family’, Gloria Gaynor’s ‘I Will Survive’, The Village People’s ‘YMCA’, Chaka Khan’s ‘I’m Every Woman’, Blondie’s ‘Heart of Glass’, Diana Ross’ ‘Upside Down’, The Trammps’ ‘Disco Inferno’, Kool & The Gang’s ‘Ladies Night’, Baccara’s ‘Yes Sir, I Can Boogie’, Amii Stewart’s version of ‘Knock On Wood’, The Hues Corporation’s ‘Rock The Boat’, The Isley Brothers’ ‘That Lady, Pt 1’, The O’Jays’ ‘I Love Music’, Thelma Houston’s ‘Don’t Leave Me This Way’, Tavares’ ‘Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel (Part 1)’, LaBelle’s ‘Lady Marmalade’, Yvonne Elliman’s ‘If I Can’t Have You’ and many more. Full tracklisting is below. NOW Thats What I Call An Era Disco: 1973-1980 will be released 7 November 2025.

On paper, the exciting draws on this album are the newly-assembled ballet suite and the orchestrated song-cycle - both world premieres and both brilliantly presented by Gardner and the LPO.

This is Edward Gardner's sixth release on LPO Label, and the third that celebrates the 20th anniversary of the label in 2025. This Britten program was recorded at London's Royal Festival Hall (Sinfonia da Requiem and The Prince of the Pagodas) and Saffron Hall (Winter Words). A bold, early masterpiece written at just twenty-six and originally commissioned to commemorate Japan's 2600th imperial anniversary, Britten's Sinfonia da Requiem was rejected for being too solemn, but emerged as his only major purely orchestral work and a powerful response to the growing threat of war. Winter Words Britten's poignant song cycle originally for tenor and piano, set to texts of 8 poems by Thomas Hardy is presented here in a new orchestration by Robin Holloway-a world premiere recording. The Prince of the Pagodas, Britten's ballet with Edward Gardner's distilled concert suite from The Prince of the Pagodas-another world premiere recording-fulfils Britten's unrealised ambition to arrange his full-length ballet into a dramatic orchestral suite.

For the Pianist magazine, Rodolphe Menguy "proves to be a wonderfully armed instrumentalist, of course, but above all, a real temperament", according to Diapason "he beautifully captures the singular atmospheres" and has "a whole orchestra at his fingertips" for the Classica magazine.

This 4CD set with ninety tracks features the original versions of music from film scores composed by Michel Legrand. It includes a 44 page booklet and over 5 hours of music.The films include Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, La Vie de Chateau, Les Demoiselles de Rochfort, The Thomas Crown Affair, La Piscine, The Go Between, Peau d'Ane, The Summer of `42, The Three Musketeers, Les Uns et les Autres, Jamais plus Jamais, Yentl, Pret-a-porter, La Buche.