COWARD: Songs from Conversation Piece, Bitter Sweet etc. - Sutherland; Coward; National Philharmonic Orchestra; Bonynge

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