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In truth there are only 20 albums of recordings that can be said to contain any original cast recordings and in many cases only a few tracks on each. For a less contemporary but better quality recorded view of some of the music in the shows you may prefer to obtain a copy of a later revival - such as the recording of Bitter Sweet with Valerie Masterson and the New Sadler's Wells chorus (CD TER2 1160). Here are a selection to give a flavour of Noël's work at different times in his career. Some of these may only be available as used copies:

London Calling (CD Flapper PAST CD 7080)
Bitter Sweet ('The Songs of Noël Coward' CD Flapper PAST 7080)
Conversation Piece ('Noël Coward - The Great Shows' CD: EMI 7243 5 20729 2 7)
Pacific 1860 (CD: Box Office ENBO-CD#8/93 (some titles are also available on CD Sepia 1043)
Ace of Clubs (Noël Coward - The Great Shows CD: EMI 7243 5 21808 2 )
After the Ball (CD: Sepia 1043 (2005))
Together With Music - The whole of the TV broadcast soundtrack (CD:drg CDXP 1103)

London Morning - orginal recording is only on LP but a later recording (1995) is available on CD
(LP: 'A Special Event' drg SL 5180 - CD: 'The Grand Tour' SILVA CLASSICS SILKD 6007)

Sail Away (US cast CD: Broadway Angel ZDM 0777 7 64759 2 9 - UK cast CD: Fynsworth Alley302 062 179 2)

Here the list could be almost endless. Hardly a year goes by without an artist recording at least a track or two of Coward's music. In their time classic entertainers such as Frank Sinatra, Julia Andrews, Judy Garland, Danny Kaye and Julie London have recorded their own versions of Coward classics. As listed elsewhere on the site in the CD 'Twentieth Century Blues,' created to raise money for the Red Hot AIDS Charitable Trust by the Pet Shop Boys singer Neil Tennant, the cream of popular talent of 1998 recorded various Cowards songs with interpretations that created quite a lot of discussion at the time! Here are just a few recordings to give a flavour of what is available.
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Bitter Sweet with Valerie Masterson and the New Sadler's Wells Orchestra and Chorus (CD TER2 1160)
The Grand Tour (SILKD 6007 (1995))
A Marvellous Party - The Music of Noël Coward and Friends (CDJAY 1375 (orig.1999))
Twentieth Century Blues - The Songs of Noël Coward (EMI 7243 49463127 (1998))

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