Richard Addinsell and Noel Coward
Part Two
Tuesday 29 April 2008 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Repeated: Tuesday 29 April 2008 20:45-21:45 (Radio 3)
Donald Macleod explores the music of Richard Addinsell and his close contemporary Noel Coward, who both composed songs and music for stage and screen from the 1920s to the 1960s.
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2/5. Coward: Songs and Beyond
Donald Macleod explores Noel Coward's music beyond the songs for which he is best known. As a composer he also wrote more expansive forms for the stage and screen with the help of orchestrators, including the operetta Bitter Sweet from 1929, and 30 years later the ballet London Morning, set outside the gates of Buckingham Palace.
Coward: Sail Away
Noel Coward/ Orchestra cond by Peter Matz
Sony MDK 47253
tr 26
Coward: Bitter-Sweet: Excerpt from Act 2
Ladies of the Town; If love were all; Dear little cafe
Rosemary Ashe (Manon)/ Valerie Masterson (Sari)/ Martin Smith (Carl)/ Chorus and Orchestra of The New Sadler's Wells Opera/ Michael Reed (cond)
CD TER2 1160 CD 1
tr 10-12
Coward: Private Lives
Noel Coward/ Gertrude Lawrence/ orchestra cond by Ray Noble
Happy Days CDHD 216
tr 5
Coward: Symphonic Suite: The Astonished Heart
LSO/ William Blezard (cond)
BBC Archive Recording 1949
Coward: I travel alone
Ian Bostridge/ Jeffrey Tate (piano)
EMI 5 57374 2
tr 1
Coward: Parisian Pierrot
Noel Coward/ Phoenix Theatre Orch cond by Clifford Greenwood
EMI 5 20729 2
CD 1 tr 1
Coward: London Morning (excerpt)
The City of Prague Philharmonic/ Robin White (cond)
Silva classics
SILK 6007
tr 12-19
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