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Ian Bostride.(The Noel Coward Songbook)
* "THE NOEL COWARD SONGBOOK" With Daneman; J. Tate, piano. Texts. EMI 557374 27
This album of songs by Noel Coward (1899-1973) represents a rather brave undertaking on the part of Ian Bostridge, who (to my knowledge) has little or no experience in performing this delicious repertoire onstage or in recital. Like everything else he records, from Bach to Britten, Bostridge's Coward is scrupulously enunciated, thoughtfully prepared and sensitively musical, but in most of the cuts here, it sounds as if the tenor is working way too hard. The songs aren't so much sung as scrubbed clean.
It's a pity, because Bostridge's intelligent phrasing and slim, reedy timbre are a good fit for Coward's white-tie-and-tails love songs; when he relaxes, as in his lovely delivery of "The Dream is Over," a sublime, little-known Coward ...
- The Noel Coward Songbook.
- Magazine article from: Sensible Sound December 1, 2002 700+ words
...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...
- Noel Coward. The Letters of Noel Coward.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: World Literature Today King, Daniel P. July 1, 2008 700+ words
Noel Coward. The Letters of Noel Coward. Barry Day, ed. New York. Knopf. 2007. xii + 780 pages, ill. $37.50. ISBN 978-0-375-42303-1 Noel Coward was a fascinating, brilliant, versatile writer, actor...
- `NOEL COWARD'S' DETAIL AS FASCINATING AS ITS SUBJECT.(L.A. LIFE)(Review)
- Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) September 8, 1996 700+ words
...born 18 days before the new century), Noel Coward set sail for the first time from London...unfailing regularity, the two words `Noel Coward.' '' Born in South London to working...and reflected life between the wars, Noel Coward - playwright, actor and composer...
- I turned down Noel Coward, and only now when I visit his Jamaica, do I realise...
- Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England) Field, Shirley Anne August 5, 2001 700+ words
...ANNE FIELD SO, THIS is Firefly, Sir Noel Coward's glorious retreat from the world...very young woman I'd been invited by Noel Coward to visit at least twice. At the time...being directed by Lindsay Anderson. Noel Coward, to my very young mind, appeared frivolous...
- Noel Coward wit shines in `Star Quality'
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Daniel Ruth March 27, 1987 700+ words
...directed by Alan Dossor and adapted from Noel Coward's short story by Stanley Price. To...m. Sunday on WTTW-Channel 11. Noel Coward. The name alone suggests cheeky elegance...tuxedo. The rich man's John O'Hara, Noel Coward was a man of subtle but rapier-like...
- Century of Noel Coward: Playwright brought the world many...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times West, Diana December 17, 1999 700+ words
Noel Coward, one of the great gifts to the 20th...century, 100 years ago yesterday. Noel Coward, the indelible persona, however...gallant upper class. And it still does. Noel Coward, famously but discreetly homosexual...
- Noel, Noel.(Noel Coward's conveyed a homosexual aura, although Coward never...
- Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) Isherwood, Charles January 18, 2000 700+ words
Noel Coward never said he was gay. But his hints...or flashbulbs, he never came clean. Noel Coward, the gifted Englishman who would have...years' time what we meant by a `very Noel Coward sort of person.'" Indeed. Without...
- THE PLAY IS NOT REALLY THE THING IN NEW NOEL COWARD BIOGRAPHY.(LIFE & LEISURE)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) September 8, 1996 700+ words
...born 18 days before the new century), Noel Coward set sail for the first time from London...unfailing regularity, the two words `Noel Coward.' '' Born in South London to working...and reflected life between the wars, Noel Coward -- playwright, actor and composer...
