YOURS IS MY HEART

Composer: Franz Lehar
Lyricists: Ira Cobb, Karl Farkas, and Harry Graham

Opened: September 5, 1946, Shubert Theatre, N.Y.C.
Performances: 36

Note: This musical is based on DAS LAND DES LACHELNS by Franz Lehar and Ludwig Herzer. Adapted from the original German, THE LAND OF SMILES opened in London on May 8, 1931 at Drury Lane Theatre, where it ran for 75 performance with five additional songs not used in the New York production. A new English by Christopher Hassall played at the Sadler Wells in 1959 for 55 performances (and was recorded). This discography only attempts to compile recordings with lyrics by Cobb, Farkas, and Graham.

Love, What Has Given You This Magic Power?:

1. The Land Of Smiles, Concert Hall GM 2350 (Broadway Light Opera Society with orchestra conducted by Boris Mersson)
2. You Are My Heart's Delight, CD/Reader's Digest RDCD 1471-3 (Douglas Gamley and His Orchestra)
3. Gems From The Ohio Light Opera Volume 1, CD/Operetta Archives OA 1004 (Paul Groves and Teri Hansen with the Ohio Light Opera orchestra conducted by Evan Whallon)


Overture:

1. 78/Decca K-1710 (Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra conducted by Franz Lehar) [reissued on Lehar Conducts Lehar, CD/Dutton 9721]
2. The Land Of Smiles, His Master's Voice (S) CSD 1267 (Sadler's Wells Orchestra conducted by Vilem Tausky) [reissued on Lehar: The Land Of Smiles/The Merry Widow/The Count Of Luxembourg, CD/EMI Classics For Pleasure 75996]
3. The Land Of Smiles, Concert Hall GM 2350 (Broadway Light Opera Society Orchestra conducted by Boris Mersson)
4. Das Land Des Lachelns, CD/Classic Produktion Osnabruck CPO 777 303-2 (Munchner Rundfunkorchester conducted by Ulf Schirmer)
5. Das Land Des Lachelns, CD/CHS 7695232 (Philharmonia Orchestra of London conducted by Otto Ackermann)
6. Das Land Des Lachelns, CD/EMI CMS 5663762 (Munchner Rundfunkorchester conducted by Willi Boskovsky)
7. The Land Of Smiles, CD/Telarc CD-80419 (English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Richard Bonynge)
Note: I lack information to suggest whether or not the overture to YOURS IS MY HEART is the same or similar to that found in THE LAND OF SMILES.


Patiently Smiling:

1. 78/Parolophone RO-20500 (Richard Tauber with orchestra) [also 78/Columbia SCD2203]
2. 78/Parlophone R.O. 20107 (Richard Tauber and the Orchestra of the State Opera House, Berlin, conducted by Franz Lehar) (sung in German)
3. 78/Gramophone B 3863 (Derek Oldham with orchestra); 45/EMI BSP3002 (Richard Tauber with orchestra conducted by Henry Geehl)
4. You Are My Heart's Delight, CD/Reader's Digest RDCD 1471-3 (Douglas Gamley and His Orchestra)
5. The Land Of Smiles, Concert Hall GM 2350 (Broadway Light Opera Society with orchestra conducted by Boris Mersson)


Wedding Ceremony:

1. Das Land Des Lachelns, CD/Classic Produktion Osnabruck CPO 777 303-2 ((Munchner Rundfunkorchester conducted by Ulf Schirmer) ("Chinesischer Hochzeitszug")
2. The Land Of Smiles, CD/Telarc CD-80419 (English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Richard Bonynge) ("Chinese Wedding Procession")
Note: It is unclear at this time the extent to which "Wedding Ceremony" may correspond to the "Chinese Wedding Procession" in THE LAND OF SMILES.


Yours Is My Heart Alone:

I have not attempted to compile discological information for this Lehar standard.


Unrecorded Material:

Chinese Ceremony
Chinese Melody
Chinese Puppet Dance
Chingo-Pingo
A Cup Of China Tea
Dance Of The Girls
Finale (Act I)
Finale (Act II)
Finale (Act III)
Free As The Air
Goodbye, Paree
Ma Petite Cherie
Master Of Ceremonies
Men Of China
Music Box And Waltz
Opium Ballet
Paris Sings Again (M: Paul Durant)
Sword Dance
Upon A Moonlight Night In May