The Noel Coward Songbook -I Travel Alone, Parisian Pierrot, Poor Little Rich Girl, etc / Ian Bostridge(T), Sophie Daneman(S), Jeffrey Tate(p)

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Tenor Ian Bostridge bids to claim Noel Coward as a classical composer on this album, assisted by pianist Jeffrey Tate and, on five songs, soprano Sophie Daneman. The songs all date from the 1920s and `30s, and most of them were associated with Coward's musical revues as well as one of his book musicals, BITTER SWEET. There are also independent songs and songs used incidentally in the Coward straight plays CAVALCADE and PRIVATE LIVES. Although Bostridge includes "Mad Dogs and Englishmen," and gives it a lively reading, with Daneman joining in on some background burbling, he isn't much interested in the witty Coward. Rather, the recording has the air of a classical recital, with the singer in tuxedo standing before a grand piano. Coward is not anathema to such an approach, of course. Despite being of common birth and limited education (not to mention being a self-taught musician), he affected an upper class manner consistent with Bostridge's treatment of his music here; in fact, Coward himself recorded these songs in his own tenor and sometimes with similar piano accompaniment.
録音 : ステレオ (Studio)

『ノエル・カワード・ソングブック』
【曲目】
1. I travel alone
2. London Calling: Parisian Pierrot
3. On with the dance: Poor little rich girl
4. This year of Grace: World weary
5. This year of grace: Mary make-believe
6. This year of grace: A room with a view
7. This year of grace: Dance, little lady
8. Bitter sweet;If you could only come with me
9. Bitter sweet: I'll see you again
10. Bitter sweet: Zigeuner
11. The dream is over
12. Cochran's 1931 revue: Any little fish
13. Cavalcade: Twentieth century blues
14. Word and music: Mad dogs and Englishmen
15. Words and music: Let's say goodbye
16. Words and music: Something to do with spring
17. Words and music: The Party's over now
18. Private lives: Someday I'll find you
19. Set to music: Never again
【演奏】
イアン・ボストリッジ（テナー）
ソフィー・デイヌマン（ソプラノ）
テイト（ピアノ）