Re-released to mark the centenary of Noel Coward’s birth, this has for long been a ‘cult’ Coward album the world over. Its special significance to Australia, besides the obvious participation of Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge, is its inclusion of other Australian singers in some of the ensemble pieces, among them Margreta Elkins and Morag Beaton.
NOEL COWARD
Conversation Piece:
I’ll follow my secret heart
Never more
Melanie’s aria (sung in French)
Charming, Charming
Margreta Elkins
Elizabeth Robinson
Morag Beaton
Bitter Sweet: I’ll see you again
John Wakefield, tenor
Zigeuner
John Leach, cirbalom
Noel Coward
Operette:
Dearest love
Where are the songs we sang
Countess Mitzi
After the Ball: I knew that you would be my love
Pacific 1860: Bright was the day
Bitter Sweet: This is a changing world
Noel Coward
Noel Coward, speaker
Dame Joan Sutherland, soprano
National Philharmonic Orchestra
Richard Bonynge