What's on the DVD and CD?
The concert programme
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Part 2
Che faro, Orfeo ed Euridice
Cristoph Gluck
Sandman and Hansel und Gretel duet, Hansel und Gretel Engelbert
Humperdinck
With Clarissa Meek
Duet, Nuit d’ivresse, Les Troyans
Hector
Berlioz
With Andrew MacKenzie Wicks
Grand Duchess of Gerolstein’s aria, The
Grand Duchess of Gerolstein
Jacques Offenbach
My Eyes are Smiling: Audience final rendering
I never do anything twice
Stephen
Sondheim
Encore
Somewhere, West Side Story
Words, Stephen Sondheim, music, Leonard Bernstein
Wouldn’t it be loverly, My Fair Lady
Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe
Musicians supporting Carol at the concert
Laurence Rugg Principal piano/cello
Stephen Adam Piano (Miss Otis + song and dance section)
John Brackenridge Piano (cabaret section)
Andrew MacKenzie Wicks Tenor
Clarissa Meek Mezzo soprano
Claire Mooney Singer-songwriter
Maureen Charlton Violin
The video DVD and audio CD of Carol Singing in April both contain exactly the same musical performances. The only difference is that the DVD includes continuity announcements and descriptions of songs by Carol, whereas the CD has just the songs.
Part 1
My Eyes are Smiling
Words and music by
Ted Rowlands, arranged by Carol
Rowlands
The Call, from Five Mystical Songs
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Rich and Rare Folksong arrangement
Benjamin Britten
Bonne Journée
Francis Poulenc
The Tyger
Words, William Blake, music, Laurence Rugg
The man I love
George Gershwin
Dinner dues blues
Dick Perrett
Miss Otis regrets
Cole Porter
Medley by Jerome Kern
Fine romance /
I won’t dance / I hear music
with John Brackenridge
My Eyes are Smiling
Ted Rowlands
Growing Older
Words by Ted Rowlands,
music by Claire Mooney, violin arranged by
Carol Rowlands
Sung by Claire Mooney (guitar) with Maureen Charlton (violin)
You won’t see me
Lennon and McCartney,
arranged by Carol Rowlands
With John
Brackenridge, Mark Oldfield, Tim Dawkins,
Steve Green, Clarissa Meek, Philip Cox,
Andrew MacKenzie Wicks, Russell
Hibberd, Laurence Rugg on cello, Claire
Mooney on guitar, Peter Rowlands on
guitar and Maureen Charlton on violin
IMPORTANT NOTE
Special thanks go to Mark Oldfield (baritone) and Timothy Dawkins (bass), who performed solo numbers during the concert. These songs are not included on the albums, but for more information about their work, please visit www.markoldfield.net and www.timothydawkins.com.