Notes and Editorial Reviews
A welcome reissue of a disc capturing one of the wittier evenings at London's Wigmore Hall. For anyone who wasn't there on 17 June 1988, this disc is joyous discovery, where Schoenberg rubs shoulders with Cole Porter, Madeleine Dring with Gershwin, while Jeremy Nicholas's brilliantly punning pieces prove that the traditions of Flanders & Swann are alive and well; where you can feast on oysters and cottage cheese, squashed tomato sandwiches and kippers, where bald men acquire unlikely headgear in the name of seduction, where love is pursued, gained, lost or (worse) simply becomes dull and where fairies do indeed live at the bottom of the garden. A delicious concoction, performed with piquancy and tenderness by Sarah Walker and Roger
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Vignoles. 'One of the happiest records you could wish to find, as well as one of the funniest' (The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs) 'I guarantee you will listen to this at one sitting because you just can't bear to turn it off' (Which CD) 'Brings the house down' (Gramophone) Read less
Works on This Recording
1.
Shall We Dance: They all laughed by George Gershwin
Performer:
Roger Vignoles (Piano),
Sarah Walker (Mezzo Soprano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1936-1937; USA
Date of Recording: 06/17/1988
Venue: Live Wigmore Hall, London
Length: 2 Minutes 38 Secs.
Language: English
2.
Delicious: Blah-blah-blah by George Gershwin
Performer:
Roger Vignoles (Piano),
Sarah Walker (Mezzo Soprano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1931; USA
Date of Recording: 06/17/1988
Venue: Live Wigmore Hall, London
Length: 3 Minutes 2 Secs.
Language: English
3.
A word on my ear by Donald Swann
Performer:
Roger Vignoles (Piano),
Sarah Walker (Mezzo Soprano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: England
Date of Recording: 06/17/1988
Venue: Live Wigmore Hall, London
Length: 5 Minutes 24 Secs.
Language: English
4.
Show Boat: Bill by Jerome Kern
Performer:
Roger Vignoles (Piano),
Sarah Walker (Mezzo Soprano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1927; USA
Date of Recording: 06/17/1988
Venue: Live Wigmore Hall, London
Length: 3 Minutes 25 Secs.
Language: English
5.
Cabaret Songs: Gigerlette by Arnold Schoenberg
Performer:
Sarah Walker (Mezzo Soprano),
Roger Vignoles (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1901
Date of Recording: 06/17/1988
Venue: Live Wigmore Hall, London
Length: 1 Minutes 45 Secs.
Language: German
6.
Cabaret Songs: Der genügsame Liebhaber by Arnold Schoenberg
Performer:
Roger Vignoles (Piano),
Sarah Walker (Mezzo Soprano)
Period: Modern
Written: 1901; Austria
Date of Recording: 06/17/1988
Venue: Live Wigmore Hall, London
Length: 2 Minutes 50 Secs.
Language: German
7.
Usherette's Blues by Jeremy Nicholas
Performer:
Roger Vignoles (Piano),
Sarah Walker (Mezzo Soprano)
Period: 20th Century
Date of Recording: 06/17/1988
Venue: Live Wigmore Hall, London
Length: 4 Minutes 6 Secs.
Language: English
8.
Fifty Million Frenchmen: The tale of the oyster by Cole Porter
Performer:
Sarah Walker (Mezzo Soprano),
Roger Vignoles (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1929; USA
Date of Recording: 06/17/1988
Venue: Live Wigmore Hall, London
Length: 3 Minutes 14 Secs.
Language: English
9.
Who am I? by Leonard Bernstein
Performer:
Sarah Walker (Mezzo Soprano),
Roger Vignoles (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: USA
Date of Recording: 06/17/1988
Venue: Live Wigmore Hall, London
Length: 2 Minutes 15 Secs.
Language: English
10.
There are fairies at the bottom of the garden by Liza Lehmann
Performer:
Sarah Walker (Mezzo Soprano),
Roger Vignoles (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: England
Date of Recording: 06/17/1988
Venue: Live Wigmore Hall, London
Length: 2 Minutes 29 Secs.
Language: English
11.
Someone is sending me flowers by David Nathaniel Baker
Performer:
Sarah Walker (Mezzo Soprano),
Roger Vignoles (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: USA
Date of Recording: 06/17/1988
Venue: Wigmore Hall, London
Length: 2 Minutes 30 Secs.
Language: English
12.
Tell Me More!: Tell me more by George Gershwin
Performer:
Sarah Walker (Mezzo Soprano),
Roger Vignoles (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1925; New York, USA
Date of Recording: 06/17/1988
Venue: Live Wigmore Hall, London
Length: 3 Minutes 5 Secs.
Language: English
13.
Girl Crazy: Boy! What love has done to me! by George Gershwin
Performer:
Sarah Walker (Mezzo Soprano),
Roger Vignoles (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1930; USA
Date of Recording: 06/17/1988
Venue: Wigmore Hall, London
Length: 3 Minutes 14 Secs.
Language: English
15.
Place settings by Jeremy Nicholas
Performer:
Sarah Walker (Mezzo Soprano),
Roger Vignoles (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Date of Recording: 06/17/1988
Venue: Live Wigmore Hall, London
Length: 2 Minutes 37 Secs.
Language: English
16.
Where, O where? by Cole Porter
Performer:
Sarah Walker (Mezzo Soprano),
Roger Vignoles (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: USA
Date of Recording: 06/17/1988
Venue: Live Wigmore Hall, London
Length: 2 Minutes 43 Secs.
Language: English
17.
Transatlantic Lullaby by Geoffrey Wright
Performer:
Sarah Walker (Mezzo Soprano),
Roger Vignoles (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: USA
Date of Recording: 06/17/1988
Venue: Live Wigmore Hall, London
Length: 2 Minutes 17 Secs.
Language: English
18.
Betjeman Songs (5): no 2, Song of a nightclub proprietress by Madeleine Dring
Performer:
Sarah Walker (Mezzo Soprano),
Roger Vignoles (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1976; England
Date of Recording: 06/17/1988
Venue: Live Wigmore Hall, London
Length: 2 Minutes 40 Secs.
Language: English
19.
Lime Jello Marshmallow Cottage Cheese Surprise by William Bolcom
Performer:
Sarah Walker (Mezzo Soprano),
Roger Vignoles (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1976; USA
Date of Recording: 06/17/1988
Venue: Live Wigmore Hall, London
Length: 2 Minutes 35 Secs.
Language: English
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