: Broadway Musicals: John McGlinn on Broadway - John McGlinn

This set brings together the five complete recordings of famous Broadway musicals made under the direction of the American conductor and musical theatre archivist John McGlinn - Show Boat (1927) by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II, Cole Porter's Anything Goes (1934), Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun (1946), Lerner and Loewe's Brigadoon (1947) and Porter's Kiss Me, Kate (1948). The Show Boat recording also contains a substantial amount of extra material cut from the original production before opening or written for subsequent revivals and the 1936 film. Also included here are three compendium CDs of show material by outstanding composers like Jerome Kern, Kurt Weill, Vincent Youmans and Leonard Bernstein, and a collection of overtures by three of the greatest Broadway composers of the first half of the 20th century - Cole Porter, George Gershwin and Jerome Kern. All these recordings have been meticulously prepared by McGlinn using the original orchestrations and arrangements, and the performers include some of the finest stars of the musical and operatic stage led by Kim Criswell, Frederica von Stade, Teresa Stratas, Jerry Hadley and Thomas Hampson.

John McGlinn (1955-2009) was 'a mercurial conductor and orchestrator who brought to the great US musicals keen taste, scholarship and renewed razzle-dazzle.' (The Times). The recordings that sprang from his combined talents are here made available in one box for the first time. Some of the finest tunes and wittiest lyrics ever penned can be enjoyed again as they were by the audiences who flocked to Broadway in the 1920s and 30s.

WITH: John Mark Ainsley, Brent Barrett, Dame Josephine Barstow, Karla Burns, Kim Criswell, Geroge Dvorsky, Elizabeth Futral, Jerry Hadley, Bruce Hubbard, Cris Groenendaal, Thomas Hampson, David Harrison, Simon Keenlyside, Jeanne Lehmann, Rebecca Luker, Donald Maxwell, Frederica von Stade, Teresa Stratas.

AND: Ambrosian Chorus, London Sinfonietta Voices, London Sonfonietta, London Symphony Orchestra, National Philharmonic Orchestra, New Princess Theatre Orchestra