Ivor Novello: Shine Through My Dreams

Ivor Novello (Composer), Charles Prentice (Conductor), Josef A. Pasternack (Conductor), Ray Noble (Conductor), Harry Acres (Conductor), Ronnie Munro (Conductor), Drury Lane Theatre Orchestra (Orchestra), Victor Orchestra (Orchestra), New Mayfair Orchestra (Orchestra), Phoenix Theatre Orchestra (Orchestra), Harry Acres Orchestra (Orchestra), Ivor Novello (Performer), Mary Ellis (Performer), Reinald Werrenrath (Performer), Frances Alda (Performer), Derek Oldham (Performer), Peggy Wood (Performer), Elisabeth Welch (Performer), Trefor Jones (Performer), Dorothy Dickson (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Ivor Novello, Mary Ellis, Reinald Werrenrath, Frances Alda, Derek Oldham, et al.
• Orchestra: Drury Lane Theatre Orchestra, Victor Orchestra, New Mayfair Orchestra, Phoenix Theatre Orchestra, Harry Acres Orchestra
• Conductor: Charles Prentice, Josef A. Pasternack, Ray Noble, Harry Acres, Ronnie Munro
• Composer: Ivor Novello
• Audio CD (June 18, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Naxos
• ASIN: B000063579
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #218,725 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Deep In My Heart

2. Fold Your Wings

3. The Radiance In Your Eyes

4. Every Bit Of Loving In The World

5. The Thought Never Entered My Head

6. Give Me Back My Heart

7. Scene from Act I of "Murder In Mayfair"

8. When The Gypsy Played

9. The Girl I Knew

10. Shine Through My Dreams

11. If You Only Knew

12. My Dearest Dear

13. The Leap Year Waltz

14. Dark Music

15. We'll gather Lilacs

16. I Can Give You The Starlight

17. Waltz Of My Heart

18. Keep The Home Fires Burning

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4.0 out of 5 stars Gathering lilacs and rarer flowers., August 22, 2002

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This review is from: Ivor Novello: Shine Through My Dreams (Audio CD)

Justice is done to Welsh-born composer, pianist, actor and man of the theatre Ivor Novello in this Naxos CD. The artists who first performed them are heard in 18 items, recorded between 1917 and 1950. Ivor Novello himself is heard in two of them, providing some spoken repartee as he accompanies Edna Best at the piano. Most were recorded in the 1930s. The sound quality is good enough for the lyrics to be clearly heard. They bespeak a long-vanished era, but the music still has charm.

Film buffs can nowadays most easily see Ivor Novello in an Alfred Hitchcock film of 1926, "The Lodger". Actor Jeremy Northam portrayed him in the recent film, "Gosford Park". Ivor Novello starred in his last production, "King's Rhapsody", and died nine days before I saw it in London in March 1951.