Various: Blah Blah Blah & other trifles (Hyperion Audio CD)

Hyperion Various CD Vocal: Blah Blah Blah & other trifles

Roger Vignoles (piano), Sarah Walker (mezzo-soprano)

CDA66289

Recording details: June 1988
Wigmore Hall, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Mark Brown
Engineered by Antony Howell
Release date: May 1989
Total duration: 55 minutes 36 seconds

Track listing CD1 1
Blah, Blah, Blah (Gershwin/Vignoles) 'I've written you a song, a beautiful routine' 3:02
2
They all laughed (Gershwin) 'The odds were a hundred to one against me' 2:38
3
The tale of the oyster (Porter) 'Down by the sea lived a lonesome oyster' 3:14
4
Place Settings (Nicholas) 'Sheila's next to Andrew, and Andrew's opposite Marge' 2:37
5
Lime jello marshmallow cottage cheese surprise (Bolcom) 'Ladies, the minutes will soon be read today' 2:35
6
Gigerlette (Schoenberg) 'Fräulein Gigerlette asked me round last night' 1:45
7
The Satisfied Lover (Schoenberg) 'My dear lady's cat is a charming creature' 2:50
8
The Mirror of Arcady 'Aria' (Schoenberg) 'How can a man know where to start' 2:47
9
A word on my ear (Flanders/Swann) 'A prisoner to rapture by arduous duty pressed' 5:24
10
Who am I? (Bernstein) 'Funny, the thoughts I have at night' 2:15
11
There are fairies at the bottom of our garden (Lehmann) 2:29
12
Transatlantic Lullaby (Wright) 'New York skyscrapers are sleeping' 2:17
13
Someone is sending me flowers (Baker) 'Somebody's sending me flowers' 2:30
14
Where oh where? (Porter) 'I often ask, because I feel i've every right to know' 2:43
15
Song of a nightclub proprietress (Dring) 'I walked into the nightclub in the morning' 2:40
16
Usherette's Blues (Nicholas) 'I work at the Palace Cinema' 4:06
17
Three times a day (Gershwin) 'It I had my way i'd trail you night and day' 3:05
18
Boy, what love has done to me (Gershwin) 'I fetch his slippers, fill up the pipe he smokes' 3:14
19
Bill (Kern) 'I used to dream that I would discover the perfect lover some day' 3:25