London Pride

On this CD:

1. Cockaigne Overture ("In London Town") for orchestra, Op. 40
Composed by Edward Elgar
Performed by Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus
Conducted by Owain Arwel Hughes

2. English Folksongs (6) for voice & piano The Lady and the Dragoon
Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Performed by Daniel Smith, Roger Vignoles

3. English Folksongs (6) for voice & piano As I Walked over London Bridge
Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Performed by Daniel Smith, Roger Vignoles

4. Hammersmith, prelude & scherzo for military band (also version for orchestra), Op. 52, H. 178
Composed by Gustav Holst
Performed by London Wind Orchestra
Conducted by Denis Wick

5. St. Paul's Suite, for strings, Op. 29/2, H. 118 The Dargason (Greensleeves)
Composed by Gustav Holst

Conducted by Alan Barlow

6. A London Overture, for orchestra
Composed by John Ireland
Performed by Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus
Conducted by Owain Arwel Hughes

7. Pièce de fantiasie ("Carillon de Westminster") for organ, Op. 54/6 Carillon de Westminster
Composed by Louis Vierne
Performed by Jane Parker-Smith

8. Dreams of London
Composed by Eric Coates
Performed by Roger Vignoles

9. London (London Every Day), suite for orchestra, Nos 1-3, complete Covent Garden
Composed by Eric Coates
Performed by East of England Orchestra
Conducted by Malcolm Nabarro

10. London (London Every Day), suite for orchestra, Nos 1-3, complete Westminster
Composed by Eric Coates
Performed by East of England Orchestra
Conducted by Malcolm Nabarro

11. London (London Every Day), suite for orchestra, Nos 1-3, complete Knightsbridge March
Composed by Eric Coates
Performed by East of England Orchestra
Conducted by Malcolm Nabarro

12. London Pride
Composed by Sir Noel Coward

Tracks:

Take It On The Chin (From Me And My Girl)
I Was A Good Little Girl
A Nightingale Sang In Berkely Square (From New Faces)
The Lambeth Walk (From Me And My Girl)
On My Own (From Les Miserables)
Dancing On The Ceiling (From Evergreen)
Once You Lose Your Heart (From Me And My Girl)
Spread A Little Happiness (From Mister Cinders)
I Don't Know How To Love Him (From Jesus Christ Superstar)
The Physician (From Nymph Errant)
I Can Talk To You (From Windy City)
Long Ago (From Half A Sixpence)
A Room In Bllomsbury (From The Boy Friend)
London Pride (From The Revue Up And Doing)
If Love Were All (From Bittersweet)

Customer Reviews:

Excellent!.......2000-04-26

Of course you knew about Twiggy and her world-famous stint as a fashion model... but did you know she is a legitimate stage star, seasoned in such musicals as "Me & my Girl" and "The Boyfriend"? Yes... Lesley Hornby, a/k/a Twiggy [Lawson] is a major icon with a talent of her own that is tangible in this CD.

Including music from all sort of revues from the West End, including a marvelous rendering of a little-known Porter song "The Physician" --which, if you listen closely to the words is... hilarious!- this record is the showcase of a great talent, and if you love musicals, this is definitely for you.

Twiggy Really Sings! --Not Just a Pretty Face!.......2000-01-26

I have always liked Twiggy's voice,and the years have shown that she just gets better and better. She was not born a singer,she has worked at it, and it shows.Her renditions of "Dancing On the Ceiling","If Love Were All",and "Once You Lose Your Heart"are sheer magic.Twiggy has done country,rock,and other styles of music.This is but one fine example of a lovely lilting voice that will charm you with a wide range of songs that come from a wide range of London musicals. "On My Own" is superb.Twiggy has proven herself to be far more than a 60s icon. She is a fine actress and this album is proof that she is a very fine singer. Like show tunes? Then buy this CD, you will enjoy the wide array of fine songs by a very fine artist.She sings from her heart and that makes this album such a gem.

not disappointing at all.......1999-03-07

This is very good. Most broadway CDs are not as good as this one and not as intreging. I'm new to the music world but this is one piece I love and think everybody who is interested in broadway music should own. It was a plesure to listen to this CD. Others I have listened to have not had good selections or a bigger variety. I am very proud to give this magnificent Cd 5 stars.

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The Reclamation of a Lost Art

Three Ravens

Manufacturer: Vanguard Classics
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Folksongs
Music of Purcell, Jenkins and Locke
Dowland: Lute Songs
The Holly and the Ivy

ASIN: B0000E1WJW
Release Date: 2003-12-09

Tracks:

The Three Ravens
Cuckoo
How Should I Your True Love Know
Sweet Nightingale
I Will Give My Love An Apple
The Oak And The Ash
Go From My Window (Lute)
King Henry
Coventry Carol
Barbara Allen
Heigh Ho, The Wind And The Rain
Waly, Waly
Down In Yon Forest
Matthew, Mark, Luke And John
A Toye
The Tailor And The Mouse
Greensleeves
The Wraggle Taggle Gipsies
Lord Rendall
Sweet Jane
The Frog And The Mouse
The Seeds Of Love
Near London Town
Who's Going To Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot?
Blow Away The Morning Dew
Searching For Lambs
Sweet England
Dabbling In The Dew
Just As The Tide Was A-Flowing

Customer Reviews:

The Reclamation of a Lost Art.......2005-09-14

Deller is reposonsible for the rediscovery of contertenor vocals. This album contains lighter, shorter folk tunes of the Elizabethan age. Some may find Deller's falsetto eery or unnerving but he offers a masterful recreation of an ancient technique.

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Happy Hour Starts Now...

Old Cons
The Reducers
Manufacturer: Rave On Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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REDUX
Shinola

ASIN: B0000C1HKK
Release Date: 2003-08-23

Tracks:

Take The Cash (K.A.S.H)
Baby, Come Back
High Society
Police Car
Hippy Hippy Shake
(I Thought I Heard A) Heartbeat
Ninety Nine And A Half (Won't Do)
Mack The Knife
That's It I Quit
Hurt By Love
Three Bells In A Row
Breakout
Going Back Home
Sleepwalk

Album Description

OLD CONS is collection of audience favorites recorded live on stage and in the studio over the past 25 years.

"We've always included a heavy percentage of covers in our live shows and these 14 are among our favorites."

Customer Reviews:

Happy Hour Starts Now..........2004-05-18

While conventional wisdom probably dictates that NRBQ is "the world's greatest bar band" (patent pending), I'm here to make a case for New London, Connecticut's Reducers. Over five albums, 20-some years, and endless gigging, these guys have been mixing adrenalized pop, pathos, and social commentary into a cocksure roar of satisfaction that is unsullied by MTV or any A&R department's marketing plan. And in order to ensure it always remains so, it's all been done under the aegis of their own record label, a move worthy of genuflection on all of our parts. Like any bar band (and I use that term with the utmost respect) worth its salt, The Reducers obviously had to learn a few covers along the way and as demonstrated by "Old Cons," which gathers live tracks and studio outtakes, their taste is impeccable. Let's face it - any album that opens with the ragtag rabble of Wreckless Eric's "Take The Cash (K.A.S.H.)" is off to one hell of a start. Need more proof? How about reverberating, smart-alecky, and sometimes shambolic strolls through Larry Wallis' "Police Car," Chan Romero's "Hippy Hippy Shake," Nick Lowe's "That's It I Quit," "Mack The Knife," and (yes, there is a God!) a take on Tenpole Tudor's "Three Bells In A Row" that lights up the room? And if all that wasn't carelessly generous enough on their part, they even throw in joyful exercises in volume like The Inmates' "(I Thought I Heard A) Heartbeat," Wilson Pickett's "Ninety Nine And A Half (Won't Do)," and Dr. Feelgood's (Wilko Johnson-era Feelgood, the only one that matters) "Going Back Home." Don't come here looking for slick surfaces, an audiophile experience, or any answers to the questions of the universe. The Reducers are avatars of amateurish enthusiasm and garage band grunt and, on the surface, appear to have all the brains of a bag of hammers. But don't be fooled. A quick listen to any of their four studio albums will put any of those notions to rest. These Yanks are dazzlingly accomplished at what they do, as if that weren't immediately apparent by their choise of footwear, the Converse Chuck Taylor All Star. There's a party going on within these grooves and you don't have to look very hard to find it. Get your wallet out...

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London Pride: Good Time Jazz
Laurie Chescoe
Manufacturer: Jazzology
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000000QE5
Release Date: 1999-12-25

Tracks:

I'm Nobody's Baby
San Antonio Rose
My Shadow My Echo & Me
Ooh That Kiss
Diane
His Eye Is On The Sparrow
Roses Of Picardy
Is It True What They Say 'Bout Dixie
Float Me Down The River
I Wish I Was In Peoria
Come Back Sweet Papa
Back In Your Own Backyard
Just A Gigolo
Copenhagen
Mama's Gone Goodbye
The Nearness Of You
Sensation Rag
100 Years From Today
Egyptian Fantasy
Ooh Sister Ain't That Hot

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Gilbert & Sullivan: The Gondoliers

Manufacturer: Polygram Int'l
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Operettas | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
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Sullivan: Yeomen Of The Guard/Trial By Jury

ASIN: B0000041VC
Release Date: 2003-04-08

Tracks:

Ov
Act I: List And Learn
Act I: Good Morrow, Pretty Maids
Act I: For The Merriest Fellows Are We
Act I: See, See At Last They Come To Make Their Choice
Act I: Buon Giorno, Signorine!
Act I: We're Called Gondolieri, But That's a Vagary
Act I: And Now To Choose Our Brides!
Act I: Are You Peeping?
Act I: Thank You Gallant Gondolieri
Act I: From The Sunny Spanish Shore
Act I: In Enterprise Of Martial Kind
Act I: O Rapture, When Alone Together
Act I: There Was A Time, A Time For Ever Gone
Act I: I Stole The Prince
Act I: But, Bless My Heart, Consider My Position!
Act I: Try We Life-Long We Can Never
Act I: Bride-Groom And Bride!
Act I: When A Merry Maiden Marries
Act I: Kind Sir, You Cannot Have The Heart, Our Lives To Part
Act I: Do Not Give Way To This Uncalled-For Grief
Act I: Then One Of Us Wiil Be A Queen

Tracks:

Act I: Now Pray, What Is The Cause Of This Remarkable Hilarity
Act I: Replying, We Sing As One Individual
Act I: For Ev'ryone Who Feels Inclined
Act I: Come Let's Away-Our Island Crown Awaits Me
Act I: Now, Marco Dear, My Wishes Hear
Act I: Then Away They Go To An Island Fair
Act II: Of Happiness The Very Pith
Act II: Rising Early In The Morning
Act II: Take A Pair Of Sparkling Eyes
Act II: Here We Are, At The Risk Of Our Lives
Act II: After Sailing To This Land
Act II: Dance A Cachucha, Fandango, Bolero
Act II: There Lived A King, As I've Been Told
Act II: In A Contemplative Fashion And A Tranquil Frame Of Mind
Act II: With Ducal Pomp And Ducal Pride
Act II: This Polite Attention
Act II: On The Day When I Was Wedded
Act II: To Help Unhappy Commoners
Act II: Small Titles And Orders For Mayors And Recorders
Act II: I Am A Courtier Grave And Serious
Act II: Here Is A Case Unprecedented!
Act II: Now Let The Loyal Lieges Gather Round
Act II: Speak Woman Speak, We're All Attention!
Act II: The Royal Prince Was By The King Entrusted
Act II: Luiz! Casilda
Act II: One More, Gondolieri

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London Pride

Manufacturer: Asv Living Era
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B000001HOA
Release Date: 1994-06-28

Tracks:

Cockaigne Ov (In London Town) - Philharmonia Orch/Owain Arwel Hughes
Studies In English Folk Song: The Lady And The Dragoon - Daniel Smith/Roger Vignoles
Studies In English Folk Song: As I Walked Over London Bridge - Daniel Smith/Roger Vignoles
Hammersmith Prld And Scherzo - London Wind Orch/Denis Wick
St. Paul's Ste: The Dargason (Greensleeves) - RPO/Alan Barlow
A London Ov - Philharmonia Orch/Owain Arwel Hughes
Carillon De Westminister - Jane Parker-Smith
The Dreams Of London - Brain Rayner-Cook/Roger Vignoles
London Ste: Covent Garden - East Of England Orch/Malcolm Nabarro
London Ste: Westminister - Peter Esswood
London Ste: Knightsbridge March ('In Town Tonight' Theme) - East Of England Orch/Malcolm Nabarro
London Pride - Noel Coward

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Baroque Celebration

Manufacturer: Chandos
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Classical | Styles | Music

Compilations | Classical | Styles | Music

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Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B00005YUH0
Release Date: 2002-03-26

Tracks:

King Arthur: Act V. Venus' Air: Fairest Isle - Yvonne Kenny
The Indian Queen: Act I. Aerial Spirit's Solo: I Attempt From Love's Sickness - Yvonne Kenny
Julius Caesar: Cornelia's Aria: Grief And Woe All Hope Deny Me - Sarah Walker
Semele: Jupiter's Air: Where'er You Walk - Bruce Ford
Julius Caesar: Sextus' Aria: Wounded, The Serpent Ne'er Reposes - Della Jones
Acis And Galatea: Polyphemus' Recitative And Air: I Rage, I Rage, I Rage, I Melt, I Burn/O Ruddier Than The Cherry - John Tomlinson
Rinaldo: Almirena's Aria: Hear Thou My Weeping - Yvonne Kenny
Julius Caesar: Ptolemy's Aria: I Shall Tame Your Pride Unbending - James Bowman
Julius Caesar: Cleopatra's Aria: Flow, My Tears - Valerie Masterson
Julius Caesar: Caesar's Aria: How Silently, How Slyly - Janet Baker
Xerxes: Xerxes' Recitative And Aria: May The Fates Be Kind/Under Thy Shade - Della Jones
Samson: Harapha's Air: Honour And Arms Scorn Such A Foe - John Tomlinson
Julius Caesar: Cornelia And Sextus' Duet: Condemned To Grieve And Cry - Della Jones
Julius Caesar: Cleopatra's Aria: Stormy Winds My Ship Had Shaken - Valerie Masterson
Orpheus And Eurydice: Orpheus's Aria: What Is Life To Me Without Thee - Diana Montague

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DON'T TAKE US FOR GRANTED
Definetly for the Anglophile

John Williams: Echoes of London

Manufacturer: Sony
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The Queen

ASIN: B0000026EF
Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

For 2 Guitars: Streets Of London
For 2 Guitars: La Volta
For 2 Guitars: Air On A Ground Bass
For 2 Guitars: Holland Park
For 2 Guitars: Courante
For 2 Guitars: Sarabande/Air
For 2 Guitars: Harmonious Blacksmith
For 2 Guitars: Salut D'amour
For Guitars and Orchestra: A Nightingale Sang In Berkley Square
For Guitars and Orchestra: A Room In Bloomsbury
For Guitars and Orchestra: London Pride
For Guitars and Orchestra: A Foggy Day
For Guitars and Orchestra: London By Night
For Guitars and Orchestra: Maybe It's Because I'm A Londoner

Customer Reviews:

DON'T TAKE US FOR GRANTED.......2005-01-14

John Williams is a great player of the guitar and no two ways about that. Apart from his solo and individual performances, I recall his duo concerts with Julian Bream. Williams would sit upright, poised, aloof and above-it-all while Bream sweated and laboured, but when it comes to sheer aristocracy as a player I can't think Williams is the equal of the great Bream.

This disc is a very odd medley indeed. Stephen Dodgson's 'Fantasy Divisions' is an original composition for the guitar, and no arrangement is attributed to the three Dowland numbers at the start of the disc, from which I infer that they must be lute works. The others are arrangements either by Williams himself or by Steve Gray, or, in the case of the Lennon/McCartney 'Fool on the Hill', by Leo Brouwer. There is a vague link of 'London' in the music -- obviously Handel's English career happened there and several of the other pieces have the capital's name in their titles, but I would have liked less eclecticism in the choice of music, and I don't believe we would have lost anything by abandoning the half-hearted London theme. The recital starts with mediaeval music, skips to Purcell and Handel and then, via Elgar's ever-fresh Salut d'Amour, to a a complete ragbag of 20th century offerings. Dodgson's modernistic Fantasy Divisions are not likely to share much of a public with Lennon and McCartney, I wouldn't have thought, although I hope Ralph McTell's 'The Streets of London' will appeal to anyone who is not tone-deaf and who has any love of any kind of music at all. In my own view a love of music is a serious impediment to being able to tolerate 'A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square', although I owe to this production the information that the world owes this work to one Sherwin Maschwitz. Otherwise the Gershwins are here, as is Stanley Myers's Cavatina which was adapted for The Deer Hunter. I own up to an abomination of Noel Coward that turns me off anything bearing his name, and I find that Sandy Wilson's 'A Room in Bloomsbury' was partly responsible, alas, for launching the career of Julie Andrews. There are some orchestral contributions, but the names of the participants, other than the conductors, remain understandably suppressed.

I can forgive just about any compositional atrocity when the performance is of a certain stature. However I have to measure this record against a recently acquired disc of 'Spanish'/Catalan works from Bream, and the playing here just does not seem to me to be in the same class. Maybe Williams deliberately adopts a certain sameness of tone to reflect English pallor, but I suspect that the wonderful creativity and versatility of Bream is just not Williams's way of doing things.

The recorded sound is fine if unexciting, and the liner note moderately informative. We are not told who is responsible for them, and I can't say I feel particularly curious either.

Definetly for the Anglophile.......2001-03-20

For lovers of classical guitar and London, this album is a great addition to a good CD collection.

John Williams plays many of the songs on this album accompanied by full orchestra and chorus, and while the album does not bring out the extent of William's talent as one the world's best classical guitarists, it does evoke whimsical memories of London and is very well crafted. Let me put it this way, this album is best enjoyed on a rainy afternoon with a hot cup of tea. It is beautiful relaxing music that will not be dissappoint you.

London Pride
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London Pride

Manufacturer: happy days cedar
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000HDERSQ

Product Description

Noel Coward~~~1. Lorelei~~~2. The Dream Is Over~~~3. Zigeuner~~4. World Weary~~~5-6. Private Lives: Someday Ill Find You / I Never Realised / If You Were The Only Girl In The World / Someday Ill Find You~~~7. Medley, Part I: Parisian Pierrot / Poor Little Rich Girl / A Room With A View / Dance, Little Lady~~~8. Medley, Part II: Someday Ill Find You / Any Little Fish / If You Could Only Come With Me / Ill See You Again~~~9. Lets Say Goodbye~~~10-11. Tonight at 8:30: Then / Play, Orchestra, Play / You Were There~~~12-13. Red Peppers: Has Anybody Seen Our Ship? / Men About Town~~~14-15. Family Album: Heres A Toast / Hearts And Flowers~~~16. We Were Dancing~~~17. The Last Time I Saw Paris~~~18. London Pride~~~19. Could You Please Oblige Us With A Bren Gun?

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