Advantages: Rousing, jolly, bristling with life and humour Disadvantages: None
...competent in their roles. The orchestral sound is crisp, clear and bright.
This recording is one of a series featuring all the popular operettas performed by the D’OylyCarteOpera Company originally released by DECCA on the London label. It features the full libretto (spoken as well as sung). My CD copy comes from 1989 and is an Analogue to Digital Remaster.
I can heartily recommend it.
“HMS PINAFORE” - Gilbert & Sullivan (1959)
The D’OylyCarteOpera Company
The NewSymphonyOrchestra of London: Conducted by Isidore Godfrey OBE.
Soloists: John Reed (Sir Joseph Porter); Jeffrey Skitch (Capt. Corcoran)
Thomas Round (Ralph Rackstraw); Gillian Knight (Little Buttercup)
CD: LONDON 414283-2 (£11.99)
Amazon has a web page dedicated to this CD performance which is to be re-issued in early March 2003 and which has playable...
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Advantages: The most popular, the most perfect, the most performed Disadvantages: None
...-Yum)
John Ayldon (The Mikado); Lyndsie Holland (Katisha)
CD: LONDON 417296-2 (£11.99)
Amazon has a web page dedicated to this CD performance which has playable excepts from five of the tracks. The web address is http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000041VD/qid=1047207159/sr=1-5/ref=sr115/026-5398232-7637262
THE LIBRETTO.
“The Mikado” or “The Town of Titipu”.
International Music Publications Ltd (1993)
THE VIDEO
I have a (now rare) film performance staged by the D’OylyCarteOpera Company at the Buxton Festival in Derbyshire (early 1980s).
There is a full series of specially staged productions (originally by the BBC in 1982) which is offered both a single DVDs and as a boxed set from Amazon (America). The series took guest stars (actors and comedians) and added a professional orchestra and chorus...
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Advantages: Not well known but is an important bridge in the historic cycle Disadvantages: Not well known and quite dated
...-disc box set is part of the complete set of operas recorded by the D’OylyCarteOpera Company and released by DECCA. John Reed gives a creditable account of the grizzled King Gama – you can almost hear him leer in that ‘celebrated sneer’. The other soloists are in good voice and the orchestra is in its usual sparkling form.
The second CD is completed with a performance of the Pineapple Poll ballet suite. This is a pot pourri of snatches of tunes taken from the operas and put together into a short (45 minute) dance story in three scenes. Mackerras notes that it was not unusual for Sullivan to recycle motifs himself. The whole work is a good ‘music quiz’ for Savoyards and the insert booklet identifies the individual sources for when you get stuck.
PRINCESS IDA - Gilbert & Sullivan (1965)
The D’OylyCarteOpera Company
The Royal...
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