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Philip has also appeared in a Duo with cabaret singer, Joy MacLeod. Jeanie Moore writes . . .
The Herald Plymouth, Friday September 27, 2002
MacLeod's concert was a Joy to the ears
The South Gallery of the Plymouth City Museum was packed when the new concert season opened last Thursday with singer Joy MacLeod, accompanied by Philip R Buttall. Joy presented her audience with happy, funny and sometimes sad cameos of her musical career. Her rendition of songs by Gershwin,
The Herald Plymouth, Friday September 27, 2002
MacLeod's concert was a Joy to the ears
The South Gallery of the Plymouth City Museum was packed when the new concert season opened last Thursday with singer Joy MacLeod, accompanied by Philip R Buttall. Joy presented her audience with happy, funny and sometimes sad cameos of her musical career. Her rendition of songs by Gershwin,
Click here to listen to Liszt's Hungarian Fantasia for piano & orchestra, with the Combined Orchestras of HM Royal Marines Plymouth, with Philip as soloist, recorded in Plymouth Guildhall in December 1976*. The recording was initially made on cassette, but was edited and transcibed to CD in 2005, by Bruno Music Services (Kent), run by former bandsman, Trevor Brown, who played in the orchestra at the time. Whilst the CD isn't commercially available,it does also include Philip's performances of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto No 1 in G minor, both with the same orchestra in 1975 and 1974 respectively, conducted by Captain W W ('Wally') Shillitto, Director of Music.
* This is a large file (15MB) and may take several minutes to download on a slower connection.
* This is a large file (15MB) and may take several minutes to download on a slower connection.
Cole Porter and Hoagey Carmichael were sung with exquisite interpretation and marvellous timing. A request from me for Eartha Kitt's Old Fashioned Girl was superb. Philip, in turn, sparkled and danced his way across the keys, with constant empathy, yet revealing his own inimitable style. Together Joy and Philip gave a marvellous concert for the opening of the 10th Season of the International Lunchtime Concert Series. The audience were left begging for more!
