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Composer of the Week: Cole Porter

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

Donald Macleod introduces the musicals that firmly established Porter's reputation as one of the most important songwriters of his day.
Love for Sale (The New Yorkers) Elizabeth Welch
Mister and Missus Fitch
Pearl Bailey
Night and Day; After You, Who?; I've Got You under My Skin (Gay Divorce) Fred Astaire
It's 's Bad for Me; Solomon; The Physician (Nymph Errant)
Gertrude Lawrence
/ Get a Kick out of You; All through the Night; There'll Always Be a Lady Fair; Where Are the Men; You're the Top; Anything Goes (Anything Goes) Kim Criswell , Cris Groenendaal and Frederica von Stade, Ambrosian Chorus,
London Symphony Orchestra, conductor John McGlinn
Repeated on Monday at 12 midnight

Contributors

Introduces:
Donald MacLeod
Unknown:
Elizabeth Welch
Unknown:
Fred Astaire
Unknown:
Gertrude Lawrence
Unknown:
Kim Criswell
Unknown:
Cris Groenendaal
Conductor:
John McGlinn
Source: Radio Times

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