Sensible Sound, December 1st, 2002
Ian Bostridge; Jeffrey Tate, piano. EMI 7243 5 57374-2. Most young people won't recognize the man at all, but for older folks the name "Noel Coward" conjures up images of urbane, sophisticated song and patter, the vocal equivalent of a dancing Fred Astaire. This disc presents 19 of the composer/entertainer's songs from his heyday in the 1920s and 30s. Coward began by writing musical plays, but as the booklet note points out, his style of music was already out of date by the early forties, at which time he turned to filmmaking with things like In Which We Serve and Brief Encounter. By the fif...
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