Novello, Ivor

Ivor Novello: Gay's the Word, musical / Sophie-Louise Dann, Helena Blackman, Josh Little, Doreen Hermitage, Eileen Page, et al.

1 CD / Jay Records / 2013-04-09

Works: Ivor Novello: Gay's the Word, musical
Conductors: Stock, Ben

Recording information: Angel Studios, London (02/24/2012)....continue...

Silent Noon - a collection of British songs by Britten, Quilter, Purcell, Vaughan Williams et al. / Operababes, Janet Haney, piano

1 CD / Warner Classics / 2012-06-26

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: House of life; Roger Quilter: Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal for voice & piano, Op. 3/2; Drink to me only with thine eyes; John Ireland: If there were dreams to sell; Benjamin B...
Conductors:
Ensemble: OperaBabes

In 2001, two opera singers were discovered busking in London's Covent Garden and almost overnight were thrust into the global media spotlight, releasing two albums,...continue...
Recording information: Potton Hall & Vega Music Studios (04/2011)....continue...

50 Best Songs from the Musicals [3 CDs]

3 CD / EMI Classics / 2012-05-22

Works: Alain Boublil: I Dreamed a Dream, song (for the musical Les Misérables); Bring Him Home, song (for the musical Les Misérables); Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Music of the Night, song (for the mu...
Performers: Anderson, Moira; Barstow, Josephine; Bayless, Jean; Berry, Craig; Burns, Debralee [Vocals]; Burns, Karla; Chapman, Shirley; Cogan, Alma; Criswell, Kim; Dann, Roger; Deleon, Jack; Dent, Rebecca; Garre...
Conductors: Ellis, Philip; Gemignani, Paul; Lee, Simon; Lowe, Robert; Tunick, Jonathan; Love, Geoff; Davies, Gareth; McGlinn, John; Osborne, Tony; Matz, Peter; Fonteyn, Sam; Alwyn, Kenneth; Ainsworth, Alyn; Ratt...
Ensemble: ; Abbey Road Ensemble

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 Golden Age of Light Music: Composer Conducts, Vol. 2

1 CD / Guild / 2011-09-13

Works: Arthur Bliss: March from "Things to Come," for orchestra, Op. 53, F. 131d; Alfred Newman: Pinky; Don Gillis: Symphony no 5« "A Symphony For Fun"; Robert Farnon: State Occasion for orchestra; Pe...
Performers: Cohen, Harriet; Ewing, Montague; Ketelbey, Albert W.; Sandford, Arthur
Conductors: Bliss, Sir Arthur; Newman, Alfred; Gillis, Don; Farnon, Robert; Yorke, Peter; Green, Philip; Coates, Eric [Composer]; Melachrino, George; Lucas, Leighton; Collins, Walter; Clifford, Hubert; Novello, ...
Ensemble: ; Neapolitan Novelty Band

Guild continues its series within its Light Music series with this second volume of composers conducting their own music. These must be counted as historic...continue...

Welsh Choral Spectacular

3 CD / ABC Classics Import / 2011-02-22

Works: Richard Wagner: Rienzi; The Flying Dutchman; Giacomo Puccini: Madama Butterfly; Franz Lehár: Giuditta (Judith); Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro; Don Giovanni; The Magic Flute; Tr...
Performers: Evans, Rebecca; Evans, Wynne; Howard, Jason; Howard, Jeffrey; Lewis, Pete; Llywlyn, Huw; Morgan, Timothy; Thwaite, Annabel; Totterdale, Peter; Williams, Huw [Organ]; Wyn, Fflur
Conductors: James, Haydn; Humphreys, Alwyn

Recording information: The Royal Albert Hall....continue...

Waltz of My Heart

1 CD / ABC Classics Import / 2010-10-12

Works: Johann Strauss II: Frühlingsstimmen, Op. 410; An der schönen, blauen Donau, Op. 314; Freikugeln, Op. 326; Richard Rodgers: Edelweiss, song (from "The Sound of Music"); Franz Lehár: The...
Performers: Harrison, Jack; Kenny, Yvonne; Payne, Geoffrey; Smith, Wilma
Conductors: Ponkin, Vladimir; Rieu, André; Bonynge, Richard; Dommett, Leonard; Kamirski, Wlodzimierz; Summerbell, Mark; Forestier, Jean-Louis; Rudner, Ola; Shapirra, Elyakum; Mills, Richard; Divall, Richard...

Singing For Love

1 CD / ABC Classics Import / 2010-08-17

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata; Gaetano Donizetti: L'eleisir d'amore (The Elixir of Love); George Frederick Handel: Rinaldo; Semele; Arthur Somervell: Silent Worship ("Did You Not Hear My Lady"), for vo...
Performers: Almonte, Caroline; Fraser, Stuart; Hobson, David [Singer/Composer]; Kenny, Yvonne; Noble, Guy; Pryor, Shefali; Smith, Wilma
Conductors: Greene, Andrew; Guidarini, Marco; Kamirski, Wlodzimierz; Walker, Antony; Bonynge, Richard; Noble, Guy
Ensemble: ; Cantillation

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; Bregman, Buddy; Salinger, Conrad; 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...

Icon - Richard Tauber

5 CD / EMI Classics / 2009-10-20

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni; Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620; Etienne-Nicolas Méhul: Joseph; Jacques Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann; Ambroise Thomas: Mignon; Georges B...
Performers: Besl, Karl; Brown, Nancy; Kahn, Percy; Lane, Evelyn; Lehmann, Lotte; Lynne, Carole; Merrem-Nikisch, Grete; Novotná, Jarmila; Rethberg, Elisabeth; Schwarz, Vera; Spoliansky, Mischa; Stägem...
Conductors: Goehr, Walter; Geehl, Henry Ernest; Hauke, Ernst; Besl, Karl; Weigert, Hermann; Gurlitt, Manfred; Szell, George; Walter, Gustav; Weissmann, Frieder; Korngold, Erich Wolfgang; Lehár, Franz; Sch&#...

Vienna, City of My Dreams

1 CD / ABC Classics Import / 2008-10-07

Works: Johann Strauss II: Wiener Blut (Vienna Blood), operetta (arr. & edited by A. Müller); Casanova; Carl Zeller: Der Vogelhändler; Der Obersteiger; Rudolf Sieczynski: Wien, du Stadt meiner Tr&#...
Performers: Bowman, Calvin; Cook, Jan; Kenny, Yvonne; Smith, Wilma; Vries, Doug de
Conductors: Bonynge, Richard

Despite being the city where Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Berg and Schoenberg lived and created many of their greater masterpieces, many people still consider...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 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...

Prima Voce - Lucrezia Bori in Opera & Song

2 CD / Nimbus Records / 2006-09-12

Works: Louis Varney: L' amour Mouillé, operetta; Ambroise Thomas: Mignon; Gustave Charpentier: Louise; Jules Massenet: Manon; Giacomo Puccini: La Rondine; La bohème; Madama Butterfly; Giuseppe...
Performers: Bori, Lucrezia; Copeland, George; McCormack, John [Tenor Vocal]; Schipa, Tito [Tenor Vocal]; Tibbett, Lawrence
Conductors: Bourdon, Rosario; Pasternack, Josef A.; Black, Frank; Shilkret, Nathaniel
Ensemble: ; RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra

O Ymyl y Lloer - The Edge of the Moon / Rhian Mair Lewis

1 CD / Sain / 2005-05-20

Works: Hermione Ross: O Ymyl y Lloer (The Edge of the Moon), song; Meirion Williams: Gwynfyd (Paradise), song for voice & piano; Dilys Elwyn Edwards: Dylluan deg, song; Matthew Wilder: Reflection, song (for...
Performers: Bills, Heather; Crooks, Tim; Gibbard, Gwenan; Griffith, Hugh; John, Aled; Lewis, Rhain Mair; Llwyd, Siôn; Llywelyn, Non

Young Welsh soprano Rhian Mair Lewis, just barely into her 20s, makes her solo CD debut with the 'O ymyl y Iloer'. A rising and...continue...

Marilyn Hill Smith Sings Ivor Novello

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2004-03-23

Works: Ivor Novello: King's Rhapsody; Dancing Years; Perchance to Dream; Arc de triomphe; Little Damozel; Glamorous Night; Gay's the Word; Till the Boys Come Home "Keep the home fires burning"; Careless Rap...
Performers: Smith, Marilyn Hill
Conductors: Barry, Stuart
Ensemble: Chandos Concert Orchestra

Opera in English - Yvonne Kenny 2 - R. Strauss, et al

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2003-08-26

Works: George Frederick Handel: Rinaldo; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492; Così fan tutte, K 588; Richard Strauss: Arabella; Capriccio, Op 85; Franz L...
Performers: Edwards, Catherine; Evans, Rebecca; Ford, Bruce [Tenor Vocal]; Jones, Tim; Kenny, Yvonne; Quinteiro, Eligio; Williams, Roderick [Bass-Baritone Vocal]; Woodhouse, Nigel
Conductors: Hickox, Richard
Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

Songs my father taught me / Allen, Martineau

1 CD / Hyperion / 2002-03-01

Works: Edward Cockram Purcell: Passing By; Phyllis Tate: The Lark in the Clear Air; Arthur Sullivan: My dearest heart, song for voice & piano; The Lost Chord; Wilfrid Sanderson: Until; Haydn Wood: Love's Ga...
Performers: Allen, Thomas; Martineau, Malcolm

'I was amazed, listening to the rich warmth of Thomas Allen's voice, just how many of these songs I knew... Popular, enduring tunes encapsulating a...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...

Richard Tauber - My Heart and I

1 CD / Gala / 1997-11-19

Works: Fernando Marchetti: Fascination, song; Ivor Novello: The Dancing Years, operetta; Victor Herbert: Sweethearts, song for voice & orchestra (from "Sweethearts"); Rudolf Friml: The Firefly, operetta; Ro...
Performers: Brown, Nancy; Laye, Evelyn; Tauber, Richard

Richard Tauber in London

1 CD / Testament / 1996-01-10

Works: Cole Porter: Night and day, song (from The Gay Divorcee); Paul A. Rubens: I love the moon; Franz Lehár: Dein ist mein ganzes Herz (You Are My Heart's Delight) (from "Das Land des Lächelns")...
Performers: Kahn, Percy; Laye, Evelyn; Tauber, Richard
Conductors: Walter, Gustav; Collinson, Frank

Rita Hunter in Concert - Verdi, et al / Victor Morris

1 CD / Tall Poppies / 1994-02-01

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Aida, opera; Don Carlos; Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana, opera (melodramma) in 1 act; Ivor Novello: King's Rhapsody; Dancing Years; Giacomo Puccini: Gianni Schicchi, opera; La ...
Performers: Hunter, Rita; Morris, Victor

Karita Mattila - Wonderful

1 CD / Ondine / 1991-03-01

Works: Andrew Lloyd Webber: Cats; Evita; Harold Arlen: Wizard of Oz; Frederick Loewe: My Fair Lady; Jerome Kern: Show Boat; Cole Porter: Kiss Me, Kate; Leonard Bernstein: West Side Story; Sigmund Romberg: M...
Performers: Mattila, Karita
Conductors: Savijoki, Pekka
Ensemble: Tapiola Sinfonietta