
Wit & shameless Englishness
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The Best of Flanders & Swann CD (1994) is for those who love the carefree smug tradition of flaunting englishness typified by the great compositions of W.S.Gilbert & Noel Coward. The songs, fast, witty & cheery, bring back theatrical gusts of the snugs,cigars, bangers & good wine of the fifties... the leather chairs,toasting forks, & old pianos. Guffawing men in the audience with bow ties & good leather shoes can be heard roaring with laughter at wonderful verses about hippopotamuses in the mud, the gasman, the awful unpredictable weather,the gnother gnu . The smart, sensible women with their court shoes & good tweed suits can be heard tittering over the academic approach to seduction with a few glasses of Madeira..and the fabulous pastiche of Mozart's Horn Concerto. It is all so brilliantly good-natured and delivered in the unshakeable diction of the great BBC english voice of that era. The tunes are hummable for life. Michael Flanders died young & he & Donald Swann with his wizard piano accompaniments left us this wonderful imaginative masterpiece.
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