The Best of Gilbert & Sullivan
Excerpts from 1948-1954
The D’Oyly Carte Opera Company
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Sullivan, A: HMS Pinafore
- 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
Act I: We sail the ocean blue (Chorus)
Act I: Hail, Men-O'-Wars men - I'm called Little Buttercup (Buttercup)
Excerpt,
- 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)
Act I: When I first put this uniform on (Colonel, Dragoons)
Act I: Am I alone? If you're anxious for to shine (Bunthorne)
Act II: A magnet hung in a hardware shop (Grosvenor, Maidens)
Act II: So go to him and say to him (Bunthorne, Jane)
Act II: If Saphir I choose to marry (Duke, Major, Colonel, Angela, Saphir)
Excerpt,
- 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)
Excerpt,
- 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)
Act I: When the buds are blossoming (Rose, Hannah, Ensemble, Chorus)
Act II: When the night wind howls (Sir Roderic, Ghosts)
Act II: My eyes are fully open (Sir Ruthven, Despard, Margaret)
Excerpt,
- 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)
Excerpt,
- 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)
Act I: When a merry maiden marries (Tessa, Chorus)
Act I: Now Marco dear my wishes hear (Gianetta, Tessa, Marco, Giuseppe)
Excerpt,
- 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
Act I: Loudly let the trumpet bray! (Chorus)
Act II: When all night long (Private Willis)
Act II: When Britain really ruled the waves (Mountararat, Chorus)
Act II: Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest - When you're lying awake (Lord Chancellor)
Act II: If you go in (Mountararat, Tolloller, Lord Chancellor)
Excerpt,
- 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)
Excerpt,
- 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)
Act I: I am the very model of a modern Major-General (Major-General, Chorus)
Act II: When foreman bares his steel (Sergeant, Police, Mabel, Edith)
Act II: Ah! Leave me not to pine (Mabel, Frederic)
Act II: When a felon's not engaged (Sergeant, Police)
Act II: With cat-like tread (Pirates, Police, Samuel)
Excerpt,
- 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)
Act II: Oh! A private buffoon is a lighthearted loon (Point)
Act II: When a wooer goes a-wooing (Point, Fairfax, Elsie, Phoebe)
Sullivan, A: The Mikado (excerpts)
- 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)
Act I: Behold the Lord High Executioner - Taken from a county jail (Ko-Ko, Chorus)
Act I: As some day it may happen (Ko-Ko, Chorus)