The Music of Victor Herbert
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Edition: Music CDAudio: English (Unknown)
Format: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 2008-05-01
Music Label: Anteater Recordings
Soundtracks:
- Naughty Marietta: Overture; Come, Come, Come- Chorus
- Tramp, Tramp, Tramp - Gordon MacRae & Chorus
- Naughty Marietta - Marguerite Piazza
- It Never, Never Can Be Love - Gordon MacRae & Marguerite Piazza
- 'Neath The Southern Moon - Katherine Hilgenberg
- Italian Street Song - Marguerite Piazza & Chorus
- Entr'Acte: The Loves of New Orleans - Chorus
- Live For Today - Marguerite Piazza
- I'm Falling In Love With Someone - Gordon MacRae; Ah, Sweet Mystery Of Life - Marguerite Piazza, Gordon MacRae & Chorus
- The Red Mill: Opening Chorus; If You Love But Me - Lucille Norman; The Isle of Our Dreams - Gordon MacRae
- Whistle It - Chorus
- Moonbeams - Lucille Norman & Gordon MacRae
- Gossip Song - Chorus
- I Want You To Marry Me - Lucille Norman
- Every Day Is Ladies' Day With Me - Gordon MacRae
- Because You're You - Lucille Norman & Gordon MacRae
- The Streets Of New York - Gordon MacRae, Lucille Norman & Chorus; Every Day Is Ladies' Day With Me (reprise) - Gordon MacRae, Lucille Norman & Chorus
- Finale - Gordon MacRae, Lucille Norman & Chorus
- Sweethearts: Sweethearts - Frances Greer & Jimmy Carroll
- Every Love Must Meet His Fate - Earl Wrightson
- Game Of Love - Earl Wrightson & The Guild Chorusters
- The Angelus - Frances Greer & The Guild Chorusters
- Jeanette And Her Little Wooden Shoes - Christina Lind & The Guild Chorusters
- Pretty As A Picture - Earl Wrightson & The Guild Chorusters
- To The Land Of My Own Romance - Frances Greer & Jimmy Carroll
- I Might Be Your Once In A While - Frances Greer & Earl Wrightson
Music reviews of The Music of Victor Herbert
Music Review: Three long out-of-print recordings restored and reissued
Rating: 4 Stars
Anteater Records may not have access to the original Capitol and Victor masters, but the sound on this disc is very very good nonetheless.
THE RED MILL and NAUGHTY MARIETTA were Originally released on 10" Lp's as part of a series Capitol produced based on MacRae's popular and long-running RAILROAD HOUR programs. Despite the title, this was a half-hour program presenting condensations of famous musicals and operettas with just enough dialogue to set up each song. (The plots were often re-written and frequently bore little resemblance to the actual stage text.) These albums are not taken from broadcasts, but were re-recorded in Capitol's studios and present just the music. There are lushly orchestrated by George Greeley and often weave in some of the lesser known songs from each score. I have long suspected that these 24-minute condensations were the inspiration for Readers' Digest when they produced their mammoth 12-LP box set A TREASURY OF GREAT OPERETTAS. Digest has a full cast for each production, whereas on Capitol it is just MacRae, his leading lady and chorus but since the focus here is on the romantic numbers that really isn't a detriment.
Though the orchestrations are very much in a 1950s lush Hollywood style, they do seem to compliment the material even if this is not how these shows sounded on stage in the early years of the 20th century.
For the record the others that MacRae and company recorded were: THE MERRY WIDOW, STUDENT PRINCE, VAGABOND KING, NEW MOON, DESERT SONG and ROBERTA. I, for one, would be happy to have Anteater reissue these as well.
The selections from SWEETHEARTS are a bit older, taken from a 78-rpm album produced by RCA Victor with Al Goodman's orchestra and soloists. The SWEETHEARTS album was for many years the only available recording of this score and RCA reissued it on LP in 1951, and on their budget Camden label in 1957. These issues have been out-of-print for close to 50 years now, which makes this issue most welcome. The performances and sound quality are not as good as the Capitol albums, and curiously the SWEETHEARTS album contained only six songs from the show with two additional Herbert songs (To the Land of My Own Romance & I Might Be Your One-in-a-While) tacked on at the end.
As with the MacRae Capitol albums, this was one of a series that Al Goodman did for Victor. Others were: BLOSSOM TIME, ROSE MARIE, THE NEW MOON, EILEEN, THE DESERT SONG, THE CHOCOATE SOLDIER and several Gilbert and Sullivan pieces.
Collectors must be grateful to Anteater Records for giving us these nicely remastered CD editions. The only improvement I would suggest its to get some proper liner notes added. A booklet with a show history and synopsis for each operetta would be most welcome.
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