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The Best of Gilbert & Sullivan

Excerpts from 1948-1954

The D’Oyly Carte Opera Company

  • Release Date: 29th May 2007
  • Catalogue No: 8111311-12
  • Label: Naxos
  • Series: Historical, Great Operetta Recordings
  • Length: 2 hours 30 minutes

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Contents

Sullivan, A: HMS Pinafore

Work length24:22
$8.00
$10.40
  • Darrell Fancourt (bass-baritone), Leonard Osborn (tenor), Martyn Green (baritone), Joan Gillingham (mezzo-soprano), Leslie Rands (baritone), Muriel Harding (soprano), Ella Halman (mezzo-soprano)
  • D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, New Promenade Orchestra, D'Oyly Carte Opera Orchestra
  • Isidore Godfrey
  • Recorded: 1948
  • Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Overture

Track length4:13
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Act I: We sail the ocean blue (Chorus)

Track length2:22
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Act I: Hail, Men-O'-Wars men - I'm called Little Buttercup (Buttercup)

Track length1:51
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Act I: My gallant crew, good morning - I am the captain of the Pinafore (Captain, Chorus)

Track length2:17
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Act I: When I was a lad (Sir Joseph, Chorus)

Track length2:57
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Act II: Never mind the why and wherefore (Josephine, Captain, Sir Joseph)

Track length2:36
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Act II: Pretty daughter of mine - He is a Englishman (Captain, Ralph, Josephine, Boatswain, Deadeye, Hebe, Sir Joseph, Chorus)

Track length5:19
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Act II: Oh joy, oh rapture unforeseen (Josephine, Hebe, Ralph, Deadeye, Captain, Buttercup, Sir Joseph, Chorus)

Track length2:47
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Excerpt, Sullivan, A: Patience

Work length15:25
$6.00
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  • Darrell Fancourt (bass-baritone), Martyn Green (baritone), Margaret Mitchell (soprano), Ella Halman (mezzo-soprano), Alan Styler (bass), Ann Drummond-Grant (contralto), Yvonne Dean (soprano), Peter Pratt (baritone), Neville Griffiths (tenor)
  • D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, D'Oyly Carte Opera Orchestra
  • Isidore Godfrey
  • Recorded: 1951
  • Recording Venue: London

Act I: I cannot tell what this love may be (Patience, Maidens)

Track length2:22
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Act I: When I first put this uniform on (Colonel, Dragoons)

Track length1:23
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Act I: Am I alone? If you're anxious for to shine (Bunthorne)

Track length4:26
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Act II: A magnet hung in a hardware shop (Grosvenor, Maidens)

Track length2:27
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Act II: So go to him and say to him (Bunthorne, Jane)

Track length1:59
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Act II: If Saphir I choose to marry (Duke, Major, Colonel, Angela, Saphir)

Track length2:48
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Excerpt, Sullivan, A: The Sorcerer

Work length2:12
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  • Peter Pratt (baritone)
  • New Symphony Orchestra
  • Isidore Godfrey
  • Recorded: 8, 16, 23, 24, 25, 29, 30 July 1953
  • Recording Venue: London

The Sorcerer, Act I: My name is John Wellington Wells (Mr Wells)

Track length2:12
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Excerpt, Sullivan, A: Ruddigore

Work length11:25
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  • Darrell Fancourt (bass-baritone), Martyn Green (baritone), Richard Watson (bass), Margaret Mitchell (soprano), Ella Halman (mezzo-soprano), Ann Drummond-Grant (contralto)
  • D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, D'Oyly Carte Opera Orchestra
  • Isidore Godfrey
  • Recorded: 21 July, 24 August 1950
  • Recording Venue: London

Act I: I know a youth who loves a little maid (Robin, Rose)

Track length3:38
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Act I: When the buds are blossoming (Rose, Hannah, Ensemble, Chorus)

Track length3:33
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Act II: When the night wind howls (Sir Roderic, Ghosts)

Track length2:35
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Act II: My eyes are fully open (Sir Ruthven, Despard, Margaret)

Track length1:39
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Excerpt, Sullivan, A: Princess Ida

Work length2:22
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  • Peter Pratt (baritone)
  • D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, New Symphony Orchestra
  • Isidore Godfrey
  • Recorded: late 1954
  • Recording Venue: London

Princess Ida, Act I: If you give me your attention (King Gama, Chorus)

Track length2:22
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Excerpt, Sullivan, A: The Gondoliers

Work length15:15
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  • Leonard Osborn (tenor), Margaret Mitchell (soprano), Muriel Harding (soprano), Alan Styler (bass), Yvonne Dean (soprano)
  • D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, New Promenade Orchestra, D'Oyly Carte Opera Orchestra
  • Isidore Godfrey
  • Recorded: 11 March 1950
  • Recording Venue: London

Act I: We're called gondolieri (Marco, Giuseppe)

Track length2:11
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Act I: When a merry maiden marries (Tessa, Chorus)

Track length2:51
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Act I: Now Marco dear my wishes hear (Gianetta, Tessa, Marco, Giuseppe)

Track length2:02
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Act II: Take a pair of sparkling eyes (Marco)

Track length3:10
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Act II: Dance a Cachucha (Chorus)

Track length1:47
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Act II: In a contemplative fashion (Tessa, Gianetta, Marco, Giuseppe)

Track length2:01
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Act II: Here is a case unprecedented! (Casilda, Gianetta, Tesca, Marco, Giuseppe)

Track length1:13
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Excerpt, Sullivan, A: Iolanthe

Work length26:12
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  • Leonard Osborn (tenor), Martyn Green (baritone), Eric Thornton (baritone), Fisher Morgan (bass-baritone)
  • D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, D'Oyly Carte Opera Orchestra
  • Isidore Godfrey
  • Recorded: 1951
  • Recording Venue: London

Overture

Track length7:21
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Act I: Loudly let the trumpet bray! (Chorus)

Track length5:49
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Act II: When all night long (Private Willis)

Track length3:59
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Act II: When Britain really ruled the waves (Mountararat, Chorus)

Track length3:01
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Act II: Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest - When you're lying awake (Lord Chancellor)

Track length3:38
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Act II: If you go in (Mountararat, Tolloller, Lord Chancellor)

Track length2:24
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Excerpt, Sullivan, A: Trial by Jury

Work length2:59
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  • Richard Watson (bass)
  • New Promenade Orchestra, D'Oyly Carte Opera Orchestra
  • Isidore Godfrey
  • Recorded: 19, 21 July 1949
  • Recording Venue: London

Trial by Jury: When I, good friends (Judge)

Track length2:59
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Excerpt, Sullivan, A: The Pirates of Penzance

Work length19:21
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  • Leonard Osborn (tenor), Martyn Green (baritone), Richard Watson (bass), Joan Gillingham (mezzo-soprano), Muriel Harding (soprano), Donald Harris (bass)
  • D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, New Promenade Orchestra, D'Oyly Carte Opera Orchestra
  • Isidore Godfrey
  • Recorded: 29 July and 24 August 1949
  • Recording Venue: London

Act I: Oh, is there not one maiden breast (Frederic, Mabel, Ladies)

Track length4:11
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Act I: I am the very model of a modern Major-General (Major-General, Chorus)

Track length2:50
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Act II: When foreman bares his steel (Sergeant, Police, Mabel, Edith)

Track length4:12
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Act II: Ah! Leave me not to pine (Mabel, Frederic)

Track length3:10
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Act II: When a felon's not engaged (Sergeant, Police)

Track length2:14
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Act II: With cat-like tread (Pirates, Police, Samuel)

Track length2:44
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Excerpt, Sullivan, A: The Yeomen of the Guard

Work length10:09
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  • Leonard Osborn (tenor), Martyn Green (baritone), Muriel Harding (soprano), Ann Drummond-Grant (contralto)
  • D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, New Promenade Orchestra, D'Oyly Carte Opera Orchestra
  • Isidore Godfrey
  • Recorded: 18 July 1950
  • Recording Venue: London

Act I: I have a song to sing, O (Point, Elsie, Chorus)

Track length3:36
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Act II: Oh! A private buffoon is a lighthearted loon (Point)

Track length2:51
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Act II: When a wooer goes a-wooing (Point, Fairfax, Elsie, Phoebe)

Track length3:42
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Sullivan, A: The Mikado (excerpts)

Work length20:36
$8.00
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  • Darrell Fancourt (bass-baritone), Leonard Osborn (tenor), Martyn Green (baritone), Richard Watson (bass), Margaret Mitchell (soprano), Joan Gillingham (mezzo-soprano), Joyce Wright (mezzo-soprano)
  • D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, New Promenade Orchestra, D'Oyly Carte Opera Orchestra
  • Isidore Godfrey
  • Recorded: 1950
  • Recording Venue: London

Act I: A Wand'ring Minstrel I (Nanki-Poo, Chorus)

Track length4:35
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Act I: Behold the Lord High Executioner - Taken from a county jail (Ko-Ko, Chorus)

Track length2:13
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Act I: As some day it may happen (Ko-Ko, Chorus)

Track length2:07
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Act I: Three little maids from school (Yum-Yum, Peep-Bo, Pitti-Sing)

Track length1:34
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Act II: A more humane Mikado - My object all sublime (Mikado, Chorus)

Track length4:12
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Act II: The flowers that bloom in the spring (Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sing, Nanki-Poo, Pooh-Bah, Ko-Ko)

Track length1:29
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Act II: On a tree by a river (Ko-Ko)

Track length2:32
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Act II: Finale: For he's gone and married Yum-Yum (All)

Track length1:54
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