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Richard Addinsell and Noel Coward

Part Four

Thursday 1 May 2008 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)

Repeated: Thursday 1 May 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.

Duration:

1 hour

Playlist

4/5. America

Donald Macleod and guest Philip Lane look at the impact on both Coward's and Addinsell's music from their time spent in the United States.

Coward: Dance little lady tr 14
Noel Coward/ orchestra conducted by Carroll Gibbons
Coward: World Weary tr 10
Noel Coward/ Carroll Gibbons (piano)
EMI CDP 7971572

Addinsell: Alice in Wonderland (excerpt) Dur:
The Gryphon and the Mock Turtle; The Trial; The White Knight
Bambi Linn (Alice)/ Jack Manning (Gryphon)/ Angus Cairns (Mock Turtle)/ William Windom (White Rabbit)/ Hugh Franklin (White Knight)/ Original 1947 Broadway Cast/ Eva Le Gallienne (narrator)/ Orchestra conducted by Tibor Kozma
Must Close Saturday Records MCSR 3012 tr 6-7; tr 11 (excerpt)

Addinsell: The Black Rose suite
BBC Philharmonic/ Rumon Gamba (cond)
CHAN 10046
tr 11-13

Coward Live in Las Vegas
Room with a View tr 10
Uncle Harry tr 2
Noel Coward/ Peter Matz (piano)/ Carlton Hayes and his Orchestra
DRGCD 19037

Addinsell: Smokey Mountains Concerto
BBC Concert Orchestra/ Kenneth Alwyn (cond)
Marco Polo 8.223732
tr 3-5




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