British composer Lionel Monckton was the reigning king of British musical theater between the Victorian heyday of Gilbert and Sullivan and the sleek, buttoned-down drawing room comedies of Noël Coward and Ivor Novello. Hyperion's Lionel Monckton: Songs from the Shows is a career survey featuring songs from various shows Monckton composed between 1894 and 1911, performed by the New London Orchestra led by Ronald Corp -- a group that has already distinguished itself through the Hyperion British Light Music Classics series -- ...
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British composer Lionel Monckton was the reigning king of British musical theater between the Victorian heyday of Gilbert and Sullivan and the sleek, buttoned-down drawing room comedies of Noël Coward and Ivor Novello. Hyperion's Lionel Monckton: Songs from the Shows is a career survey featuring songs from various shows Monckton composed between 1894 and 1911, performed by the New London Orchestra led by Ronald Corp -- a group that has already distinguished itself through the Hyperion British Light Music Classics series -- and singers Richard Suart and Catherine Bott. Suart has the idiom down cold and characterizes Monckton's cheerful and clearly popularly oriented tunes with enthusiasm; Bott seems a bit out of her element here, sounding more comfortable in Italian than in Edwardian period English; however, when she sings along with Suart it works, as Bott is able to draw from his example and energy. At certain points, the orchestra sounds a little low in the mix, but overall Lionel Monckton: Songs...
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