Love Songs Vol.1 - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (The)

Advantages: The pivotal opera in the G&S catalogue
Disadvantages: Rather lightweight compared with what was to follow

...and bright. This performance is coupled with a recording of “The Zoo”, a one-act operetta by Sullivan in partnership with librettist Bolton Rowe (the pen name of B.C. Stephenson). “Trial By Jury” had been a considerable success some months earlier and this one opened at the St. James's Theatre on June 5, 1875. After a brief run and an even briefer revival in 1879, the opera was not given again in Sullivan's lifetime. The manuscript was thought lost until found in a bank vault. This performance was recorded in 1978. THE SORCERER - Gilbert & Sullivan (1966) The D’Oyly Carte Opera Company The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra: Conducted by Isidore Godfrey Soloists: John Reed (John Wellington Wells); David Palmer (Alexis) Donald Adams (Sir Marmaduke); Valerie Masterson (Aline) Christine Palmer (Lady Sangazure); Ann Hood (Constance) THE ZOO... Read review

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Advantages: A good mix of songs
Disadvantages: Doesnt help you get through the housework

...A cd thats a couple of years old now but still fun to listen to. I mean this cd says its meant to help you through the housework but I personally dont think it really does,if anything it distracts you,because you just start singing along to all the great tracks this album has to offer, you get caught up in the music and completely lose track of what you were doing - maybe a good thing in a way :-) Housework vol 1 is a double album that has some cracking songs that you just dont seem to hear on the radio anymore such as The Beach Boys - Help Me Rhonda and Don McLeans - American Pie. The songs on this album just make you feel good and really help to lift your spirits,but I honestly think its marketed wrong,this is a feel good album for anyone just not people doing the housework.I dont think the title of the album really represents... Read review

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Advantages: Very entertaining, and superbly engineered
Disadvantages: Some of the electronic effects are a little cheesy

...for the first time, computers were becoming an everyday reality (albeit the size of a small room!) and cinema audiences had been amazed by futuristic scenes of space travel and discovery in “2001 – A Space Odyssey”. Space was literally everywhere. Little wonder then that Keating was keen to express, through music, the excitement of space travel, and the rapid pace of technological change. ~ From “Z Cars” to Mussorgsky ~ John Keating was responsible for writing the theme tune to “Z Cars” back in the ‘sixties, and he has an impressive list of albums to his credit, including “Hits in Hi-Fi”, “Keating – Straight Ahead”, and “John Keating Conducts the Electronic Philharmonic Orchestra”, the latter being all-synthesizer interpretations of classical pieces... Read review

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