Ballet Encores - Silhouette Series - Cyril Dalmaine

The albums in Forsyth's Silhouette Series are widely acknowledged to provide some of the finest piano arrangements of the works of the great composers available to the player of intermediate ability. They provide excellent teaching material, as well as superb recreational pieces for the adult player.

1. Themes (from Scheherazade) Rimsky-Korsakov
2. Summer (from The Four Seasons) Verdi
3. Intermezzo (from La Source) Delibes
4. Polka (from La Source) Delibes
5. Bacchanale (from Samson and Delilah) Saint-Saens
6. Mazurka (from Les Sylphides) Delibes
7. Galop (from Orpheus in the Underworld) Offenbach
8. Ballet Music (from Rosamunde) Schubert

Composer and critic Cyril Carr Dalmaine graduated from the Royal College of Music and was Music master at Uppington School before going on to become chorus master to the BBC. He is most famous for coining the term 'Lord Haw-Haw' in his work as radio critic of the Daily Express under the pseudonym Jonah Barrington, in reference to the Nazi propaganda broadcasts of William Joyce during the Second World War.

Dalmaine was also a record presenter in the pre-1955 days and responsible for the 'discovery' of the then deceased Italian tenor, Alessandro Valente, giving Valente enjoyed a considerable posthumous vogue. As a composer Dalmaine wrote chamber music, and transcribed the cantatas of J.S. Bach to piano as well as a wide range of piano and string works published by Forsyth. His works such as Variation from Versailles and Pathway to the Proms remain in print and are well worth re-discovering, while his arrangements of popular classics in our Silhouette Series remain best sellers.