We all love cooking and eating and we all love listening to music. This CD combines both loves in a scintillating program of fine music for dining. Revel in the lush richness of symphonic sound, enjoy the sizzle and crackle of great music from varied countries and eras, programmed to whet your appetite and tickle your senses.

Shall we dance? the exciting rhythms and speeds of ballroom dancing - from whirling romps and sizzling beats to stately waltzes - are encapsulated in this remarkable disc. Both modern and traditional dances abound. If you've followed ballroom dancing on television and want to give it a try yourself, this is the place to start!

Far Away Places: Nostalgic Songs of Travel

ORIENTAL GARDEN - The Romance of the East in Music

MUSIC FOR A LADY GARDENER (Favourite Songs for Gardening)

Told in great words and music. An inspiring anthology of great poetry and prose read by the BBC's Margaret Howard, and Bernard Palmer, and music ancient and modern sung by the Harlow Chorus. An album all the family will enjoy.

Music for Henry VIII a collection of glorious sacred music which was presented as a gift to Henry VIII at the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1526 by the city of Florence. Music by the great European composers of the day which was known to Henry and heard in his great chapels throughout the land, in an atmospheric recording by Oxford's finest mixed-voice choir.

Music for Motoring - Great Tunes for A Day in the Country

Drive Time Jazz: Rhythms of the Road

Grand music for coronations, for ceremonial occasions, for matters of state and for formal dancing is brought together in this special album. 400 years of quintessentially British music, from Matthew Locke to Eric Coates, centered around the peerless style of Sir Edward Elgar, whose ‘pomp and circumstance’ marches are familiar to us all.

Reflections: Thoughtful hymns and religious songs

Beautiful and calming choral music.This programme of beautiful and elaborate sixteenth-century choral music from across Europe was inspired by the music collection of a French ambassador to the court of Henry VIII. It features magnificent music by some of the greatest composers of the age, recorded in Italy in a rich and resonant acoustic.

Puttin' on the Ritz (1930-1958)

Haunting and sensuous songs from the first millennium and the early middle ages, including the uplifting visions expressed in music by the first known woman composer, abbess hildegard of bingen, the voice of the ninth-century lyric poet notker and the magnificent tenth-century ‘song of the sybil’.

SOPHISTICATED SONGS FROM THE 1940s (As Time Goes By)