Gilbert & Sullivan Highlights

Extracts from The Mikado,The Yeomen of the Guard, Iolanthe, The Gondoliers, The Pirates of Penzance and HMS Pinafore

Glyndebourne Festival Chorus Pro Arte Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent

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Release date: 6th Mar 2006
Label: Warner Classics
Series: Classics for Pleasure
Catalogue number: 3523982
Length: 71 minutes
Genre:
- Operettas

Contents and tracklist

ExcerptSullivan, A: The Mikado

Work length21:27

Owen Brannigan (bass), Monica Sinclair (vocals), Marjorie Thomas (vocals), Geraint Evans (bass-baritone), Richard Lewis (vocals), John Cameron (bass-baritone), Ian Wallace (bass-baritone), Elsie Morison (soprano), Jeannette Sinclair (soprano)
Pro Arte Orchestra, Peter Gellhorn, Glyndebourne Chorus
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Recorded: 1956-08-03
Recording Venue: 5 & 6 May, 15 June and 3 August 1956, No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London

The Mikado (or, The Town of Titipu) (1987 - Remaster): Overture

Track length8:33

If you want to know who we are (Nobles)

Track length3:25

A wand'ring minstrel, I (Nanki-Poo, Nobles)

Track length4:17

The sun, whose rays are all ablaze (Yum-Yum)

Track length3:02

For he's gone and married Yum-Yum (Pitti-Sing, Ko-Ko, Nanki-Poo, Yum-Yum, Others)

Track length2:10

ExcerptSullivan, A: The Yeomen of the Guard

Work length7:18

Owen Brannigan (bass), Marjorie Thomas (vocals), Monica Sinclair (vocals), Geraint Evans (bass-baritone), Richard Lewis (vocals), John Carol Case (bass-baritone), John Cameron (bass-baritone), Denis Dowling (bass-baritone), Elsie Morison (soprano), Doreen Hume (soprano), Alexander Young (vocals)
Peter Gellhorn, Pro Arte Orchestra, Glyndebourne Chorus
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Recorded: 1957-01-01
Recording Venue: 10-14 December 1957, No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London

When maiden loves she sits and sighs (Phoebe)

Track length3:31

I have a song to sing, O! (Elsie, Point, Crowd)

Track length3:47

ExcerptSullivan, A: Iolanthe

Work length9:36

Monica Sinclair (vocals), Marjorie Thomas (vocals), Ian Wallace (bass-baritone), Owen Brannigan (bass), John Cameron (bass-baritone), April Cantelo (soprano), George Baker (bass-baritone), Heather Harper (soprano), Elsie Morison (soprano), Alexander Young (vocals)
Peter Gellhorn, Pro Arte Orchestra, Glyndebourne Chorus
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Recorded: 1958-01-01
Recording Venue: 18 April (overture) and 21-24 Oct 1958: No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London

Iolanthe [three numbers] (1991 Digital Remaster), Act I: Loudly let the trumpet bray! (Peers)

Track length5:47

If we're weak enough to tarry (Strephon, Phyllis)

Track length1:33

Soon as we may (all)

Track length2:16

ExcerptSullivan, A: The Gondoliers

Work length9:41

Owen Brannigan (bass), Monica Sinclair (vocals), Marjorie Thomas (vocals), Geraint Evans (bass-baritone), Richard Lewis (vocals), John Cameron (bass-baritone), James Milligan (bass-baritone), Edna Graham (soprano), Elsie Morison (soprano), Stella Hitchens (soprano), Lavinia Renton (soprano), Alexander Young (vocals), Helen Watts (vocals)
Peter Gellhorn, Pro Arte Orchestra, Glyndebourne Chorus
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Recorded: 1957-01-01
Recording Venue: 11-15 March 1957, No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London

Take a pair of sparkling eyes (Marco)

Track length3:20

I am a courtier grave and serious (Casilda, Duchess, Marco, Giuseppe, Duke)

Track length3:59

Dance a cachucha, fandango, bolero (Chorus)

Track length2:22

ExcerptSullivan, A: The Pirates of Penzance

Work length13:12

Owen Brannigan (bass), Monica Sinclair (vocals), Marjorie Thomas (vocals), Richard Lewis (vocals), John Cameron (bass-baritone), James Milligan (bass-baritone), Elsie Morison (soprano), George Baker (bass-baritone), Heather Harper (soprano)
Peter Gellhorn, Pro Arte Orchestra, Glyndebourne Chorus
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Recorded: 1960-01-01
Recording Venue: 30 December 1959 to 2 January 1960, No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London

I am the very model of a modern Major-General (Major-General, Girls, Pirates)

Track length3:11

Oh, is there not one maiden breast? (Frederic, Girls, Mabel)

Track length4:39

Poor wandering one (Mabel, Girls)

Track length2:56

The Pirates of Penzance [four numbers] (1991 Digital Remaster), Act II: When a felon's not engaged in his employment (Sergeant, Policemen)

Track length2:26

ExcerptSullivan, A: HMS Pinafore

Work length10:22

Owen Brannigan (bass), Monica Sinclair (vocals), Richard Lewis (vocals), Marjorie Thomas (vocals), John Cameron (bass-baritone), George Baker (bass-baritone), Elsie Morison (soprano), James Milligan (bass-baritone)
Peter Gellhorn, Pro Arte Orchestra, Glyndebourne Chorus
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Recorded: 1958-01-01
Recording Venue: 15-18 April 1958, No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London

We sail the ocean blue (Sailors)

Track length2:17

Hail, man-o'-war's men...I'm called Little Buttercup (Buttercup)

Track length2:21

My gallant crew, good morning...I am the captain of the Pinafore (Captain Corcoran, Sailors)

Track length2:32

Act II finale: Oh joy, oh rapture unforeseen (Ralph, Josephine, Captain Corcoran, Buttercup, Sir Joseph, Hebe, Relatives, Sailors)

Track length3:12

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