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The Noel Coward Songbook.
Ian Bostridge; Jeffrey Tate, piano. EMI 7243 5 57374-2.
Most young people won't recognize the man at all, but for older folks the name "Noel Coward" conjures up images of urbane, sophisticated song and patter, the vocal equivalent of a dancing Fred Astaire. This disc presents 19 of the composer/entertainer's songs from his heyday in the 1920s and 30s.
Coward began by writing musical plays, but as the booklet note points out, his style of music was already out of date by the early forties, at which time he turned to filmmaking with things like In Which We Serve and Brief Encounter. By the fifties and sixties, he had returned to the stage, this time performing his own early works in cabaret shows.
Ian Bostridge lovingly performs Coward's most famous songs, things like "Parisian Pierrot" from London Calling, "Poor Little Rich Girl" from On With the ...
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- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) September 8, 1996 700+ words
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- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Robert Taylor August 25, 1996 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: National Review Toledano, Ralph Robert February 7, 1994 700+ words
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post JONATHAN YARDLEY October 23, 2009 700+ words
...all difficult to find in used copies, Noel Coward's first and only novel is a small...loved his 1955 cabaret recording, "Noel Coward at Las Vegas," that I had (and still...Available on CD in expanded form as "The Noel Coward Album," it too is quintessential Coward...
Source: HighBeam Research, The Noel Coward Songbook.