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Lerner & Loewe's My Fair Lady

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Lerner & Loewe's My Fair Lady

CD UPC: 0095115535820

Release Date: September 2025
Originally recorded in April 2024

Soprano Voice Eliza Doolittle
Scarlett Strallen

Tenor Voice Professor Henry Higgins
Jamie Parker

Solo Colonel Hugh Pickering
Malcolm Sinclair

Solo Alfred P. Doolittle
Alun Armstrong

Solo Freddy Eynsford-Hill
Laurence Kilsby

Solo Mrs Higgins
Penelope Wilton

Solo Mrs Pearce
Julia McKenzie

Bass Voice First Cockney (Nos 3 and 21)
Tom Ping

Tenor Voice Second Cockney (Nos 3 and 21)
Connor Carson

Baritone Voice Third Cockney (Nos 3 and 21)
Tom Liggins

Tenor Voice Fourth Cockney (Nos 3 and 21)
Hal Cazalet

Tenor Voice Harry (Nos 4, 6, and 22)
Adam Vaughan

Baritone Voice Jamie (Nos 4, 6, and 22)
Sharif Afifi

Soprano Voice Angry Woman (No. 4)
Maria Coyne

Tenor Voice Angry Man (No. 4)
Connor Carson

Solo Mrs Hopkins (Act I, Scene 4)
Annie Wensak

Bass Voice Bartender (Act I, Scene 4)
Leo Roberts

Soprano Voice First Maid (No. 10)
Deborah Crowe

Solo Second Maid (No. 10)
Wendy Ferguson

Bass Voice Charles (Act I, Scene 6)
Matt McDonald

Solo Policeman (Act I, Scene 8)
Will Richardson

Tenor Voice Flower Girl (No. 13)
Will Richardson

Solo Footman, Higgins’s Servant (No. 19)
Annie Wensak

Conductor
John Wilson

Orchestra
Sinfonia of London

Choral
‘My Fair Lady’ Ensemble

Producer
Jonathan Allen

Engineer
Jonathan Allen

Engineer
Arne Akselberg

Assistant Engineer
Ed Gill

Venue 2 – 6 April 2024
Susie Sainsbury Theatre, Royal Academy of Music, London

Genre:
Musicals
Vocal & Song

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world première complete recording

Lerner & Loewe’s

MY FAIR LADY (1956)

130.03

A Musical Comedy in Two Acts

Book and Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner (1918-1986)

Music by Frederick Loewe (1901-1988)

Adapted from George Bernard Shaw’s Play (1913) and Gabriel Pascal’s Motion Picture Pygmalion (1938)

Original Production Directed by Moss Hart (1904-1961)

Orchestrations by Robert Russell Bennett (1894-1981) and Philip J. Lang (1911-1986)

Dance Music Arranged by Trude Rittman (1908-2005)

COMPACT DISC ONE

Act I

Overture*

3:14

Scene 1. Outside Covent Garden, after the Opera

Opening Scene* with Eliza and Higgins

1:22

Higgins: ‘Why Can’t the English?’*† with Eliza, Pickering, and a Cockney Bystander

2:38

Eliza: ‘Wouldn’t It Be Loverly?’* with Cockney Male Quartet and Solo Tenor

4:54

Scene 2. Tenement Section, Tottenham Court Road

Doolittle: ‘Come on, Eliza, slip your old Dad half a crown to go home on’ – with Eliza and Harry

0:27

Doolittle: ‘With a Little Bit of Luck’* with Jamie, Harry, Angry Woman, and Angry Man

3:07

Change of Scene (‘With a Little Bit of Luck’)

0:21

Scene 3. Professor Higgins’s Study

Higgins: ‘In six months – in three if she has a good ear and a quick tongue’ – with Pickering

0:54

Higgins: ‘I’m an Ordinary Man’*

4:16

10.

Change of Scene (‘I’m an Ordinary Man’) †

0:23

Scene 4. Tenement Section, Tottenham Court Road

11.

Mrs Hopkins: ‘How’d ya like that?’ – with Bartender and Doolittle

1:23

12.

Doolittle: ‘With a Little Bit of Luck’ (Reprise)‡ with Jamie, Harry, and SATB Chorus

1:38

13.

Change of Scene (‘With a Little Bit of Luck’)

0:20

Scene 5. Professor Higgins’s Study

14.

Higgins: ‘Say your vowels’ – with Eliza and Pickering

0:56

15.

Eliza: ‘Just You Wait’* with Higgins

4:02

16.

Servants’ Sextet: ‘The Servants’ Chorus’* with Higgins, Eliza, and Pickering

4:54

17.

Eliza, Higgins, and Pickering: ‘The Rain in Spain’* with Mrs Pearce

2:26

18.

Eliza: ‘I Could Have Danced All Night’* with Two Maids and Mrs Pearce

3:45

19.

10A

Change of Scene. Race Track Fanfare

0:06

Scene 6. Outside Ascot

20.

Mrs Higgins: ‘Colonel Pickering, I don’t understand’ with Pickering and Charles

2:01

Scene 7. Ascot

21.

SATB Chorus: Ascot Gavotte*†

3:25

22.

SATB Chorus: End of Gavotte and Blackout Music* with Pickering, Mrs Higgins, Freddy, and Eliza

0:54

Scene 8. Outside Higgins’s House, Wimpole Street

23.

Freddy: ‘Officer, I know this is Wimpole Street’ – with Policeman and Flower Girl

0:08

24.

Freddy: ‘On the Street Where You Live’*† with Flower Girl and Mrs Pearce

3:47

Scene 9. Professor Higgins’s Study

25.

Eliza’s Entrance† with Pickering, Eliza, and Higgins

1:23

26.

Introduction to Promenade*

0:53

Scene 10. Outside the Ballroom of the Transylvanian Embassy

27.

Promenade* with Footman, Pickering, and Mrs Higgins

1:35

Scene 11. The Ballroom of the Transylvanian Embassy

28.

Embassy Waltz*

3:14

TT 58:36

COMPACT DISC TWO

Entr’acte*

3:25

Act II: 43:52

Scene 1. Professor Higgins’s Study

Pickering, Higgins, and Servants’ Sextet: ‘You Did It’* with Mrs Pearce and Footman

5:39

Eliza: ‘Just You Wait’ (Reprise)*†

0:45

Scene 2. Outside Higgins’s House, Wimpole Street

20A

Freddy: ‘On the Street Where You Live’ (Reprise)† with Eliza

1:39

20B

Eliza: ‘Show Me’* with Freddy

2:18

Scene 3. Covent Garden, The Flower Market

Cockney Male Quartet and Eliza: ‘The Flower Market’*

3:29

Doolittle: ‘Get Me to the Church on Time’† with Jamie, Harry, and SATB Chorus

6:26

Change of Scene (‘Get Me to the Church on Time’)†

0:29

Scene 4. The Upstairs Hall, Higgins’s House

Pickering: ‘Now, see here, my good man’ –

0:09

10.

Higgins: ‘A Hymn to Him’† with Pickering and Mrs Pearce

4:36

11.

Change of Scene (‘A Hymn to Him’)*

0:20

Scene 5. The Garden of Mrs Higgins’s House

12.

Higgins: ‘Well, Eliza, you’ve had a bit of your own back’ – with Eliza

2:03

13.

Eliza: ‘Without You’* with Higgins and Mrs Higgins

3:27

Scene 6. Outside Higgins’s House, Wimpole Street

14.

Higgins: ‘I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face’ –

6:42

Scene 7. Professor Higgins’s Study

Higgins: ‘I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face’ (continued)* with Eliza

15.

Music for Curtain Calls†

1:19

16.

Exit Music*†

4:24

Appendices

Original End, Act I: 24:03

17.

Higgins: ‘Come to the Ball’*

3:39

18.

Dressing Eliza Ballet*

4:16

19.

Eliza: ‘Say a Prayer for Me Tonight’‡

1:40

20.

Bridge after ‘Say a Prayer for Me Tonight’*

2:05

21.

Ballroom Introduction† – Embassy Waltz (Original Version)*

3:28

Original Version of Freddy’s Song, Act I

22.

End of Ascot*

0:06

23.

Freddy: ‘On the Street Where You Live’† with Mrs Pearce

4:28

Utility Cues

24.

Why Can’t the English?†

1:08

25.

Get Me to the Church on Time†

1:59

26.

Why Can’t a Woman?*

0:29

TT 71:27

Utility cues were extra music prepared to cover such things as scene changes and other brief periods that might require it, and were often, as here, not used in the final production.

Solo: Malcolm Sinclair Colonel Hugh Pickering

Solo: Alun Armstrong Alfred P. Doolittle

Solo: Laurence Kilsby Freddy Eynsford-Hill

Solo: Penelope Wilton Mrs Higgins

Solo: Julia McKenzie Mrs Pearce

Solo: Annie Wensak Mrs Hopkins (Act I, Scene 4)

Solo: Wendy Ferguson Second Maid (No. 10)

Solo: Will Richardson Policeman (Act I, Scene 8)

Solo: Annie Wensak Footman, Higgins’s Servant (No. 19)

Conductor: John Wilson

Orchestra: Sinfonia of London

John Mills - leader

Choral: ‘My Fair Lady’ Ensemble

Orchestrators

Robert Russell Bennett*

Philip J. Lang†

Jack Mason‡

This product is also available in ''''Atmos Spatial Audio'''' through Apple Music and Amazon Music Unlimited

world première complete recording

Lerner & Loewe’s

MY FAIR LADY (1956)

130.03

A Musical Comedy in Two Acts

Book and Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner (1918-1986)

Music by Frederick Loewe (1901-1988)

Adapted from George Bernard Shaw’s Play (1913) and Gabriel Pascal’s Motion Picture Pygmalion (1938)

Original Production Directed by Moss Hart (1904-1961)

Orchestrations by Robert Russell Bennett (1894-1981) and Philip J. Lang (1911-1986)

Dance Music Arranged by Trude Rittman (1908-2005)

COMPACT DISC ONE

Act I

Overture*

3:14

Scene 1. Outside Covent Garden, after the Opera

Opening Scene* with Eliza and Higgins

1:22

Higgins: ‘Why Can’t the English?’*† with Eliza, Pickering, and a Cockney Bystander

2:38

Eliza: ‘Wouldn’t It Be Loverly?’* with Cockney Male Quartet and Solo Tenor

4:54

Scene 2. Tenement Section, Tottenham Court Road

Doolittle: ‘Come on, Eliza, slip your old Dad half a crown to go home on’ – with Eliza and Harry

0:27

Doolittle: ‘With a Little Bit of Luck’* with Jamie, Harry, Angry Woman, and Angry Man

3:07

Change of Scene (‘With a Little Bit of Luck’)

0:21

Scene 3. Professor Higgins’s Study

Higgins: ‘In six months – in three if she has a good ear and a quick tongue’ – with Pickering

0:54

Higgins: ‘I’m an Ordinary Man’*

4:16

10.

Change of Scene (‘I’m an Ordinary Man’) †

0:23

Scene 4. Tenement Section, Tottenham Court Road

11.

Mrs Hopkins: ‘How’d ya like that?’ – with Bartender and Doolittle

1:23

12.

Doolittle: ‘With a Little Bit of Luck’ (Reprise)‡ with Jamie, Harry, and SATB Chorus

1:38

13.

Change of Scene (‘With a Little Bit of Luck’)

0:20

Scene 5. Professor Higgins’s Study

14.

Higgins: ‘Say your vowels’ – with Eliza and Pickering

0:56

15.

Eliza: ‘Just You Wait’* with Higgins

4:02

16.

Servants’ Sextet: ‘The Servants’ Chorus’* with Higgins, Eliza, and Pickering

4:54

17.

Eliza, Higgins, and Pickering: ‘The Rain in Spain’* with Mrs Pearce

2:26

18.

Eliza: ‘I Could Have Danced All Night’* with Two Maids and Mrs Pearce

3:45

19.

10A

Change of Scene. Race Track Fanfare

0:06

Scene 6. Outside Ascot

20.

Mrs Higgins: ‘Colonel Pickering, I don’t understand’ with Pickering and Charles

2:01

Scene 7. Ascot

21.

SATB Chorus: Ascot Gavotte*†

3:25

22.

SATB Chorus: End of Gavotte and Blackout Music* with Pickering, Mrs Higgins, Freddy, and Eliza

0:54

Scene 8. Outside Higgins’s House, Wimpole Street

23.

Freddy: ‘Officer, I know this is Wimpole Street’ – with Policeman and Flower Girl

0:08

24.

Freddy: ‘On the Street Where You Live’*† with Flower Girl and Mrs Pearce

3:47

Scene 9. Professor Higgins’s Study

25.

Eliza’s Entrance† with Pickering, Eliza, and Higgins

1:23

26.

Introduction to Promenade*

0:53

Scene 10. Outside the Ballroom of the Transylvanian Embassy

27.

Promenade* with Footman, Pickering, and Mrs Higgins

1:35

Scene 11. The Ballroom of the Transylvanian Embassy

28.

Embassy Waltz*

3:14

TT 58:36

COMPACT DISC TWO

Entr’acte*

3:25

Act II: 43:52

Scene 1. Professor Higgins’s Study

Pickering, Higgins, and Servants’ Sextet: ‘You Did It’* with Mrs Pearce and Footman

5:39

Eliza: ‘Just You Wait’ (Reprise)*†

0:45

Scene 2. Outside Higgins’s House, Wimpole Street

20A

Freddy: ‘On the Street Where You Live’ (Reprise)† with Eliza

1:39

20B

Eliza: ‘Show Me’* with Freddy

2:18

Scene 3. Covent Garden, The Flower Market

Cockney Male Quartet and Eliza: ‘The Flower Market’*

3:29

Doolittle: ‘Get Me to the Church on Time’† with Jamie, Harry, and SATB Chorus

6:26

Change of Scene (‘Get Me to the Church on Time’)†

0:29

Scene 4. The Upstairs Hall, Higgins’s House

Pickering: ‘Now, see here, my good man’ –

0:09

10.

Higgins: ‘A Hymn to Him’† with Pickering and Mrs Pearce

4:36

11.

Change of Scene (‘A Hymn to Him’)*

0:20

Scene 5. The Garden of Mrs Higgins’s House

12.

Higgins: ‘Well, Eliza, you’ve had a bit of your own back’ – with Eliza

2:03

13.

Eliza: ‘Without You’* with Higgins and Mrs Higgins

3:27

Scene 6. Outside Higgins’s House, Wimpole Street

14.

Higgins: ‘I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face’ –

6:42

Scene 7. Professor Higgins’s Study

Higgins: ‘I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face’ (continued)* with Eliza

15.

Music for Curtain Calls†

1:19

16.

Exit Music*†

4:24

Appendices

Original End, Act I: 24:03

17.

Higgins: ‘Come to the Ball’*

3:39

18.

Dressing Eliza Ballet*

4:16

19.

Eliza: ‘Say a Prayer for Me Tonight’‡

1:40

20.

Bridge after ‘Say a Prayer for Me Tonight’*

2:05

21.

Ballroom Introduction† – Embassy Waltz (Original Version)*

3:28

Original Version of Freddy’s Song, Act I

22.

End of Ascot*

0:06

23.

Freddy: ‘On the Street Where You Live’† with Mrs Pearce

4:28

Utility Cues

24.

Why Can’t the English?†

1:08

25.

Get Me to the Church on Time†

1:59

26.

Why Can’t a Woman?*

0:29

TT 71:27

Utility cues were extra music prepared to cover such things as scene changes and other brief periods that might require it, and were often, as here, not used in the final production.

Solo: Malcolm Sinclair Colonel Hugh Pickering

Solo: Alun Armstrong Alfred P. Doolittle

Solo: Laurence Kilsby Freddy Eynsford-Hill

Solo: Penelope Wilton Mrs Higgins

Solo: Julia McKenzie Mrs Pearce

Solo: Annie Wensak Mrs Hopkins (Act I, Scene 4)

Solo: Wendy Ferguson Second Maid (No. 10)

Solo: Will Richardson Policeman (Act I, Scene 8)

Solo: Annie Wensak Footman, Higgins’s Servant (No. 19)

Conductor: John Wilson

Orchestra: Sinfonia of London

John Mills - leader

Choral: ‘My Fair Lady’ Ensemble

Orchestrators

Robert Russell Bennett*

Philip J. Lang†

Jack Mason‡

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Editor's Choice

'This is essential listening for anyone who loves musical theatre. Enchantment really does pour out of every door; this is a landmark recording, destined to give enormous and lasting pleasure.'

Richard Bratby - Gramophone - Awards Issue 2025

'No praise could be too high for the performance of the Sinfonia of London'

Stephen Barber - MusicWeb International - 9 October 2025

'...where this new set absolutely trounces the originals is the orchestral accompaniment. Firstly, we have the original scoring, with much more transparent textures, especially compared to the film. The small background details are revelatory. Of course the Chandos sound engineers have also played their part here.'

David Barker - MusicWeb International - 16 October 2025

"With sympathetic soloists such as Scarlett Strallen, the singing could not be in better hands – but the real clincher here is an element also to be found on the Rodgers and Hammerstein sets: the exquisite original arrangement by Robert Russell Bennett. This doyen of the American musical could be said to have created the definitive Broadway sound, and the sprucing up of his reputation under the sympathetic direction of John Wilson could not be more welcome. Another winner for Chandos."

Brian Ritterspak - Classical CD Choice - 4 October 2025

"Apart from the outstanding orchestral playing and choral singing...the finely chosen cast is a joy in terms of vocal and verbal expertise."

George Hall - BBC Music Magazine - November 2025

Editor's Choice ****½

"Wilson’s instincts are sound, moving seamlessly from spoken word to song…[Strallen] sings Eliza Doolittle with panache. She’s fiery when she needs to be, and vulnerable too...As Higgins, Jamie Parker captures the overweening arrogance and casual misogyny of the man while investing the role with sufficient charm to prevent us ever switching off...In short, another one for the library."

Clive Paget - Limelight - November 2025

“the sizzling playing of Wilson and his orchestra in the instrumental numbers keeps the zest levels high. To aficionados of Broadway and the West End this recording is self-recommending.”

Richard Fairman - Financial Times - 27 September 2025

Recording of the Week

'every last second is a joy.'

Presto Music - 26 September 2025

'This, the latest in John Wilson’s exhilarating sequence of totally complete musicals with the Sinfonia of London, is another absolute joy'

Christopher Morley - Midlands Music Reviews - 4 August 2025

'My Fair Lady is a great show, vividly brought to life here ... I think that more than ever we all need some true and high-class entertainment in our lives; this show – and this superb recording – give us just that.'

John Quinn - MusicWeb International - 23 September 2025

'Scarlett Strallen makes a feisty, powerhouse-voiced Eliza, and she’s matched perfectly by Jamie Parker’s droll Higgins. Eliza’s transformation from guttersnipe to princess is handled beautifully by Strallen, and the sumptuous music is given a wonderful spin by the Sinfonia of London under the sure baton of conductor John Wilson.'

Kevin Filipski - The Flip Side - 17 September 2025

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