The latest podcast's playlist appears first, followed by playlists for earlier episodes. You will see the date on which the episode is to be/or has been uploaded. I will add new playlists as new episodes become available. I have included photos of some of the singers featured in these podcasts.
Webster Booth
John Cameron (baritone)
Richard Tauber
Isobel Baillie
Malcolm McEachern
Robert Irwin
Heddle Nash
Playlist - Episode 14 - 16 November 2013
What if ‘tis I am chosen, Heavenly
Aida AIDA (Verdi) Webster Booth, Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by
Malcolm Sargent, 21 October 1943, HMV C3379.
O, for the Wings of a Dove
(Mendelssohn) Elsie Morrison
Less than the Dust/ Kashmiri
Song (Woodforde-Finden) Webster Booth, accompanied by Ernest Lush. Recorded
1944. HMV B9342/3
If You are After a Little
Amusement, MARRIAGE OF FIGARO (Mozart) Dennis Noble, with Hallé orchestra
conducted by Warwick Braithwaite. Recorded at the Belle Vue, Manchester on 16
March 1943.
Habanera CARMEN (Bizet) Edith Coates with London
Symphony Orchestra conducted by Walter Goehr. Recorded 1948
The Bold Gendarmes (Offenbach).
Harold Williams and Malcolm McEachern
Largo/Ombra Mai Fu/O
Friendly Tree SERSE (Handel) Webster Booth with the Liverpool Philharmonic
Orchestra, conducted by Wynne Reeves. Recorded on 28 October 1939 HMV C3130
Playlist - Episode 13 - 19 October 2013
O
Loveliness Beyond Compare MAGIC FLUTE (Mozart) Webster Booth with
the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Malcolm Sargent. Recorded on
21 October 1943. HMV C3402
Foxgloves
(Michael Head) Jennifer Vyvyan, accompanied by Ernest Lush, recorded in 1953
My
Gallant Crew, Good Morning HMS PINAFORE (G&S) John Cameron
Never
Mind the Why and Wherefore HMS PINAFORE (G&S) John Cameron,
Elsie Morrison, George Baker
Constanza,
Constanza IL SERAGLIO (Mozart) Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra,
conducted by Basil Cameron, Recorded 20 December 1943. HMV C3402
The
Lass With the Delicate Air (Arne) Elsie Suddaby, accompanied by
Reginald Paul (1930s)
Mine
be Her Burden DON GIOVANNI (Mozart) Webster Booth with
Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Malcolm Sargent. Recorded 21
October 1943. HMV C3030
Playlist - Episode 12 - 21 September 2013
Deeper
and Deeper Still/Waft Her, Angels, Through the Skies
JEPHTHA (Handel) Webster Booth, Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Malcolm Sargent. Recorded on 4 July 1944. HMV C3414
Simple
Aveu
(Thomé) Leon Goossens (oboe) accompanied by Clarence Raybould.
Love
and Music TOSCA (Puccini) Victoria Sladen, recorded on 20 January 1949. HMV B9755
Strange
Harmony of Colours/ When the Stars are Brightly Shining TOSCA
(Puccini) Webster Booth, with orchestra conducted by Warwick Braithwaite,
recorded in 1938. HMV B8803
Le
Violette (Scarlatti) Victoria de los Angeles, accompanied by
Geoffrey Parsons at a recital in 1980.
The
Message (Blumenthal) Webster Booth, with orchestra conducted by
George Melachrino, recorded 1948 HMV C3962
Playlist - Episode 11 - 7 September 2013
Oh,
Maiden, My Maiden FREDERICA (Franz Léhar) Webster Booth,
recorded 1934. HMV B8393
Girls Were Made to Love and Kiss
PAGANINI (Franz Léhar) Richard Tauber
Beauty’s
Eyes
(Paolo Tosti) Webster Booth
Die
Meinacht ( Brahms) Lotte Lehmann
Ein
Schwann (Edvard Grieg) Jussi Bjorling
I Love
Thee
(Grieg) Webster Booth accompanied by Gerald Moore, Recorded in October 1946.
HMV B9497
You
are My Heart’s Delight LAND OF SMILES (Léhar) Webster Booth
from a broadcast in 1940s and from a medley, conducted by Mark Lubbock recorded
on 18 January 1951
Playlist - Episode 10 - 24 August 2013
Love
in Her Eyes Sits Playing ACIS AND GALATEA (Handel) Webster
Booth, with orchestra conducted by Warwick Braithwaite. Recorded on 8 March
1948. HMV C3796
Agnus
Dei
MASS IN B MINOR (Bach) Norma Procter
Impatience (Schubert) Webster Booth accompanied by Gerald
Moore April 1943, HMV B9314
Devotion (Schumann) Webster Booth, accompanied by Gerald
Moore,
October 1946 HMV B9497
Lo, Hear the Gentle
Lark (Bishop) Gwen Catley, with flute obbligato by
George Burrows
My Object All Sublime MIKADO Harold Williams
Miserere
IL
TROVATORE (Verdi) Joan Cross and Webster Booth, with Lawrance Collingwood
conducting the Sadlers Wells Orchestra. Recorded at Abbey Road, London, 3
November 1938. HMV C3053
Playlist - Episode 9 - 10 August 2013
O loss of sight/Total Eclipse SAMSON (Handel) Webster
Booth with orchestra conducted by Stanford Robinson. Recorded on 7 February
1947.HMV C3571
O Rest in the Lord ELIJAH (Mendelssohn) Kathleen Ferrier
with the Boyd Neel String Orchestra, recorded 1946
Greensleeves (trad) arranged Olive Richardson. Webster
Booth with orchestra conducted by Eric Robinson. Recorded HMV B9585
Oft in the Stilly Night (trad) John McCormack
Blow the Wind Southerly (trad) Kathleen Ferrier
She is Far From the Land (Frank Lambert/Moore) Webster
Booth, accompanied by Gerald Moore. Recorded 1940.HMV C3171
Sleep, My Saviour, Sleep, Celebrity Quartette – Isobel
Baillie, Heddle Nash, Norman Allin, Muriel Brunskill, Recorded 1932.
Excelsior (Longfellow/Balfe) Dennis Noble and Webster
Booth with male chorus, recorded in 1939 HMV C3124
Playlist - Episode 8 - 26 July 2013
Flower Song CARMEN (Bizet) Webster Booth, with Liverpool
Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Warwick Braithwaite. Recorded on 12
September 1938. HMV C3030
Lovely Maid in the Moonlight LA BOHÈME (Puccini) Joan
Cross and Webster Booth, with Sadlers Wells Orchestra, conducted by Lawrance
Collingwood. Recorded 3 November 1938. HMV C3053
How Vain is Man JUDAS MACCABEUS (Handel) Heddle Nash,
with the Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Warwick Braithwaite. Recorded 19
November 1946. HMV C 3550
From Mighty Kings JUDAS MACCABEUS (Handel) Isobel
Baillie, with the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent,
recorded on 14 February 1949. Columbia DX1559
My Arms Against the Gorgios/Sound an Alarm JUDAS
MACCABEUS (Handel), orchestra conducted by Warwick Braithwaite. Recorded
December 1949 HMV C3939
Ma Bonnie Lad (Folk Song) Kathleen Ferrier
The Little Road to Bethlehem (Michael Head) Webster
Booth, with orchestra and Herbert Dawson (organ). Recorded 1947. HMV B9598
Playlist - Episode 7 - 13 July 2013
Ah, Love Me a Little MADAM BUTTERFLY (Puccini) Webster
Booth and Joan Hammond with the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by
Malcolm Sargent. Recorded on 21 October 1943. HMV C3376
Leanin’ (Sterndale Bennett) Owen Brannigan, with
accompaniment by Gerald Moore, recorded on 7 October 1949. HMV C4110
Ah, fill the cup! Ah, Moon of My Delight IN A PERSIAN GARDEN (Lehmann) Webster Booth, Recorded 1940 HMV
B9069
Think on Me (Alicia Anne Scott) Isobel Baillie,
accompanied by Gerald Moore. Recorded on 18 June 1942, Columbia DB2080
Morgen (Richard Strauss) Webster Booth with Ernest Lush
(piano), Alfredo Campoli (violin). Recorded January 1945. HMV C3418
As I Sit Here (Sanderson) Norman Allin, accompanied by
Thomas Best. Recorded 15 June 1939. Columbia DB 1869
Come Into the Garden, Maud (Tennyson/Balfe) Webster Booth
with Ernest Lush (piano) and Alfredo Campoli (violin) Recorded January 1945.
HMV C3418
Playlist - Episode 6 - 29 June 2013
Serenade (Richard Strauss) Heddle Nash, accompanied by Gerald Moore HMV B9412
The Prize Song THE MASTERSINGERS (Wagner) Webster Booth,
with the Hallé Orchestra, conducted by Warwick Braithwaite. 29 August 1942, HMV
C3309
Be Thou Faithful Unto Death ST PAUL (Mendelssohn) Webster
Booth, with the Hallé Orchestra, conducted by Warwick Braithwate, 28 August
1942. HMV C3305
Greeting (Mendelssohn) Kathleen Ferrier and Isobel
Baillie
I’m the Factotum THE BARBER OF SEVILLE (Rossini) Dennis
Noble, with orchestra conducted by Clarence Raybould, 1928.
‘Tis the Spring of all Invention THE BARBER OF SEVILLE
(Rossini) Webster Booth and Dennis Noble with the Liverpool Philharmonic
Orchestra, conducted by Basil Cameron. December 1943. HMV C3398
The English Rose MERRIE ENGLAND (German) Webster Booth, with orchestra conducted by Clifford Greenwood. 18 July 1939. HMV B8947
Playlist - Episode 5 - 22 June 2013
In Summertime On Bredon (Peel) Robert Irwin
A Wand’ring Minstrel MIKADO (Gilbert & Sullivan)
Webster Booth with Hallé Orchestra, conducted by Leslie Heward, 23 September
1941, HMV C3261
Woman is Fickle RIGOLETTO (Verdi) Webster Booth,
orchestra conducted by Lawrance Collingwood, recorded in 1939. HMV B8829
Art Thou Troubled? RODELINDA (Handel) Kathleen Ferrier,
London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Malcolm Sargent, 1946.
Love Sounds the Alarm ACIS AND GALATEA (Handel) recorded
on 8 March 1948 with Warwick Braithwaite conducting (unnamed) orchestra. HMV
C3796
O, Ruddier than the Cherry ACIS AND GALATEA (Handel) Owen
Brannigan.
On With the Motley PAGLIACCI (Leoncavallo) Webster Booth
with the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Basil Cameron. Recorded
on 21 December 1943. HMV 3379
‘Tis the Day (Leoncavallo) Orchestra conducted by George
Melachrino. Recorded in 1949. HMV B9777
Playlist - Episode 4 – 15 June 2013
Is Not His Word Like a Fire? ELIJAH (Mendelssohn) Harold
Williams with the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Malcolm
Sargent, recorded in 1947.
Ye People, Rend Your Hearts/If With All Your Hearts
ELIJAH (Mendelssohn) Webster Booth, with the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra,
conducted by Warwick Braithwaite, recorded on 28 February 1939 in the Kingsway
Hall, London. HMV C3095
Woe Unto Them ELIJAH (Mendelssohn) Gladys Ripley, with
the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Malcolm Sargent, recorded in
1947.
Watchman, What of the Night? (Sarjeant), Webster Booth and
Dennis Noble with male chorus, recorded in 1939. HMV C3124
Onaway! Awake, Beloved HIAWATHA (Coleridge-Taylor)
Webster Booth, with the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Malcolm
Sargent. Recorded on 4 July 1944. HMV C3407
Gems from CARMEN (Bizet) with Webster Booth, Nancy Evans,
Dennis Noble and Noel Eadie, Sadler’s Wells Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by
Warwick Braithwaite. Recorded in 1940, HMV C3086.
Playlist
– Episode 3 – 8 June 2013
Thine Be Her Burden DON GIOVANNI (Mozart) Webster Booth
with the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Malcolm Sargent,
recorded on 21 October 1943, HMV C3372
Give Me Thy Hand DON GIOVANNI (Mozart) Dennis Noble, Gwen
Catley, with the Hallé orchestra, conducted by Warwick Braithwaite, recorded on
7 March 1943 at the Houldsworth Hall, Manchester, HMV B9338
The Lord’s Prayer (Malotte) with Gerald Moore at the
piano.
Sound the Trumpet (Purcell), Kathleen Ferrier and Isobel
Baillie
For England (Alan Murray) Oscar Natzka, Parlophone R2734
Where E’er You Walk SEMELE (Handel) Webster Booth, with
the Hallé Orchestra, conducted by Warwick Braithwaite on 28 August 1942, HMV
C3305
Playlist
– 1 June 2013 – Episode 2
All Hail, Thy Dwelling, Pure and Holy, FAUST (Gounod)
with the Hallé Orchestra, conducted by Warwick Braithwaite.Recorded 29 August
1942. C3309
Then Leave Her, FAUST (Gounod) with Webster Booth, Norman
Walker and Joan Cross, with Sadlers Wells opera chorus, the London Philharmonic
Orchestra, conducted by Lawrance Collingwood. Recorded 3 March 1939 HMV C3086
Off to Philadelphia in the Morning (Walter Battison
Hayes) Norman Walker, accompanied by Gerald Moore. Recorded at Abbey Road
studios, 17 March 1952.
Phil, the Fluter’s Ball (Percy French). Webster Booth
accompanied by Gerald Moore, December 1940. HMV B9123
Your Tiny Hand is Frozen, LA BOHÈME (Puccini) Webster
Booth, with the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Warwick Braithwaite.
Recorded on 12 September 1938. HMV C3030
In a Coupé, Webster Booth & Dennis Noble with the
Hallé Orchestra, conducted by Warwick Braithwaite. Recorded on 29 August 1942.
HMV C3309
Will She be Waiting Up? (Sterndale Bennett) Dennis Noble,
Recorded on 19 September 1929. Columbia DB 158.
Playlist
– Episode 1- 25 May 2013
Theme music: On Wings of Song (Mendelssohn) accompanied
by Gerald Moore, Recorded on 12 February 1943. HMV B9315
This One, or That One RIGOLETTO (Verdi) Conducted by
Lawrance Collingwood. Recorded 1939. HMV B8829
Ev’ry Valley MESSIAH (Handel) Webster Booth with the
London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Warwick Braithwaite. Recorded on 28
February 1939. HMV C3087.
O, Had I Jubal’s Lyre JOSHUA (Handel) Gwen Catley, with
City of Birmingham orchestra, conducted by Leslie Heward. Recorded on 22
December 1940. HMV B9138
The Lord is a Man of War ISRAEL IN EGYPT (Handel)
Harold Williams, Malcolm McEachern. Recorded October 1933. Columbia DX585
Why does the God of Israel Sleep? SAMSON (Handel)
conducted by Warwick Braithwaite. Recorded December 1949. HMV C3939
Quartet: Fairest Daughter of the Graces RIGOLETTO (Verdi).
Webster Booth, Noel Edie, Arnold Matters, Edith Coates, London Philharmonic
Orchestra conducted by Warwick Braithwaite. Recorded at Abbey Road, London on 3
March 1939. HMV C3086
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