Lerner & Loewe: My Fair Lady Sinfonia of London & John Wilson

• Frederick Loewe (1901 - 1988): My Fair Lady:
• 1 Loewe: My Fair Lady: Overture 03:14
• My Fair Lady, Act I Scene 1:
• 2 Loewe: My Fair Lady, Act I Scene 1: Opening Scene 01:22
• 3 Loewe: My Fair Lady, Act I Scene 1: Why Can’t the English? 02:38
• 4 Loewe: My Fair Lady, Act I Scene 1: Wouldn’t It Be Loverly? 04:54
• My Fair Lady, Act I Scene 2:
• 5 Loewe: My Fair Lady, Act I Scene 2: Come On, Eliza, Slip Your Old Dad Half a Crown to Go Home On 00:27
• 6 Loewe: My Fair Lady, Act I Scene 2: With a Little Bit of Luck 03:07
• 7 Loewe: My Fair Lady, Act I Scene 2: Change of Scene 00:21
• My Fair Lady, Act I Scene 3:
• 8 Loewe: My Fair Lady, Act I Scene 3: In Six Months - In Three If She Has a Good Ear and a Quick Tongue 00:54
• 9 Loewe: My Fair Lady, Act I Scene 3: I’m an Ordinary Man 04:16
• 10 Loewe: My Fair Lady, Act I Scene 3: Change of Scene 00:22
• My Fair Lady, Act I Scene 4:
• 11 Loewe: My Fair Lady, Act I Scene 4: How'd Ya Like That? 01:22
• 12 Loewe: My Fair Lady, Act I Scene 4: With a Little Bit of Luck (Reprise) 01:38
• 13 Loewe: My Fair Lady, Act I Scene 4: Change of Scene 00:20
• My Fair Lady, Act I Scene 5:
• 14 Loewe: My Fair Lady, Act I Scene 5: Say Your Vowels 00:56
• 15 Loewe: My Fair Lady, Act I Scene 5: Just You Wait 04:02
• 16 Loewe: My Fair Lady, Act I Scene 5: The Servants’ Chorus 04:54
• 17 Loewe: My Fair Lady, Act I Scene 5: The Rain in Spain 02:26
• 18 Loewe: My Fair Lady, Act I Scene 5: I Could Have Danced All Night 03:45
• 19 Loewe: My Fair Lady, Act I Scene 5: Change of Scene. Race Track Fanfare 00:06
• My Fair Lady, Act I Scene 6:
• 20 Loewe: My Fair Lady, Act I Scene 6: Colonel Pickering, I Don't Understand 02:01
• My Fair Lady, Act I Scene 7:
• 21 Loewe: My Fair Lady, Act I Scene 7: Ascot Gavotte 03:25
• 22 Loewe: My Fair Lady, Act I Scene 7: End of Gavotte and Blackout Music 00:54
• My Fair Lady, Act I Scene 8:
• 23 Loewe: My Fair Lady, Act I Scene 8: Officer, I Know This Is Wimpole Street 00:08
• 24 Loewe: My Fair Lady, Act I Scene 8: On the Street Where You Live 03:47
• My Fair Lady, Act I Scene 9:
• 25 Loewe: My Fair Lady, Act I Scene 9: Eliza’s Entrance 01:23
• 26 Loewe: My Fair Lady, Act I Scene 9: Introduction to Promenade 00:53
• My Fair Lady, Act I Scene 10:
• 27 Loewe: My Fair Lady, Act I Scene 10: Promenade 01:35
• My Fair Lady, Act I Scene 11:
• 28 Loewe: My Fair Lady, Act I Scene 11: Embassy Waltz 03:14
• My Fair Lady:
• 29 Loewe: My Fair Lady: Entr’acte 03:25
• My Fair Lady, Act II Scene 1:
• 30 Loewe: My Fair Lady, Act II Scene 1: You Did It 05:39
• 31 Loewe: My Fair Lady, Act II Scene 1: Just You Wait (Reprise) 00:45
• My Fair Lady, Act II Scene 2:
• 32 Loewe: My Fair Lady, Act II Scene 2: On the Street Where You Live (Reprise) 01:39
• 33 Loewe: My Fair Lady, Act II Scene 2: Show Me 02:18
• My Fair Lady, Act II Scene 3:
• 34 Loewe: My Fair Lady, Act II Scene 3: The Flower Market 03:29
• 35 Loewe: My Fair Lady, Act II Scene 3: Get Me to the Church on Time 06:26
• 36 Loewe: My Fair Lady, Act II Scene 3: Change of Scene 00:29
• My Fair Lady, Act II Scene 4:
• 37 Loewe: My Fair Lady, Act II Scene 4: Now, See Here, My Good Man 00:09
• 38 Loewe: My Fair Lady, Act II Scene 4: A Hymn to Him 04:36
• 39 Loewe: My Fair Lady, Act II Scene 4: Change of Scene 00:20
• My Fair Lady, Act II Scene 5:
• 40 Loewe: My Fair Lady, Act II Scene 5: Well, Eliza, You've Had a Bit of Your Own Back 02:03
• 41 Loewe: My Fair Lady, Act II Scene 5: Without You 03:27
• My Fair Lady, Act II Scenes 6 & 7:
• 42 Loewe: My Fair Lady, Act II Scenes 6 & 7: I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face 06:42
• My Fair Lady, Act II Scene 7:
• 43 Loewe: My Fair Lady, Act II Scene 7: Music for Curtain Calls 01:19
• 44 Loewe: My Fair Lady, Act II Scene 7: Exit Music 04:30
• My Fair Lady, Act I:
• 45 Loewe: My Fair Lady, Act I: Original Ending. Come to the Ball 03:45
• 46 Loewe: My Fair Lady Act I: Original Ending. Dressing Eliza Ballet 04:19
• 47 Loewe: My Fair Lady, Act I: Original Ending. Say a Prayer for Me Tonight 01:44
• 48 Loewe: My Fair Lady, Act I: Original Ending. Bridge After Say a Prayer for Me Tonight 02:10
• 49 Loewe: My Fair Lady, Act I: Original Ending. Ballroom Introduction - Embassy Waltz 03:31
• 50 Loewe: My Fair Lady, Act I: Freddie's Song. End of Ascot 00:10
• 51 Loewe: My Fair Lady, Act I: Freddie's Song. On the Street Where You Live 04:33
• My Fair Lady, Utility Cue:
• 52 Loewe: My Fair Lady, Utility Cue: Why Can’t the English? 01:13
• 53 Loewe: My Fair Lady, Utility Cue: Get Me to the Church on Time 02:03
• 54 Loewe: My Fair Lady, Utility Cue: Why Can’t a Woman? 00:28
• Total Runtime 02:09:36

Info zu Lerner & Loewe: My Fair Lady

Following in the award-winning footsteps of Carousel and Oklahoma! is My Fair Lady, the third in our series of complete recordings on the Chandos label of the great musicals.

The series is a long-held ambition of John Wilson, not least because these are complete recordings. Every single note of the score is included, from the Overture to the Exit Music, making them all, including this new My Fair Lady, world premiere recordings.

John Wilson comments: My Fair Lady is the quintessential American London musical. There is not a semiquaver or a semi-colon in the wrong place. Steven Wilkie, one of the fiddle players in my orchestra, describes it as The Marriage of Figaro of the twentieth century. And when I asked the great opera conductor Richard Bonynge what the finest post-World War Two operas are, he said, ‘My Fair Lady, Oklahoma!... they’re the great operas that will live on’. We have recorded every note, including underscoring, plus all the music written but cut before opening, with the instrumentation exactly as it was on opening night. Also, thanks to recent research, we have the restored original orchestrations. The reason I want to record everything the composer, lyricist, book-writer, and orchestrator did is that I believe it is a piece of significance by people who were masters of their art and craft. This was not written in an afternoon; it was chiselled away for months. They were ruthless in excising anything they felt would not make the grade. We have a duty to set down as closely as we can their final thoughts on what they created.

"Scarlett Strallen makes a feisty, powerhouse-voiced Eliza, and she’s matched perfectly by Jamie Parker’s droll Higgins. Eliza’s transformation from guttersnipe to princess is handled beautifully by Strallen, and the sumptuous music is given a wonderful spin by the Sinfonia of London under the sure baton of conductor John Wilson." (Kevin Filipski, The Flip Side)

Scarlett Strallen, vocals, soprano (Eliza Doolittle)
Jamie Parker, vocals, tenor (Henry Higgins)
Malcolm Sinclair, vocals (Colonel Pickering)
Alun Armstrong, vocals (Alfred P. Doolittle)
Laurence Kilsby, vocals (Freddy Eynsford-Hill)
Julia McKenzie, vocals (Mrs Pearce)
Penelope Wilton, vocals (Mrs Higgins)
"My Fair Lady" Ensemble
Sinfonia of London
John Wilson, conductor

The Sinfonia of London
is the name of two distinct session orchestras based in London, England. The original ensemble of this name was founded in 1955 by Gordon Walker, an eminent flautist of his time, specifically for the recording of film music. The orchestra appeared on the musical credits of many British and American films of the 1950s and 60s.

Among the original ensemble’s most celebrated commercial classical recordings is its 1963 recordings with Sir John Barbirolli conducting the Serenade for Strings of Edward Elgar and the Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis of Ralph Vaughan Williams for EMI Classics and the 1958 soundtrack album from the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Vertigo with Bernard Herrmann’s score conducted by Muir Mathieson (Mercury Records). The label World Record Club released an Lp (WRC T 11) of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony and the Egmont Overture with Hans Swarowsky conducting the ensemble. The original orchestra ceased to perform during the 1960s.

In 1982 the title Sinfonia of London was bought by Peter Willison and Howard Blake from the Walker family for the purpose of having a named orchestra for the first recording of The Snowman. In February 1998, Bruce Broughton was named the orchestra’s second musical director after Blake. Under Peter Willison’s management, the orchestra went on to record many soundtracks for major Hollywood films, including Batman, The Mummy Returns, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Lost in Space, The Lawnmower Man, Stargate, Tombstone, RoboCop and Young Sherlock Holmes.

John Wilson
is in demand at the highest level across the globe, working with some of the finest orchestras and opera houses. In the UK, he performs regularly at festivals such as Aldeburgh, Glyndebourne and the BBC Proms with orchestras such as London Symphony, London Philharmonic, BBC Scottish Symphony and City of Birmingham Symphony. Elsewhere, he has conducted the Royal Concertgebouw, Budapest Festival, Swedish Radio Symphony, Oslo Philharmonic and Sydney Symphony orchestras amongst others. In the 2019/20 season, Wilson makes his debut with the Bavarian Radio Symphony, Danish National Symphony, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic and Basel Symphony orchestras and his return engagements include DSO Berlin, BBC Philharmonic and Philharmonia Orchestra

Wilson made his opera debut in 2016 conducting Madama Butterfly at Glyndebourne Festival Opera on their autumn tour and has since conducted Porgy and Bess at English National Opera and returned to Glyndebourne Summer Festival to conduct Massent Cendrillon. He will be making his debut at the Metropolitan Opera, New York City, in a future season.

Wilson has a large and varied discography which includes a series of discs with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra exploring the works of Richard Rodney Bennett, with the BBC Philharmonic devoted to the symphonic works of Aaron Copland and numerous recordings with the John Wilson Orchestra. In 2019 Chandos released Wilson’s first recording with the Sinfonia of London which features Korngold’s Symphony in F Sharp.

Born in Gateshead, Wilson studied composition and conducting at the Royal College of Music, where in 2011 he was made a Fellow. In 1994, he formed his own orchestra, the John Wilson Orchestra, dedicated to performing music from the golden age of Hollywood and Broadway, and with whom he has appeared regularly across the UK. In March 2019, John Wilson was awarded the prestigious ISM Distinguished Musician Award for his services to music.

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