Album: Music from the Penguin Cafe, Live at the Royal Albert Hall (Editions Penguin Cafe)

There's always been something quintessentially English about the Penguin Café Orchestra, despite the incorporation of such "foreign" elements as cuatro guitar, ukulele and harmonium into their folksy palm-court orchestra textures, and the hints of minimalist and avant-garde experimentation which colour their pastoral studies.

Since the death of their founding composer, Simon Jeffes, his son Arthur has taken up the reins with a refreshed line-up now known as Music from the Penguin Café, whose concert in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust is captured here on CD and DVD. A repertoire of old favourites such as "Giles Farnaby's Dream" and "Music for a Found Harmonium" is extended with new material in the tradition by Arthur, and every penny of the purchase price goes to the charity.

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