Sweeney Todd & Dracula! Two Victorian Melodramas |
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Year of publication | 2005 |
Type of work | CD recording |
CD Duration | 00:43:19 |
Performers | Derek Wright, narrator; Soloists from New Decade Opera; Redbridge Music School singers and instrumentalists; Edna Graham, conductor |
Publisher | Meridian Records Ltd |
Publisher’s product page | Sweeney Todd & Dracula! |
Melodrama | Section | Forces | Duration | |
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1 | DRACULA! or The Vampire Vanquished (25:34) | ‘Curtain Up’ | Orchestra | 0:54 |
2 | Narrator | Derek Wright | 0:46 | |
3–8 | Jonathan’s Night Ride | Choir | 1:38 | |
9 | Narrator | Derek Wright | 1:20 | |
10–14 | Count Dracula’s Czardas | David Stowell & Choir | 2:19 | |
15 | Narrator | Derek Wright | 1:45 | |
16–18 | Mina’s Song | Lynne McAdam & Choir | 3:26 | |
19 | Narrator | Derek Wright | 0:26 | |
20–27 | Ghost Ship | Choir | 1:38 | |
28 | Narrator | Derek Wright | 1:18 | |
29–34 | The Professor’s Patter Song | Derek Wright | 1:25 | |
35 | Narrator | Derek Wright | 1:36 | |
36–41 | Renfield’s Dining-room Ballad | Bruce Knight & Choir | 3:38 | |
42 | Narrator | Derek Wright | 1:31 | |
43–45 | Finale: Quincey’s Rag | Choir | 1:54 | |
46 | Sweeney Todd the Barber, or The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (17:45) | ‘Curtain Up’ | Orchestra | 0:22 |
47 | Narrator | Derek Wright | 0:26 | |
48–53 | I’m Sweeney Todd, the barber | David Stowell & Choir | 1:56 | |
54 | Narrator | Derek Wright | 0:21 | |
55–60 | Today I start my working life | Anthony Ince | 3:13 | |
61 | Narrator | Derek Wright | 0:25 | |
62–64 | Oh, I’m a jolly sailor | Bruce Knight | 1:09 | |
65 | Narrator | Derek Wright | 1:07 | |
66–69 | Mark, Mark, Where are you now? | Lynne McAdam & Soloists | 2:13 | |
70 | Narrator | Derek Wright | 1:01 | |
71–72 | My famous pies are known to all | Anne-Marie Hetherington | 1:27 | |
73 | Narrator | Derek Wright | 1:17 | |
74–77 | You’re in my power! | David Stowell & Lynne McAdam | 0:51 | |
78 | Narrator | Derek Wright | 0:42 | |
79–81 | A happy ending to our tale – ‘Envoi’ | Choir | 1:15 | |
Total duration: | 43:19 |
Carey Blyton belongs to that select band of composers whose music can make you laugh out loud … should be explored by enterprising school music staff.
—David Shellan, Kentish Times, 20th August 1984
But for sheer fun, his two Victorian Melodramas for Schools are convulsing, especially when performed with the prescribed ‘Music Hall Orchestra’ … A recording by the Redbridge School on Meridian is well recommended.
—Wally Horwood, The British Bandsman, March 1985