Gilbert & Sullivan: The Pirates Of Penzance
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Edition: Music CDCD Release Date: 1993-02-16
Music Label: Angel Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- The Pirates Of Penzance: Overture
- The Pirates Of Penzance: Act I: Pour, Oh Pour The Pirate Sherry
- The Pirates Of Penzance: Act I: When Frederic Was A Little Lad
- The Pirates Of Penzance: Act I: Oh, Better Far To Live And Die
- The Pirates Of Penzance: Act I: Oh False One
- The Pirates Of Penzance: Act I: What Shall I Do?
- The Pirates Of Penzance: Act I: Stop Ladies, Pray
- The Pirates Of Penzance: Act I: Oh, Is There Not One Maiden Breast?
- The Pirates Of Penzance: Act I: Oh, Sisters, Deaf To Pity's Name
- The Pirates Of Penzance: Act I: Pour Wandering One!
- The Pirates Of Penzance: Act I: What Ought We To Do?
- The Pirates Of Penzance: Act I: Stay, We Must Not Lose Our Senses
- The Pirates Of Penzance: Act I: Here's A First Rate Opportunity
- The Pirates Of Penzance: Act I: Hold, Monsters! Ere Your Pirate
- The Pirates Of Penzance: Act I: I Am The Very Model Of A Modern Major-General
- The Pirates Of Penzance: Act I: Oh, Men Of Dark And Dismal Fate
- The Pirates Of Penzance: Act I: I'm Telling A Terrible Story
- The Pirates Of Penzance: Act I: Oh, Master, Hear One Word, I Do Implore
- The Pirates Of Penzance: Act I: Pray Observe The Magnanimity
- The Pirates Of Penzance: Act II: Oh, Dry The Glistening Tear
- The Pirates Of Penzance: Act II: Now Frederic Let Your Escort
- The Pirates Of Penzance: Act II: When The Foeman Bears His Steel
- The Pirates Of Penzance: Act II: Now For The Pirates' Lair
- The Pirates Of Penzance: Act II: Young Frederic!
- The Pirates Of Penzance: Act II: When You Had Left Our Pirate Fold
- The Pirates Of Penzance: Act II: Away Away! My Heart's On Fire
- The Pirates Of Penzance: Act II: All Is Prepared
- The Pirates Of Penzance: Act II: Stay Frederic Stay!
- The Pirates Of Penzance: Act II: Ah, Leave Me Not To Pine
- The Pirates Of Penzance: Act II: In 1940 I Of Age Shall Be
- The Pirates Of Penzance: Act II: No I'll Be Brave!
- The Pirates Of Penzance: Act II: Though In Body And In Mind
- The Pirates Of Penzance: Act II: When A Felon's Not Engaged In His Employment
- The Pirates Of Penzance: Act II: A Rollicking Band Of Pirates We
- The Pirates Of Penzance: Act II: With Cat Like Tread
- The Pirates Of Penzance: Act II: Hush, Hush, Not A Word
- The Pirates Of Penzance: Act II: Sighing Softly
- The Pirates Of Penzance: Act II: Now What Is This, And What Is That
- The Pirates Of Penzance: Act II: Frederic Here! Oh Joy!
- The Pirates Of Penzance: Overture
- The Pirates Of Penzance: Overture
- The Pirates Of Penzance: Overture
- The Pirates Of Penzance: Overture in C (In Memoriam)
Music reviews of Gilbert & Sullivan: The Pirates Of Penzance
Music Review: charming "museum" treatment of PIRATES...
Rating: 3 Stars
The 1961 complete recording of Gilbert and Sullivan's 1879 operetta THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE does feature some capable soloists from the Glyndebourne Festival, and the sharp musical direction of Malcolm Sargent. This was made during the period when EMI was focusing on Sargent's activities within the Glyndebourne Festival, and subsequently many of the productions he helmed were recorded by the label.
The story concerns a young man named Frederick, whose apprenticeship with the Pirate King's gang officially ends on his 21st birthday. At that point, Frederick will be free to leave and re-commence an honest life, and he later falls in love with Mabel, one of the many daughters of the eccentric Major-General. But Frederick discovers his ties to the Pirate King were not completely severed, thanks to a strange technicality...
The cast of this altogether-adequate PIRATES includes John Cameron as Frederick, James Milligan as the Pirate King, and Elsie Morison as Mabel. All three offer solid performances; Morison has a lilting soprano voice, free from the metallic quality that sometimes affects the female voices on older recordings like this one. John Cameron's bass-baritone voice serves him well with Frederick's demanding vocals.
Filling out the comical supporting roles; Monica Sinclair as Ruth (the piratical maid of all work) and George Baker (the tongue-twisting old Major-General Stanley) provide performances full of mirth and merriment. Owen Brannigan plays the Police Sergeant, with Heather Harper and Marjorie Thomas leading the contingent of General Stanley's daughters.
This recording also features a tribute to Sullivan with the "Overture in C."; and the overtures from "The Sorcerer", "Princess Ida" and "Cox & Box", conducted by Sir Vivian Dunn with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
While there are a few quality recordings of PIRATES currently in the catalogue, this version is quite charming, even if at times it does border on becoming a museum piece.
[EMI Classics 0777 7 64409 2 7]
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