TRELAWNY - MCSR 3007

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Julian Slade is best known as the composer of the record-breaking Salad Days, but many regard Trelawny as his masterpiece, with one of his most fulsome scores for this enchanting musicalisation of Arthur Wing Pinero’s famous old play. Rose Trelawny  (Gemma Craven) falls in love with highly-born Arthur, but she is also in love with the theatre – notably the Sadlers Wells Theatre. Pulsating with theatrical brio, Slade’s songs have a tremendous energy and sense of Victorian period, and the cast is one of the strongest assembled for any British musical of the 1970s, led by Ian Richardson as the struggling young playwright set fair to change the face of British drama, and the veteran performer Max Adrian. Richly orchestrated and in good Decca sound, this is Slade at his most lush and romantic. Also, don't miss our other Slade discs - 'The Music of Julian Slade' (with premiere recordings of one of his first scores 'Lady May') and the glorious 1957 hit 'Free As Air'. Meanwhile Trelawny will beguile with its richly attractive score.

With:   Ian Richardson, Gemma Craven, Max Adrian, John Watts