London Pride / Catherine Bott, Owen Norris - Hyperion - HYP 67457 - 03457117457

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Album Summary

Monckton, Lionel : Chalk Farm to Camberwell Green, song

Dring, Madeleine : Betjeman songs (5) for voice & piano

Wilson, Sandy : The Boy Friend, musical

Gershwin, George : A Foggy Day (in London Town), song (from A Damsel in Distress, film)

Walton, William : A Song for the Lord Mayor's Table, song cycle for soprano & piano or orchestra

Norris, David Owen : Big Ben Blues

MacColl, Ewan : Sweet Thames, flow softly

Boyce, William : The Pleasures of Spring Gardens, Vauxhall

Dove, Jonathan : Five Am'rous Sighs, song cycle for voice & piano

Kit Hesketh-Harvey / Rich : Wimbledon Idyll

Fraser-Simson, Harold : They're Changing Guard at Buckingham Palace, song

Kennedy, Jimmy : Mayfair Merry-Go-Round

Dacre, Harry : While London's fast asleep

Bennett, Richard R. : Let's go and live in the country

Sherwin, Manning : A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square

Scott, Bennett : Take Me in a Taxi, Joe

Swann, Donald : Joyful Noise, a miniature baroque cantata

Coward, Noël : London Pride

Performers

Catherine Bott
David Norris (Piano)

Composers

Notes & Reviews:

'Sumptuous performances all.' (Sunday Times)

'Catherine Bott, totally unexpected in lighter twentieth century repertoire, divulges new facets of her talents ... Noel Coward's London Pride closes the album on a subdued but heroic note, leaving us in admiration of singer and pianist in one of this year's most enjoyable discs to have come my way' (Fanfare, USA)

'Bott can transform herself from robust campanologist in Walton's Rhyme to high camp in Kit and the Widow's irresistible Wimbledon Idyll; from folk singer for Ewan MacColl's Sweet Thames to waif-like Victorian music-hall songstress in While London's fast asleep ... the gently circumspect soft-focus of this recital will doubtless be, for many listeners, all part of that illusory charm of London Town' (BBC Music Magazine)

'Best of all is the Joyce Grenfell number, Joyful Noise, putting her own delicious slant on a number one would have thought no one but Joyce Grenfell could bring off' (The Guardian)

'Catherine Bott's versatile, light soprano is wonderfully entertaining in this wide-ranging London related album' (Evening Standard)

'Listen to what Bott and Norris make of the Gershwin standardA Foggy Day and you'll believe that the age of miracles hasn't passed!' (International Record Review)

'Catherine Bott, dextrous in Baroque and earlier repertory, weilds a light, winning touch as she ranges with pianist Davis Owen Norris through British music-hall songs, Gershwin, Joyce Grenfell ditties and recent Jonathan Dove' (The Times)

'I cannot recommend this disc highly enough. It positively radiates intelligence and wit in performances of consummate musicianship. A truly delightful gallimaufry!' (Musicweb)

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Works Details

Monckton, Lionel : Chalk Farm to Camberwell Green, song

Performers: Catherine Bott; David Norris (Piano)
Notes: Savage Club, 1 Whitehall Palace, London, England (05/23/2003/05/26/2003)
Running Time: 3 min. 7 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic

Dring, Madeleine : Betjeman songs (5) for voice & piano :: no 3, Business Girls

Performers: Catherine Bott; David Norris (Piano)
Notes: Savage Club, 1 Whitehall Palace, London, England (05/23/2003/05/26/2003)
Running Time: 2 min. 12 sec.
Period Time: Modern

Wilson, Sandy : The Boy Friend, musical :: A Room in Bloomsbury

Performers: David Norris (Piano); Catherine Bott
Notes: Savage Club, 1 Whitehall Palace, London, England (05/23/2003/05/26/2003)
Running Time: 3 min. 3 sec.
Period Time: Modern
Written: 1953