Dancing Master Op.34 - London Philharmonic Orchestra & Malcolm Arnold - Audio CD (Arrives in 50 days)

Originally intended as an opera for television, Malcolm Arnold’s collaboration with film-maker and librettist Joe Mendoza, The Dancing Master, Op. 34, was considered too racy for viewers in the 1950s and subsequently rejected for broadcast and largely forgotten.

Conductor John Andrews, with the BBC Concert Orchestra and a stellar cast, breathes new life into this operatic gem, here receiving its first recording. With its cast of larger-than life Restoration caricatures – the trapped heiress, the scheming maid, the over-protective guardian, and the handsome rake – the opera showcases Arnold’s taste for exuberant satire and tender Romanticism in equal measure.

Tracklist

1. Introduction - Miranda!
2. Open Miranda! Open, I Say!
3. Serviteur, Serviteur, La Cousine!
4. Oh Miss
5. Over the Mounatins and Over the Waves
6. Mais J Insiste, Miss Prue
7. Who Gave You Leave, Miss Impudence? Come Miranda, Come and G
8. How Came She With a Dancing Master
9. I Shall Betray You, I Hardly Know a Step
10. Faugh! What a Silly Prating Coxcomb
11. I Thought the Fool Would Never Leave Us
12. I Beg You Sir, No Further
13. A Volume From the Shelf I Took
14. Lucky Miranda, She Has a Handsome Proper Young Man
15. Miranda, Miranda, Where Are You Miranda
16. What? Here Already?
17. How Now, Sir! Kissing Her Hand
18. I Am In No Dancing Humour Rather Than Lose Your Favour
19. Ah, Here He is Again!
20. For a Spaniard - Ring the Bells

Label: Resonus | Origin: Holland

📌 Bbc Concert Orchestra/John Andrews/Eleanor Dennis