![]() ![]() It was used for Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation, and won an Ivor Novello Award, and was later covered in a reggae version in 1970 by Boris Gardiner & the Love People. Sailing By, which was released as a single by the BBC in 1973 and played by the John Fox Orchestra, is his most played work, but his most celebrated is another piece of light classical, Elizabethan Serenade, first played by the Mantovani orchestra in 1951. Evoking the lapping of waves, it is irresistibly relaxing for those trying to slip into unconsciousness, and in form, is slow orchestral waltz, with a repetitive ABABC structure and features a distinctive rising and falling woodwind arpeggio.ĭerby-born Binge (1910–1979) came from a working-class background, became a chorister, and a cinema organist and served in the RAF where among other things he put on plenty of camp entertainment. A continuing island theme paradise is certainly evoked in this beautiful piece composed by Ronald Binge in 1963, and forever associated BBC Radio 4’s late night shipping forecast broadcast each night at the precise time of 00.48 hours.
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