Perchance to Dream

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This is a lovingly-presented and very touching recording. Solo piano works by such composers as Kabalevsky, Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Schumann, and Ravel come together in this collection intended to promote restfulness and calm in both children and adult listeners. With Carol Rosenberger's gentle playing, it succeeds marvellously. This disc is absolutely ideal for bedtime or times of quiet reflection. It might serve well in the car during traffic jams, too. Rather than just throwing together performances packaged on a theme (as a number of record companies are doing), Delos and Rosenberger seem to have tailored the interpretations to achieve the desired musical goal here. The liner notes have a lively section just for young readers. --Gwendolyn Freed

Album Description
Music for Babies/Childrem

Tracks:

Short Story
My Deal Little Mother (Mein Mein)
Andante from Sonata in C, K. 545
Erinnerung (Remembrance)
Sehr Langsam (Very Slowly)
Abendlied (Evening Song)
Schlummerlied (Slumber Song)
Mignon
Des Abends (Evening)
Berceuse, Op. 56, No. 1
Prelude Op. 28, No. 7 in a Major
Mazurka Op. 68, No. 2 in a Minor
Adagio from Sonata in F Major, Hob Xvi:23
Sinfonia V in E-Flat Major
Prelude in C Major from the Well-Tempered Clavier
Aria in G Major from the Goldberg Variations
Andante from Sonata in a Major, Op. 120, D. 664
Intermezzo Op. 117, No. 1
Bagatelle, Op. 119, No. 1
Adagio Cantabile from Sonata Op. 13 (Pathque)

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This is a lovingly-presented and very touching recording. Solo piano works by such composers as Kabalevsky, Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Schumann, and Ravel come together in this collection intended to promote restfulness and calm in both children and adult listeners. With Carol Rosenberger's gentle playing, it succeeds marvellously. This disc is absolutely ideal for bedtime or times of quiet reflection. It might serve well in the car during traffic jams, too. Rather than just throwing together performances packaged on a theme (as a number of record companies are doing), Delos and Rosenberger seem to have tailored the interpretations to achieve the desired musical goal here. The liner notes have a lively section just for young readers. --Gwendolyn Freed

Product Description

Music for Babies/Childrem

Customer Reviews:

"Real" classical music for little ones.......2003-02-27

I bought this CD for my elder son when he was tiny; he listened to it nightly (and often for afternoon naps), and his little brother is continuing the tradition. What I like best about this compilation is that this is REAL music - real Brahms, Mozart, etc - and not watered-down versions or arrangements of the classics (like the vast majority of "classical" compilations on the market these days). (I suppose I am just a crank about this, but I grew up listening to real music, and I want my kids to do the same.) The performances are gentle and understated - not what you would want in a concert, but just right for sedating a small one.

Very Relaxing, yet still super.......1999-06-16

This CD is just wonderful for babies and adults and children. It has a good blend of music to introduce children to beautiful classical music. I think that the playing is just superb.

Just what we harried ADULTS need to unwind!.......1999-02-12

An almost perfect combination of selections for relaxing background music, which is played frequently as our dinner music.

I would have appreciated a little less "electronic doctoring" as some notes (especially the lower range) don't sound quite "true", but then again it could be my ears!

Anyway, am delighted that it does what it was designed to do...provide an enjoyable time of relaxation. Thanks.

Beautiful bedtime music for babies.......1999-01-04

This CD was given to us as a gift when our daughter was born and we always play it when putting her down for a nap or to sleep for the night. When we travel, we take it along to ensure that she will fall asleep as easily on the road as she does at home.The music is absolutely lovely and very soothing for infants and adults alike. We even ordered a second copy in case we were ever to lose or wear out the first one!

Peaceful, beautiful, soothing piano music.......1998-10-22

This is one of the most peaceful, soothing and beautiful CD's I have ever heard. I think it would put you or your baby to sleep every night. The music selection is wonderful and the artist has a beautiful technique on the piano. I loved it.

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Underated Treasure
What a remarkable voice, it's deserves your attention

Lesley Garrett: Soprano in Red
Jacques Offenbach , Franz Lehár , Emmanuel Chabrier , Ivor Novello , Johann Strauss II , Noel Coward , Sigmund Romberg , Richard Heuberger , Arthur Sullivan & W.S. Gilbert , James Holmes , Lesley Garrett , and Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra
Manufacturer: Silva America
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ASIN: B000004BQS
Release Date: 1995-11-21

Tracks:

New Moon: Lover Come Back To Me
Casanova: Nun's Chorus & Laura's Song
La Belle Vivette (La Belle Helene): My Traitor Heart?
Perchance To Dream: We'll Gather Lilacs
Gipsy Love: Gypsy Fiddles Playing
Bittersweet: If Love Were All
L'etoile: 'I'm Called Lazuli' The Pedlar's Rondo
L'etoile: Pretty Little Star
The Dancing Years: Waltz Of My Heart
Frederica: Why Did You Kiss My Heart Awake
New Moon: Softly As In A Morning Sunrise
The Opera Ball: A Chambre Separee
The Contrabandista: Only The Night Wind Sighs Alone
The Merry Widow: Vilja
Orpheus In The Underworld: Hymn To The Bacchus - Infernal Gallop (Can - Can)

Customer Reviews:

Underated Treasure.......2003-08-30

This Cd is delightful. I love Leslet Garrett's voice but most of all, I love the selection. This cd is great for introducing any true lover of opperetta to some truly great operas and composers. I originally bought this cd for a musical glimpse at Sullivans 'The Contrabandista' and discovered the beautiful worlds of Offenbach and Lehar and so many more that can not be heard except in pieces (many of which only exist on this cd such as 'The Contrabandista' and 'The Opera Ball' and 'The Dancing Years'). I recommend that anyone who loves opera buy this album. But on a final note, all of the songs are sung in english, even those not originally done so.

What a remarkable voice, it's deserves your attention.......2000-11-05

If you adore great singing by a super star this cd is for you. What a voice! Everytime I hear it, I loose my breath i'm so excited. I tell you, there are not many voices like this around. When you find one you have better latch on to it for there may not be another.

The main concern I had for this cd was the repertoire. It had too many songs that I didn't particulary like. If the repertoire had of been better this cd would definately have been a 5. I will say this, Lesley's voice was super even on the songs that I didn't like.

I know a lot of people are unfamiliar with Lesley, since she lives in the U.K., but she deserves you attention. She is a great talent.

Tracks:

Let All My Life Be Music
Sing To My Heart A Song
Let My Song Fill Your Heart
Love Is My Reason For Living
Someday My Heart Will Awake
I'll See You Again
We'll Gather Lilacs
Bird Songs At Eventide
Homing
I Love Life
The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise
Roses Of Picardy
I'll Be Seeing You
Serenade
Love Me Tonight
Be My Love
The Desert Song
I'll Follow My Secret Heart

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With his 1999 Met triumph as Tristan--the most taxing of all Wagner's tenor roles--Canadian singer Ben Heppner has fully earned his heralded position as the great new Heldentenor of our time. His Lohengrin is a signature role, while his album German Romantic Opera has been nominated for a Grammy. Yet Heppner also commands tremendous versatility--and of a much more engaging character than that of the typical crossover effort--using his powerful, bronze-tinged tenor to tender and charming effect in My Secret Heart. This is a collection of songs roughly from the period between the two world wars, when music began to reach mass audiences via radio and screen. Many of these are almost forgotten gems--emblems of a vanished era--but once had wide cultural currency: the World War II hit "We'll Gather Lilacs," the radio show Family Hour's theme tune "Let My Song Fill Your Heart," and the oft-recorded 1919 ballad "The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise." Heppner, with his sturdy beauty of tone and sweet, natural-sounding vibrato, breathes new life into this genre. He handles the idiom's unabashed schmaltz with charm and brings a lilting urbanity to two Noël Coward tunes, with especially bittersweet refinement in "I'll Follow My Secret Heart." --Thomas May

Customer Reviews:

Almost too much lavender and roses, but a delight anyway.......2006-08-29

These are beloved popular songs from our grandparents' generation that are redolent of lavender an tears. Their sentimentality couldn't be more out of fashion, but Ben Heppner steps forward, like Mario Lanza before him, to offer thrills amidst the honeyed scents. He's totally sincere, and you'd have to be Alberich or Don Pizarro to react with anything but a melting heart. God, I'm falling into the same vocabulary as these songs. No need to blush, though, with such a great singer at hand.

Mr. Heppner Must Have A Large Parlour!.......2005-02-22

I purchased this CD after hearing Mr. Heppner in recital singing "Homing" for an encore. This small gem written by Teresa Del Riego is a haunting song about loneliness. We learn from the notes-- they are very informative with bios on the composers included here as well as the words to the lyrics-- that she composed this ballad in 1917, the year her husband was killed in France just before the ending of World War I. There are other lovelies here as well: "I Love Life", "We'll Gather Lilacs", "The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise" as well as music by Noel Coward, Sigmund Romberg and Rudolf Friml. Heppner also sings "I'll Be Seeing You." It's such a relief to hear someone other than Liberace do that number since it was the song that he always used to close his television show in the 50's and unfortunately made into a syrupy cliche.

Mr. Heppner says these are songs of the parlour, stage and silver screen. His glorious voice which appears to be a combination of steel and gold fills a recital hall easily. He would need a huge parlour to sing in as well.

This CD is quite wonderful. There are no dull cuts. Since the songs are all about love, this would make a great February 14 gift.

He can keep his secret to himslef.......2003-12-13

This is OBNOXIOUS, this dude should be in operas. i am speechless, he is one loud mouthed dude!

What a 'crossover' album should be!.......2001-09-01

In general, I hate it when classical singers make 'crossover' recordings. Usually the singer has no idea how to sing 'pop' material in anything like the proper style - even someone who is singing it because he or she genuinely likes the music and not just to milk cash from the unsuspecting masses. But there are always exceptions to a rule, and this CD is one of them. Ben Heppner here scales down his huge operatic voice and shows his 'secret heart', a more intimate side of his musical personality.

There is no question that Heppner is one of the greatest tenors of our age. He is often compared with his fellow Canadian Jon Vickers (with whom he shares much of his repertory) but especially here, he is beginning to remind me more and more of Jussi Bjorling, and I can think of no higher compliment. Part of this is because Bjorling actually sang quite a bit of repertory similar to what Heppner sings here, but more importantly, both voices have an ideal combination of power and sweetness. Heppner's is essentially a very lyric voice despite its large size, and he is capable of great tonal beauty and sensitivity. This not only makes his Wagner, Giordano, and Berlioz very special, but makes him equally adept with the gentle little gems he sings on this disc. He is helped somewhat by the fact that these songs, most of which were written in the very early part of the 20th century, are a lot closer to the 'classical' style than more modern pop. But what really makes Heppner perfect for this material is his total identification with the texts, his tenderness, and his utter sincerity. Also, his diction is superb - you won't need the printed texts to understand what he is singing. In the hands of a lesser singer, some of these old fashioned songs would be absolute treacle. But an artist like Heppner can raise up even 'substandard' compositions and give them the aura of greatness.

In the more upbeat songs, Heppner sings with the thrilling, heroic tone that has made him in demand in every opera house in the world. He makes 'Let All My Life Be Music' into his personal mission statement. 'Homing' was also a favorite of another great Wagnerian tenor, namely Lauritz Melchior. 'I Love Life!', complete with splendid high C, is sung with enough cheer and vigor to bring anybody out of a depression. But this repertory is often gentle and introspective, and Heppner can also easily fine down his voice to a splendid pianissimo, drawing you in and enticing you to pay attention as opposed to banging you over your head like many other tenors do. Ivor Novello's 'Love is My Reason For Living' and Ernest Charles' 'Let My Song Fill Your Heart' are light, gracious Viennese waltzes. The familiar 'Roses of Picardy', 'Bird Songs at Eventide' and 'I'll Be Seeing You' are also sung sweetly and caressingly. Two more Novello songs are among the best tracks on the album. 'Someday My Heart Will Awake', is soft, gentle, and nostalgic, rising to a passionate conclusion. 'We'll Gather Lilacs' is obviously a love song from Heppner to his wife Karen (to whom the entire album is dedicated), full of yearning and deeply moving.

The operetta selections are even more special. In the Serenade from 'The Student Prince', which is alone worth the price of the CD, Heppner makes something truly thrilling of the declaration 'Oh, hear my longing cry!/Oh, love me or I die!', and ends with not one but two spectacular high Cs. What a pity that the chances of him ever recording the entire operetta are so slim! The cajolingly sung title song from 'The Desert Song' is almost as fine, as is 'Love Me Tonight' from 'The Vagabond King'. Finally, the title song 'I'll Follow My Secret Heart', with yet another brilliant high C, makes a splendid finish to this very enjoyable album.

I should also give credit to noted composer and orchestrator Jonathan Tunick for his warm, rich, and perfectly scaled arrangements of these songs. Like Heppner, he finds the perfect mood for each piece and never engages in schmaltz that one might expect from some of this material. The only complaint I have about this disc is the one I have about many contemporary CDs - why is there only 54 minutes of music on a medium that can hold almost 80 minutes? There are assuredly more than 18 songs Heppner could have recorded in this vein. I would have liked to have seen more operetta items in particular. Although I suppose they couldn't have recorded the Drinking Song from 'The Student Prince' as well as the Serenade without a chorus, it would have been nice if 'Deep In My Heart, Dear' had been included. Still, the quality of what is there far outweighs the quantity. The excellent documentation, in German and French as well as English, includes a personal note from Heppner, biographies of all the composers as well as Heppner and Tunick, and complete song texts. The cover shows Heppner surrounded by red velvet, designed, amusingly enough, by Red Herring Productions!

Whether you're an opera lover who wants to hear a great tenor in a lighter mood, or a fan of early 20th century popular music who is curious to see what it sounds like sung by a genuinely great voice, this disc is essential. It is an excellent introduction to Heppner's artistry if you haven't experienced it before, and after listening to it you might want to try some of his opera CDs, both solo recitals and complete recordings. There are few voices that could serve as a better introduction for a neophyte to the wonderful world of opera. If only more 'crossover' singers (both classical and pop) had Heppner's musical integrity...

This cd has left me speechless, wow!.......2001-02-18

Air give me air, I need lots of air, air, air.......This cd has caused me a lot of adverse breathing.

The things that I have read about Ben have been very true. He really is a lot more than I ever bargained for. He is THAT GOOD.

I need to go out on a limb and say that he is the best tenor I have ever heard. In my wildest dreams I never thought anyone could be that good.

For this cd Ben choose to sing a lot of standards. Bravo! This is my kind of music. Ben did an excellent job crooning us with his golden voice. He knew when to hold back and when to sing at full strength. This is marvelous how he worked each song to get the full meaning out of it.

The only complaint I have is there was not enough of the good olde songs that I wanted to hear Ben sing. I know it's hard to please all the people all the time and I understand where Ben was coming from.

Tracks:

Some Day My Heart Will Awake [From King's Rhapsody]
Primrose [From the Dancing Years]
Love Is My Reason [From Perchance to Dream]
Dark Music [From Arc de Triomphe]
Little Damozel
When the Gypsy Played [From Glamorous Night]
On Such a Night as This [From Gay's the Word]
Fly Home, Little Heart [From King's Rhapsody]
Keep the Home Fires Burning ('Till the Boys Come Home)
Music in May [From "Careless Rapture"]
Violin Began to Play [From King's Rhapsody]
Spring of the Year
My Dearest Dear [From the Dancing Years]
Finder, Please Return [From Gay's the Word]
Look in My Heart [From "Valley of Song"]
When I Curtsied to the King [From Perchance to Dream]
We'll Gather Lilacs [From Perchance to Dream]
Fairy Laughter
Glamorous Night [From Glamorous Night]
Why Is There Ever Goodbye? [From Careless Rapture]

Customer Reviews:

English Operetta, Beautifully Sung.......2006-10-25

For those that love operetta, most think of Vienese operettas of Johann Strauss Sr and Jr, Lehar, etc and the American Operettas of Romberg and Victor Herbert, etc. Just a bit later there was an English exponent of the form, one Ivor Novello, who was a contemporary of Noel Coward, who wrote the most glorious Romantic songs. This CD, absolutely gloriously sung is a wonderful place to start an exploration of this remarkable composer who also performed in all his shows, in non singing roles. England has through the years produced a number of wonderful sopranos who have specialized in the light opera genre. June Bronhill dominated the 1960s and 70s. Marilyn Hill Smith is her heir aparant, blessed with the most ravishing soprano, full and rich across the range, with a radiant top that rivals Joan Sutherland. Her performance of Bernstein's Glitter and Be Gay on Jay records version of Candide is one of my favorites. This CD is my favorite Marilyn Hill Smith recording. I haul it out when I have been very good and deserving of a special treat. If you are not familiar with the glorious melodies of Ivor Novello, start here, you won't be sorry.

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'the NoiSe' review
One of the best ethereal albums I've heard in years

To Dream, Perchance to Sleep
Frolic
Manufacturer: Projekt Records
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Saturn Return
Light & Shade
Grave Blessings

ASIN: B00005A8J6
Release Date: 2001-03-13

Tracks:

The Tides Of March
Wept I
Breathing In My Soul
As Time Goes By
Forever Forlorn
Forged
Stay
The Return
Distant
So True
Wept II
To Dream, Perchance To Sleep
The Promises
Heal

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Casting an ethereal mood full of faint light and deepening shadows, the members of this ironically named trio beckon folks to experience a twilight zone of their own configuration. Alluring at times ("Breathing in My Soul"), casting a pall at others, To Dream, Perchance to Sleep nevertheless offers sterling sonic theater, progressing through mysterious, foreboding atmospheres. The final track, "Heal," mitigates the prevailing sense of despair. Vocalist Kelly O'Brien's airy voice is reminiscent of Loreena McKennitt's, though rarely do her words discernibly penetrate Matthew Chinn's gauzy electronics. Fans of Brian Eno should investigate. --Terry Wood

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'the NoiSe' review.......2001-04-10

Atmospheres and landscapes of ethereal bliss are what you would expect to find in your mind's eye as one listens to the extensive wanderings of the band Frolic. The singer of the group, Kelly O'Brien, has an outstanding vocal persona. Her voice can enchant, haunt and soothe all at once, seamlessly, like a veil of white that gently fades into gray then back again to white. The background scores are magically painted by programmer, Matthew Chinn and guitarist, Jon Beard (who also lends to the vocal aspect of the group). This newest album takes Frolic to a new unclaimed level of heavenly journeys into the unknown subconscious. A must for the ethereal listener.

One of the best ethereal albums I've heard in years.......2001-04-01

As one of the most recent additions to the Projekt family of drifting ethereal music, this is one of the best releases I've heard on the label since landmark albums like "Idylls" by Love Spirals Downwards in 1992. Frolic's graceful, shimmering atmospherics sound like a hallucinatory sleepwalk through the greenest depths of the ocean or the mossy banks of a waterfall in a rainy forest. It's easy to make atmospheric, etheral music if you use the right effects, but it's not easy to make it sound as original, fresh and inspired as this album. They keep it simple, too...synths, some guitars provide additional texture, and a beautiful female voice dances along the waves. Vocalist Kelly O'Brien has the perfect voice for this kind of music...light, gentle, yet slightly sombre. Several songs, like "Forever Forlorn," have male vocals with a very similar understated, gentle quality. The individual tracks are usually less like songs than like different parts of a dream...changing from dark to light, distant to intimate, sad to hopeful. One image that comes to mind when listening to the cd is of someone underwater -- not necessarily drowning, but watching sunlight come pouring through the deep green water. I would recommend this to anyone who enjoys Love Spirals Downwards, Soul Whirling Somewhere, With Sirens Entranced, Siddal, Cocteau Twins...fans of ambient and atmospheric music should also feel at home with this album.

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Along the Road of Dreams

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Love Walked In

ASIN: B000058TI2
Release Date: 2001-02-27

Tracks:

The Vagabond King: Only A Rose - Webster Booth/Anne Ziegler
Along The Road Of Dreams - Webster Booth
Heavenly Night - Webster Booth
The Maid Of The Mountains: A Paradise For Two - Webster Booth/Anne Ziegler
In Old Madrid - Webster Booth
A Brown Bird Singing - Webster Booth
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Love's Old Sweet Song - Webster Booth/Anne Ziegler
Merrie England: The English Rose - Webster Booth
Ideale (My Life's Ideal) - Webster Booth
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Indian Summer - Webster Booth
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Break Of Day - Webster Booth
Perchance To Dream: We'll Gather Lilacs - Webster Booth/Anne Ziegler

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The Great Voices of the Century, Vol. 2

Manufacturer: Rajon
ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B0007KUIU0
Release Date: 2005-02-14

Tracks:

Stars Were Brightly Shining (From "Tosca")
Come In The Gondola (From "Night In Venice")
Because
Open Road (From "The Gypsy Baron")
Merry Widow Waltz
Count Your Blessings
All Through The Night
Maidens Of Cadiz
Tristesse
If You Were The Only Girl In The World
Silver Threads Among The Gold
Deep In My Heart, Dear (From "The Student Prince")
Songs My Mother Taught Me
Torna A Surriento
Over The Rainbow (From "The Wizard Of Oz")
Parted
Bachelor Gay (From "Maid Of The Mountains")
Trottin To The Fair
White Wings
Lost Chord
Creed
Drinking Song (From "Merry Wives Of Windsor"
De Glory Road
Ol Man River (From "Showboat")
Changing Of The Guard
Blue Danube
Huguette (From "Vagabond King")
If I Were A Blackbird
ILl Sing A Song Of Love To You
Intermezzo
Panis Angelicus
Berceuse De "Jocelyn"
WeLl Gather Lilacs (From "Perchance To Dream")
Holy City
O For The Wings Of A Dove
Goodnight (From "Cousin From Nowhere")
Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms
Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes
ChElla Mi Creda Libero ( From "Girl Of The Golden West")
Loves Old Sweet Song
Last Rose Of Summer
River Stay Way From My Door
OSilver Moon (From "Russalka")
La Marseillaise
Nessun Dorma (From "Turandot")
Who Tied The Knot (From "Gypsy Baron")
They Call Me Mimi (From "La Boheme")
Rosary
Song Of India (From "Sadko")
Serenade
My Heart & I (From "Old Chelsea")
Smilin Through
Sanctuary Of The Heart
Vilia (From "Merry Widow")
ILl Take You Home Again, Kathleen
I Love You Truly
Road To The Isles
Eriskay Love Lilt
Vivere
Old Father Thames
Tales From The Vienna Woods
Oriental Prayer (From "Lakme")
My Song Goes Round The World
I Love Thee
On The Road To Mandalay
Wiegenlied (Cradle Song)

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3 CD set from the Rajon 'Great Series'. 66 tracks. 2005.

Shine Through My Dreams: Original 1917-1950 Recordings

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Gathering lilacs and rarer flowers.

Shine Through My Dreams: Original 1917-1950 Recordings

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The Ultimate Collection

ASIN: B000063579
Release Date: 2002-06-18

Tracks:

Deep In My Heart
Fold Your Wings
The Radiance In Your Eyes
Every Bit Of Loving In The World
The Thought Never Entered My Head
Give Me Back My Heart
Scene from Act I of "Murder In Mayfair"
When The Gypsy Played
The Girl I Knew
Shine Through My Dreams
If You Only Knew
My Dearest Dear
The Leap Year Waltz
Dark Music
We'll gather Lilacs
I Can Give You The Starlight
Waltz Of My Heart
Keep The Home Fires Burning

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Gathering lilacs and rarer flowers........2002-08-22

Justice is done to Welsh-born composer, pianist, actor and man of the theatre Ivor Novello in this Naxos CD. The artists who first performed them are heard in 18 items, recorded between 1917 and 1950. Ivor Novello himself is heard in two of them, providing some spoken repartee as he accompanies Edna Best at the piano. Most were recorded in the 1930s. The sound quality is good enough for the lyrics to be clearly heard. They bespeak a long-vanished era, but the music still has charm.

Film buffs can nowadays most easily see Ivor Novello in an Alfred Hitchcock film of 1926, "The Lodger". Actor Jeremy Northam portrayed him in the recent film, "Gosford Park". Ivor Novello starred in his last production, "King's Rhapsody", and died nine days before I saw it in London in March 1951.

The Musicality of Novello
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The Musicality of Novello
Ivor Novello , Valerie Masterson , and Josephine Blake
Manufacturer: Jay Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 2002-08-03

Tracks:

Glamorous Night ("Glamorous Night") - Valerie Masterson
I Can Give You the Starlight ("The Dancing Years") - Marilyn Hill Smith
We'll Gather Lilacs ("Perchance to Dream") - Valerie Masterson and Gillian Knight
My Life Belongs to You ("The Dancing Years") - David Fieldsend
The Violin Began to Play ("King's Rhapsody") - Mary Hegarty
Waltz of My Heart ("The Dancing Years") - Marilyn Hill Smith
Someday My Heart Will Awake ("King's Rhapsody") - Valerie Masterson
Music in May ("Careless Rapture") - Tinuke Olafimihan
Vitality ("Gay's The Word") - Josephine Blake
Love Is My Reason ("Perchance to Dream") - Mary Hegarty
My Dearest Dear ("The Dancing Years") - Valerie Masterson
And Her Mother Came Too ("A To Z") - Richard Murdoch

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Release Date: 2000-12-26

Tracks:

Fold Your Wings [From Glamorous Night] - Mary Ellis, Trefor Jones
Glamorous Night [From Glamorous Night] - Mary Ellis
When the Gipsy Played [From Glamorous Night] - Mary Ellis
Far Away in Shanty Town [From Glamorous Night] - Elisabeth Welch
Girl I Knew [From Glamorous Night] - Elisabeth Welch
Shine Through My Dreams [From Glamorous Night] - The Drury Land Theatre Orchestra, Trefor Jones, Charles Prentice
Selection [From Crest of the Wave] - The Drury Land Theatre Orchestra, Charles Prentice
Rose of England [From Crest of the Wave] - Edgar Elmes
If You Only Knew [From Crest of the Wave] - Dorothy Dickson
Why Isn't It You [From Crest of the Wave] - Walter Crisham, Dorothy Dickson
Haven of Your Heart [From Crest of the Wave] - The Drury Land Theatre Orchestra, Oliver Gilbert
Waltz of My Heart [From the Dancing Years] - Mary Ellis, Ivor Novello
Wings of Sleep [From the Dancing Years] - Mary Ellis, Oliver Gilbert, Ivor Novello
My Life Belongs to You [From the Dancing Years] - Mary Ellis, Dunston Hart
I Can Give You the Starlight [From the Dancing Years] - Mary Ellis
My Dearest Dear [From the Dancing Years] - Mary Ellis, Ivor Novello
Primrose [From the Dancing Years] - Roma Beaumont
Leap Year Waltz [From the Dancing Years] - The Drury Land Theatre Orchestra
Three Ballet Tunes [From the Dancing Years] - The Drury Land Theatre Orchestra, Charles Prentice

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Selection [From Perchance to Dream] - Harry Acres
We'll Gather Lilacs [From Perchance to Dream] - Muriel Barron, Oliver Gilbert
Woman's Heart [From Perchance to Dream] - Muriel Barron, Ivor Novello
Curtsy to the King [From Perchance to Dream] - Roma Beaumont
Love Is My Reason [From Perchance to Dream] - Muriel Barron
Highwayman Love [From Perchance to Dream] - Olive Gibert, Male Chorus
This Is My Wedding Day [From Perchance to Dream] - Harry Acres, Muriel Barron
Selection: King's Rhapsody [From King's Rhapsody] - Peter Yorke
Someday My Heart Will Awake/Take Your Girl [From King's Rhapsody] - Oliver Gilbert, Vanessa Lee, Chorus
Fly Home Little Heart/The Mayor of Perpignan/The Gates of Paradise ... - Philis Dare, Oliver Gilbert, Vanessa Lee, Dennis Martin
Mountian Dove/If This Were Love/The Violin Began to Play [From ...] - Vanessa Lee, Larry Mandon, Dennis Martin
Violin Began to Play [From King's Rhapsody] - Vanessa Lee
Gates of Paradise [From King's Rhapsody] - Oliver Gilbert, Vanessa Lee, Dennis Martin
Someday My Heart Will Awake [From King's Rhapsody] - Vanessa Lee
Coronation Scene and Finale [From King's Rhapsody] - Harry Acres, , Oliver Gilbert, Vanessa Lee, Chorus
Selection of Ivor Novello Melodies: Glamorous Night (Intro)/Shine ... - Peter Yorke

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Stunning Collection of Unbelievable Material.......2006-07-27

What a great collection of original material.

Shame about the skimpy and sycophantic liner notes.

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