Coward, Noël

Songs of Love and Whimsy by Noel Coward & Flanders and Swann / Paul Sperry, tenor; Ian Hobson, piano

1 CD / Zephyr / 2012-06-12

Works: Donald Swann: Misalliance; The Gnu Song; The Sloth; Ill Wind (after Mozart); Friendly Duet; The Gas-Man Cometh; Hippo Encore; The Armadillo; Madeira M'Dear; Noël Coward: Someday I'll Find You (u...
Performers: Hobson, Ian [Piano]; Sperry, Paul [Tenor (Vocal)]

Paul Sperry and Ian Hobson offer songs from the best British lyricists to follow Gilbert (Coward and Flanders) and to the two composers who could...continue...
American tenor Paul Sperry is best known as an advocate of new music, including that of some of the most daunting modernists like Stockhausen, Druckman, Wuorinen, and Rands, as well as traditionalists...continue...

Time Traveller: Wartime Britain

1 CD / EMI Classics / 2012-04-10

Works: William Walton: Prelude and Fugue "Spitfire"; Henry V; Cecil Armstrong Gibbs: Dusk, for voice & piano; Richard Addinsell: Warsaw Concerto; Walter Kent: The White Cliffs of Dover; Kenneth J. Alford: C...
Performers: Adni, Daniel [Piano]; Bowlly, Al; Coward, Noel; Hess, Myra; Lynn, Vera
Conductors: Walton, William; Dunn, Vivian; Alwyn, Kenneth; Osborne, Tony; Marriner, Sir Neville; Groves, Charles, Sir; Gibbons, Carroll; Barbirolli, John; Wallace, J.L.; Noble, Ray; Kilbey, Reginald

Britain's Finest Hour - and six years of cataclysm, stoicism and heroism - are recalled by this richly varied collection of music associated with the...continue...

The Golden Age of Light Music: The Lost Transcriptions, Vol. 3

1 CD / Guild / 2012-03-13

Works: Sydney Baynes: Ad Infinitum, for pops orchestra; Noël Coward: Dear Little Soldiers, song (for the musical Conversation Piece); Jonny Heykens: Sérénade de Heykens; Cole Porter: Kiss Me,...
Performers: Vaughan, Denny
Conductors: Mantovani; Sack, Al Orchestra; Phillips, Van; Yorke, Peter; Robinson, Eric; Farnon, Robert; Shadwell, Charles; Chandler, Carl; Horlick, Harry; Rose, David

Guild continues to mine the treasure trove of in-house recordings that specialized in the needs of radio stations and were not available to private purchasers....continue...

The Golden Age of Light Music: Lost Transcriptions, Vol. 2 / Percy Faith, Mantovani & Sidney Torch

1 CD / Guild / 2012-02-14

Works: Richard Rodgers: Falling in Love with Love, song (from "The Boys from Syracuse"); Cole Porter: Rosalie; Louis Silvers: April Showers; Ray Noble: The Very Thought of You, song; Jerome Kern: Why Do I L...
Performers: Abato, Vincent; Ellington, Duke
Conductors: Faith, Percy; Mantovani, Annuncio Paulo; Torch, Sidney

Rare recordings by three of light music's greatest names: Percy Faith, Mantovani and Sidney Torch are offered in this second volume of recordings made for...continue...

It Is Really Me / Marilyn Hill Smith sing musicals

1 CD / Jay Records / 2011-11-08

Works: Tom Jones: Is It Really Me?; Sigmund Romberg: Romance, song (from "The Desert Song"); Deep in My Heart, Dear, for voice & orchestra (from The Student Prince); Frederick Loewe: I Could Have Danced All...
Performers: Rendall, David; Smith, Marilyn Hill [Soprano Vocal]
Conductors: Edwards, John O.; Brown, Justin

Recording information: Abbey Road Studios (09/07/1989); Cts Studios (09/07/1989); Abbey Road Studios (1990-06-22&1991-03-20&2010-); Cts Studios (1990-06-22&1991-03-20&2010-)....continue...

The Voice Of The Century / Pavarotti

2 CD / Decca Import / 2010-10-26

Works: Charles Gounod: Roméo et Juliette; Faust; Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata; Luisa Miller; Rigoletto; Léo Delibes: Lakmé; Georges Bizet: Vasco da Gama, ode-symphony for chorus & orchestra; G...
Performers: Cassinelli, Ricardo; Gibbs, John; Knight, Gillian; Merrill, Robert [Baritone Vocals]; Pavarotti, Luciano; Pelizzoni, Rinaldo; Plessis, Christian du; Siepi, Cesare; Sutherland, Joan, Dame
Conductors: Molinari-Pradelli, France; Bonynge, Richard; Pritchard, John; Mehta, Zubin

The Golden Age of Light Music: Strings in Rhythm

1 CD / Guild / 2010-09-14

Works: Victor Herbert: Natoma; James Van Heusen: Swinging On A Star (used in the film "Going My Way"); Cole Porter: You do something to me, song (from "Fifty Million Frenchmen"); Gordon Jenkins: In the Heat...
Conductors: Faith, Percy; Chacksfield, Frank; Silvester, Victor; Jenkins, Gordon; Melachrino, George; Green, Philip; Arlt, Hans-Georg; Weston, Paul; Yorke, Peter; Paramor, Norrie; Dragon, Carmen; Mooney, Hal; Za...

There is plenty of rhythm on offer in this collection of the Guild Light Music Series, from Latin American dances to quicksteps, slow foxtrots, polkas...continue...
Guild's The Golden Age of Light Music series continues apace with Strings in Rhythm, a survey of mostly Latin and popular material recorded by pop orchestras between 1953-1959 with an emphasis on big ...continue...

The Golden Age of Light Music: Orchestral Gems in Stereo

1 CD / Guild / 2010-08-10

Works: Tolchard Evans: Lady of Spain (Linda española); Jerome Kern: She Didn't Say Yes, song (from "The Cat and the Fiddle"); Jule Styne: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; Charles Trénet: La Mer (Beyond t...
Conductors: Dragon, Carmen; Weston, Paul; Barker, Warren; Cugat, Xavier; Baxter, Les; Salinger, Conrad; Bregman, Buddy; Jones, Leslie; Morely, Angela; Trotter, John Scott; Yorke, Peter; Silvester, Victor; Jenkin...
Ensemble: ; 101 Strings Orchestra; Victor Silvester & His Silver Strings

This latest Guild CD in The Golden Age of Light Music Series attempts to recreate the excitement felt by record collectors around 50 years ago...continue...
Ahh, the glory of stereo -- it is so difficult to impart what a difference it made when it first became generally available on records in 1958; for audio nuts, it was a dream come true, whereas for th...continue...

Call Me Flott / Felicity Lott sings Barber, Berlin, Porter et al

1 CD / Champs Hill Records / 2010-04-27

Works: Geoffrey Bush: It Was a Lover and His Lass; Francis Poulenc: Fancy ("Tell Me Where Is Fancy Bred"), song for voice & piano, FP 174; Benjamin Britten: Fancie; Mervyn Horder: Under the Greenwood Tree; ...
Performers: Johnson, Graham [Piano]; Lott, Felicity [Soprano Vocal]

A brand new release from Dame Felicity Lott, with Graham Johnson at the piano. Described as "The Queen of English Classical", here Felicity Lott, known...continue...
Recording information: Music Room, Champs Hill, West Sussex, England....continue...

Palm Court Pleasures

1 CD / Opening Day Recordings / 2010-01-26

Works: George Frederick Handel: Solomon; Scott Joplin: Bethena; Elite Syncopations; Fritz Kreisler: Liebesfreud; Catherine Wilson: Sackville Street Ballad, for violin, cello & piano; Joseph Lamb: Ragtime Ni...
Performers: Wilson, Catherine [Piano]
Conductors:
Ensemble: Ensemble Vivant

Hommage à Bidú Sayao, Vol. 2

1 CD / Cembal d'amour / 2009-11-08

Works: Giovanni Pergolesi: Tre giorni son che nina, song for voice & piano (spurious; may be by V.L. Ciampi); Tommaso Traetta: Tantin, tantino ("Ma che vi costa, signor tutore"), for voice & piano; Luigi Ar...
Performers: Sayao, Bidu [Soprano Vocals]
Conductors: Voorhees, Donald; Barlow, Howard; Leger, Frank St.; Whitman, Paul; Reiner, Fritz

Considered by many music and opera lovers as one of the greatest lyric sopranos of all times, Bidu Sayao had a legendary career which was...continue...

The Roaring 20s!

1 CD / Pierian / 2008-11-11

Works: Philip Braham: Limehouse Blues; Milton Ager: Hard Hearted Hannah; Ray Henderson: Five foot two, eyes of blue; George Gershwin: George White's Scandals of 1924; Ferde Grofé: Novelty Fox Trot Me...
Performers: Grofe, Ferde

This recording contains Ferde Grofe's 1924-1927 Ampico Recordings (the American Piano Company), which were piano rolls. These Ampico rolls are the primarily legacy of Grofe's...continue...
Personnel: Ferde Grofé (piano)....continue...

Prima Voce - Hilde Güden

2 CD / Nimbus Records / 2008-09-09

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni; Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620; Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492; Idomeneo; Il rè pastore, K 208; Exsultate jub...
Performers: Gulda, Friedrich; Jurinac, Sena; Poell, Alfred; Protti, Aldo [Baritone Vocals]; Reining, Maria; Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductors: Krips, Josef; Böhm, Karl; Kleiber, Erich; Krauss, Clemens; Erede, Alberto; Black, Stanley

It becomes evident from the first note that Hilde Guden possessed a truly beautiful vocal timbre. Her singing of the various arias from 'Don Giovanni',...continue...

The Stars were Shining Vol 3 / Lawrence, Brice, Crooks, Tagliavini, Pinza, Tokatyan, et al

1 CD / Symposium / 2008-09-09

Works: Christoph Willibald Gluck: Alceste; George Frederick Handel: MEDLEY; : Come to the Fair; Gaetano Donizetti: L' elisir d'amore, opera; Sergey Rachmaninov: Ne poy, krasavitsa, pri mne (Do not sing to m...
Performers: Brice, Carol; Crooks, Richard; Koshetz, Marina; Lawrence, Marjorie; Merrill, Robert [Baritone Vocals]; Pinza, Ezio; Tagliavini, Ferruccio [Tenor Vocals]; Tassinari, Pia; Thomas, John Charles; Tokatya...
Conductors: Barlow, Howard; Voorhees, Donald
Ensemble: ; Orchestra

This is the third volume in the series of rare recordings of the great singers of the 20th century. The compilation includes private issues, recordings...continue...

Noel Coward: Conversation Piece, etc / Noble, Pons, Turner, et al

3 CD / Gala / 2008-03-04

Works: Noel Coward: Conversation Piece
Performers: Pons, Lily
Conductors: Engel, Lehman

The Night They Invented Champagne

1 CD / CD Baby Independants / 2008-02-19

Works: Sigmund Romberg: The New Moon; The Desert Song, operetta; The Student Prince, operetta; Arthur Sullivan: Mikado; Pirates of Penzance; HMS Pinafore; Victor Herbert: Mademoiselle Modiste; Franz Leh...
Performers: Brussell, Barbara; Bustamante, Mauricio; Lee, Jessica; Meiman, Dominic; Nadler, Mark; Rubano, Craig; Shao, Sophie; Sullivan, KT; Sussmann, Arnaud; Vinocour, Jonathan

Includes entrance medley (the merry widow waltz (lehár) / t by various composers.

Includes medley of marches (stouthearted men (romberg) / so by various composers....continue...

Souvenir de Printemps - Poulenc, etc / Amy Burton, Yves Abel

1 CD / Harbinger / 2007-07-12

Works: Louis Beydts: La S.A.D.M.P. (Société Anonyme des Messieurs Prudnets), operetta; Reynaldo Hahn: Mozart, operetta in 3 acts; André Messager: L' Amour masqué, operetta; Oscar Straus:...
Performers: Abel, Yves; Burton, Amy; Musto, John [Piano]

Hall of Fame Vol 1 - Rose, Ellis, Anderson, Farnon

1 CD / Guild / 2006-05-01

Works: David Rose: Holiday for Strings; Vivian Ellis: Coronation Scot; Leroy Anderson: Serenata; Robert Farnon: Portrait of a Flirt; Noel Coward: Words and Music; Jack Strachey: In Party Mood; George Melach...
Performers: Black, Stanley; Richardson, Clive
Conductors: Gould, Morton; Williams, Charles; Fiedler, Arthur; Farnon, Robert; Kostelanetz, André; Voss, Louis; Melachrino, George; Faith, Percy; Collins, Anthony; Robinson, Stanford; Riddle, Nelson; ; Ho...
Ensemble: André Kostelanetz Orchestra; Boston Pops Orchestra; Camarata; Columbia Symphony Orchestra; David Rose Orchestra; Harry Horlick Orchestra; Kingsway Orchestra; London Promenade Orchestra; Marek ...

After so many wonderful releases in the Golden Age of Light Music series, it is now time for the awards season. To wit, this particular...continue...

British Cinema and Theatre Orchestras

1 CD / Guild / 2005-04-01

Works: G. Groitzsch: The Juggler, for pops orchestra; Ernest Bucalossi: Grasshoppers' Dance; Jerome Kern: Show Boat, musical in 2 acts; The Cat and the Fiddle, musical in 2 acts; Felix Arndt: Nola; Percy Fl...
Performers: Bollington, Al; His Majesty's Theatre Orchestra; Maclean, Quentin M.
Conductors: Muscant, Joseph; Anton, Arthur; Pethers, William; Starkey, Emanuel; Tours, Frank; Burston, Reginald; Manning, Charles; Greenbaum, Hyam; Crean, Richard; Dam, Alfred van; Westfield, Frank; Geraldo

Personnel: Quentin MacLean (organ).

Recording information: Paramount Theatre, London, England (1927-1939); The New Hippodrome, Coventry, England (1927-1939); The Plaza Theatre, London, England ...continue...

London Pride / Catherine Bott, David Owen Norris

1 CD / Hyperion / 2004-04-01

Works: Lionel Monckton: Chalk Farm to Camberwell Green, song; Madeleine Dring: Betjeman songs (5) for voice & piano; Sandy Wilson: The Boy Friend, musical; George Gershwin: A Foggy Day (in London Town), son...
Performers: Bott, Catherine [Soprano Vocals]; Norris, David Owen

'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...continue...

Great Voices of the Past - Light Opera Gems

2 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2003-07-02

Works: Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; Gaetano Donizetti: L' elisir d'amore, opera; Linda di Chamounix; La figlia del reggimento; Don Pasquale; Franz Lehár: Eva (Das Fabriksmädel), ope...
Performers: Anders, Peter; Barone, Clement; Bechi, Gino; Belhomme, Hippolyte; Bjorling, Jussi; Cerne, Charles; Debicka, Hedwig von; Fleta, Miguel; Forest, Frank; Galli-Curci, Amelita; Hesch, Wilhelm; Lapitino, F...
Conductors: Lehár, Franz; Pitt, Percy; Sabajno, Carlo

Operetta is rare on CD these days, so a collection of highlights from the most famous repertoire, sung by the great voices of the Golden...continue...
Includes modern travel, an opera parody on donizetti, gouno by various composers....continue...

La Stupenda - The Supreme Voice of Joan Sutherland

2 CD / Decca / 2001-10-09

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Attila; La traviata; Rigoletto; Léo Delibes: Lakmé; Jacques Offenbach: Gaîté Parisienne; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620...
Performers: Berbie, Jane; Bergonzi, Carlo; Bonifacio, Tina; Cassinelli, Ricardo; Duval, Pierre; Elkins, Margreta; Flagello, Ezio [Bass Vocals]; Gibbs, John; Horne, Marilyn [Mezzo-Soprano Vocal]; Pavarotti, Lucia...
Conductors: Bonynge, Richard; Santi, Nello; Pritchard, John; Molinari-Pradelli, France; Mehta, Zubin
Ensemble: ; Ambrosian Light Opera Chorus; Ambrosian Opera Chorus; Florence Maggio Musicale Orchestra; London Opera Chorus; London Philharmonic Orchestra; London Symphony Orchestra; Monte Carlo Opera Orchestra;...

"...In recognition of her 75th birthday, also in November, Decca has issued a 27-track 'best of' CD set, showcasing some of [Dame Sutherland's] most famous...continue...

Delos Double - Arleen Auger - American Soprano

2 CD / Delos / 2000-01-01

Works: George Frederick Handel: Der Messias; Giulio Cesare; Atalanta; Giulio Cesare, HWV 17; Rinaldo; Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata no 209, "Non sa che sia dolore" BWV 209; Bist du bei mir, aria arranged f...
Performers: Auger, Arleen; Baldwin, Dalton
Conductors: Schwarz, Gerard; Parisot, Aldo

This generous 2-for-1 package not only features the very well-received discs of Arleen Auger on Delos, but also the lesser-known Bachianas No. 5 with the...continue...

My Secret Heart / Ben Heppner

1 CD / RCA Records / 1999-11-09

Works: Charles Gilbert Spross: Let All My Life Be Music; Vittorio Giannini: Sing to my heart a song; Charles: Let My Song Fill Your Heart; Ivor Novello: Perchance to Dream; King's Rhapsody; Noel Coward: Bit...
Performers: Heppner, Ben
Conductors: Tunick, Jonathan
Ensemble: London Philharmonic Orchestra

Ben Heppner has been hailed as one of the great heldentenors of our time. He has successfully recorded and performed the Germanic romantic repertoire but...continue...

A Soprano In Love

2 CD / Silva America Import / 1999-05-07

Works: Sigmund Romberg: Lover, come back to me; The New Moon; Georges Bizet: Carmen Jones, musical play (adapted from Carmen by Oscar Hammerstein II); Richard Rodgers: Love Me Tonight, song (from film "Love...

The Valley of Song / Tomlinson, Rossendale Male Voice Choir

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1994-06-01

Works: Vivian Ellis: Bless the Bride, musical play; Rudolf Friml: Donkey Serenade; Canadian Traditional: I gave my love a cherry (Nova Scotia); Anonymous: Phil the Fluter's Ball; Anonymous, American: Down i...
Performers: Farnworth, Hilary; Farnworth, Michael; Heys, Ken; Jackson, Florence; Rossendale Male Voice Choir; Rowland, Jane; Whitfield, Pete; Whitfield, Peter
Conductors: Tomlinson, Ernest
Ensemble: Rossendale Male Voice Choir

Personnel: Pete Whitfield (violin, piano, bass guitar); Jane Rowland (flute, piccolo, tin whistle); Michael Farnworth (piano); Hillary Farnworth (percussion).

Recording information: St John's C...continue...

Love Songs / Arleen Auger, Dalton Baldwin

1 CD / Delos / 1988-01-01

Works: Aaron Copland: Pastorale, song for voice & piano; Poems (12) of Emily Dickinson, song cycle for voice & piano (orchestrated 1970 as "Poems (8) of Emil; Fernando J. Obradors: Canciones Clásicas...
Performers: Auger, Arleen; Baldwin, Dalton