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THE VERY BEST OF BROADWAY
CD 1
GEORGE GERSHWIN 1898–1937
Girl Crazy
Lyrics: Ira Gershwin
Book: Guy Bolton & John McGowan
1. Overture
The New Princess Theater Orchestra (P) 1987
George White’s Scandals of 1924
Lyrics: Buddy DeSylva
2. Somebody loves me
Kiri Te Kanawa
The New Princess Theater Orchestra (P) 1987
Demi-Tasse Revue
Lyrics: Irving Caesar
3. Swanee
Kim Criswell
Ambrosian Chorus, London Sinfonietta (P) 1992
COLE PORTER 1891–1964
Anything Goes
Lyrics: Cole Porter
Book: Guy Bolton & P. G. Wodehouse rev. Howard Lindsey & Russel Crouse
4. I get a kick out of you
5. You’re the top
6. Anything Goes
7. Blow, Gabriel, blow
Kim Criswell (4–7), Chris Groenendaal (5), Bryan Landrine (6), Michael B. Wailing (6), Bruce Hubbard (6), Del-Bourree Bach (6)
Ambrosian Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra (P) 1989
Gay Divorce
Lyrics: Cole Porter
Book: Dwight Taylor
8. Night and Day
Thomas Hampson
London Symphony Orchestra (P) 1991
Kiss Me, Kate
Lyrics: Cole Porter
Book: Sam & Bella Spewack
9. Wunderbar
10. Where is the life that late I led?
11. So in love (reprise)
12. Brush up your Shakespeare
Thomas Hampson (9–11), Josephine Barstow (9), Robert Nichols (12), David Garrison) (12)
London Sinfonietta (P) 1990
Can Can
Lyrics: Cole Porter
Book: Abe Burrows
13. I love Paris
Kim Criswell
Ambrosian Chorus, London Sinfonietta (P) 1993
IRVING BERLIN 1888–1989
Annie Get Your Gun
Lyrics: Irving Berlin
Book: Herbert & Dorothy Fields
14. The girl that I marry
15.You can’t get a man with a gun
16.There’s no business like show business
17. They say it’s wonderful
18. My defences are down
19. I got the sun in the morning
20. Anything you can do
Kim Criswell (15–17, 19, 20), Thomas Hampson (14, 16–18, 20), David Garrison (16, 19), David Healy (16, 19), Alfred Marks (19), Simon Green (19), Jason Graae (19), Rebecca Luker (19), Peta Bartlett (19), Kerry Potter (19), Hayley Spencer (19), Emma Long (19), Paul Keating (19), Ambrosian Chorus, London Sinfonietta (P) 1991
CD 2
JEROME KERN 1885–1945
Show Boat
Book & lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II
1. Overture
2. Where’s the mate for me? – Make Believe
3. Ol’ Man River
4. Can’t help lovin’ dat man
5. You are love
6. Why do I love you?
7. Bill
Frederica von Stade (2, 4, 5, 6), Jerry Hadley (2, 5, 6), Teresa Stratas (4, 7), Bruce Hubbard (3, 4), Karla Burns (4), Robert Nichols (6), Wayne Marshall stage piano (7)
Ambrosian Chorus / London Sinfonietta (P) 1988
Music in the Air
Book & lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II
8. The Song is You
Thomas Hampson
London Sinfonietta (P) 1993
Roberta
Book & lyrics: Otto Harbach
9. Smoke gets in your eyes
Jeanne Lehman
London Sinfonietta (P) 1993
VINCENT YOUMANS 1898–1946
No, No, Nanette
Book & lyrics: Frank Mandel, Otto Harbach & Irving Caesar
10. Tea for Two
George Dvorsky, Rebecca Luker
Ambrosian Chorus / London Sinfonietta (P) 1992
RICHARD RODGERS 1902–1979
Simple Simon
Lyrics: Lorenz Hart
Book: Ed Wynn & Guy Bolton
11. Ten cents a dance
Kim Criswell
London Sinfonietta (P) 1993
Pal Joey
Lyrics: Lorenz Hart
Book: John O’Hara
12. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
Frederica von Stade
London Symphony Orchestra (P) 1990
KURT WEILL 1900–1950
Knickerbocker Holiday
Book & lyrics: Maxwell Anderson
13. September Song
Kevin Colson
London Sinfonietta (P) 1992
FREDERICK LOEWE 1901–1988
Brigadoon
Book & lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner
14. The heather on the hill
15. Almost like being in love
Brent Barrett, Rebecca Luker
London Sinfonietta (P) 1992
LEONARD BERNSTEIN 1918–1990
West Side Story
Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim
Book: Arthur Laurents
16. Maria
Lambert Wilson
Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo (P) 1989 EMI Music France
JEROME KERN
VERY WARM FOR MAY
Book & lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II
17. All the things you are
Rebecca Luker, George Dvorsky, Jeanne Lehman, Cris Groenendaal
Ambrosian Chorus / London Sinfonietta (P) 1992
John McGlinn
(P) as shown. The copyright in these sound recordings is owned by EMI Records Ltd except where otherwise stated. This compilation (P) 2009 by EMI Records Ltd. (C) 2009 EMI Records Ltd.
Compilation producer: Tony Locantro
This album is a new addition to the highly successful EMI Classics series THE VERY BEST OF... devoted to the some 35 famous singers such as Maria Callas, Dame Janet Baker, Placido Domingo and José Carreras, as well as English Song with piano and English Song with orchestra.
In 1986, EMI Classics engaged the outstanding American conductor and musical theatre archivist, John McGlinn, to record music from great Broadway musicals. The first two albums were made in New York (Gershwin Overtures and Kiri sings Gershwin) and then in 1987 in London McGlinn began a series of complete recordings of famous shows, starting with the ground-breaking 1927 Show Boat by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II. As far as possible, all the original orchestrations and vocal arrangements were used, and the singers were all chosen for their ability to re-create the authentic performance style of the period for each of the shows.
In addition to recording five complete scores (Show Boat, Anything Goes, Kiss Me, Kate, Annie Get Your Gun and Brigadoon), McGlinn also made a number of individual albums, including Broadway Showstoppers, Jerome Kern Treasury, Night and Day and several others, all using original orchestrations and arrangements, and performed in the authentic style of the day.
This collection brings together the best of EMI Classics’ McGlinn catalogue covering a wide representation of all the great Broadway composers, including George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Kurt Weill, Frederick Loewe, Richard Rodgers, Vincent Youmans and Leonard Bernstein.
The singers include Kim Criswell, Frederica von Stade, Teresa Stratas, Josephine Barstow, Rebecca Luker, Karla Burns, Jerry Hadley, Brent Barrett, Lambert Wilson, Thomas Hampson, and Bruce Hubbard.
EMI 2cds 6952402
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