Music elizabethan serenade mantovani biography

Light music composition by Ronald Binge

Elizabethan Serenade is a light music composition by Ronald Binge. When it was first played in a radio broadcast by the Mantovani orchestra, it was titled "Andante Cantabile", although the original orchestral manuscript parts in Binge's own hand show the title "The Man in the Street" (possibly the title of an early television documentary).^[1] The name was altered by the composer to reflect the post-war optimism of a "new Elizabethan Age" that began with the accession of Queen Elizabeth II in February ^[2]

The piece won Binge an Ivor Novello award and also had chart success in Germany (recorded by the Günther Kallmann Choir in ) and South Africa.

A version with lyrics by poet Christopher Hassall called "Where the Gentle Avon Flows" was released, and the work also had lyrics added in German, Czech, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Dutch, Danish and French. The piece was used as the signature tune to