The Very Best Of Broadway (CD)

COMPACT DISC 1

GEORGE GERSHWIN 1898–1937
Girl Crazy
Lyrics: Ira Gershwin
Book: Guy Bolton & John McGowan
1 Overture
The New Princess Theater Orchestra (P) 1987
George White’s Scandals of 1924
Lyrics: Buddy DeSylva
2 Somebody loves me
Kiri Te Kanawa
The New Princess Theater Orchestra (P) 1987
Demi-Tasse Revue
Lyrics: Irving Caesar
3 Swanee
Kim Criswell
Ambrosian Chorus • London Sinfonietta (P) 1992
COLE PORTER 1891–1964
Anything Goes
Lyrics: Cole Porter
Book: Guy Bolton & P. G. Wodehouse rev. Howard Lindsey & Russel Crouse
4 I get a kick out of you
5 You’re the top
6 Anything Goes
7 Blow, Gabriel, blow
Kim Criswell (4–7) • Chris Groenendaal (5) • Bryan Landrine (6)
Michael B. Wailing (6) • Bruce Hubbard (6) • Del-Bourree Bach (6)
Ambrosian Chorus • London Symphony Orchestra (P) 1989
Gay Divorce
Lyrics: Cole Porter
Book: Dwight Taylor
8 Night and Day
Thomas Hampson
London Symphony Orchestra (P) 1991
Kiss Me, Kate
Lyrics: Cole Porter
Book: Sam & Bella Spewack
9 Wunderbar
10 Where is the life that late I led?
11 So in love (reprise)
12 Brush up your Shakespeare
Thomas Hampson (9–11) • Josephine Barstow (9)
Robert Nichols (12) • David Garrison) (12)
London Sinfonietta (P) 1990
Can Can
Lyrics: Cole Porter
Book: Abe Burrows
13 I love Paris
Kim Criswell
Ambrosian Chorus • London Sinfonietta (P) 1993
IRVING BERLIN 1888–1989
Annie Get Your Gun
Lyrics: Irving Berlin
Book: Herbert & Dorothy Fields
14 The girl that I marry
15 You can’t get a man with a gun
16 There’s no business like show business
17 They say it’s wonderful
18 My defences are down
19 I got the sun in the morning
20 Anything you can do
Kim Criswell (15–17, 19, 20) • Thomas Hampson (14, 16–18, 20)
David Garrison (16, 19) • David Healy (16, 19) • Alfred Marks (19)
Simon Green (19) • Jason Graae (19) • Rebecca Luker (19) • Peta Bartlett (19)
Kerry Potter (19) • Hayley Spencer (19) • Emma Long (19) • Paul Keating (19)
Ambrosian Chorus • London Sinfonietta (P) 1991
COMPACT DISC 2
JEROME KERN 1885–1945
Show Boat
Book & lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II
1 Overture
2 Where’s the mate for me? – Make Believe
3 Ol’ Man River
4 Can’t help lovin’ dat man
5 You are love
6 Why do I love you?
7 Bill
Frederica von Stade (2, 4, 5, 6) • Jerry Hadley (2, 5, 6) • Teresa Stratas (4, 7)
Bruce Hubbard (3, 4) • Karla Burns (4) • Robert Nichols (6)
Wayne Marshall stage piano (7)
Ambrosian Chorus • London Sinfonietta (P) 1988
Music in the Air
Book & lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II
8 The Song is You
Thomas Hampson
London Sinfonietta (P) 1993
Roberta
Book & lyrics: Otto Harbach
9 Smoke gets in your eyes
Jeanne Lehman
London Sinfonietta (P) 1993
VINCENT YOUMANS 1898–1946
No, No, Nanette
Book & lyrics: Frank Mandel, Otto Harbach & Irving Caesar
10 Tea for Two
George Dvorsky • Rebecca Luker
Ambrosian Chorus • London Sinfonietta (P) 1992
RICHARD RODGERS 1902–1979
Simple Simon
Lyrics: Lorenz Hart
Book: Ed Wynn & Guy Bolton