{"id":6101,"date":"2015-06-24T19:05:53","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T17:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mandoisland.com\/?p=6101"},"modified":"2017-09-14T12:57:17","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T10:57:17","slug":"troise-and-his-mandoliers-banjoliers-historical-mandolin-orchestra-recordings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mandoisland.com\/?p=6101","title":{"rendered":"Troise and his Mandoliers \/ Banjoliers – Historical Mandolin Orchestra Recordings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pasquale Troise<\/strong> (1895 – 1957) was born in Naples in 1895. He came to Great Britan during the 1920, first as a member of the London Radio Dance Band, but soon founded his own orchestra, the Selecta Plectrum Mandoline Orchestra<\/strong>, which was later renamed to Troise and his Mandoliers<\/strong>. When the banjo became more popular than the mandolin (mainly because it was louder) the orchestra replaced the mandolins by banjos and played as Troise and his Banjoliers<\/strong>. The orchestra existed from the 1930s until 1957 directed by Troise, and continued until the early 1970s then conducted by Jack Mandel.<\/p>\n

The orchestra did regularly\u00a0appear in a radio broadcast named “Music while you work”. The history of Troise and his Mandoliers<\/a> can be found on the website Masters of Melody<\/a>. There you can also listen to two complete recordings of the broadcasts from 1956 and 1964. It is also interesting to read that some important classical mandolin players including Hugo d’Alton played with Troise and his Mandoliers.<\/p>\n

Their personnel changed very little over the years \u2014 classical mandoline player Hugo D’Alton, Billy Bell and Terry Walsh were all there to ensure stability, with accordionist Emile Charlier or Albert Delroy<\/a> and pianists such as William Davies and Sidney Davey.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Many recordings and also movies (filmed by British Pathe between 1932 and 1940 ) with Troise and his Mandoliers are also available at youtube, I have compiled everything that I have found in the following playlist:<\/p>\n

Playlist Troise and his Mandoliers<\/h4>\n