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Sweeney Todd & Dracula!

Sweeney Todd & Dracula! Two Victorian Melodramas
Year of publication	2005
Type of work	CD recording
CD Duration	00:43:19
Performers	Derek Wright, narrator; Soloists from New Decade Opera; Redbridge Music School singers and instrumentalists; Edna Graham, conductor
Publisher	Meridian Records Ltd
Publisher’s product page	Sweeney Todd & Dracula!

Track listing
	Melodrama	Section	Forces	Duration
1	DRACULA! or The Vampire Vanquished (25:34)	‘Curtain Up’	Orchestra	0:54
2		Narrator	Derek Wright	0:46
3–8		Jonathan’s Night Ride	Choir	1:38
9		Narrator	Derek Wright	1:20
10–14		Count Dracula’s Czardas	David Stowell & Choir	2:19
15		Narrator	Derek Wright	1:45
16–18		Mina’s Song	Lynne McAdam & Choir	3:26
19		Narrator	Derek Wright	0:26
20–27		Ghost Ship	Choir	1:38
28		Narrator	Derek Wright	1:18
29–34		The Professor’s Patter Song	Derek Wright	1:25
35		Narrator	Derek Wright	1:36
36–41		Renfield’s Dining-room Ballad	Bruce Knight & Choir	3:38
42		Narrator	Derek Wright	1:31
43–45		Finale: Quincey’s Rag	Choir	1:54
46	Sweeney Todd the Barber, or The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (17:45)	‘Curtain Up’	Orchestra	0:22
47		Narrator	Derek Wright	0:26
48–53		I’m Sweeney Todd, the barber	David Stowell & Choir	1:56
54		Narrator	Derek Wright	0:21
55–60		Today I start my working life	Anthony Ince	3:13
61		Narrator	Derek Wright	0:25
62–64		Oh, I’m a jolly sailor	Bruce Knight	1:09
65		Narrator	Derek Wright	1:07
66–69		Mark, Mark, Where are you now?	Lynne McAdam & Soloists	2:13
70		Narrator	Derek Wright	1:01
71–72		My famous pies are known to all	Anne-Marie Hetherington	1:27
73		Narrator	Derek Wright	1:17
74–77		You’re in my power!	David Stowell & Lynne McAdam	0:51
78		Narrator	Derek Wright	0:42
79–81		A happy ending to our tale – ‘Envoi’	Choir	1:15
Total duration:				43:19

Reviews

Carey Blyton belongs to that select band of composers whose music can make you laugh out loud … should be explored by enterprising school music staff.

—David Shellan, Kentish Times, 20th August 1984

But for sheer fun, his two Victorian Melodramas for Schools are convulsing, especially when performed with the prescribed ‘Music Hall Orchestra’ … A recording by the Redbridge School on Meridian is well recommended.

—Wally Horwood, The British Bandsman, March 1985