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The Complete Gilbert & Sullivan (Box Set)
CD DetailsComposer: Arthur Sullivan Conductor: Isidore Godfrey Conductor: Royston Nash Conductor: Charles Mackerras Conductor: Malcolm Sargent Orchestra: New Symphony Orchestra of London Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra of London Orchestra: Royal Opera House Covent Garden Orchestra Orchestra: Royal Opera House Covent Garden Chorus and Orchestra Performer: Gillian Knight Performer: John Reed Performer: Thomas Round Performer: Dawn Bradshaw Performer: George Cook Performer: Daphne Gill Performer: Ceinwen Jones Performer: Joseph Riordan Performer: Jeanette Roach Performer: Kenneth Sandford Edition: Music CD Format: Box set CD Release Date: 2003-05-13 Music Label: Decca Soundtracks: Music CD 1- The Gondoliers (The King of Barataria), operetta: Overture
- The Gondoliers (The King of Barataria), operetta: Act 1. List and learn
- The Gondoliers (The King of Barataria), operetta: Act 1. Good morrow, pretty maids
- The Gondoliers (The King of Barataria), operetta: Act 1. For the merriest fellows are we
- The Gondoliers (The King of Barataria), operetta: Act 1. See, see at last they come to make their choice
- The Gondoliers (The King of Barataria), operetta: Act 1. Buon' giorno, signorine!
- The Gondoliers (The King of Barataria), operetta: Act 1. We're called gondolieri, but that's a vagary
- The Gondoliers (The King of Barataria), operetta: Act 1. And now to choose our brides!
- The Gondoliers (The King of Barataria), operetta: Act 1. Are you peeping?
- The Gondoliers (The King of Barataria), operetta: Act 1. Thank you gallant gondolieri
- The Gondoliers (The King of Barataria), operetta: Act 1. From the sunny Spanish shore
- The Gondoliers (The King of Barataria), operetta: Act 1. In enterprise of martial kind
- The Gondoliers (The King of Barataria), operetta: Act 1. O rapture, when alone together
- The Gondoliers (The King of Barataria), operetta: Act 1. There was a time, a time for ever gone
- The Gondoliers (The King of Barataria), operetta: Act 1. I stole the Prince
- The Gondoliers (The King of Barataria), operetta: Act 1. But, bless my heart, consider my position!
- The Gondoliers (The King of Barataria), operetta: Act 1. Try we life-long we can never
- The Gondoliers (The King of Barataria), operetta: Act 1. Bride-groom and bride!
- The Gondoliers (The King of Barataria), operetta: Act 1. When a merry maiden marries
- The Gondoliers (The King of Barataria), operetta: Act 1. Kind sir, you cannot have the heart, our lives to part
- The Gondoliers (The King of Barataria), operetta: Act 1. Do not give way to this uncalled-for grief
- The Gondoliers (The King of Barataria), operetta: Act 1. Then one of us will be a queen
Music CD 2- The Gondoliers (The King of Barataria), operetta: Act 1. Now pray, what is the cause of this remarkable hilarity
- The Gondoliers (The King of Barataria), operetta: Act 1. Replying, we sing as one individual
- The Gondoliers (The King of Barataria), operetta: Act 1. For ev'ryone who feels inclined
- The Gondoliers (The King of Barataria), operetta: Act 1. Come let's away - our island crown awaits me
- The Gondoliers (The King of Barataria), operetta: Act 1. Now, Marco dear, my wishes hear
- The Gondoliers (The King of Barataria), operetta: Act 1. Then away they go to an island fair
- The Gondoliers (The King of Barataria), operetta: Act 2. Of happiness the very pith
- The Gondoliers (The King of Barataria), operetta: Act 2. Rising early in the morning
- The Gondoliers (The King of Barataria), operetta: Act 2. Take a pair of sparkling eyes
- The Gondoliers (The King of Barataria), operetta: Act 2. Here we are, at the risk of our lives
- The Gondoliers (The King of Barataria), operetta: Act 2. After sailing to this land
- The Gondoliers (The King of Barataria), operetta: Act 2. Dance a cachucha, fandango, bolero
- The Gondoliers (The King of Barataria), operetta: Act 2. There lived a king, as I've been told
- The Gondoliers (The King of Barataria), operetta: Act 2. In a contemplative fashion and a tranquil frame of mind
- The Gondoliers (The King of Barataria), operetta: Act 2. With ducal pomp and ducal pride
- The Gondoliers (The King of Barataria), operetta: Act 2. This polite attention
- The Gondoliers (The King of Barataria), operetta: Act 2. To help happy commoners
- The Gondoliers (The King of Barataria), operetta: Act 2. Small titles and orders for mayors and recorders
- The Gondoliers (The King of Barataria), operetta: Act 2. I am a courtier grave and serious
- The Gondoliers (The King of Barataria), operetta: Act 2. Here is a case unprecedented!
- The Gondoliers (The King of Barataria), operetta: Act 2. Now let the loyal lieges gather round
- The Gondoliers (The King of Barataria), operetta: Act 2. Speak woman speak, we're all attention!
- The Gondoliers (The King of Barataria), operetta: Act 2. The royal prince was by the king entrusted
- The Gondoliers (The King of Barataria), operetta: Act 2. Luiz! Casilda!
- The Gondoliers (The King of Barataria), operetta: Act 2. One more, gondolieri
Music CD 3- Grand Duke (The Statutory Duel), operetta: Overture
- Grand Duke (The Statutory Duel), operetta: Act 1. Won't it be a pretty wedding
- Grand Duke (The Statutory Duel), operetta: Act 1. Pretty Lisa, fair and tasty
- Grand Duke (The Statutory Duel), operetta: Act 1. By the mystic regulation
- Grand Duke (The Statutory Duel), operetta: Act 1. Were I a king in very truth
- Grand Duke (The Statutory Duel), operetta: Act 1. How would I play this part
- Grand Duke (The Statutory Duel), operetta: Act 1. My goodness me! What shall I do?
- Grand Duke (The Statutory Duel), operetta: Act 1. Ten minutes since I met a chap
- Grand Duke (The Statutory Duel), operetta: Act 1. About a century since
- Grand Duke (The Statutory Duel), operetta: Act 1. Strange the views some people hold
- Grand Duke (The Statutory Duel), operetta: Act 1. Now take a card, and gaily sing
- Grand Duke (The Statutory Duel), operetta: Act 1. The good Grand Duke of Pfennig Halbpfenning
- Grand Duke (The Statutory Duel), operetta: Act 1. A pattern to professors of monarchial autonomy
- Grand Duke (The Statutory Duel), operetta: Act 1. As o'er our penny roll we sing
- Grand Duke (The Statutory Duel), operetta: Act 1. When you find you're a broken-down critter
- Grand Duke (The Statutory Duel), operetta: Finale. Come hither, all you people
Music CD 4- Grand Duke (The Statutory Duel), operetta: Act 2. As before you we defile
- Grand Duke (The Statutory Duel), operetta: Act 2. Your loyalty our ducal heart-strings touches...At the outset I may mention
- Grand Duke (The Statutory Duel), operetta: Act 2. Yes, Ludwig and his Julia are mated!
- Grand Duke (The Statutory Duel), operetta: Act 2. Take care of him - he's much too good to live!
- Grand Duke (The Statutory Duel), operetta: Act 2. Now Julia, come, consider it
- Grand Duke (The Statutory Duel), operetta: Act 2. Your Highness, there's a party at the door
- Grand Duke (The Statutory Duel), operetta: Act 2. Now away to the wedding we go
- Grand Duke (The Statutory Duel), operetta: Act 2. So ends my dream...Broken ev'ry promise plighted
- Grand Duke (The Statutory Duel), operetta: Act 2. If the light of love's lingering ember
- Grand Duke (The Statutory Duel), operetta: Act 2. Come, bumpers - aye, ever so many
- Grand Duke (The Statutory Duel), operetta: Act 2. Why, who is this approaching?
- Grand Duke (The Statutory Duel), operetta: Act 2. The Prince of Monte Carlo
- Grand Duke (The Statutory Duel), operetta: Act 2. His Highness we know not
- Grand Duke (The Statutory Duel), operetta: Act 2. We're rigged out in magnificent array
- Grand Duke (The Statutory Duel), operetta: Act 2. Dance
- Grand Duke (The Statutory Duel), operetta: Act 2. Take my advice - when deep in debt
- Grand Duke (The Statutory Duel), operetta: Act 2. Hurrah! Now away to the wedding
- Grand Duke (The Statutory Duel), operetta: Act 2. Well, you're a pretty kind of fellow
- Grand Duke (The Statutory Duel), operetta: Act 2. Finale. Happy couples, lightly treading
- Overture di ballo, for orchestra in E major
- Henry VIII, incidental music: March & Graceful Dance: Allegro moderato alla marcia
- Henry VIII, incidental music: March & Graceful Dance
Music CD 5- H. M. S. Pinafore (The Lass that Loved a Sailor), operetta: Act 1. Refrain, audacious tar
- H. M. S. Pinafore (The Lass that Loved a Sailor), operetta: Act 1. Can I survive the overbearing
- H. M. S. Pinafore (The Lass that Loved a Sailor), operetta: Overture
- H. M. S. Pinafore (The Lass that Loved a Sailor), operetta: Act 1. We shall sail the ocean blue
- H. M. S. Pinafore (The Lass that Loved a Sailor), operetta: Act 1. Hail! Men o'war's men
- H. M. S. Pinafore (The Lass that Loved a Sailor), operetta: Act 1. The nightingale sighed
- H. M. S. Pinafore (The Lass that Loved a Sailor), operetta: Act 1. A maiden fair to see
- H. M. S. Pinafore (The Lass that Loved a Sailor), operetta: Act 1. My gallant crew, good morning
- H. M. S. Pinafore (The Lass that Loved a Sailor), operetta: Act 1. Sir, you are sad
- H. M. S. Pinafore (The Lass that Loved a Sailor), operetta: Act 1. Sorry her lot who loves too well
- H. M. S. Pinafore (The Lass that Loved a Sailor), operetta: Act 1. Over the bright blue sea
- H. M. S. Pinafore (The Lass that Loved a Sailor), operetta: Act 1. Sir Joseph's barge is seen
- H. M. S. Pinafore (The Lass that Loved a Sailor), operetta: Act 1. Now give three cheers
- H. M. S. Pinafore (The Lass that Loved a Sailor), operetta: Act 1. When I was a lad
- H. M. S. Pinafore (The Lass that Loved a Sailor), operetta: Act 1. A British tar
Music CD 6- H. M. S. Pinafore (The Lass that Loved a Sailor), operetta: Entracte
- H. M. S. Pinafore (The Lass that Loved a Sailor), operetta: Act 2. Fair moon to thee I sing
- H. M. S. Pinafore (The Lass that Loved a Sailor), operetta: Act 2. Things are seldom what they seem
- H. M. S. Pinafore (The Lass that Loved a Sailor), operetta: Act 2. The hours creep on apace
- H. M. S. Pinafore (The Lass that Loved a Sailor), operetta: Act 2. Never mind the why and wherefore
- H. M. S. Pinafore (The Lass that Loved a Sailor), operetta: Act 2. Kind Captain, I've important information
- H. M. S. Pinafore (The Lass that Loved a Sailor), operetta: Act 2. Carefully on tip-toe stealing
- H. M. S. Pinafore (The Lass that Loved a Sailor), operetta: Act 2. Farewell, my own
- H. M. S. Pinafore (The Lass that Loved a Sailor), operetta: Act 2. A many years ago
- H. M. S. Pinafore (The Lass that Loved a Sailor), operetta: Act 2. A joy! Oh rapture unforseen
Music CD 7- Iolanthe (The Peer and the Peri), operetta: Overture
- Iolanthe (The Peer and the Peri), operetta: Act 1. Tripping hither, tripping thither
- Iolanthe (The Peer and the Peri), operetta: Act 1. Iolanthe
- Iolanthe (The Peer and the Peri), operetta: Act 1. Good morrow, good mother
- Iolanthe (The Peer and the Peri), operetta: Act 1. Fare thee well, attractive stranger
- Iolanthe (The Peer and the Peri), operetta: Act 1. Good morrow, good lover
- Iolanthe (The Peer and the Peri), operetta: Act 1. None shall part us
- Iolanthe (The Peer and the Peri), operetta: Act 1. Loudly let the trumpet bray
- Iolanthe (The Peer and the Peri), operetta: Act 1. Entrance of the Lord Chancellor
- Iolanthe (The Peer and the Peri), operetta: Act 1. The law is the embodiment
- Iolanthe (The Peer and the Peri), operetta: Act 1. My well-beloved Lord
- Iolanthe (The Peer and the Peri), operetta: Act 1. Nay, tempt me not
- Iolanthe (The Peer and the Peri), operetta: Act 1. Spurn not the nobly born
- Iolanthe (The Peer and the Peri), operetta: Act 1. Lords, it may not be
- Iolanthe (The Peer and the Peri), operetta: Act 1. Said I to myself, said I
- Iolanthe (The Peer and the Peri), operetta: Act 1. When darkly looms the day
Music CD 8- Iolanthe (The Peer and the Peri), operetta: Act 2. When all night long a chap remains
- Iolanthe (The Peer and the Peri), operetta: Act 2. Strephon's a member of Parliament
- Iolanthe (The Peer and the Peri), operetta: Act 2. When Britain really ruled the waves
- Iolanthe (The Peer and the Peri), operetta: Act 2. In vain to us you plead
- Iolanthe (The Peer and the Peri), operetta: Act 2. Oh, foolish fay
- Iolanthe (The Peer and the Peri), operetta: Act 2. Though p'r'aps I may incur your blame
- Iolanthe (The Peer and the Peri), operetta: Act 2. Love unrequited
- Iolanthe (The Peer and the Peri), operetta: Act 2. If you go in you're sure to win
- Iolanthe (The Peer and the Peri), operetta: Act 2. If we're weak enough to tarry
- Iolanthe (The Peer and the Peri), operetta: Act 2. My Lord, a suppliant at your feet
- Iolanthe (The Peer and the Peri), operetta: Act 2. It may not be
- Iolanthe (The Peer and the Peri), operetta: Act 2. Soon as we may, off and away
Music CD 9- The Mikado (The Town of Titipu), operetta: Overture
- The Mikado (The Town of Titipu), operetta: Act 1. If you want to know who we are
- The Mikado (The Town of Titipu), operetta: Act 1. Gentlemen, I pray you tell me
- The Mikado (The Town of Titipu), operetta: Act 1. A wand'ring minstrel I
- The Mikado (The Town of Titipu), operetta: Act 1. Our great Mikado, virtuous man
- The Mikado (The Town of Titipu), operetta: Act 1. Young man, despair
- The Mikado (The Town of Titipu), operetta: Act 1. And I have journey'd for a month
- The Mikado (The Town of Titipu), operetta: Act 1. Behold the Lord High Executioner!
- The Mikado (The Town of Titipu), operetta: Act 1. As someday it may happen that a victim must be found
- The Mikado (The Town of Titipu), operetta: Act 1. Comes a train of little ladies
- The Mikado (The Town of Titipu), operetta: Act 1. Three little maids from school are we
- The Mikado (The Town of Titipu), operetta: Act 1. So please you, Sir, we much regret
- The Mikado (The Town of Titipu), operetta: Act 1. Were you not to Ko-Ko plighted
- The Mikado (The Town of Titipu), operetta: Act 1. I am so proud, If I allowed
- The Mikado (The Town of Titipu), operetta: Act 1. With aspect stern and gloomy stride
- The Mikado (The Town of Titipu), operetta: Act 1. The threaten'd cloud has pass'd away
- The Mikado (The Town of Titipu), operetta: Act 1. Your revels cease! Assist me, all of you!
- The Mikado (The Town of Titipu), operetta: Act 1. Oh fool, that flee-est My hallow'd joys!
- The Mikado (The Town of Titipu), operetta: Act 1. For he's going to marry Yum-Yum
- The Mikado (The Town of Titipu), operetta: Act 1. The hour of gladness is dead and gone
- The Mikado (The Town of Titipu), operetta: Act 1. Ye torrents roar! Ye tempests howl!
Music CD 10- The Mikado (The Town of Titipu), operetta: Act 2. Braid the raven hair, Weave the supple tresses
- The Mikado (The Town of Titipu), operetta: Act 2. The sun whose rays are all ablaze
- The Mikado (The Town of Titipu), operetta: Act 2. Brightly dawns our wedding day
- The Mikado (The Town of Titipu), operetta: Act 2. Here's a how-de-do!
- The Mikado (The Town of Titipu), operetta: Act 2. Miya sama, miya sama, o n'mma no maye ni
- The Mikado (The Town of Titipu), operetta: Act 2. From ev'ry kind of man Obedience I expect
- The Mikado (The Town of Titipu), operetta: Act 2. A most humane Mikado never did in Japan exist
- The Mikado (The Town of Titipu), operetta: Act 2. The criminal cried as he dropp'd him down
- The Mikado (The Town of Titipu), operetta: Act 2. See how the fates their gifts allot
- The Mikado (The Town of Titipu), operetta: Act 2. The flowers that bloom in the spring, tra la
- The Mikado (The Town of Titipu), operetta: Act 2. Alone and yet alive
- The Mikado (The Town of Titipu), operetta: Act 2. Hearts do not break! They sting and ache
- The Mikado (The Town of Titipu), operetta: Act 2. On a tree by a river a little tom tit
- The Mikado (The Town of Titipu), operetta: Act 2. There is beauty in the bellow of the blast
- The Mikado (The Town of Titipu), operetta: Act 2. Fanfare
- The Mikado (The Town of Titipu), operetta: Act 2. For he's gone and married Yum-Yum
Music CD 11- Patience (Bunthorne's Bride), operetta: Overture
- Patience (Bunthorne's Bride), operetta: Act 1. Twenty love-sick maidens we
- Patience (Bunthorne's Bride), operetta: Act 1. Still brooding on their mad infatuation
- Patience (Bunthorne's Bride), operetta: Act 1. I cannot tell what this love may be
- Patience (Bunthorne's Bride), operetta: Act 1. Twenty love sick maidens we
- Patience (Bunthorne's Bride), operetta: Act 1. The soldiers of our Queen
- Patience (Bunthorne's Bride), operetta: Act 1. If you want a receipt for that popular mystery
- Patience (Bunthorne's Bride), operetta: Act 1. In a doleful train two and two we walk all day
- Patience (Bunthorne's Bride), operetta: Act 1. Twenty love-sick maidens we
- Patience (Bunthorne's Bride), operetta: Act 1. When I first put this uniform on
- Patience (Bunthorne's Bride), operetta: Act 1. Am I alone and unobserved?
- Patience (Bunthorne's Bride), operetta: Act 1. If you're anxious for to shine
- Patience (Bunthorne's Bride), operetta: Act 1. Long years ago - fourteen, maybe
- Patience (Bunthorne's Bride), operetta: Act 1. Prithee, pretty maiden - prithee
- Patience (Bunthorne's Bride), operetta: Act 1. Through to marry you
- Patience (Bunthorne's Bride), operetta: Act 1. Let the merry cymbals sound
- Patience (Bunthorne's Bride), operetta: Act 1. Now tell us, we pray you
- Patience (Bunthorne's Bride), operetta: Act 1. Heart broken at my Patience's barbarity
- Patience (Bunthorne's Bride), operetta: Act 1. Stay, we implore you, before our hopes are blighted
- Patience (Bunthorne's Bride), operetta: Act 1. Your maidens hearts, ah, do steel
Music CD 12- Patience (Bunthorne's Bride), operetta: Act 1. Come, walk up, and purchase with avidity
- Patience (Bunthorne's Bride), operetta: Act 1. We've been thrown over, we're aware
- Patience (Bunthorne's Bride), operetta: Act 1. And are you going a ticket to buy?
- Patience (Bunthorne's Bride), operetta: Act 1. Hold! Stay your hand!
- Patience (Bunthorne's Bride), operetta: Act 1. True love must single-hearted be
- Patience (Bunthorne's Bride), operetta: Act 1. I hear the soft note of the echoing voice
- Patience (Bunthorne's Bride), operetta: Act 1. But who is this, whose god-like grace
- Patience (Bunthorne's Bride), operetta: Act 1. List Reginald, whilst I confess a love
- Patience (Bunthorne's Bride), operetta: Act 2. On such eyes as maidens cherish
- Patience (Bunthorne's Bride), operetta: Act 2. Sad is a woman's lot who, year by year
- Patience (Bunthorne's Bride), operetta: Act 2. Silvered is the raven hair
- Patience (Bunthorne's Bride), operetta: Act 2. Turn, oh turn in this direction
- Patience (Bunthorne's Bride), operetta: Act 2. A magnet hung in a hardware shop
- Patience (Bunthorne's Bride), operetta: Act 2. Love is a plaintive song
- Patience (Bunthorne's Bride), operetta: Act 2. So go to him and say to him
- Patience (Bunthorne's Bride), operetta: Act 2. It's clear that the mediaeval art
- Patience (Bunthorne's Bride), operetta: Act 2. If Saphir I choose to marry
- Patience (Bunthorne's Bride), operetta: Act 2. When I go out of the door
- Patience (Bunthorne's Bride), operetta: Act 2. I'm a Waterloo House young man
- Patience (Bunthorne's Bride), operetta: Act 2. After much debate internal, I on Lady Jane decide
Music CD 13- The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: Overture
- The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: Act 1. Pour, oh pour the pirate sherry
- The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: Act 1. When Fred'ric was a little lad
- The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: Act 1. Oh, better far to live and die
- The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: Act 1. Oh, false one, you have deceived me
- The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: Act 1. Climbing over rocky mountain
- The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: Act 1. Stop! ladies, pray! A man!
- The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: Act 1. Oh, is there not one maiden beast
- The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: Act 1. Oh, sisters, deaf to pity's name, For shame!
- The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: Act 1. Poor wand'ring one!
- The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: Act 1. What ought we to do, Gentle sisters, say?
- The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: Act 1. How beautifully blue the sky
- The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: Act 1. Stay, we must not lose our senses
- The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: Act 1. Hold, Monsters!
- The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: Act 1. I am the very model of a modern Major-General
Music CD 14- The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: Act 1. Oh, men of dark and dismal fate
- The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: Act 1. Hail Poetry, thou heav'n born maid!
- The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: Act 1. You may go, for you're at liberty
- The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: Act 1. Pray observe the magnanimity
- The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: Act 2. Oh, dry the glist'ning tear
- The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: Act 2. Then Frederic
- The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: Act 2. When the foeman bares his steel
- The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: Act 2. Now for the pirates lair!
- The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: Act 2. When you had left our pirate fold
- The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: Act 2. Away, away, my heart's on fire
- The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: Act 2. All is prepared
- The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: Act 2. Stay, Fred'ric stay!
- The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: Act 2. Ah, leave me not to pine alone and desolate
- The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: Act 2. Oh, here is love and here is truth
- The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: Act 2. No, I'll be brave
- The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: Act 2. Sergeant approach
- The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: Act 2. When a felon's not engaged in his employment
- The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: Act 2. A rollicking band of pirates we
- The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: Act 2. With cat-like tread
- The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: Act 2. Hush! Hush! Not a word
- The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: Act 2. Sighing softly to the river
- The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: Act 2. Now what is this, and what is that
- The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: Act 2. We triumph now
- The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: Act 2. Away with them, and place them at the bar
- The Pirates of Penzance, operetta: Act 2. Poor wand'ring ones, though ye have surely strayed
Music CD 15- Princess Ida (Castle Adamant), operetta: Overture
- Princess Ida (Castle Adamant), operetta: Act 1. Search throughout the panorama
- Princess Ida (Castle Adamant), operetta: Act 1. Now harken to my strict command
- Princess Ida (Castle Adamant), operetta: Act 1. Today we meet... Ida was a twelve-month old
- Princess Ida (Castle Adamant), operetta: Act 1. From the distant panorama... we are warriors three
- Princess Ida (Castle Adamant), operetta: Act 1. If you give me your attention
- Princess Ida (Castle Adamant), operetta: Act 1. Finale. P'raps if you address the lady most politely
- Princess Ida (Castle Adamant), operetta: Act 2. Towards the empyrean heights
- Princess Ida (Castle Adamant), operetta: Act 2. Mighty maiden with a mission
- Princess Ida (Castle Adamant), operetta: Act 2. Minerva... Oh, goddess wise
- Princess Ida (Castle Adamant), operetta: Act 2. Gently, gently, evidently
- Princess Ida (Castle Adamant), operetta: Act 2. I am a maiden, cold and stately
- Princess Ida (Castle Adamant), operetta: Act 2. The world is but a broken toy
- Princess Ida (Castle Adamant), operetta: Act 2. A lady fair, of lineage high
- Princess Ida (Castle Adamant), operetta: Act 2. The woman of the wisest wit
- Princess Ida (Castle Adamant), operetta: Act 2. Now wouldn't you like to rule the roost
- Princess Ida (Castle Adamant), operetta: Act 2. Merrily ring the luncheon bell
- Princess Ida (Castle Adamant), operetta: Act 2. Would you know the kind of maid
- Princess Ida (Castle Adamant), operetta: Act 2. Finale. Oh joy! Our chief is sav'd
- Princess Ida (Castle Adamant), operetta: Act 2. We may remark, tho' nothing can dismay us
Music CD 16- Princess Ida (Castle Adamant), operetta: Act 3. Death to the invader
- Princess Ida (Castle Adamant), operetta: Act 3. I built upon a rock
- Princess Ida (Castle Adamant), operetta: Act 3. Whene'er I spoke sarcastic joke
- Princess Ida (Castle Adamant), operetta: Act 3. When anger spreads his wing
- Princess Ida (Castle Adamant), operetta: Act 3. This helmet I suppose
- Princess Ida (Castle Adamant), operetta: Act 3. This is our duty plain
- Princess Ida (Castle Adamant), operetta: Act 3. Finale. With joy abiding
- Pineapple Poll, ballet (compiled & arranged by C. Mackerras): Scene 1. Opening Dance
- Pineapple Poll, ballet (compiled & arranged by C. Mackerras): Scene 1. Poll's Solo and Pas de deux
- Pineapple Poll, ballet (compiled & arranged by C. Mackerras): Scene 1. Belaye's Solo
- Pineapple Poll, ballet (compiled & arranged by C. Mackerras): Scene 1. Pas de trois
- Pineapple Poll, ballet (compiled & arranged by C. Mackerras): Scene 1. Finale
- Pineapple Poll, ballet (compiled & arranged by C. Mackerras): Scene 2. Poll's Solo, Jasper's Solo
- Pineapple Poll, ballet (compiled & arranged by C. Mackerras): Scene 3. Belaye's Solo and Sailors' Drill
- Pineapple Poll, ballet (compiled & arranged by C. Mackerras): Scene 3. Poll's Solo
- Pineapple Poll, ballet (compiled & arranged by C. Mackerras): Scene 3. Entry of Belaye with Blanche as Bride
- Pineapple Poll, ballet (compiled & arranged by C. Mackerras): Scene 3. Reconciliation
- Pineapple Poll, ballet (compiled & arranged by C. Mackerras): Scene 3. Grand Finale
Music CD 17- Ruddigore (The Witch's Curse), operetta: Overture
- Ruddigore (The Witch's Curse), operetta: Act 1. Fair is Rose as bright as May day
- Ruddigore (The Witch's Curse), operetta: Act 1. Sir Rupert Murgatroyd, his leisure and his riches
- Ruddigore (The Witch's Curse), operetta: Act 1. If somebody there chanced to be
- Ruddigore (The Witch's Curse), operetta: Act 1. I know a youth who loves a little maid
- Ruddigore (The Witch's Curse), operetta: Act 1. From the briny sea... I shipp'd, d'ye see
- Ruddigore (The Witch's Curse), operetta: Act 1. Hornpipe
- Ruddigore (The Witch's Curse), operetta: Act 1. My boy, you may take it from me
- Ruddigore (The Witch's Curse), operetta: Act 1. The battle's roar is over
- Ruddigore (The Witch's Curse), operetta: Act 1. In sailing o'er life's ocean wide
- Ruddigore (The Witch's Curse), operetta: Act 1. Cheerily carols the lark... To a garden full of posies
- Ruddigore (The Witch's Curse), operetta: Act 1. Welcome, gentry
- Ruddigore (The Witch's Curse), operetta: Act 1. Oh why am I moody and sad?
- Ruddigore (The Witch's Curse), operetta: Act 1. You understand? I think I do
- Ruddigore (The Witch's Curse), operetta: Act 1. Finale. Hail the bride of seventeen summers
- Ruddigore (The Witch's Curse), operetta: Act 1. Finale. Hold, bride and bridegroom
Music CD 18- Ruddigore (The Witch's Curse), operetta: Overture (original version)
- Ruddigore (The Witch's Curse), operetta: Act 2. I once was as meek as a newborn lamb
- Ruddigore (The Witch's Curse), operetta: Act 2. Happily coupled are we
- Ruddigore (The Witch's Curse), operetta: Act 2. In bygone days I had thy love
- Ruddigore (The Witch's Curse), operetta: Act 2. Painted emblems of a race
- Ruddigore (The Witch's Curse), operetta: Act 2. When the night wind howls
- Ruddigore (The Witch's Curse), operetta: Act 2. He yields! He yields!
- Ruddigore (The Witch's Curse), operetta: Act 2. I once was a very abandon'd person
- Ruddigore (The Witch's Curse), operetta: Act 2. My eyes are fully open to my awful situation
- Ruddigore (The Witch's Curse), operetta: Act 2. There grew a little flower
- Ruddigore (The Witch's Curse), operetta: Act 2. Finale. Oh, happy the lily when kiss'd by the bee
- Cox and Box (The Long-Lost Brothers), operetta: Overture
- Cox and Box (The Long-Lost Brothers), operetta: We sounded the trumpet
- Cox and Box (The Long-Lost Brothers), operetta: Stay, Bouncer, stay!
- Cox and Box (The Long-Lost Brothers), operetta: Hush'd is the bacon on the grid
- Cox and Box (The Long-Lost Brothers), operetta: My master is punctual always in business
- Cox and Box (The Long-Lost Brothers), operetta: Who are you, sir?
- Cox and Box (The Long-Lost Brothers), operetta: The buttercup dwells on the lowly mead
- Cox and Box (The Long-Lost Brothers), operetta: Finale. Not long ago
Music CD 19- The Sorcerer, operetta: Overture
- The Sorcerer, operetta: Act 1. Ring forth, ye bells
- The Sorcerer, operetta: Act 1. Constance, my daughter
- The Sorcerer, operetta: Act 1. When he is here, I sigh with pleasure
- The Sorcerer, operetta: Act 1. The air is charged with amatory numbers
- The Sorcerer, operetta: Act 1. Time was, when love and I were well acquainted
- The Sorcerer, operetta: Act 1. Sir Marmaduke... Minuet
- The Sorcerer, operetta: Act 1. With heart and with voice
- The Sorcerer, operetta: Act 1. My kindly friends... Oh, happy young heart
- The Sorcerer, operetta: Act 1. My child, I join in these congratulations
- The Sorcerer, operetta: Act 1. With heart and with voice
- The Sorcerer, operetta: Act 1. Welcome joy! Adieu to sadness!
- The Sorcerer, operetta: Act 1. All is prepar'd for sealing and for signing
- The Sorcerer, operetta: Act 1. Love feeds on many kinds of food
- The Sorcerer, operetta: Act 1. My name is John Wellington Wells
- The Sorcerer, operetta: Act 1. Sprites of earth and air
- The Sorcerer, operetta: Finale. Now to the banquet we press
Music CD 20- The Sorcerer, operetta: Act 2. 'Tis twelve, I think
- The Sorcerer, operetta: Act 2. Dear friends, take pity on my lot
- The Sorcerer, operetta: Act 2. Thou hast the pow'r thy vaunted love to sanctify... It is not love
- The Sorcerer, operetta: Act 2. I rejoice that it's decided
- The Sorcerer, operetta: Act 2. Oh, I have wrought much evil with my spells
- The Sorcerer, operetta: Act 2. Alexis! Doubt me not!... The fearful deed is done
- The Sorcerer, operetta: Act 2. Oh, my voice is sad and low
- The Sorcerer, operetta: Act 2. Oh, joyous boon!
- The Sorcerer, operetta: Act 2. Prepare for sad suprises
- The Sorcerer, operetta: Finale. Or he or I must die
- The Zoo, operetta: Introduction
- The Zoo, operetta: The British public here - you see
- The Zoo, operetta: I loved her fondly
- The Zoo, operetta: And now let's go back to where we were... Ah maiden fair
- The Zoo, operetta: Where is he?
- The Zoo, operetta: Once more the face I loved so well
- The Zoo, operetta: Help! Ah help!
- The Zoo, operetta: Ho guards! Minions!
- The Zoo, operetta: Ladies and gentlemen!
- The Zoo, operetta: We gather from what you have said
- The Zoo, operetta: Where is my daughter?
- The Zoo, operetta: I'm a simple little child
- The Zoo, operetta: My father!
- The Zoo, operetta: Finale. What do I see in this disguise?
Music CD 21- Utopia Limited (The Flowers of Progress), operetta: Imperial March
- Utopia Limited (The Flowers of Progress), operetta: Act 1. Introduction
- Utopia Limited (The Flowers of Progress), operetta: Act 1. In lazy languor
- Utopia Limited (The Flowers of Progress), operetta: Act 1. O make way for the wise men!
- Utopia Limited (The Flowers of Progress), operetta: Act 1. In every mental lore
- Utopia Limited (The Flowers of Progress), operetta: Act 1. Let all your doubts take wing
- Utopia Limited (The Flowers of Progress), operetta: Act 1. Quaff the nectar
- Utopia Limited (The Flowers of Progress), operetta: Act 1. A king of autocratic power we
- Utopia Limited (The Flowers of Progress), operetta: Act 1. Altho' of native maids the cream
- Utopia Limited (The Flowers of Progress), operetta: Act 1. Bold-fac'd ranger
- Utopia Limited (The Flowers of Progress), operetta: Act 1. First you're born
- Utopia Limited (The Flowers of Progress), operetta: Act 1. Subjected to your heavenly gaze
- Utopia Limited (The Flowers of Progress), operetta: Act 1. O maiden rich in Girton lore
- Utopia Limited (The Flowers of Progress), operetta: Act 1. Ah! gallant soldier, brave and true
- Utopia Limited (The Flowers of Progress), operetta: Act 1. It's understood, I think
- Utopia Limited (The Flowers of Progress), operetta: Act 1. O admirable art!
- Utopia Limited (The Flowers of Progress), operetta: Finale. Altho' your royal summons to appear
- Utopia Limited (The Flowers of Progress), operetta: Finale. A Company Promoter this, with special education
Music CD 22- Utopia Limited (The Flowers of Progress), operetta: Act 2. Oh, Zara... A tenor, all singers above
- Utopia Limited (The Flowers of Progress), operetta: Act 2. Words of love too loudly spoken
- Utopia Limited (The Flowers of Progress), operetta: Act 2. Society has quite forsaken all
- Utopia Limited (The Flowers of Progress), operetta: Act 2. Entrance of the Court
- Utopia Limited (The Flowers of Progress), operetta: Act 2. Drawing-room music
- Utopia Limited (The Flowers of Progress), operetta: Act 2. This ceremonial our wish displays... Eagle high on cloudland soaring
- Utopia Limited (The Flowers of Progress), operetta: Act 2. With fury deep we burn
- Utopia Limited (The Flowers of Progress), operetta: Act 2. If you think that when banded in unity
- Utopia Limited (The Flowers of Progress), operetta: Act 2. With wily brain upon the spot
- Utopia Limited (The Flowers of Progress), operetta: Act 2. A wonderful joy our eyes to bless
- Utopia Limited (The Flowers of Progress), operetta: Act 2. Then I may sing and play?
- Utopia Limited (The Flowers of Progress), operetta: Act 2. Oh, would some demon power...When but a maid of fifteen year
- Utopia Limited (The Flowers of Progress), operetta: Act 2. Ah, Lady Sophy
- Utopia Limited (The Flowers of Progress), operetta: Act 2. O rapture unrestrained
- Utopia Limited (The Flowers of Progress), operetta: Act 2. Tarantella... Upon our sea-girt land
- Utopia Limited (The Flowers of Progress), operetta: Finale. There's a little group of isles beyond the wave
- Macbeth, incidental music: Overture
- Victoria and Merrie England, suite from the ballet
- Marmion, overture for orchestra
Music CD 23- The Yeomen of the Guard (The Merryman and his Maid), operetta: Overture
- The Yeomen of the Guard (The Merryman and his Maid), operetta: Act 1. When maiden loves, she sits and sighs
- The Yeomen of the Guard (The Merryman and his Maid), operetta: Act 1. Tower warders, under orders
- The Yeomen of the Guard (The Merryman and his Maid), operetta: Act 1. When our gallant Norman foes
- The Yeomen of the Guard (The Merryman and his Maid), operetta: Act 1. Alas! I waver to and fro
- The Yeomen of the Guard (The Merryman and his Maid), operetta: Act 1. Is life a boon?
- The Yeomen of the Guard (The Merryman and his Maid), operetta: Act 1. Here's a man of jollity
- The Yeomen of the Guard (The Merryman and his Maid), operetta: Act 1. I have a song to sing, O!
- The Yeomen of the Guard (The Merryman and his Maid), operetta: Act 1. How say you, maiden
- The Yeomen of the Guard (The Merryman and his Maid), operetta: Act 1. I've jibe and joke and quip and crank
- The Yeomen of the Guard (The Merryman and his Maid), operetta: Act 1. 'Tis done! I am a bride
- The Yeomen of the Guard (The Merryman and his Maid), operetta: Act 1. Were I thy bride
- The Yeomen of the Guard (The Merryman and his Maid), operetta: Act 1. Oh, Sergeant Meryll, is it true
Music CD 24- The Yeomen of the Guard (The Merryman and his Maid), operetta: Act 2. Night has spread her pall once more
- The Yeomen of the Guard (The Merryman and his Maid), operetta: Act 2. Oh! a private buffoon is a lighthearted loon
- The Yeomen of the Guard (The Merryman and his Maid), operetta: Act 2. Hereupon we're both agreed
- The Yeomen of the Guard (The Merryman and his Maid), operetta: Act 2. Free from his fetters grim
- The Yeomen of the Guard (The Merryman and his Maid), operetta: Act 2. Strange adventure
- The Yeomen of the Guard (The Merryman and his Maid), operetta: Act 2. Hark! what was that, sir?
- The Yeomen of the Guard (The Merryman and his Maid), operetta: Act 2. A man who would woo a fair maid
- The Yeomen of the Guard (The Merryman and his Maid), operetta: Act 2. When a wooer goes a-wooing
- The Yeomen of the Guard (The Merryman and his Maid), operetta: Act 2. Rapture, rapture
- The Yeomen of the Guard (The Merryman and his Maid), operetta: Act 2. Comes the pretty young bride
- Trial by Jury, operetta: Hark the hour of ten is sounding
- Trial by Jury, operetta: When first my old, old love I knew
- Trial by Jury, operetta: When I, good friends, was called to the bar
- Trial by Jury, operetta: Where is the plaintiff
- Trial by Jury, operetta: May it please you, my Lud!
- Trial by Jury, operetta: Oh, gentlemen, listen, I pray
- Trial by Jury, operetta: A nice dilemna we have here
- Trial by Jury, operetta: I love him, I love him
Music reviews of The Complete Gilbert & Sullivan (Box Set)Music Review: The Crowning Achievement of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company preserved in all but perfection Rating: 5 Stars
This review details the performances more than the content of the operas. Another reviewer speaks more about the different operas themselves, and I agree with what he says for the most part, particularly concerning Iolanthe, Ruddigore, and Yeomen of the Guard. The Sorcerer is also very rewarding if given time. The duet "Welcome joy, adieu to sadness" and the quintet "I rejoice that it's decided" are singularly enjoyable.
Seeing that this is a 24CD Boxed Set, there wasn't really any way for me to say everything that needed saying in any short space. So, I've divided the review into a number of sections. They are as follows:
1. The top few recordings that generally win over competition
2. The particular weaknesses of the recordings
3. The particular strengths of the recordings
4. Fillers
5. Overall impression
1. The 1959 HMS Pinafore is probably the only Gilbert and Sullivan recording ever that is a hands-down winner over every other recording of the same work. The cast is just about perfect and the sound is better than any other recording I've heard from 1959. I would say Iolanthe should receive similar praise, though not everyone would agree.
Of all of the others, there are a few that manage to distinguish themselves above most all other issues. Cox and Box, Trial by Jury, Pirates of Penzance, Patience, Iolanthe, and The Gondoliers all manage to rise above competition and end up near the top. In every case, I think it is safe to say that the latter recordings will always come out as one of the top two. Part of this is because of the inclusion of dialogue in the last five of the recordings I mentioned. Some people don't want it, but dialogue is just as much a part of the opera as the music, and there are very few writers who could pen words with the same repetition value as W. S. Gilbert. He was a genius in his field.
2. Particular Weaknesses of the D'Oyly Carte recordings of the operas (listed chronologically):
- Cox and Box: The finale (a reprise) and one other number is omitted. A bit of the dialogue is cut down, but this ends up making the operetta more witty--a refined gem in a way.
- Trial by Jury: None
- The Zoo: None as far as performance goes. Sound isn't perfect, but it's the best we're probably going to get.
- The Sorcerer: No dialogue. David Palmer isn't the strongest tenor, though that is a matter of opinion. The male chorus sounds funny in one or two songs in Act 1, as though it were a male chorus with a tenor solo (who pronounces "Alexis" in a strange fashion), but is otherwise excellent.
- HMS Pinafore: None
- The Pirates of Penzance: None
- Patience: None
- Iolanthe: None
- Princess Ida: No dialogue. Sargent takes slow tempi in "Search throughout the panorama" and "The woman of the wisest wit," particularly the latter. Elizabeth Harwood doesn't always live up to the part she is given, but is still okay.
- The Mikado: No dialogue and a weak Nanki-Poo--though he does warm up after a while. Also Katisha seems rather uncomfortable with any note above E-flat, but is still good enough. The way her voice comes across has something to do with the sound, which is okay, but not as fine as the 1960's recordings. It lets the singers down here and there (the choral passage "A Japanese equivalent of hear, hear, hear" comes to mind).
- Ruddigore: No dialogue. This is the edited D'Oyly Carte score rather than the original, but that only means the omission of the original finale and the second verse of "Happily coupled are we" (there's a small choral number that the bridesmaids sing a capella that is omitted too).
- The Yeomen of the Guard: No dialogue. A somewhat controversial Elsie (Harwood again) who I think is fine enough, though one wishes that Valerie Masterson had recorded the role instead...
- The Gondoliers: A slightly squeaky Casilda (she doesn't do too well on notes above F-Sharp, but the Casilda on the later, digital D'Oyly Carte recording doesn't do much better). That said, Jennifer Toye's solo singing as Casilda is better than some of her singing during ensembles, and her duets with Jeffery Skitch (who plays Luiz) come off well.
- Utopia Limited: No dialogue. Well, that isn't entirely true. No dialogue is included on the first disk, but in Act 2, bits and pieces are heard here and there, particularly with Kenneth Sandford. Happily, all of the dialogue is included preceding the finale, summing up the plot quite nicely.
Also, the recording quality doesn't seem quite right when compared to other entries in the series. I haven't quite placed my finger on it yet. Perhaps it is not atmospheric enough.
- The Grand Duke: No dialogue; sound is similar to Utopia Limited.
3. Particular Strengths of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company recordings:
- Cox and Box: Donald Adams, Alan Styler, Joseph Riordan; you'll note this is the entire cast. All three know their parts exceedingly well, making this recording a joy to listen to.
- Trial by Jury: Thomas Round. He is a very convincing Defendant. Everyone else in the cast is similarly strong.
- The Zoo: Meston Reid is a pretty good tenor, and manages the part of Aesculapius Carboy well.
- The Sorcerer: Valerie Masterson. Aside from John Reed and Donald Adams, Masterson seems to have the best grip on her role. She sings with great charm; her waltz song in Act 1 comes of noticeably better than in the 1953 recording with Muriel Harding taking the role of Aline.
A word on John Reed: There is an almost laughable difference on how much more life John Reed has managed to inject into John Wellington Wells as opposed to Peter Pratt in the former 1953 recording. Pratt sounds unduly strained in his opening song and gives very little life to the incantation. Reed, on the other hand, must be heard to be believed. His scene with Lady Sangazure (Christine Palmer) is also very enjoyable.
- HMS Pinafore: All of the dialogue is delivered excellently, and the humor and excitement that should be present in any performance of Gilbert and Sullivan is more than present in this recording. As I said, this is (in essence) the only unassailable Gilbert and Sullivan recording ever.
- The Pirates of Penzance: Valerie Masterson (need I say more?)
- Patience: John Reed is particularly excellent as Bunthorne. His singing and dialogue come off in a way that leaves the listener with the impression that it could not be done any other way. That is the mark of a great performance.
- Iolanthe: Mary Sansom is one of my favorite G&S Sopranos. I know many don't share my opinion, but if that were not so, it would not be an opinion, would it? This is her best performance. She IS Phyllis.
Also what I said about Reed's Bunthorne applies to most of the cast in Iolanthe. They convince you that this is Iolanthe as it should be performed. This particularly true of Adams and Round, whose witty repartee in Act 2 is a joy to behold.
- Princess Ida: This opera is given arguably the best recording quality of the entire series. Hildebrand's song comes across excellently, with the chorus sounding almost magical at times (if you may forgive me for using such a cliched word). Philip Potter makes an excellent Hilarion, putting as much charm into his role as Derek Oldham did (if not more).
- The Mikado: Valerie Masterson. In the end, she is probably what makes this Mikado competitive, since everything else is pretty good, despite reservations.
- Ruddigore: Donald Adams, who gives what is easily the best "When the night wind howls" ever. Ruddigore contains some of the most magical moments in the entire cannon of operas. This performance accentuates that.
- The Yeomen of the Guard: In my estimation (such as it is) Phillip Potter saves this recording from any overly serious criticism. He was one of the best Tenors the company ever had and shows it here. Gillian Knight and Donald Adams give a fabulous account of the little "Rapture, rapture" duet, particularly the delightful way Adams pronounces "ghastly."
- The Gondoliers: John Reed makes a perfect Duke of Plaza Toro. This recording was made during the peak of the company's ability and his as well.
- Utopia Limited: Pamela Field is almost as good a soprano as Valerie Masterson (a high recommendation). She is a excellent Zara for sure.
- The Grand Duke: Nothing comes to mind...this isn't a bad recording, but I can't think off the bat of anything that really distinguishes it.
4. Although there are not as many fillers as in Sargent's set on EMI, the extras included here are perhaps better. Overture di Ballo is very convincing; Macbeth Overture is also interesting. But the best bonus in the set is Pineapple Pole, a 40-minute ballet arranged from the operas by Charles Mackerras, who conducts it here in a fabulous 1983 recording. It is pure delight from beginning to end. I'd say more, but it is more enjoyable being introduced to it fresh.
5. Overall impression: This is the only complete Gilbert & Sullivan issue in existence; that alone gives it an extra recommendation, but still this set manages to incorporate most all of the good features of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company and is sure to please any Gilbert and Sullivan fan who wants the whole caboodle. I in no way regret buying this issue.
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