Vernon Elliott
Key tracks:
- From "Teapot"
- Musical Sequences
- Fast Theme
- King of Diamonds
Label: Trunk Records
Read Description:
Quintessentially british, children's television composer, bassoonist, conductor and occasional writer.
Born into a musical family in 1912, Elliott took up the bassoon at a very early age. From then on he had an eventful, busy and very musical life. One which saw him as a founding member of the Philharmonia Orchestra, a regular at the Royal Opera House, a much-valued member of Benjamin Britten's English Opera Group orchestra, a conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, long time professor at Trinity College, occasional writer, and as exemplified below, children's tv score and sound effect composer.
Clangers: A British stop motion animated children's television series of short stories about a family of mouse-like creatures who live on, and in, a small blue planet in dark space.
Listen in moments of stress, bliss or at bedtime with hot milk and cookies. In the hands of Elliott, outer space is depicted not as a wonky futurescape of possibilities, but a place where tiny curiosities can happen amid the backdrop of vast emptiness.
Ivor The Engine: A children's television series relating the adventures of a small green locomotive, living in the "top left-hand corner of Wales.
Lovingly discovered by Jonny Trunk, this soundtrack is taken from original master tapes found in Oliver Postgate's underworld. Elliots small ensemble produce charming melodies, some with pace, others with a subtle underlying melancholy. This really is delightful music, all recorded in a small village hall somewhere in Kent many years ago.
Things to watch:
- Clangers - The Intruder
- Clangers - The Meeting
- Ivor The Engine - Episode 1
- Ivor The Engine - Episode 2
Releases we represent:
- Ivor The Engine and Pogles Wood | Soundtrack | Trunk Records
- Clangers Original Television Music | Trunk Records
Quotes:
"Elliott was a feature of some of the finest orchestral playing in post-war Britain" The Independent
Tracks included on the following samplers:
- Trunk Records Compilation Download sampler here
- Vernon Elliott "Clangers Original Television Music” Download sampler here
- Vernon Elliott “Ivor The Engine Original Television Music” Download sampler here
