Gilbert and Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance; Trial by Jury

Gilbert and Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance; Trial by Jury

Gilbert and Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance; Trial by Jury
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Composer: Arthur Sullivan
Conductor: Isidore Godfrey
Orchestra: New Promenade Orchestra
Performer: Darrell Fancourt
Performer: Donald Harris
Performer: Ella Halman
Performer: Joan Gillingham
Performer: Joyce Wright
Performer: Leonard Osborn
Performer: Leslie Rands
Performer: Martyn Green
Performer: Radley Flynn
Performer: Richard Watson
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2002-04-23
Music Label: Naxos
Product features:
  • Gilbert and Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance; Trial by Jury
  • Classical Opera
  • Classical Music
  • Classical Composers
  • Operetta / Oratorio
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: Overture
  2. The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: Pour, oh pour the pirate sherry
  3. The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: When Frederic was a little lad
  4. The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: Oh, better far to live and die
  5. The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: Oh, false one, you have deceived me
  6. The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: What shall I do? / Climbing over rocky mountain
  7. The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: Stop, ladies, pray!
  8. The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: Oh, is there not one maiden breast / Oh, sisters, deaf to pity's name
  9. The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: Poor wand'ring one
  10. The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: What ought we to do / How beautifully blue the sky
  11. The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: Stay, we must not lose our senses
  12. The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: Here's a first rate opportunity
  13. The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: Hold, monsters
  14. The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: I am the very model of a modern Major-General
  15. The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: Oh, men of dark and dismal fate
  16. The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: I'm telling a terrible story: Act 1 finale
Music CD 2
  1. The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: O dry the glistening tear
  2. The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: Then Frederic, let your escort
  3. The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: When foreman bares his steel
  4. The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: Now for the Pirates' lair
  5. The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: When you had left our pirate fold
  6. The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: Away, away! My heart's on fire
  7. The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: All is prepared
  8. The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: Stay, Frederic, stay!
  9. The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: Ah! Leave me not to pine
  10. The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: In 1940 I of age shall be
  11. Trial by Jury, operetta: Hark the hour of ten is sounding
  12. Trial by Jury, operetta: How jurymen, hear my advice
  13. Trial by Jury, operetta: Is this the court of the exchequer
  14. Trial by Jury, operetta: When first my old, old love I knew
  15. Trial by Jury, operetta: Oh, I was like that
  16. Trial by Jury, operetta: All hail great judge
  17. Trial by Jury, operetta: For these kind words
  18. Trial by Jury, operetta: When I, good friends
  19. Trial by Jury, operetta: Swear thou, the jury!
  20. Trial by Jury, operetta: Comes the broken flower
  21. Trial by Jury, operetta: O'er the season vernal
  22. Trial by Jury, operetta: Oh never never never
  23. Trial by Jury, operetta: May it please you, my lud
  24. Trial by Jury, operetta: That she is reeling
  25. Trial by Jury, operetta: Oh gentlemen, listen, I pray
  26. Trial by Jury, operetta: But I submit, m'lud
  27. Trial by Jury, operetta: A nice dilemma we have here
  28. Trial by Jury, operetta: I love him; I smoke like a furnace
  29. Trial by Jury, operetta: The question, gentlemen
  30. Trial by Jury, operetta: O joy unbounded

Music reviews of Gilbert and Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance; Trial by Jury

Music Review: Good historical performances of "Pirates" and "Trial"
Rating: 4 Stars

Sources: "The Pirates of Penzance"--Decca studio recording, July 1949. "Trial by Jury"--Decca studio recording, September 1949.

Sound: While these performances were originally issued in Lp format--two Lps for Pirates and one for "Trial", they were recorded on matrices rather than tape. The sound is decent early Lp mono, better than contemporary pop music but not leading edge for classical music of the time. Naxos has done a nice job of cleaning up the background noises and has corrected at least one pitch problem in "Trial".

Text: "Trial by Jury" is both the earliest and the shortest surviving Gilbert and Sullivan score. No significant alterations or omissions have taken place from the first run to the present day. On the other hand, the D'Oyly Carte Company did tend to make a few changes in "The Pirates of Penzance". On this recording, there are two significant omissions. In Act II, a verse of the Major General's song, "Sighing Softly to the River", has been cut, as has the churchly interchange between the Sergeant of Police and his men. Both these omissions reflect the stage practice of the D'Oyly Carte Company at the time of the recording. (With due respect to Mr. Beamer, who wrote the previous review, "Hail Poetry" appears quite plainly in track 16 of Disk 1 of this set.)

Documentation: No libretto. Thumbnail biographies for some of the principal performers. Short plot summaries.

Making judgements about matters of performance is always an idiosyncratic business. On one hand, Mr. Beamer, having seen "a few amateur community productions," judges many of the tempi to be too fast and finds that dramatic pauses have been omitted. On the other, a leading G&S internet fan site criticizes the 1949 "Pirates" for being "stodgy, 4-square and pedantic." As for myself, based on participating in about 400 G&S performances, including three separate productions of "Pirates", I think the tempi on these recordings are generally right and the dramatic pauses, where they occur, pretty much the way Sullivan wrote them. Plainly, too, Mr. Beamer is far more acutely sensitive to errors in pitch than I am.

With regard to the singers, I hold them in substantially higher regard than Mr. Beamer, although I do agree with Mr. Behrens that the soprano, Muriel Harding, does not shine in the coloratura passages of "Pirates". Where Mr. Beamer hears shrillness in the chorus, I hear English vocal training, which produces a characteristic national choral sound quite different from that of North America (or of the choruses of Italy, France, Germany, Russia or Wales, for that matter.)

In summary, I find these to be very good performances--"Trial" being slightly the better of the two--in acceptable mono sound at a very attractive price.

Four stars.
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Description of Gilbert and Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance; Trial by Jury

After the great electric recordings by the D'Oyly Carte Company of all but three of the Gilbert & Sullivan masterpieces, the advent of LP brought forth on the London label (the Decca overseas) the "Martyn Green" series. Two of them ("Pinafore" and "Mikado") have already been re-released by Naxos, and to that series is now added the double bill of "The Pirates of Penzance" and "Trial By Jury," both recorded in 1949.

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