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Musicals: The Premier Collection

3 CD / USM Media / 2012-11-06

Works: Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Music of the Night, song (for the musical The Phantom of the Opera); Jesus Christ Superstar; Another Suitcase in Another Hall, song (for the musical Evita); Don't Cry for Me ...
Performers: Ahmad, Irfan; Ampil, Joanna; Andrews, Julie; Astaire, Fred; Atkinson, Aimie; Ball, Michael; Barrowman, John; Bickley, Graham; Bo, Alfie; Bonney, Barbara; Bowman, Simon; Brightman, Sarah; Clark, Petul...
Conductors: Yates, Martin; Edwards, John O.; Barna, Craig; McLeod, Callum; Brooker, Stephen; Kelly, Julian; Greenwood, Andrew; Firman, David
Ensemble: ; NSO Ensemble

The Golden Age of Light Music: The Art of the Arranger, Vol. 2 / Nelson Riddle, Morton Gould, Percy Faith, Mantovani et al.

1 CD / Guild / 2012-10-09

Works: Richard Rodgers: A Wonderful Guy, song (from "South Pacific"); Soliloquy, song (from "Carousel"); Where or When, song (from "Babes in Arms"); Dancing on the Ceiling, song (from "Evergreen"); Jack Str...
Performers: Jenkins, Gordon
Conductors: Bregman, Buddy; Morley, Angela; Rose, David; Ornadel, Cyril; Fennell, Frederick; Mantovani; Farnon, Robert; Faith, Percy; Chacksfield, Frank; Gould, Morton; Cordell, Frank; Binge, Ronald; Jenkins, Go...

The Golden Age of Light Music: Lightly Classical

1 CD / Guild / 2011-02-08

Works: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Flight of the Bumblebee; Claude Debussy: Clair de lune (Suite bergamasque); Gustav Holst: St. Paul's Suite; William Walton: Façade Suite no 2; Peter DeRose: The Lamp Is ...
Conductors: Challet, Pierre; Morley, Angela; Walton, William; De Vol, Frank; Torch, Sidney; Gamba, Piero; Williams, Charles; Munro, Ronnie; Green, Philip; Jones, Leslie; Kostelanetz, André; Carroll, David; ...

The collection of music on this recording proves that the so-called boundaries between light and classical music are not insurmountable; that many composers had lighter...continue...

The Golden Age of Light Music: A First A-Z of Light Music

1 CD / Guild / 2010-12-14

Works: Vivian Ellis: Alpine Pastures, for orchestra; George Forrest / Robert Wright: Baubles, bangles and beads, song (from Kismet); David Rose: The Christmas Tree, song; Aldo Von Pinelli: Durch dich wird d...
Performers: Dolf van der Linden Metropole Orchestra; Farnon, Robert & His Orchestra; Frank Chacksfield & His Orchestra; Gould, Morton & His Orchestra; Grosvenor Studio Orchestra; Hans-Georg Arlt Orchestra; Jenki...
Conductors: Torch, Sidney; Barker, Warren; Rose, David; Arlt, Hans-Georg; Trotter, John Scott; Börschel, Erich; van der Linden, Dolf; Freedman, Michael; Farnon, Robert; Morley, Angela; Mooney, Hal; Jenkins,...

Guild has assembled 26 tracks of light music covering all letters of the English alphabet. There are works created for light orchestras in the concert...continue...

100 Greatest Musicals

6 CD / Silva America / 2010-11-09

Works: Jerome Kern: Make Believe, song (from "Show Boat"); Show Boat; Cole Porter: Anything Goes, song (for the musical Anything Goes); Where is the life that late I led?, song (from "Kiss Me Kate"); True l...
Performers: Beck, Gina; Berroa, Nico; Braun, Meredith; Bunce, Zak; Burns, Keith; Campbell, Sharon; Carewe, Mary [Soprano Vocal]; Casey, Gerard; Colby, Chuck; Colby, Evan; Corcoran, Chris; Cox, Flora; Davis, Rach...
Conductors: Bateman, Paul; Raine, Nic; Bolton, Ivor; Fitzpatrick, James; Greenwood, Andrew; Jolly, Evan; Arnold, David;
Ensemble: ; London Music Works

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...

Paradis

1 CD / Polydor Import / 2007-11-13

Works: Nino Rota: Le Parrain; George Forrest / Robert Wright: Kismet; Michel Legrand: Les Parapluies de Cherbourg; Les moulins de mon coeur; Sebastián Yradier: La Paloma; Jacques Offenbach: Les Contes ...
Performers: Rieu, André

Beyond Imagination

1 CD / Sony Classical / 2003-01-14

Works: Giacomo Puccini: Madama Butterfly; Edvard Grieg: Concerto for Piano in A minor, Op. 16; Antonin Dvorák: Symphony no 9 in E minor, Op. 95/B 178 "From the New World"; Felix Mendelssohn: A Midsumme...
Performers: Babes, Opera; Bova, Jeff; Clarvis, Paul; Cohen, Jon; Cottle, Richard; Dalton, Mitchell; England, Karen; Goldberg, Ivor; Hartley, David; Knight, Rebecca; Kodo; Martin, Juan [Guitar]; Parricelli, John;...
Conductors: Masterson, Cliff; Griffiths, Paul Wynne; Ingman, Nick

Operababes: Rebecca Knight, Karen England.

Producers include: Jon Cohen, Noely, Anne Dudley, Frank Gallagher, Jim Steinman, Avi Geller.

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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...

Wright & Forrest: Kismet / Edwards, Masterson, Maxwell

2 CD / Jay Records / 1997-05-01

Works: George Forrest / Robert Wright: Kismet, musical (after works by Alexander Borodin); Timbuktu, musical
Performers: Ashe, Rosemary; Barham, Edmund; Bottone, Bonaventura; Byles, Edward; Green, Simon [Actor/Singer]; Griffiths, Philip; Hubbard, Bruce; Kaye, Judy; Masterson, Valerie; Maxwell, Donald [Bass-Baritone Voc...
Conductors: Edwards, John O.

Kismet [1991 Studio Cast Recording]

1 CD / Sony Classical / 1992-01-09

Works: George Forrest / Robert Wright: Kismet, musical (after works by Alexander Borodin); N/A: The Wazir's Palace; Finale-Act II
Performers: Ambrosian Singers; Bassi, James [Tenor Vocal]; Bingham, James; Brown, Rodne; DeLuise, Dom; Egan, Daniel; Gemignani, Paul; Hadley, Jerry; Hume, Michael; Johnson, Julia Migenes; Limansky, Gale; London ...
Conductors: Gemignani, Paul

Personnel: Samuel Ramey (vocals); Dom DeLuise, Ruth Ann Swenson, Jerry Hadley, Mandy Patinkin, Julia Migenes-Johnson (vocals).

Kismet is one of those shows that succeeds in spite of itself -- ...continue...

Be My Love

1 CD / RCA Records / 1991-01-22

Works: Nicholas Brodszky: The Toast of New Orleans, film score; Sigmund Romberg: The Student Prince, operetta; The New Moon; Brown / Freed: Going Hollywood; Sammy Fain: Royal Palm Revue ("I'll Be Seeing You...
Performers: Lanza, Mario [Actor/Singer]
Conductors: Sinatra, Ray; Callinicos, Constantin; Aaronson, Irving; Rene, Henri; Savina, C.

Personnel: Mario Lanza (vocals); Jeff Alexander Choir (background vocals).

Recording information: 1951-1959....continue...