Noel Coward: A Room With A View, Vol. 1

Noel Coward (Composer), Melville Gideon (Composer), Nat D. Ayer (Composer), Leslie Stuart (Composer), Paul [4] Barnes (Composer), John A. Glover-Kind (Composer), E. Madden (Composer), Irving Berlin (Composer), Harry Castling (Composer), A. J. / Godfrey, Fred / Scott, Bennett Mills (Composer), Zo Elliott (Composer), Ivor Novello (Composer), Carroll Gibbons (Conductor, Performer), Ray Noble (Conductor), Gertrude Lawrence (Performer), Noël Coward (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Carroll Gibbons, Gertrude Lawrence, Noël Coward
• Conductor: Carroll Gibbons, Ray Noble
• Composer: Noel Coward, Melville Gideon, Nat D. Ayer, Leslie Stuart, Paul [4] Barnes, et al.
• Audio CD (April 17, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Naxos
• ASIN: B000054BF6
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #210,848 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. This Year Of Grace: Dance, Little Lady

2. This Year Of Grace: A Room With A View

3. This Year Of Grace: Mary Make-Believe

4. This Year Of Grace: Try To Learn To Love

5. This Year Of Grace: Lorelei

6. A Dream Of Youth (The Dream Is Over)

7. Bitter Sweet: Zigeuner

8. This Year Of Grace: World Weary

9. Private Lives, Act 1, Love Scene: Someday I'll Find You

10. Private Lives, Act 2, Scene: I Never Realised/If You Were The Only Girl In The World

11. Half-Caste Woman

12. Any Little Fish

13. Cavalcade: Lover Of My Dreams (Mirabelle Valse)

14. Cavalcade Vocal Medley: Soldiers Of The Queen/Goodbye Dolly Gray/Lover Of My Dreams/I Do Like To...

15. Cavalcade, Epilogue: Toast To England

16. Noel Coward Medley: Parisian Pierrot/Poor Little Rich Girl/A Room With A View/Dance Little Lady...

Customer Reviews

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The style is the man--and the song, May 1, 2001

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F. Behrens "Frank Behrens" (Keene, NH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Noel Coward: A Room With A View, Vol. 1 (Audio CD)

Many composers have chosen to perform their own material and commit it to discs, with mixed results. Only with Noel Coward do we feel that a good deal of the charm of his numbers lies in the very way he performs them. For proof, we now have the Naxos Nostalgia <Noel Coward: A Room With a View> (8.120529), which dishes up 16 tracks of the ultra-refined son of W. S.Gilbert, giving us six selections from "This Year of Grace," one from "Bittersweet," a medley of treasures from his "Cavalcade," another from his other works, and a few other trifles that are better than most of what is written today.

Add to all this two classical scenes with Coward and co-star Gertrude Lawrence from his "Private Lives," incredibly valuable for those local drama groups who butcher this work in that this CD can teach them the tone and rhythms that are essential in making this classic succeed.

The subtitle of this set is "The Complete Recordings, Volume 1: 1928-1932." So we can look forward to future offerings featuring this fascinating composer-lyricist-performer. Thank you, Naxos, yet again.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Coward step by step., May 8, 2009

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John Carlisle - See all my reviews

This review is from: Noel Coward: A Room With A View, Vol. 1 (Audio CD)

As an elderly listener, I have the majority of the items on this compilation on old 78's, though not necessarily sung by Coward himslf. To have them now on a single CD, cleaned up and well presented is a very great pleasure. To listen to him with the inimitable Gertrude Lawrence in scenes from "Private Lives", but without the hisses and scratches is a really happy reminder of a great partnership.His early contributions to revues of the 1920's reveal his skill at wedding lyrics and music in an entirely original manner and we get many of the numbers from "This Year of Grace", a revue for which he provided most of the music. Then on to selections from his Musical Comedies, "Bitter Sweet" and finally "Cavalcade" with many of the popular songs of the Ist World War period which he incorporated. The disc is titled ". . .Volume 1.1928 - 1932. I wait impatiently for Volume 2.