My Secret Heart: The Music Of Ivor Novello And Noël Coward
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Compact Disc (Audio)
No of Discs:
2
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Available
Release Date:
05-08-2016
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Jewel Case
Catalog Number:
ELQ4820115
Description
Certain rhythms seem to flow naturally for certain people. Shakespeare could probably have held a conversation in iambic pentameters and, when it comes to music, you can find many national preferences: the tango for Argentinians, the samba for Brazilians, the polka for Czechs, the mazurka for Poles, the czárdás for Hungarians, and so on.
The Austrians have developed a predilection for the waltz, which grew out of an earlier dance, the Ländler. It comes so naturally to them that it is almost like a second language. The great Viennese soprano Hilde Gueden had it in her bones and was second to none in interpreting her native operettas. But, in an inspired move by the Decca recording team, in 1955 she was persuaded to try her hand at the waltz music of two British men of the theatre, Ivor Novello and Noël Coward. The resulting album, beautifully arranged and conducted by Stanley Black, has become a classic.
This 2CD set presents Gueden in folkloric vein, from the songs from musicals by Coward and Novello, to a sequence of Viennese songs, including waltzes, and two programs delivered with often touching simplicity, one of children's songs, the other of Christmas music. All are treated with the same polished perfectionism, a total eschewal of sentimentality, and that indefinable quality through which great singers make intimate contact with their listeners. The recordings were made between 1952 and 1969 for Decca, with whom she enjoyed a long collaboration.
Tracks
- Name
- Ivor Novello: Music in May (Careless Rapture)
- Noel Coward: Ill follow my secret heart (Conversation Piece)
- Zigeuner (Bitter Sweet)
- Ivor Novello: Leap Year Waltz (The Dancing Years)
- Some day my heart will awake (Kings Rhapsody)
- I can give you the starlight (The Dancing Years)
- Waltz of my heart (The Dancing Years)
- Noel Coward: Ill see you again (Bitter Sweet)
- Ivor Novello: The violin began to play (Kings Rhapsody)
- Well gather lilacs (Perchance to Dream)
- Noel Coward: Some day Ill find you (Private Lives)
- Ivor Novello: Glamorous Night (Glamorous Night)
- HILDE GUEDEN SINGS MUSIC FROM VIENNA O du lieber Augustin
- Brüderlein fein
- Die Banda kommt
- SMailufterl
- Wenns die Geigen heimlich streicheln
- Wiener Künstler
- Das ist mein Wien
- Kunst und Natur
- Ich und der Mond
- Wien, Weib, Wein
- SHerz von an echten Weana
- Vogerl, flieg in d Welt hinaus
- Wie sich der Wiener den Himmel vorstellt
- Wiener-Wald
- Herrgott, wie schön bist du, Wien
- CHILDRENS SONGS FROM MANY LANDS (Arranged by Paul Fürst) Hänschen klein
- Backe backe Kuchen
- Alle Vöglein sind schon da
- Fuchs, du hast die Gans gestohlen
- Es tanzt ein Bi-Ba-Butzemann
- Hänsel und Gretel
- Wer hat die schönsten Schäfchen
- Vögelhochzeit
- Ein Männlein steht im Walde
- Suse, liebe, Suse
- Die Blümelein, sie schlafen
- Es klappert die Mühle
- Kommt ein Vogerl geflogen
- Müde bin ich, geh zur Ruh
- Alle meine Entchen
- Guter Mond, du gehst so stille
- Sing a Song of Sixpence
- Hickory Dickory Dock
- Hush a Bye Baby
- Oranges and Lemons
- Baa, Baa Black Sheep
- Three Blind Mice
- I Had a Little Nut Tree
- Bye Baby Bunting
- Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
- Frère Jacques
- Sur le pont dAvignon
- Meunier tu dors
- Il était un petit navire
- Au clair de la lune
- Tengo
- Buji
- Kasoeuta
- Ma come balli bella bimba
- Fa la nana bambin
- Pajarito que cantas
- CHRISTMAS SONGS (Arranged by Richard Rossmayer) O du Fröhliche
- O Tannenbaum
- Was soll das bedeuten
- Es blühen die Maien
- Es ist ein Ros entsprungen
- Es hat sich eröffnet
- Süsser die Glocken nie klingen
- Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht
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