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THE DANCING YEARS KING’S RHAPSODY 15. Coronation Scene & Finale 4:30 All selections recorded in London (Ivor Novello–Christopher Hassall, except (Ivor Novello–Christopher Hassall) Vanessa Lee, Olive Gilbert & Chorus with Transfers & Production: David Lennick tracks 1 and 8 as noted) 9. a. Someday My Heart Will Awake Organ Digital Restoration: Graham Newton HMV C 3918, mx 2EA 14124-1 1. Leap Year Waltz 3:10 b. Take Your Girl 4:04 Original 78s from the collections of David Recorded 19 August 1949 (Ivor Novello, arr. Charles Prentice) Vanessa Lee (a); Olive Gilbert & Chorus (b) Lennick & John Rutherford Orchestra conducted by Charles Prentice HMV C 3916, mx 2EA 14205-1 With Orchestra conducted by Harry Acres Original monochrome photo of Ivor Novello HMV B 8897, mx 0EA 7753-1 Recorded 3 October 1949 from Redferns 2. My Life Belongs to You 3:25 10. a. Fly Home Little Heart Dunstan Hart & Mary Ellis; b. The Mayor of Perpignan Ivor Novello, piano c. The Gates of Paradise 4:15 HMV B 8891, mx 0EA 7707-1 Olive Gilbert (a); Phyllis Dare (b); 3. The Wings of Sleep 3:14 Denis Martin,Vanessa Lee, Olive Gilbert (c) Mary Ellis and Olive Gilbert; HMV C 3916, mx 2EA 14120-3 The Naxos Historical labels aim to make available the greatest recordings of the history of recorded Ivor Novello, piano Recorded 19 August 1949 (4:11) music, in the best and truest sound that contemporary technology can provide.To achieve this aim, HMV B 8892, mx 0EA 7708-1 11. a. Mountain Dove Naxos has engaged a number of respected restorers who have the dedication, skill and experience 4. Primrose 2:39 b. If This Were Love to produce restorations that have set new standards in the field of historical recordings. Roma Beaumont; Ivor Novello, piano c. The Violin Began To Play 7:54 HMV B 8892, mx 0EA 7709-1 Vanessa Lee (a, b); Also available in the Naxos Nostalgia series ... 5. My Dearest Dear 3:42 Denis Martin & Larry Mandon (c) Mary Ellis & Ivor Novello (speech) HMV C 3917, mx 2EA 14206-1 HMV B 8891, mx 0EA 7710-2 Recorded 3 October 1949 6. Waltz of my Heart 3:16 12. The Gates of Paradise 3:41 Mary Ellis; Ivor Novello, piano Denis Martin,Vanessa Lee, Olive Gilbert HMV B 8890, mx 0EA 7711-1 HMV C 3978, mx 2EA 14535-1 Recorded 3 March 1950 7. I Can Give You the Starlight 3:31 Mary Ellis 13. Some Day My Heart Will Awake 3:13 HMV B 8890, mx 0EA 7712-1 Vanessa Lee HMV C 3918, mx 2EA 14123-1 8. Three Ballet Tunes 2:44 Recorded 19 August 1949 (Ivor Novello, arr. Charles Prentice) Orchestra conducted by Ivor Novello 14. Muranian Rhapsody 10:44 8.120600* 8.120715 8.120721 HMV B 8897, mx 0EA 7754-1 Ivor Novello, narrator HMV C 3977/8, mx 2EA 14532/4, all take 1 * Not Available in the U.S. With the Drury Lane Theatre Orchestra; Recorded 3 March 1950 Charles Prentice, conductor, except as noted Over 50 Channels of Classical Music • Jazz, Folk/World, Nostalgia Tracks 1–8 recorded 11 April 1939 NAXOS RADIO www.naxosradio.com Accessible Anywhere, Anytime • Near-CD Quality 5 8.120781 6 8.120781 120781bk Novello2 16/12/04 10:23 AM Page 1
he had secured a lucrative contract with the had been popularised in concerts and recordings turned-lyricist Christopher Hassall (1912-1963), marked the end of Novello’s reign at that great IVOR NOVELLO Vol.2 music-publishers Ascherberg, Hopwood and by,among others, McCormack and Metropolitan its instant success (243 performances) owed theatre. Following a British provincial tour, The Dancing Years and King’s Rhapsody Crew which, with the outbreak of World War I, Opera soprano Frances Alda. In 1923, Novello much to its star, soprano Mary Ellis (1900-2002) however, The Dancing Years returned in 1942 brought him an outlet for a stream of stirring the handsome heartthrob appeared in The as opera-singer Militza Hajos. Born in New York, to the Adelphi for a further 969 performances Original 1939-1950 Recordings ballads and morale-boosters, most famously the Bohemian Girl (with Gladys Cooper and Ellen Mary had earlier trodden the hallowed boards of and was filmed (in England) in 1949. ‘[Ivor Novello] never lost the common touch … never left his public behind him.When he was right one that made his name: “Keep The Home Fires Terry,for the Knoles studio) and, in the mould of the Metropolitan (from 1918, in company with, Novello’s next wartime production Arc De at the top, they were there, too. For nobody was ever less of a snob. His only standard was quality; he Burning”. Richard Barthelmess or Ramon Novarro, was cast among others, Caruso, Chaliapin, de Luca, Farrar Triomphe (Phoenix Theatre, 1943) again cast would have nothing which, in achievement or texture, was second rate’. In 1916, Novello was commissioned as a sub- by D W Griffith opposite Mae Marsh in The and Jeritza) before turning to musical comedy. star attraction Mary Ellis as an opera singer, (W.Macqueen Pope: Ivor – The Story Of An Achievement) lieutenant in the Royal Naval Air Service aboard White Rose. His other silent-screen appearances, In 1924, she had created the title role in Oscar although the hauntingly atmospheric solo “Dark HMS Crystal Palace, but as the First World War which included The Man Without Desire (1923), Hammerstein II and Rudolf Friml’s 1924 Music” (created by Elisabeth Welch) has since ‘I am not a highbrow. I am an entertainer. Empty seats and good opinions mean nothing to me’. London theatre was booming he soon received The Rat (1925), The Constant Nymph and The Broadway success Rose Marie and in 1933 proved the show’s only lasting number. For his (Ivor Novello) more interesting commissions to write numbers Vortex (1928), placed him as the leading British Cochran brought her to London for the British next venture Perchance To Dream (Hippo- Ivor Novello’s shows stand as a last flowering of he moved in theatrical and musical circles and for revues: Nat D Ayer’s The Bing Boys Are Here romantic male star of the day. After successfully première of Kern’s Music In The Air. In 1934 drome, 1945), Novello wrote his own libretto. Viennese-style operetta. With no expense spared through his mother’s connections he met and and George Grossmith’s Theodore & Co.In making the transition to talkies (with Once A she played a poisoning spouse in the An extravaganza set in Regency England, and and meticulous attention to detail they provided heard, among others,Adelina Patti and was even December 1916 he contributed to Charlot’s See- Lady, for Paramount, in 1931) he continued to Twickenham (GB) film Belladonna and also featuring Olive Gilbert, Muriel Barron, Roma escapism of the highest calibre. Being the very a pageboy at Clara Butt’s wedding (an event Saw and in 1917 to Cochran’s Arlette. The appear in plays on the London stage but, with starred in the 1936 film version of Glamorous Beaumont, Margaret Rutherford and Ivor stuff of theatrical illusion and old-fashioned which inspired him to write for her the following year he provided various numbers for the fiasco of Coward’s Sirocco (1927), he turned Night (ABP/Walter Mycroft). himself, at 1022 performances this was Novello’s romance, their overtly lush melodies and commemorative “Page’s Road Song”, which Harry Grattan’s Tabs and in 1919 shared credits actor-manager instead for such productions as Novello’s next and no less sumptuous longest-running show to date and by 1949, again sentimental lyrics masked the author’s keen subsequently that great Dame recorded). with Howard Talbot for Who’s Hooper?, a revue Symphony In Two Flats (1929; filmed by production Careless Rapture (1936) survived with Hassall as librettist, he had capitalised on its sense of theatrical expediency and commercial Ivor attended school first in Cardiff, then in by Clifford Grey. 1919 also saw the emergence Michael Balcon in 1930), Murder In Mayfair 296 Drury Lane performances before touring success with King’s Rhapsody (Palace Theatre; sensibility. During the years that have elapsed Gloucester, where he studied music under Sir of Novello the silent-screen matinee-idol and (1934) and Full House (1935). Great Britain during 1937-1938. This show (like 839 performances). With a storyline of ‘king- since Novello’s death, his tunes have become Herbert Brewer (of Three Choirs fame). In 1903, straight-actor. In Paris, he appeared in Louis Such was Novello’s multifarious thespian its successor Crest Of The Wave) starred the marries-commoner’, this musical benefited from overlaid by an even greater nostalgia. at ten, he won a scholarship to Magdalen College Mercanton’s screen realisation of Robert experience when his first real theatrical Kansas City-born singing actress Dorothy a fantastical setting (Romania transposed as Composer, playwright, actor, producer and School, Oxford, and by 1908 his histrionic bent Hichens’ novel The Call Of The Blood and, milestone loomed out of the blue with Dickson. With The Dancing Years (1939) Mary Ruritania) and offered such Novello perennials matinee-idol, Ivor Novello was born David Ivor was venting itself in one-act plays and during 1921, he made his Hollywood screen Glamorous Night (1935), his first full-scale Ellis made a welcome return and featured as The Violin Began To Play and Someday Davies in Cardiff on 15 January 1893 the son of commercially successful drawing-room ballads, debut (in Matheson Lang’s Carnival, for United musical for fourteen years.The show was, he prominently opposite Novello, in the dual My Heart Will Awake. Its cast included David Davies, a local government accountant, the earliest of which were published by Boosey Artists) and in London appeared in Harley always maintained, first conceived ‘over lunch’ capacity of actor and pianist. The show’s rich Vanessa Lee, Olive Gilbert, Denis Martin and and Clara Novello (1861-1943), a noted & Co, in 1910. In 1911, the eighteen-year-old Granville-Barker’s adaptation of Sacha Guitry’s between himself and the songwriter and score incorporates several of Novello’s most Novello. When Ivor Novello died, (in London on pioneering choral trainer and founder of the Ivor travelled first to Canada then to New York, Debureau, while (as a songwriter) also penning theatrical entrepreneur Harry Moncrieff Tennent enduring tunes, notably Leap Year Waltz, My 6 March 1951), his part in the show was famous Welsh Ladies’ Choir, whose enthusiasm where he hoped to win wider recognition as a “And Her Mother Came Too”, for Jack Buchanan, (1879-1941), as a potential vehicle to replenish Life Belongs To You, My Dearest Dear, Waltz assumed by Jack Buchanan. King’s Rhapsody spurred Ivor’s own youthful passion for music composer with his first full-length musical play, in the revue A-To-Z. the Drury Lane Theatre’s depleted coffers. Of My Heart and I Can Give You The was filmed in 1955 (Everest-GB) with a cast and the theatre. From an early age Ivor played The Fickle Jade. After various setbacks, however, When Novello returned to the USA in 1923, Grandiose in conception (its lavish, scenic sets Starlight. One of the last great pre-War Drury headed by Errol Flynn and Anna Neagle. piano for her rehearsals and singing lessons and in 1913 the struggling theatre composer was it was in the dual capacity of composer and included a shipwreck scene) and with text – the Lane musicals (closing with the outbreak of war later also taught piano. From his childhood years forced temporarily to return to London where screen Adonis. Several of his ballads, meanwhile, first of a series – by the London-born actor- in September 1939, after 187 performances), it Peter Dempsey, 2004
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he had secured a lucrative contract with the had been popularised in concerts and recordings turned-lyricist Christopher Hassall (1912-1963), marked the end of Novello’s reign at that great IVOR NOVELLO Vol.2 music-publishers Ascherberg, Hopwood and by,among others, McCormack and Metropolitan its instant success (243 performances) owed theatre. Following a British provincial tour, The Dancing Years and King’s Rhapsody Crew which, with the outbreak of World War I, Opera soprano Frances Alda. In 1923, Novello much to its star, soprano Mary Ellis (1900-2002) however, The Dancing Years returned in 1942 brought him an outlet for a stream of stirring the handsome heartthrob appeared in The as opera-singer Militza Hajos. Born in New York, to the Adelphi for a further 969 performances Original 1939-1950 Recordings ballads and morale-boosters, most famously the Bohemian Girl (with Gladys Cooper and Ellen Mary had earlier trodden the hallowed boards of and was filmed (in England) in 1949. ‘[Ivor Novello] never lost the common touch … never left his public behind him.When he was right one that made his name: “Keep The Home Fires Terry,for the Knoles studio) and, in the mould of the Metropolitan (from 1918, in company with, Novello’s next wartime production Arc De at the top, they were there, too. For nobody was ever less of a snob. His only standard was quality; he Burning”. Richard Barthelmess or Ramon Novarro, was cast among others, Caruso, Chaliapin, de Luca, Farrar Triomphe (Phoenix Theatre, 1943) again cast would have nothing which, in achievement or texture, was second rate’. In 1916, Novello was commissioned as a sub- by D W Griffith opposite Mae Marsh in The and Jeritza) before turning to musical comedy. star attraction Mary Ellis as an opera singer, (W.Macqueen Pope: Ivor – The Story Of An Achievement) lieutenant in the Royal Naval Air Service aboard White Rose. His other silent-screen appearances, In 1924, she had created the title role in Oscar although the hauntingly atmospheric solo “Dark HMS Crystal Palace, but as the First World War which included The Man Without Desire (1923), Hammerstein II and Rudolf Friml’s 1924 Music” (created by Elisabeth Welch) has since ‘I am not a highbrow. I am an entertainer. Empty seats and good opinions mean nothing to me’. London theatre was booming he soon received The Rat (1925), The Constant Nymph and The Broadway success Rose Marie and in 1933 proved the show’s only lasting number. For his (Ivor Novello) more interesting commissions to write numbers Vortex (1928), placed him as the leading British Cochran brought her to London for the British next venture Perchance To Dream (Hippo- Ivor Novello’s shows stand as a last flowering of he moved in theatrical and musical circles and for revues: Nat D Ayer’s The Bing Boys Are Here romantic male star of the day. After successfully première of Kern’s Music In The Air. In 1934 drome, 1945), Novello wrote his own libretto. Viennese-style operetta. With no expense spared through his mother’s connections he met and and George Grossmith’s Theodore & Co.In making the transition to talkies (with Once A she played a poisoning spouse in the An extravaganza set in Regency England, and and meticulous attention to detail they provided heard, among others,Adelina Patti and was even December 1916 he contributed to Charlot’s See- Lady, for Paramount, in 1931) he continued to Twickenham (GB) film Belladonna and also featuring Olive Gilbert, Muriel Barron, Roma escapism of the highest calibre. Being the very a pageboy at Clara Butt’s wedding (an event Saw and in 1917 to Cochran’s Arlette. The appear in plays on the London stage but, with starred in the 1936 film version of Glamorous Beaumont, Margaret Rutherford and Ivor stuff of theatrical illusion and old-fashioned which inspired him to write for her the following year he provided various numbers for the fiasco of Coward’s Sirocco (1927), he turned Night (ABP/Walter Mycroft). himself, at 1022 performances this was Novello’s romance, their overtly lush melodies and commemorative “Page’s Road Song”, which Harry Grattan’s Tabs and in 1919 shared credits actor-manager instead for such productions as Novello’s next and no less sumptuous longest-running show to date and by 1949, again sentimental lyrics masked the author’s keen subsequently that great Dame recorded). with Howard Talbot for Who’s Hooper?, a revue Symphony In Two Flats (1929; filmed by production Careless Rapture (1936) survived with Hassall as librettist, he had capitalised on its sense of theatrical expediency and commercial Ivor attended school first in Cardiff, then in by Clifford Grey. 1919 also saw the emergence Michael Balcon in 1930), Murder In Mayfair 296 Drury Lane performances before touring success with King’s Rhapsody (Palace Theatre; sensibility. During the years that have elapsed Gloucester, where he studied music under Sir of Novello the silent-screen matinee-idol and (1934) and Full House (1935). Great Britain during 1937-1938. This show (like 839 performances). With a storyline of ‘king- since Novello’s death, his tunes have become Herbert Brewer (of Three Choirs fame). In 1903, straight-actor. In Paris, he appeared in Louis Such was Novello’s multifarious thespian its successor Crest Of The Wave) starred the marries-commoner’, this musical benefited from overlaid by an even greater nostalgia. at ten, he won a scholarship to Magdalen College Mercanton’s screen realisation of Robert experience when his first real theatrical Kansas City-born singing actress Dorothy a fantastical setting (Romania transposed as Composer, playwright, actor, producer and School, Oxford, and by 1908 his histrionic bent Hichens’ novel The Call Of The Blood and, milestone loomed out of the blue with Dickson. With The Dancing Years (1939) Mary Ruritania) and offered such Novello perennials matinee-idol, Ivor Novello was born David Ivor was venting itself in one-act plays and during 1921, he made his Hollywood screen Glamorous Night (1935), his first full-scale Ellis made a welcome return and featured as The Violin Began To Play and Someday Davies in Cardiff on 15 January 1893 the son of commercially successful drawing-room ballads, debut (in Matheson Lang’s Carnival, for United musical for fourteen years.The show was, he prominently opposite Novello, in the dual My Heart Will Awake. Its cast included David Davies, a local government accountant, the earliest of which were published by Boosey Artists) and in London appeared in Harley always maintained, first conceived ‘over lunch’ capacity of actor and pianist. The show’s rich Vanessa Lee, Olive Gilbert, Denis Martin and and Clara Novello (1861-1943), a noted & Co, in 1910. In 1911, the eighteen-year-old Granville-Barker’s adaptation of Sacha Guitry’s between himself and the songwriter and score incorporates several of Novello’s most Novello. When Ivor Novello died, (in London on pioneering choral trainer and founder of the Ivor travelled first to Canada then to New York, Debureau, while (as a songwriter) also penning theatrical entrepreneur Harry Moncrieff Tennent enduring tunes, notably Leap Year Waltz, My 6 March 1951), his part in the show was famous Welsh Ladies’ Choir, whose enthusiasm where he hoped to win wider recognition as a “And Her Mother Came Too”, for Jack Buchanan, (1879-1941), as a potential vehicle to replenish Life Belongs To You, My Dearest Dear, Waltz assumed by Jack Buchanan. King’s Rhapsody spurred Ivor’s own youthful passion for music composer with his first full-length musical play, in the revue A-To-Z. the Drury Lane Theatre’s depleted coffers. Of My Heart and I Can Give You The was filmed in 1955 (Everest-GB) with a cast and the theatre. From an early age Ivor played The Fickle Jade. After various setbacks, however, When Novello returned to the USA in 1923, Grandiose in conception (its lavish, scenic sets Starlight. One of the last great pre-War Drury headed by Errol Flynn and Anna Neagle. piano for her rehearsals and singing lessons and in 1913 the struggling theatre composer was it was in the dual capacity of composer and included a shipwreck scene) and with text – the Lane musicals (closing with the outbreak of war later also taught piano. From his childhood years forced temporarily to return to London where screen Adonis. Several of his ballads, meanwhile, first of a series – by the London-born actor- in September 1939, after 187 performances), it Peter Dempsey, 2004
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he had secured a lucrative contract with the had been popularised in concerts and recordings turned-lyricist Christopher Hassall (1912-1963), marked the end of Novello’s reign at that great IVOR NOVELLO Vol.2 music-publishers Ascherberg, Hopwood and by,among others, McCormack and Metropolitan its instant success (243 performances) owed theatre. Following a British provincial tour, The Dancing Years and King’s Rhapsody Crew which, with the outbreak of World War I, Opera soprano Frances Alda. In 1923, Novello much to its star, soprano Mary Ellis (1900-2002) however, The Dancing Years returned in 1942 brought him an outlet for a stream of stirring the handsome heartthrob appeared in The as opera-singer Militza Hajos. Born in New York, to the Adelphi for a further 969 performances Original 1939-1950 Recordings ballads and morale-boosters, most famously the Bohemian Girl (with Gladys Cooper and Ellen Mary had earlier trodden the hallowed boards of and was filmed (in England) in 1949. ‘[Ivor Novello] never lost the common touch … never left his public behind him.When he was right one that made his name: “Keep The Home Fires Terry,for the Knoles studio) and, in the mould of the Metropolitan (from 1918, in company with, Novello’s next wartime production Arc De at the top, they were there, too. For nobody was ever less of a snob. His only standard was quality; he Burning”. Richard Barthelmess or Ramon Novarro, was cast among others, Caruso, Chaliapin, de Luca, Farrar Triomphe (Phoenix Theatre, 1943) again cast would have nothing which, in achievement or texture, was second rate’. In 1916, Novello was commissioned as a sub- by D W Griffith opposite Mae Marsh in The and Jeritza) before turning to musical comedy. star attraction Mary Ellis as an opera singer, (W.Macqueen Pope: Ivor – The Story Of An Achievement) lieutenant in the Royal Naval Air Service aboard White Rose. His other silent-screen appearances, In 1924, she had created the title role in Oscar although the hauntingly atmospheric solo “Dark HMS Crystal Palace, but as the First World War which included The Man Without Desire (1923), Hammerstein II and Rudolf Friml’s 1924 Music” (created by Elisabeth Welch) has since ‘I am not a highbrow. I am an entertainer. Empty seats and good opinions mean nothing to me’. London theatre was booming he soon received The Rat (1925), The Constant Nymph and The Broadway success Rose Marie and in 1933 proved the show’s only lasting number. For his (Ivor Novello) more interesting commissions to write numbers Vortex (1928), placed him as the leading British Cochran brought her to London for the British next venture Perchance To Dream (Hippo- Ivor Novello’s shows stand as a last flowering of he moved in theatrical and musical circles and for revues: Nat D Ayer’s The Bing Boys Are Here romantic male star of the day. After successfully première of Kern’s Music In The Air. In 1934 drome, 1945), Novello wrote his own libretto. Viennese-style operetta. With no expense spared through his mother’s connections he met and and George Grossmith’s Theodore & Co.In making the transition to talkies (with Once A she played a poisoning spouse in the An extravaganza set in Regency England, and and meticulous attention to detail they provided heard, among others,Adelina Patti and was even December 1916 he contributed to Charlot’s See- Lady, for Paramount, in 1931) he continued to Twickenham (GB) film Belladonna and also featuring Olive Gilbert, Muriel Barron, Roma escapism of the highest calibre. Being the very a pageboy at Clara Butt’s wedding (an event Saw and in 1917 to Cochran’s Arlette. The appear in plays on the London stage but, with starred in the 1936 film version of Glamorous Beaumont, Margaret Rutherford and Ivor stuff of theatrical illusion and old-fashioned which inspired him to write for her the following year he provided various numbers for the fiasco of Coward’s Sirocco (1927), he turned Night (ABP/Walter Mycroft). himself, at 1022 performances this was Novello’s romance, their overtly lush melodies and commemorative “Page’s Road Song”, which Harry Grattan’s Tabs and in 1919 shared credits actor-manager instead for such productions as Novello’s next and no less sumptuous longest-running show to date and by 1949, again sentimental lyrics masked the author’s keen subsequently that great Dame recorded). with Howard Talbot for Who’s Hooper?, a revue Symphony In Two Flats (1929; filmed by production Careless Rapture (1936) survived with Hassall as librettist, he had capitalised on its sense of theatrical expediency and commercial Ivor attended school first in Cardiff, then in by Clifford Grey. 1919 also saw the emergence Michael Balcon in 1930), Murder In Mayfair 296 Drury Lane performances before touring success with King’s Rhapsody (Palace Theatre; sensibility. During the years that have elapsed Gloucester, where he studied music under Sir of Novello the silent-screen matinee-idol and (1934) and Full House (1935). Great Britain during 1937-1938. This show (like 839 performances). With a storyline of ‘king- since Novello’s death, his tunes have become Herbert Brewer (of Three Choirs fame). In 1903, straight-actor. In Paris, he appeared in Louis Such was Novello’s multifarious thespian its successor Crest Of The Wave) starred the marries-commoner’, this musical benefited from overlaid by an even greater nostalgia. at ten, he won a scholarship to Magdalen College Mercanton’s screen realisation of Robert experience when his first real theatrical Kansas City-born singing actress Dorothy a fantastical setting (Romania transposed as Composer, playwright, actor, producer and School, Oxford, and by 1908 his histrionic bent Hichens’ novel The Call Of The Blood and, milestone loomed out of the blue with Dickson. With The Dancing Years (1939) Mary Ruritania) and offered such Novello perennials matinee-idol, Ivor Novello was born David Ivor was venting itself in one-act plays and during 1921, he made his Hollywood screen Glamorous Night (1935), his first full-scale Ellis made a welcome return and featured as The Violin Began To Play and Someday Davies in Cardiff on 15 January 1893 the son of commercially successful drawing-room ballads, debut (in Matheson Lang’s Carnival, for United musical for fourteen years.The show was, he prominently opposite Novello, in the dual My Heart Will Awake. Its cast included David Davies, a local government accountant, the earliest of which were published by Boosey Artists) and in London appeared in Harley always maintained, first conceived ‘over lunch’ capacity of actor and pianist. The show’s rich Vanessa Lee, Olive Gilbert, Denis Martin and and Clara Novello (1861-1943), a noted & Co, in 1910. In 1911, the eighteen-year-old Granville-Barker’s adaptation of Sacha Guitry’s between himself and the songwriter and score incorporates several of Novello’s most Novello. When Ivor Novello died, (in London on pioneering choral trainer and founder of the Ivor travelled first to Canada then to New York, Debureau, while (as a songwriter) also penning theatrical entrepreneur Harry Moncrieff Tennent enduring tunes, notably Leap Year Waltz, My 6 March 1951), his part in the show was famous Welsh Ladies’ Choir, whose enthusiasm where he hoped to win wider recognition as a “And Her Mother Came Too”, for Jack Buchanan, (1879-1941), as a potential vehicle to replenish Life Belongs To You, My Dearest Dear, Waltz assumed by Jack Buchanan. King’s Rhapsody spurred Ivor’s own youthful passion for music composer with his first full-length musical play, in the revue A-To-Z. the Drury Lane Theatre’s depleted coffers. Of My Heart and I Can Give You The was filmed in 1955 (Everest-GB) with a cast and the theatre. From an early age Ivor played The Fickle Jade. After various setbacks, however, When Novello returned to the USA in 1923, Grandiose in conception (its lavish, scenic sets Starlight. One of the last great pre-War Drury headed by Errol Flynn and Anna Neagle. piano for her rehearsals and singing lessons and in 1913 the struggling theatre composer was it was in the dual capacity of composer and included a shipwreck scene) and with text – the Lane musicals (closing with the outbreak of war later also taught piano. From his childhood years forced temporarily to return to London where screen Adonis. Several of his ballads, meanwhile, first of a series – by the London-born actor- in September 1939, after 187 performances), it Peter Dempsey, 2004
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THE DANCING YEARS KING’S RHAPSODY 15. Coronation Scene & Finale 4:30 All selections recorded in London (Ivor Novello–Christopher Hassall, except (Ivor Novello–Christopher Hassall) Vanessa Lee, Olive Gilbert & Chorus with Transfers & Production: David Lennick tracks 1 and 8 as noted) 9. a. Someday My Heart Will Awake Organ Digital Restoration: Graham Newton HMV C 3918, mx 2EA 14124-1 1. Leap Year Waltz 3:10 b. Take Your Girl 4:04 Original 78s from the collections of David Recorded 19 August 1949 (Ivor Novello, arr. Charles Prentice) Vanessa Lee (a); Olive Gilbert & Chorus (b) Lennick & John Rutherford Orchestra conducted by Charles Prentice HMV C 3916, mx 2EA 14205-1 With Orchestra conducted by Harry Acres Original monochrome photo of Ivor Novello HMV B 8897, mx 0EA 7753-1 Recorded 3 October 1949 from Redferns 2. My Life Belongs to You 3:25 10. a. Fly Home Little Heart Dunstan Hart & Mary Ellis; b. The Mayor of Perpignan Ivor Novello, piano c. The Gates of Paradise 4:15 HMV B 8891, mx 0EA 7707-1 Olive Gilbert (a); Phyllis Dare (b); 3. The Wings of Sleep 3:14 Denis Martin,Vanessa Lee, Olive Gilbert (c) Mary Ellis and Olive Gilbert; HMV C 3916, mx 2EA 14120-3 The Naxos Historical labels aim to make available the greatest recordings of the history of recorded Ivor Novello, piano Recorded 19 August 1949 (4:11) music, in the best and truest sound that contemporary technology can provide.To achieve this aim, HMV B 8892, mx 0EA 7708-1 11. a. Mountain Dove Naxos has engaged a number of respected restorers who have the dedication, skill and experience 4. Primrose 2:39 b. If This Were Love to produce restorations that have set new standards in the field of historical recordings. Roma Beaumont; Ivor Novello, piano c. The Violin Began To Play 7:54 HMV B 8892, mx 0EA 7709-1 Vanessa Lee (a, b); Also available in the Naxos Nostalgia series ... 5. My Dearest Dear 3:42 Denis Martin & Larry Mandon (c) Mary Ellis & Ivor Novello (speech) HMV C 3917, mx 2EA 14206-1 HMV B 8891, mx 0EA 7710-2 Recorded 3 October 1949 6. Waltz of my Heart 3:16 12. The Gates of Paradise 3:41 Mary Ellis; Ivor Novello, piano Denis Martin,Vanessa Lee, Olive Gilbert HMV B 8890, mx 0EA 7711-1 HMV C 3978, mx 2EA 14535-1 Recorded 3 March 1950 7. I Can Give You the Starlight 3:31 Mary Ellis 13. Some Day My Heart Will Awake 3:13 HMV B 8890, mx 0EA 7712-1 Vanessa Lee HMV C 3918, mx 2EA 14123-1 8. Three Ballet Tunes 2:44 Recorded 19 August 1949 (Ivor Novello, arr. Charles Prentice) Orchestra conducted by Ivor Novello 14. Muranian Rhapsody 10:44 8.120600* 8.120715 8.120721 HMV B 8897, mx 0EA 7754-1 Ivor Novello, narrator HMV C 3977/8, mx 2EA 14532/4, all take 1 * Not Available in the U.S. With the Drury Lane Theatre Orchestra; Recorded 3 March 1950 Charles Prentice, conductor, except as noted Over 50 Channels of Classical Music • Jazz, Folk/World, Nostalgia Tracks 1–8 recorded 11 April 1939 NAXOS RADIO www.naxosradio.com Accessible Anywhere, Anytime • Near-CD Quality 5 8.120781 6 8.120781 120781bk Novello2 16/12/04 10:23 AM Page 2
THE DANCING YEARS KING’S RHAPSODY 15. Coronation Scene & Finale 4:30 All selections recorded in London (Ivor Novello–Christopher Hassall, except (Ivor Novello–Christopher Hassall) Vanessa Lee, Olive Gilbert & Chorus with Transfers & Production: David Lennick tracks 1 and 8 as noted) 9. a. Someday My Heart Will Awake Organ Digital Restoration: Graham Newton HMV C 3918, mx 2EA 14124-1 1. Leap Year Waltz 3:10 b. Take Your Girl 4:04 Original 78s from the collections of David Recorded 19 August 1949 (Ivor Novello, arr. Charles Prentice) Vanessa Lee (a); Olive Gilbert & Chorus (b) Lennick & John Rutherford Orchestra conducted by Charles Prentice HMV C 3916, mx 2EA 14205-1 With Orchestra conducted by Harry Acres Original monochrome photo of Ivor Novello HMV B 8897, mx 0EA 7753-1 Recorded 3 October 1949 from Redferns 2. My Life Belongs to You 3:25 10. a. Fly Home Little Heart Dunstan Hart & Mary Ellis; b. The Mayor of Perpignan Ivor Novello, piano c. The Gates of Paradise 4:15 HMV B 8891, mx 0EA 7707-1 Olive Gilbert (a); Phyllis Dare (b); 3. The Wings of Sleep 3:14 Denis Martin,Vanessa Lee, Olive Gilbert (c) Mary Ellis and Olive Gilbert; HMV C 3916, mx 2EA 14120-3 The Naxos Historical labels aim to make available the greatest recordings of the history of recorded Ivor Novello, piano Recorded 19 August 1949 (4:11) music, in the best and truest sound that contemporary technology can provide.To achieve this aim, HMV B 8892, mx 0EA 7708-1 11. a. Mountain Dove Naxos has engaged a number of respected restorers who have the dedication, skill and experience 4. Primrose 2:39 b. If This Were Love to produce restorations that have set new standards in the field of historical recordings. Roma Beaumont; Ivor Novello, piano c. The Violin Began To Play 7:54 HMV B 8892, mx 0EA 7709-1 Vanessa Lee (a, b); Also available in the Naxos Nostalgia series ... 5. My Dearest Dear 3:42 Denis Martin & Larry Mandon (c) Mary Ellis & Ivor Novello (speech) HMV C 3917, mx 2EA 14206-1 HMV B 8891, mx 0EA 7710-2 Recorded 3 October 1949 6. Waltz of my Heart 3:16 12. The Gates of Paradise 3:41 Mary Ellis; Ivor Novello, piano Denis Martin,Vanessa Lee, Olive Gilbert HMV B 8890, mx 0EA 7711-1 HMV C 3978, mx 2EA 14535-1 Recorded 3 March 1950 7. I Can Give You the Starlight 3:31 Mary Ellis 13. Some Day My Heart Will Awake 3:13 HMV B 8890, mx 0EA 7712-1 Vanessa Lee HMV C 3918, mx 2EA 14123-1 8. Three Ballet Tunes 2:44 Recorded 19 August 1949 (Ivor Novello, arr. Charles Prentice) Orchestra conducted by Ivor Novello 14. Muranian Rhapsody 10:44 8.120600* 8.120715 8.120721 HMV B 8897, mx 0EA 7754-1 Ivor Novello, narrator HMV C 3977/8, mx 2EA 14532/4, all take 1 * Not Available in the U.S. With the Drury Lane Theatre Orchestra; Recorded 3 March 1950 Charles Prentice, conductor, except as noted Over 50 Channels of Classical Music • Jazz, Folk/World, Nostalgia Tracks 1–8 recorded 11 April 1939 NAXOS RADIO www.naxosradio.com Accessible Anywhere, Anytime • Near-CD Quality 5 8.120781 6 8.120781 IVOR NOVELLO The Dancing Years 8.120781 h www. NOTES ANDFULLRECORDING DETAILS INCLUDED Graham Newton Restoration: Digital DavidLennick Transfers andProduction: Scene&Finale Coronation 15. MuranianRhapsody 14. SomeDayMyHeartWill Awake 13. TheGatesOfParadise 12. MountainDove—IfThisWere Love—TheViolin 11. FlyHomeLittleHeart—TheMayorOfPerpignan— 10. NOVELLO IVOR .SomedayMyHeartWill Awake—Take Your Girl 9. BalletTunes Three 8. ICanGiveYou The Starlight 7. Waltz OfMyHeart 6. Dear My Dearest 5. Primrose 4. The Wings OfSleep 3. MyLife BelongsTo You 2. Leap Year Waltz 1. & g Began To Play The GatesOfParadise KING’S RHAPSODY &RomaBeaumont Olive Gilbert DunstanHart, Ivor Novello, Ellis, Mary THE DANCINGYEARS Total Time:64:02 Mandon&Ivor Novello Larry Phyllis Dare, DenisMartin, Olive Gilbert, Vanessa Lee, 05NxsRgt nentoa t.Dsg:RonHoares Design: Ltd. 2005 NaxosRightsInternational naxos.com 2:39 7:54 3:10 3:42 3:16 2:44 3:14 10:44 3:41 4:15 3:25 4:30 3:31 Made inCanada 3:13 Vol.2 4:04 8.120781 ADD
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