The Best of Gilbert and Sullivan (Recorded 1948-1954)
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GILBERT and SULLIVAN
The Best of Gilbert and Sullivan (Recorded 1948-1954)
D'Oyly Carte Opera Company / Darrell Fancourt / Leonard Osborn / Martyn Green / Leslie Rands / Peter Pratt / Muriel Harding / Ella Halman & others
[ Naxos Great Operetta Recordings / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Monday 25 June 2007
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"Good news for Anglophiles-the great Gilbert and Sullivan recordings of the late 1940s are on their way back into the catalogue, at budget prices and sounding better than ever. The best of these discs are not only agreeable but almost magical in their evocation of a milieu that was as close to truly civilized as any we are likely to encounter again in our calamitous era."
- Tim Page Washington Post May 12, 2002
Whilst William Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan were both respected in their own right and during their own time, Gilbert as a playwright and Sullivan as a composer, their collaboration under the management of D'Oyly Carte proved an inspired combination in the late Victorian period. Gilbert's fantastical plots together with Sullivan's inventive settings have come to epitomize much of what we consider to be British culture in 19th Century.
These excerpts, from 1948-1954, are recorded as they were originally intended, in the great tradition of The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company.
Tracks:
CD 1:
H.M.S. Pinafore (excerpts):
Overture
We sail the ocean blue
Hail, Men-O'-Wars men - I'm called Little Buttercup
My gallant crew, good morning - I am the captain of the Pinafore
When I was a lad
Never mind the why and wherefore
Pretty daughter of mine - He is a Englishman
Oh joy, oh rapture unforeseen
Patience (excerpts):
I cannot tell what this love may be
When I first put this uniform on
Am I alone? If you're anxious for to shine
A magnet hung in a hardware shop
So go to him and say to him
If Saphir I choose to marry
The Sorcerer:
My name is John Wellington Wells
Ruddigore (excerpts):
I know a youth who loves a little maid
When the buds are blossoming
When the night wind howls
My eyes are fully open
Princess Ida:
If you give me your attention
The Gondoliers (excerpts):
We're called gondolieri
When a merry maiden marries
Now Marco dear my wishes hear
Take a pair of sparkling eyes
Dance a Cachucha
In a contemplative fashion
Here is a case unprecedented!
CD 2:
Iolanthe (excerpts):
Overture
Loudly let the trumpet bray!
When all night long
When Britain really ruled the waves
Love, unrequited - When you're lying awake
If you go in
Trial by Jury:
When I, good friends
The Pirates of Penzance (excerpts):
Oh, is there not one maiden breast
I am the very model of a modern Major
When foreman bares his steel
Ah! Leave me not to pine
When a felon's not engaged
With cat - like tread
The Yeomen of the Guard (excerpts):
I have a song to sing, O
Oh! A private buffoon is a lighthearted loon
When a wooer goes a - wooing
The Mikado (excerpts):
A Wand'ring Minstrel I
Behold the Lord High Executioner - Taken from a county jail
As some day it may happen
Three little maids from school
A more humane Mikado - My object all sublime
The flowers that bloom in the spring
On a tree by a river
For he's gone and married Yum - Yum
