Ronald Binge

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Sailing By 02:39 Tools
Elizabethan Serenade 03:12 Tools
Binge: Sailing By (Radio 4, Shipping Forecast theme) 02:38 Tools
The Watermill 04:20 Tools
Binge: Elizabethan Serenade, "The Man in the Street" 02:48 Tools
Miss Melanie 02:48 Tools
Elizabethan Serenade (Music in Miniature) 02:56 Tools
Alžbětinská serenáda 02:56 Tools
If You Were the Only Girl in the World 03:21 Tools
Autumn Leaves 03:43 Tools
Elizabeth Serenade 03:39 Tools
Scottish Rhapsody 03:43 Tools
Trade Winds 04:55 Tools
Cornet Carillon 02:48 Tools
Stella by Starlight 03:37 Tools
Claire De Lune 04:46 Tools
Elizabethan serenade [oder "Elisabeth-Serenade"] 00:30 Tools
Serenata Elizabetana 02:56 Tools
Cherokee 03:31 Tools
La Vie En Rose 03:39 Tools
The Water Mill 04:14 Tools
Clair de Lune 04:47 Tools
British Radio Classics - Medley 04:25 Tools
Madrugado 04:25 Tools
Faire Frou-Frou 02:48 Tools
The Dance of the Snowflakes 02:40 Tools
A Flash of Strings 02:48 Tools
Shipping Forecast Interlude / Sailing By 02:36 Tools
Las Castanuelas 02:48 Tools
Farewell Waltz 02:48 Tools
Alžbětinská serenáda 02:54 Tools
Scherzo: Allegro molto 02:36 Tools
Love Is All 02:36 Tools
A Tune A Day 02:51 Tools
Sailing By - 1997 Digital Remaster 02:51 Tools
String Song 02:51 Tools
Sutherland: Sailing - (Orchestral Arrangement Carl Davis) 03:50 Tools
Venetian Carnival 03:48 Tools
The Twelfth of Never 04:06 Tools
Ta Nase Pisnicka Song of Czechoslovakia 04:07 Tools
Fugal Fun 02:40 Tools
Binge: Sailing By (Slow Waltz) 02:40 Tools
Binge: The Watermill 02:40 Tools
Elizabethan Serenade (featured in "Confessions of a Shopaholic") 02:51 Tools
The Red Sombrero 02:40 Tools
Down By The River 02:31 Tools
La Mer 02:31 Tools
Salling By 02:31 Tools
Elizabetina podoknica 02:31 Tools
Afraid To Dream 02:51 Tools
Lara's Theme 02:26 Tools
The Watermill - 1992 Remastered Version 02:56 Tools
El Condor Paso 02:51 Tools
Moon River 02:51 Tools
Ronald Binge - Elizabethan Serenade 03:12 Tools
Man In A Hurry 02:50 Tools
Alzbetinska serenada 02:55 Tools
Serenada Elisabeteana 02:55 Tools
Bridge Over Troubled Water 02:53 Tools
Poor Little Patsy 03:50 Tools
I Remember 03:50 Tools
High Stepper (The 'Aggie' Theme) 03:50 Tools
Ronald Binge - Sailing By 03:50 Tools
Summer Rain 02:50 Tools
All I Do Is Dream Of You 02:54 Tools
Twelfth Of Never 04:05 Tools
Alas My Love You Do Me Wrong 03:04 Tools
Alžbětínská Serenáda 02:56 Tools
Serenada elżbietańska 02:50 Tools
Alžbìtinská serenáda 02:56 Tools
Elisabethan Serenade 02:54 Tools
I. Allegro spiritoso 02:26 Tools
Time Is Flying 02:50 Tools
If I Were King 02:50 Tools
Little Flower 02:50 Tools
Someday 02:50 Tools
Elizabethan Seranade 02:50 Tools
Prelude: The Whispering Valley 02:50 Tools
A Star Is Born 02:50 Tools
I Like Your Smile 02:50 Tools
Alžbìtinská serenáda 02:56 Tools
Fugal Fancy 02:26 Tools
Theme From Love Story 02:26 Tools
Aquarelle 02:50 Tools
Waiting For The Moonlight 02:50 Tools
Echoes Of A Dream 03:39 Tools
Variations On Alouette 03:39 Tools
Un Minuto Contigo 03:30 Tools
Crazy-Go-Round 03:26 Tools
Saxophone Concerto - Allegro giocoso 03:54 Tools
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Ronald Binge (July 15, 1910, Derby – September 6, 1979, Ringwood, Hampshire) was a British composer and arranger of light music. Life Ronald Binge was born in a working-class neighbourhood in Derby in the English Midlands. In his early life he was a cinema organist and later started working in summer orchestras in British seaside resorts, for which he learned to play the piano accordion. His skill as a cinema organist was put to good use, and he played the latter instrument in Mantovani's first band, the Tipica Orchestra. During the Second World War, Binge served in the Royal Air Force, during which time he was much in demand organising camp entertainment. After the end of the war, Mantovani offered him the job of arranging and composing for his new orchestra. In 1951, his arrangement of "Charmaine"" gave him and Mantovani worldwide success and recognition. However, he later tired of writing arrangements and turned to composing original works and film scores. He died of liver cancer in 1979, aged 69. Works Binge was interested in the technicalities of composition and was most famous as the inventor of the "cascading strings" effect which is the signature sound of the Mantovani orchestra, much used in their arrangements of popular music. It was originally created to capture the essence of the echo properties of a building such as a cathedral, although it later became particularly associated with easy listening music genre. His best known compositions are "Elizabethan Serenade" (1951), which was used by the British Broadcasting Corporation as the theme for the popular 1950s series, "Music Tapestry," and as the play-out for the British Forces Network radio station, for which he won an Ivor Novello Award, and "Sailing By" (1963), the BBC Radio 4 Shipping Forecast theme. Other well-known pieces include "Miss Melanie", "The Watermill" (1958)," and his Concerto for Alto Saxophone in E flat major" (1956). Less well-known is a piano piece known as "Vice Versa", a musical palindrome which was not only a front-to-back palindrome, but also exploited the two staves used for writing for piano. The music reads the same, whatever way it is turned. He later extended this theme, composing a piece known as "Upside/Downside" for his son, who was learning to play the recorder at Downside School. This musical palindrome was for piano, recorder and cello and again was universally reversible - two players could therefore play from the same sheet of music reading from opposite ends. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.