Sullivan: Iolanthe

Editorial Reviews
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Iolanthe has one of the funniest lines in all of Gilbert and Sullivan. As the Peers (as in the House of Lords) enter, they sing: "Bow! Bow! Ye lower middle classes; Bow! Bow! Ye tradesmen bow ye masses; Blow the Trumpets! Bang the brasses! Tan Taran Tarah Chin Boom!" OK, so you had to have been there; but trust me, it's a riot. Anyway, this "fairy"-story parody on the undine theme, about a fairy who loves a mortal, is a typically frothy confection of biting social satire and innocent sentiment. The performance by the D'Oyly Carte company is about as close to the original production as we're likely to get. --David Hurwitz

Sullivan: Iolanthe, Music, Donald Adams, Arthur Sullivan, Isidore Godfrey, D'Oyly Carte Chorus & Orchestra, Gillian Knight, New Symphony Orchestra of London, Alan Styler, Dawn Bradshaw, Jennifer Toye, John Reed, Kenneth Sandford, Mary Sansom, Pauline Wales, Thomas Round, Yvonne Newman, British Operetta, Classical, Classical Music, Opera, Opera / Operetta / Oratorio, Opera/Operetta
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  • The best? I think not.
  • can't understand the words
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ASIN: B00004W5AD
Release Date: 2000-08-08

Tracks:

  1. H.M.S. Pinafore: Ov - Orch Of The D'Oyly Carte Opr/John Owen Edwards
  2. H.M.S. Pinafore: We Sail The Ocean Blue - Tom McVay/Gordon Sandison/Yvonne Barclay
  3. H.M.S. Pinafore: Never Mind The Why And Wherefore - Tom McVay/Gordon Sandison/Yvonne Barclay
  4. The Yeomen Of The Guard: When Maiden Loves She Sits And Sighs - Janine Roebuck
  5. The Yeomen Of The Guard: Here's A Man Of Jollity - Chor Of The D'Oyly Carte Opr
  6. Iolanthe: Tripping Hither, Tripping Thither - Yvonne Patrick/Madeliene Mitchell/Chor Of The D'Oyly Carte Opr
  7. Iolanthe: The Law Is The True Embodiment - Richard Suart/Chor Of The D'Oyly Carte Opr
  8. Iolanthe: When I Went To The Bar - Richard Suart
  9. Iolanthe: Strephon's A Member Of Parliament! - Chor Of The D'Oyly Carte Opr
  10. Iolanthe: When Britain Really Rul'd The Waves - Lawrence Richard/Chor Of The D'Oyly Carte Opr
  11. Iolanthe: Finale Act Two: Soon As We May - Chor Of The D'Oyly Carte Opr
  12. The Pirates Of Penzance: Ov - Orch Of The D'Oyly Carte Opr/John Pryce-Jones
  13. The Pirates Of Penzance: Poor Wand'ring One - Marilyn Hill Smith/Chor Of The D'Oyly Carte Opr
  14. The Pirates Of Penzance: I Am The Very Model - Eric Robertson/Chor Of The D'Oyly Carte Opr
  15. The Pirates Of Penzance: When The Foeman Bares His Steel - Simon Masterton Smith/Marilyn Hill Smith/Patricia Cameron/Eric Robertson/Chor Of The D'Oyly Carte...
  16. The Pirates Of Penzance: With Cat-Like Tread - Gareth Jones/Chor Of The D'Oyly Carte Opr
  17. The Mikado: If You Want To Know Who We Are - Chor Of The D'Oyly Carte Opr
  18. The Mikado: The Flowers That Bloom In The Spring - Bonaventura Bottone/Eric Roberts/Deborah Rees/Thora Ker/Malcom Rivers
  19. The Mikado: On A Tree By A River - Eric Roberts
  20. Patience: The Soldiers Of Our Queen - Donald Maxwell/Chor Of The D'Oyly Carte Opr
  21. Patience: If You Want A Receipt For That Popular Mystery - Donald Maxwell/Chor Of The D'Oyly Carte Opr
  22. Patience: Am I Alone And Unobserved - Simon Butteriss
  23. Patience: If You're Anxious For To Shine - Simon Butteriss
  24. The Gondoliers: We're Called Gondolieri - David Fieldsend/Alan Oke
  25. The Gondoliers: From The Sunny Spanish Shore - Richard Suart/Jill Pert/Elizabeth Woollett/Philip Casey
  26. The Gondoliers: For Ev'ry One Who Feels Inclined - David Fieldsend/Alan Oke/Chor Of The D'Oyly Carte Opr
  27. The Gondoliers: Take A Pair Of Sparkling Eyes - David Fieldsend
  28. The Gondoliers: Dance A Cachucha - Chor Of The D'Oyly Carte Opr

Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars The best? I think not........2004-01-11

This disc includes some songs that, while I like them, are not what people might consider the "best" of G&S. Of course, anything by G&S is good, it's still not the "best of the best."

There has got to be something that better represents the G&S canon.

1 out of 5 stars can't understand the words.......2004-01-08

Don't know about those other reviewers, but I just can't make out very much of the lyrics. Maybe those folk have better CD players or better hearing, but it's pretty much a blur to me. I strongly recommend "The Ultimate Gilbert and Sullivan" instead.
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ASIN: B0001E5U8C
Release Date: 2004-04-20

Tracks:

  1. HMS Pianfore: Overture
  2. HMS Pinafore, Act One: We Sail the Ocean Blue
  3. HMS Pinafore, Act One: Hail, Men O' War's Men
  4. HMS Pinafore, Act One: I'm Called Little Buttercup
  5. HMS Pinafore, Act One: But Tell Me, Who's the Youth
  6. HMS Pinafore, Act One: The Nightingale Sighed for the Moon's ...
  7. HMS Pinafore, Act One: A Maiden Fair to See
  8. HMS Pinafore, Act One: My Gallant Crew, Good Morning
  9. HMS Pinafore, Act One: I Am the Captain of the Pianfore
  10. HMS Pinafore, Act One: Sir, You Are Sad
  11. HMS Pinafore, Act One: Sorry Her Lot Who Loves Too Well
  12. HMS Pinafore, Act One: Over the Bright Blue Sea
  13. HMS Pinafore, Act One: I Am the Monarch of the Sea
  14. HMS Pinafore, Act One: When I Was a Lad I Served a Term
  15. HMS Pinafore, Act One: A British Tar Is a Soaring Soul
  16. HMS Pinafore, Act One: Refrain, Audacious Tar
  17. HMS Pinafore, Act One: Can I Survive This Overbearing?
  18. HMS Pinafore, Act One: Oh Joy, Oh Rapture Unforeseen
  19. HMS Pinafore, Act One: This Very Night
  20. HMS Pinafore, Act One: Let's Give Three Cheers
  21. HMS Pinafore, Act One: Entr'acte
  22. HMS Pinafore, Act Two: Fair Moon to Thee I Sing
  23. HMS Pinafore, Act Two: Things Are Seldom What They Seem
  24. HMS Pinafore, Act Two: The Hours Creep on Apace
  25. HMS Pinafore, Act Two: Never Mind the Why and Wherefore
  26. HMS Pinafore, Act Two: Kind Captain, I've Important Information
  27. HMS Pinafore, Act Two: Carefully on Tiptoe Stealing
  28. HMS Pinafore, Act Two: Pretty Daughter of Mine
  29. HMS Pinafore, Act Two: He Is an Englishman
  30. HMS Pinafore, Act Two: In Uttering a Reprobation
  31. HMS Pinafore, Act Two: Farewell My Own
  32. HMS Pinafore, Act Two: A Many Years Ago
  33. HMS Pinafore, Act Two: Oh Joy, Oh Rapture Unforeseen

Tracks:

  1. Ruddigore: Overture
  2. Ruddigore, Act One: Fair Is Rose as Bright May Day
  3. Ruddigore, Act One: Sir Rupert Murgatroyd
  4. Ruddigore, Act One: If Somebody There Chacned to Be
  5. Ruddigore, Act One: I Know a Youth Who Loves a Little Maid
  6. Ruddigore, Act One: From the Briny Sea
  7. Ruddigore, Act One: I Shipp'd d'Ye See, In a Revenue Sloop
  8. Ruddigore, Act One: My Boy, You May Take It from Me
  9. Ruddigore, Act One: If Well His Suit Has Sped
  10. Ruddigore, Act One: In Sailing O'er Life's Ocean Wide
  11. Ruddigore, Act One: Cheerily Carols the Lark
  12. Ruddigore, Act One: To a Garden Fulls of Posies
  13. Ruddigore, Act One: Welcome Gentry for Your Entry
  14. Ruddigore, Act One: Oh, Why Am I Moody and Sad?
  15. Ruddigore, Act One: You Understand?
  16. Ruddigore, Act One: Hail the Bride of Seventeen Summers
  17. Ruddigore, Act One: When the Buds Are Blossoming
  18. Ruddigore, Act One: Hold, Bride and Bridegroom
  19. Ruddigore, Act One: Oh, Happy the Lily
  20. Ruddigore, Act Two: I Once Was as Meek as a New-Born Lamb
  21. Ruddigore, Act Two: Happily Coupled Are We
  22. Ruddigore, Act Two: In Bygone Days I Hade Thy Love
  23. Ruddigore, Act Two: Painted Emblems of a Race
  24. Ruddigore, Act Two: When the Night Wind Howls
  25. Ruddigore, Act Two: He Yields! He Yields!
  26. Ruddigore, Act Two: I Once Was a Very Abandoned Person
  27. Ruddigore, Act Two: My Eyes Are Fully Open
  28. There Grew a Little Flower
  29. Ruddigore, Act Two: Oh, Happy the Lily

Tracks:

  1. Patience: Overture
  2. Patience, Act One: Twenty Lovesick Maidens We
  3. Patience, Act One: Still Brooding on Their Mad Infatuation
  4. Patience, Act One: I Cannot Tell What This Love May Be
  5. Patience, Act One: The Soldiers of Our Queen
  6. Patience, Act One: In a Doleful Train...Twenty Lovesick Maidens We
  7. Patience, Act One: When I First Put This Uniform On
  8. Patience, Act One: Am I Alone and Unoberved?
  9. Patience, Act One: Long Years Ago, Fourteen Maybe
  10. Patience, Act One: Prithee Pretty Maiden
  11. Patience, Act One: Let the Merry Cymbals Sound
  12. Patience, Act One: Now Tell Us, We Pray You
  13. Patience, Act One: Your Maiden Hearts
  14. Patience, Act One: Come Walk Up and Purchase With Avidity
  15. Patience, Act One: True Love Must Single-Hearted Be
  16. Patience, Act One: I Hear the Soft Note...But Who Is This?
  17. Patience, Act Two: Sad Is That Woman's Lot
  18. Patience, Act Two: Turn, Oh Turn in This Direction
  19. Patience, Act Two: A Magnet Hung in Hardware Shop
  20. Patience, Act Two: Love Is a Plaintive Song
  21. Patience, Act Two: So Go to Him and Say to Him
  22. Patience, Act Two: It's Clear That Medieval Art Alone Retains Its Zest
  23. Patience, Act Two: If Saphir I Choose to Marry
  24. Patience, Act Two: When I Go Out of Door
  25. Patience, Act Two: I'm a Waterloo House Young Man
  26. Patience, Act Two: After Much Debate Internal
  27. Mikado: Overture

Tracks:

  1. Mikado, Act One: If You Want to Know Who We Are
  2. Mikado, Act One: Gentlemen, I Pray You Tell Me
  3. Mikado, Act One: A Wand'ring Minstrel, I
  4. Mikado, Act One: Our Great Mikado, Virtuous Man
  5. Mikado, Act One: Young Man, Despair
  6. Mikado, Act One: And Have I Journey'd for a Month
  7. Mikado, Act One: Behold the Lord High Executioner!
  8. Mikado, Act One: As Some Day It May Happen
  9. Mikado, Act One: Comes a Train of Little Ladies
  10. Mikado, Act One: Three Little Maids from School
  11. Mikado, Act One: So Please You, Sir, We Much Regret
  12. Mikado, Act One: Were You Not Ko-Ko Plighted?
  13. Mikado, Act One: I Am So Proud
  14. Mikado, Act One: With Aspect Stern
  15. Mikado, Act One: Your Revels Cease!
  16. Mikado, Act One: The Hour of Gladness
  17. Mikado, Act Two: Braid the Raven Hair
  18. Mikado, Act Two: The Sun, Whose Rays Are All Ablaze
  19. Mikado, Act Two: Brightly Dawns Our Wedding Day
  20. Mikado, Act Two: Here's a How-De-Do!
  21. Mikado, Act Two: Miya Sama, Miya Sama
  22. Mikado, Act Two: A More Humane Mikado
  23. Mikado, Act Two: The Criminal Cried
  24. Mikado, Act Two: See How the Fates Their Gifts Allot
  25. Mikado, Act Two: The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring
  26. Mikado, Act Two: Alone, And Yet Alive!
  27. Mikado, Act Two: Hearts Do Not Break
  28. Mikado, Act Two: On a Tree by a River a Little Tom-Tit
  29. Mikado, Act Two: There Is Beauty in the Bellow of the Blast
  30. Mikado, Act Two: For He's Gone and Married Yum-Yum

Tracks:

  1. Trial by Jury: Hark the Hour of Ten Is Sounding
  2. Trial by Jury: Now, Jurymen, Hear My Advice
  3. Trial by Jury: Is This the Court of the Exchequer?
  4. Trial by Jury: When First My Old, Old Love I Knew
  5. Trial by Jury: Silence in Court...All Hail, Great Judge
  6. Trial by Jury: When I, Good Friends, Was Called to the Bar
  7. Trial by Jury: Swear Thou the Jury
  8. Trial by Jury: Where Is the Plaintiff?
  9. Trial by Jury: Comes the Broken Flower
  10. Trial by Jury: Oh, Never, Never, Never
  11. Trial by Jury: May It Please You, M'Lud!
  12. Trial by Jury: That She Is Reeling Is Plain to Me
  13. Trial by Jury: Oh Gentlemen, Listen
  14. Trial by Jury: That Seems a Reasonable Proposition
  15. Trial by Jury: A Nice Dilemma We Have Here
  16. Trial by Jury: I Love Him, I Love Hin
  17. Trial by Jury: The Question, Gentlemen Is One of Liquor
  18. Trial by Jury: Oh Joy Unbounded
  19. Pirates of Penzance: Overture
  20. Pirates of Penzance, Act One: Pour, Oh Pour the Pirate Sherry
  21. Pirates of Penzance, Act One: When Frederic Was a Little Lad
  22. Pirates of Penzance, Act One: Oh, Better Far to Live and Die (I Am ...)
  23. Pirates of Penzance, Act One: Oh, False One, You Have Deceived Me!
  24. Pirates of Penzance, Act One: What Shall I Do?...Climbing Over ...
  25. Pirates of Penzance, Act One: Stop, Ladies, Pray!
  26. Pirates of Penzance, Act One: Oh, Is There Not One Maiden Breast?
  27. Pirates of Penzance, Act One: Oh, Sisters, Deaf to Pity's Name
  28. Pirates of Penzance, Act One: Poor Wandering One
  29. Pirates of Penzance, Act One: What Ought We to Do?
  30. Pirates of Penzance, Act One: Stay, We Must Not Lose Our Senses
  31. Pirates of Penzance, Act One: Here's a First-Rate Opportunity
  32. Pirates of Penzance, Act One: Hold, Monsters!
  33. Pirates of Penzance, Act One: I Am the Very Model of a Modern ...
  34. Pirates of Penzance, Act One: Oh, Men of Dark and Dismal Fate
  35. Pirates of Penzance, Act One: I'm Telling a Terrible Story
  36. Pirates of Penzance, Act One: Oh, Master, Hear One Word
  37. Pirates of Penzance, Act One: Pray Observe the Magnanimity

Tracks:

  1. Pirates of Penzance, Act Two: Oh, Dry the Glistening Tear
  2. Pirates of Penzance, Act Two: Then, Frederic, Let Your Escort ...
  3. Pirates of Penzance, Act Two: When the Foeman Bares His Steel
  4. Pirates of Penzance, Act Two: Now for the Pirates' Lair!
  5. Pirates of Penzance, Act Two: Young Frederic!
  6. Pirates of Penzance, Act Two: When You Had Left Our Pirate Fold
  7. Pirates of Penzance, Act Two: Away, Away! My Heart's on Fire
  8. Pirates of Penzance, Act Two: All Is Prepared
  9. Pirates of Penzance, Act Two: Stay, Frederic, Stay!
  10. Pirates of Penzance, Act Two: Ah, Leave Me Not to Pine
  11. Pirates of Penzance, Act Two: In 1940 I of Age Shall Be
  12. Pirates of Penzance, Act Two: No, I'll Be Brave!
  13. Pirates of Penzance, Act Two: Though in Body and in Mind
  14. Pirates of Penzance, Act Two: When a Felon's Not Engaged in His ...
  15. Pirates of Penzance, Act Two: A Rollicking Band of Pirates We
  16. Pirates of Penzance, Act Two: With Cat-Like Tread
  17. Pirates of Penzance, Act Two: Hush, Hush! Not a Word
  18. Pirates of Penzance, Act Two: Sighing Softly to the River
  19. Pirates of Penzance, Act Two: And What Is This, And What Is That?
  20. Pirates of Penzance, Act Two: Frederic Here! Oh Joy!
  21. Pirates of Penzance, Act Two: Poor Wandering Ones
  22. Iolanthe: Overture
  23. Iolanthe, Act One: Tripping Hither, Tripping Thither
  24. Iolanthe, Act One: Iolanthe!
  25. Iolanthe, Act One: Good Morrow, Good Mother
  26. Iolanthe, Act One: Fare Thee Well, Attractive Stranger
  27. Iolanthe, Act One: Good Morrow, Good Lover
  28. Iolanthe, Act One: None Shall Part Us from Each Other
  29. Iolanthe, Act One: Loudly Let the Trumpet Bray!
  30. Iolanthe, Act One: The Law Is the True Embodiment
  31. Iolanthe, Act One: My Well-Loved Lord and Guardian Dear
  32. Iolanthe, Act One: Of All the Young Ladies I Know
  33. Iolanthe, Act One: Nay, Tempt Me Not
  34. Iolanthe, Act One: Spurn Not the Nobly Born
  35. Iolanthe, Act One: My Lords, It May Not Be
  36. Iolanthe, Act One: A Shepherd I
  37. Iolanthe, Act One: When I Went to the Bar as a Very Young Man

Tracks:

  1. Iolanthe, Act One: When Darkly Looms the Day
  2. Iolanthe, Act One: Oh, Shameless One, Tremble!
  3. Iolanthe, Act One: In Babyhood Upon Her Lap I Lay
  4. Iolanthe, Act One: For Riches and Rank That You Befall
  5. Iolanthe, Act One: To You I Give My Heart
  6. Iolanthe, Act One: Tripping, Hither, Tripping Thither
  7. Iolanthe, Act One: The Lady of My Love
  8. Iolanthe, Act One: Go Away, Madam
  9. Iolanthe, Act One: Oh, Chancellor Unwary
  10. Iolanthe, Act One: Young Strephon Is the Kind of Lout (With ...)
  11. Iolanthe, Act Two: When All Night Long a Chap Remains
  12. Iolanthe, Act Two: Strephon's a Member of Parliament
  13. Iolanthe, Act Two: When Britain Really Ruled the Waves
  14. Iolanthe, Act Two: In Vain to Us You Plead
  15. Iolanthe, Act Two: Oh, Foolish Fay
  16. Iolanthe, Act Two: Though P'r'aps I May Incur Your Blame
  17. Iolanthe, Act Two: Love, Unrequited, Robs Me of My Rest
  18. Iolanthe, Act Two: When You're Lying Awake With a Dismal Headache
  19. Iolanthe, Act Two: If You Go in, You're Sure to Win
  20. Iolanthe, Act Two: If We're Weak Enough to Tarry
  21. Iolanthe, Act Two: My, Lord, A Suppliant at Your Feet I Kneel
  22. Iolanthe, Act Two: He Loves! If in the Bygone Years
  23. Iolanthe, Act Two: It May Not Be
  24. Iolanthe, Act Two: Soon as We May
  25. Gondoliers: Overture
  26. Gondoliers, Act One: List and Learn, Ye Dainty Roses
  27. Gondoliers, Act One: Good Morrow, Pretty Maids
  28. Gondoliers, Act One: For the Merriest Fellows Are We
  29. Gondoliers, Act One: Buon'giorno, Signorine
  30. Gondoliers, Act One: We're Called Gondolieri
  31. Gondoliers, Act One: And Now to Choose Our Brides
  32. Gondoliers, Act One: Thank You, Gallant Gondolieri

Tracks:

  1. Gondoliers, Act One: From the Sunny Spanish Shore
  2. Gondoliers, Act One: In Enterprise of Martial Kind (The Duke of ...)
  3. Gondoliers, Act One: O Rapture When Alone Together
  4. Gondoliers, Act One: There Was a Time
  5. Gondoliers, Act One: I Stole the Prince
  6. Gondoliers, Act One: But, Bless My Heart
  7. Gondoliers, Act One: Try We Life-Long
  8. Gondoliers, Act One: Bridegroom and Bride
  9. Gondoliers, Act One: When a Merry Maiden Marries
  10. Gondoliers, Act One: Kind Sirm You Cannot Have the Heart
  11. Gondoliers, Act One: Do Not Give Way
  12. Gondoliers, Act One: Then One of Us Will Be a Queen
  13. Gondoliers, Act One: Replaying, We Sing
  14. Gondoliers, Act One: For Everyone Who Feels Inclined
  15. Gondoliers, Act One: Come, Let's Sway
  16. Gondoliers, Act One: Then Away We Go to an Island Fair
  17. Gondoliers, Act Two: Of Happiness the Very Pith
  18. Gondoliers, Act Two: Rising Early in the Morning
  19. Gondoliers, Act Two: Take a Pair of Sparkling Eyes
  20. Gondoliers, Act Two: Here We Are, At the Risk of Our Lives
  21. Gondoliers, Act Two: Dance a Cachucha, Fandango, Bolero
  22. Gondoliers, Act Two: There Lived a King
  23. Gondoliers, Act Two: In a Contemplative Fashion
  24. Gondoliers, Act Two: With Ducak Pomp and Ducal Pride
  25. Gondoliers, Act Two: On the Day When I Was Wedded
  26. Gondoliers, Act Two: To Help Unhapppy Commoners
  27. Gondoliers, Act Two: Small Titles Abd Orders
  28. Gondoliers, Act Two: I Am a Courtier Grave and Serious
  29. Gondoliers, Act Two: Here Is a Case Unprecedented
  30. Gondoliers, Act Two: Now Let the Loyal Lleges Gather Round
  31. Gondoliers, Act Two: The Royal Prince

Tracks:

  1. Yeomen of the Guard: Overture
  2. Yeomen of the Guard, Act One: When Maiden Loves
  3. Yeomen of the Guard, Act One: Tower Warders, Under Orders
  4. Yeomen of the Guard, Act One: When Our Gallant Norman Foes
  5. Yeomen of the Guard, Act One: Alas, I Waver to and Fro
  6. Yeomen of the Guard, Act One: Is Life a Boon?
  7. Yeomen of the Guard, Act One: Here's a Man of Jollity
  8. Yeomen of the Guard, Act One: I Have a Song to Sing, O!
  9. Yeomen of the Guard, Act One: How Say You, Maiden, Will You Wed?
  10. Yeomen of the Guard, Act One: I've Jibe and Joke
  11. Yeomen of the Guard, Act One: 'Tis Done! I Am a Bride!
  12. Yeomen of the Guard, Act One: Were I Thy Bride
  13. Yeomen of the Guard, Act One: Oh, Sergeant Meryll, Is It True?
  14. Yeomen of the Guard, Act One: Forbear My Friends
  15. Yeomen of the Guard, Act One: The Prisoner Comes to Meet His Doom
  16. Yeomen of the Guard, Act Two: Night Has Spread Her Pall Once More
  17. Yeomen of the Guard, Act Two: Oh! A Private Buffoon Is a Light-Hearted
  18. Yeomen of the Guard, Act Two: Hereupon We're Both Agreed
  19. Yeomen of the Guard, Act Two: Free from His Fetters Grim
  20. Yeomen of the Guard, Act Two: Strange Adventure!
  21. Yeomen of the Guard, Act Two: Hark! What Was That, Sir?
  22. Yeomen of the Guard, Act Two: A Man Who Would Woo a Fair Maid
  23. Yeomen of the Guard, Act Two: When a Wooer Goes A-Wooing

Tracks:

  1. Yeomen of the Guard, Act Two: Comes the Pretty Young Bride
  2. Yeomen of the Guard, Act Two: Hold, Pretty One!
  3. Yeomen of the Guard, Act Two: All Thought of Leonard Meryll Set Aside
  4. H.M.S. Pinafore
  5. Yeomen of the Guard
  6. Di Ballo: Overture - Birmingham Symphony Orchestra,
  7. Pineapple Poll Ballet Suite, Scene One: Opening Dance
  8. Pineapple Poll Ballet Suite, Scene One: Poll's Dance and Pas de Deux
  9. Pineapple Poll Ballet Suite, Scene One: Belaye's Solo
  10. Pineapple Poll Ballet Suite, Scene One: Pas de Trois
  11. Pineapple Poll Ballet Suite, Scene One: Finale
  12. Pineapple Poll Ballet Suite, Scene Two: Poll's Solo
  13. Pineapple Poll Ballet Suite, Scene Two: Jasper's Solo
  14. Pineapple Poll Ballet Suite, Scene Two: Belaye's Solo and Sailor's ...
  15. Pineapple Poll Ballet Suite, Scene Two: Poll's Solo
  16. Pineapple Poll Ballet Suite, Scene Two: Entry of Belaye With ...
  17. Pineapple Poll Ballet Suite, Scene Two: Reconciliation
  18. Pineapple Poll Ballet Suite, Scene Two: Grand Finale

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Not the best sung but among the best in characterization.......2005-07-09

Between 1949 and 1951, the D'Oyly Carte Company was very busy recording nine of the Gilbert & Sullivan works onto mono LPs for the Decca label (or the London, as it was known over here), with comic lead Martyn Green in all but "Trial By Jury." After he left the company, Green was supplanted by Peter Pratt, who recorded the comic lead roles in "The Sorcerer" and "Princess Ida." All of these have waited a long time to appear on CDs and several companies have taken advantage of the copyright lapse to issue them at very high prices and at least one at very budget ones.


But now I find that all of the 1949-1951 sets are available on the Avid Entertainment label as a boxed set of 10 discs (AMSC 780-789). To keep things compact, the Avid people unavoidably had to place on the same disc Act I of one opera after Act II of the one before. There is also orchestral bonus material towards the end including orchestral selections from "Pinafore" and "Yeomen of the Guard," Sullivan's salute to the dance "Overture Di Ballo," and the entire score of the G&S-based ballet "Pineapple Poll."


Green is good and even better are the bottomless basso of Richard Watson, the most famous Mikado of them all Darrell Fancourt, and the sympathetic contralto of Ella Halman. Only tenor Leonard Osborne does not come over very well on recordings, although he was very good on stage. No true "Savoyard" will want to be without this collection.


Those who are perfectly happy with less will want "Gilbert & Sullivan: Highlights and Overtures" (AMSC 800), a double-CD set in which there are 27 selections from the complete recordings and the 9 overtures, plus "Overture Di Ballo." A great starter kit to introduce newcomers to the magic of the G&S team.
The Complete Gilbert & Sullivan (Box Set)
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ASIN: B00008LJEO
Release Date: 2003-05-13

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Don't underestimate those "unknown" Operettas!!.......2005-07-07

This is, as far as I know - the only way of buying the "official" recordings of "The Grand Duke" and "Utopia" - which seem to be otherwise out of print!! Several of the others are not that easy to get either.

In any case - most people getting this set will already have the Mikado, and very probably Pirates and Pinafore for that matter, so you're really getting it for the others.

So just for the record - someone has to say this!

The Mikado is (of course) a wonderful piece, but it enjoys its long running status as the most successful of all the G&S operettas very largely for "extra-musical" reasons. It is visually so wonderful, with all those great authentic costumes, and the whole idea of satirising English institutions by pretending they are Japanese is of course brilliantly funny.

Again, Pirates and Pinafore enjoy a lot of their acclaim simply because we have heard them so often. And at least part of the initial success of these (admittedly very funny and entertaining) pieces was the vogue for "nautical drama" on the popular Victorian stage.

Iolanthe, Ruddigore, and Yoemen are all MUCH stronger musically than any of what another reviewer here keeps calling the "trilogy". Patience, Princess Ida, and the Gondoliers all excel either "nautical" operetta, at least musically, although not, perhaps, the Mikado. And I have had a lot of fun listening to my recording of the Sorcerer - although I think most at least of the other G&S operettas are even more interesting.

As for "Trial by Jury" it is really another thing altogether - but in its kind the most perfect thing either Gilbert or Sullivan had anything to do with!

This leaves Utopia and the Grand Duke.

Both of these were produced after the long running friendship between G&S had soured, and they have been sadly neglected ever since. Utopia is none the less both musically beautiful and very funny, and well worth taking an effort to come to grips with. The main point of the satire (which many commentators and reviewers seem to miss) is the way that the English language and British (especially English) institutions were being adopted, often rather uncritically, by countries around the world (most, but not all, of them members of the British Empire, of course). India is perhaps the country Gilbert had most in mind, but you could set it in any of a dozen other countries. The residual problems this has left in the post-colonial world ensure that this work is still far from dated. In some ways this operetta is about globalisation! What could possibly be LESS dated than that!

The Grand Duke, on the other hand, is a bit of an odd man out - I suppose you still have to say it is the weakest of all the G&S efforts. It's the ONLY one that didn't score a very respectable run on its first outing. Surprisingly, however, if an attempt is made to duplicate the musical and (especially) dialogue cuts that G&S would have done themselves if they had not by this time been at each other's throats all the time, a very entertaining piece can be made of it. I was very agreeably surprised by the Ohio Light Opera recording, which does just that - and I am coming round to the idea that the only thing really wrong with the Duke is that it is too long.

ANYWAY:

For all people (especially callow youth) who remain convinced that G&S only wrote three operettas worth listening to - all I can say is, buy this set, and give the lesser known ones a chance. Make sure you have a libretto in your hands as you listen, of course. It may even just need a single hearing in some cases, but otherwise, be patient. In the meantime, you really cannot have any conception of what you are missing.

5 out of 5 stars A few details.......2004-03-28

This 24-CD album consists of 12 plastic cases, each with a thin booklet giving background and plot summaries for the works on its 2 enclosed CD's. Most of the album consists of 15 operettas, 2 of which (Cox and Box, The Zoo) have texts not by Gilbert and 7 of which (The Sorcerer, Princess Ida, The Mikado, Ruddigore, Yeomen of the Guard, Utopia Limited, The Grand Duke) omit most of the spoken dialogue. Before listening to any of these operettas that you don't know well, you'll want to obtain a copy of its text so you can read along and not miss any of the words or the wit.

4 out of 5 stars Wonderful set, if a little inconsistent at times........2003-07-07

If you thought that the Sargent set of G&S opera recordings was gargantum enough, then this D'Oyly Carte cycle is even more gargantum. Although it is more expensive (because of the four extra operas that the Sargent cycle did not include), this complete 24-CD set is like a joy to behold. There is a debate as to whether this is better than the Sargent cycle, but I like to think that this is a delight from first disc to last, because of the idiomatic sense of polish that these recordings seem to have, and are given a life that makes them able to breathe well. This is all thanks to Isidore Godfrey and Royston Nash's conducting. I know that the performances may not be entirely consistent (this is evident when you compare the performance and recording quality of Mikado and Pirates with those of Gondoliers and Pinafore), but this is only a matter of personal preference. The 1960s performances were given more sumptuous and well-detailed recordings than the 1970s recordings, made when the performing style was not so fresh. But anyway, I still think that this is definitely a good buy for anyone who loves G&S. Even with the consistency of Sargent's cheaper EMI set, I would still say: do go ahead to invest in the set because of the liveliness and style in this complete G&S cycle that Sargent never (hardly ever) tackles. The only thing is: I would also like to suggest complementing it with the 1957 Decca D'Oyly Carte recordings of Mikado and Pirates, recently released by the Sounds on CD label, so that these recordings can do justice to the enormous spirit of these operas.
The Gilbert and Sullivan Overtures
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  • Complete Overtures (plus Cox and Box)
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ASIN: B00000AEL8
Release Date: 1998-08-25

Tracks:

  1. Cox And Box
  2. The Sorcerer
  3. HMS Pinafore
  4. The Pirates Of Penzance
  5. Patience
  6. Iolanthe
  7. Princess Ida
  8. The Mikado
  9. Ruddigore
  10. The Yeomen Of The Guard
  11. The Gondoliers
  12. The Grand Duke

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Complete Overtures (plus Cox and Box).......2005-08-12

Trial by Jury doesn't have an overture - being a little one act "opener", and for some reason neither does Utopia Limited - just a short little orchestral prelude. When Utopia is performed, in fact, Sullivan's "Imperial March" is often added to the prelude, to flesh out something like a proper overture.

So this recording does actually include all the overtures - or at least an overture to all the Gilbert and Sullivan Operettas that HAD overtures as such. The undistinguished overture to Cox and Box is thrown in for good measure.

These works, it must be said, are very uneven in quality. Most of them were not actually written by Sullivan - but cobbled together by someone else out of the tunes from the operetta, often at the very last minute. The performances treat the overtures as music in their own right - and at least some of them deserve it. The overtures Sullivan DID write himself (especially the "Yoemen" overture) are fine pieces - as is the overture to "Patience" (written by a very young Eugene d'Albert) and the "Ruddigore" overture (in this case the later one by Toye rather than Clarke's original - but I actually prefer this!)

Several of the others are really very ordinary - although keen G&S fans will at least enjoy the quotations of the famous melodies.

All in all a very pleasant recording - even if you already have all (or most) of the works in question complete.

4 out of 5 stars Lovely recording of lovely music.......2001-11-04

I recommend this recording for all G&S fans. The overtures, including all of the well known ones and a few that are obscure, are very nicely played and nicely recorded.

5 out of 5 stars Simply Splendid!.......2001-07-08

One could not hope for a better collection of Gilbert & Sullivan overtures than these as performed by Andrew Penny and the Royal Ballet Sinfonia. With modern digital sound and spirited ensemble playing, one is left yearning for more. The overtures, though not the complete set, nicely cover many of the most popular G & S operettas. So tuneful are they, you can't help but sing along with the familiar melodies. More installments from this group would be very welcomed indeed. This disc has put a smile on my face and left me in a good mood each time I've played it, which has been often. I particularly enjoy the version of "The Gondolier's" contained on this disc because it includes additional music from the operetta not found on other recordings that I own. This collection is one that you will treasure, and can be recommended whole heartitly!

4 out of 5 stars First Rate G & S.......1999-08-27

Like any true "Savoyard",you will be singing along with the overtures found on this disc.Andrew Penny is a fine conductor and treats the music with the right touch of wit and romance.The "Cox and Box" overture (not a true G & S piece)is a great opener to the disc and putting the overtures in historical order lets the listener follow Sullivan's progression from a follower of Liszt and Mendelsohn to a composer with truly his own voice.My only complaint,and it's a very minor one,is that Penny and Naxos couldn't find room for Sullivan's best concert work,the "Overture DiBallo" on the disc.However the inclusion of the last and rarely performed G & S opera "The Grand Duke" more than makes up for it.I would recomend this to anyone just starting their G & S collection.Great price too!!!!
Sullivan: Iolanthe
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Classic D'Oyly Carte Opera Company stereo "Iolanthe" from 1960 [II]
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  • One of Sullivan's finest
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 Sullivan: Iolanthe

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ASIN: B0000041Q1
Release Date: 1989-07-21

Tracks:

  1. Iolanthe: Overture
  2. Iolanthe: Act One: Tripping Hither, Tripping Thither
  3. Iolanthe: Act One: Iolanthe
  4. Iolanthe: Act One: Good Morrow, Good Mother
  5. Iolanthe: Act One: Fare Thee Well, Attractive Stranger
  6. Iolanthe: Act One: Good Morrow, Good Lover
  7. Iolanthe: Act One: None Shall Part Us
  8. Iolanthe: Act One: Loudly Let The Trumpet Bray
  9. Iolanthe: Act One: Entrance Of The Lord Chancellor
  10. Iolanthe: Act One: The Law Is The Embodiment
  11. Iolanthe: Act One: My Well-Beloved Lord
  12. Iolanthe: Act One: Nay, Tempt Me Not
  13. Iolanthe: Act One: Spurn Not The Nobly Born
  14. Iolanthe: Act One: Lords, It May Not Be
  15. Iolanthe: Act One: Said I To Myself, Said I
  16. Iolanthe: Act One: When Darkly Looms The Day

Tracks:

  1. Iolanthe: Act Two - When All Night Long A Chap Remains
  2. Iolanthe: Act Two - Strephon's A Member Of Parliament
  3. Iolanthe: Act Two - When Britain Really Ruled The Waves
  4. Iolanthe: Act Two - In Vain To Us You Plead
  5. Iolanthe: Act Two - Oh, Foolish Fay
  6. Iolanthe: Act Two - Though P'r'aps I May Incur Your Blame
  7. Iolanthe: Act Two - Love Unrequited
  8. Iolanthe: Act Two - If You Go In You're Sure to Win
  9. Iolanthe: Act Two - If We're WeakEnough To Tarry
  10. Iolanthe: Act Two - My Lord, A Suppliant At Your Feet
  11. Iolanthe: Act Two - It May Not Be
  12. Iolanthe: Act Two - Soon As We May, Off And Away

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Iolanthe has one of the funniest lines in all of Gilbert and Sullivan. As the Peers (as in the House of Lords) enter, they sing: "Bow! Bow! Ye lower middle classes; Bow! Bow! Ye tradesmen bow ye masses; Blow the Trumpets! Bang the brasses! Tan Taran Tarah Chin Boom!" OK, so you had to have been there; but trust me, it's a riot. Anyway, this "fairy"-story parody on the undine theme, about a fairy who loves a mortal, is a typically frothy confection of biting social satire and innocent sentiment. The performance by the D'Oyly Carte company is about as close to the original production as we're likely to get. --David Hurwitz

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Classic D'Oyly Carte Opera Company stereo "Iolanthe" from 1960 [II].......2007-04-04

SOURCE: September 1960 studio recording made in London.

SOUND: When new, the series of G&S recordings that included this "Iolanthe" was generally regarded as being at the leading edge of commercial analogue stereo. The digital remastering carried out in the late 1990s was generally successful and the sound on these CDs will be perfectly satisfactory to anyone but hyper-finicky audiophiles.

CAST: Lord Chancellor - John Reed (patter baritone); Earl Mountararat - Donald Adams (bass-baritone); Earl Tolloller - Thomas Round (tenor); Private Willis - Kenneth Sandford (bass-baritone); Strephon - Alan Styler (baritone); Queen of the Fairies - Gillian Knight (mezzo-soprano); Iolanthe - Yvonne Newman (mezzo-soprano); Celia - Jennifer Toye (soprano); Leila - Pauline Wales (soprano); Fleta - Dawn Bradshaw (speaking part); Phyllis - Mary Sansom (soprano). CONDUCTOR: Isadore Godfrey with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, the New Symphony Orchestra of London and the Band of the Grenadier Guards.

TEXT: With one significant exception, the text of this performance is the standard text adopted by the D'Oyly Carte Company early in the Twentieth Century and performed by them until the company's demise at the hands of the penny-pinching Thatcher government. The standard text contains one major cut from the opening night's score, a song for Strephon called "Fold Your Flapping Wings." The song was not recorded here, although it has been restored in the 1991 recording of the (quite different) New D'Oyly Carte Opera Company.

The exception to the standard text in this performance arises from the fact that the original production of "Iolanthe" was offered to the London audience in an ultra-sumptuous production. That production had a full military brass band to play for the spectacular entrance of the peers in Act One. The D'Oyly Carte touring companies, on the other hand, playing year after year throughout the length and breadth of Britain and Ireland, could not afford the luxury of a second band. For them, Sullivan thriftily provided a version of the entrance music that could be played by the pick-up orchestras playing in the pits of provincial theaters. The touring version became the standard version and was played on all prior recordings.

It should be noted that this set was recorded at a time when the record producers elected to break with the long-established practice of omitting spoken words. The labels on both the old Lp album and the earlier version of the CD case proudly proclaimed "Complete with dialogue" and so it was and is. You are free to regard this fact as a welcome addition or as an insufferable nuisance.

COMMENTARY: This recording captures the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company--the production company founded by Gilbert, Sullivan and their producer, Richard D'Oyly Carte--in the height of its 1960s form. At its core were stars still held fondly in the hearts of many G&S afficionados worldwide: John Reed, Kenneth Sandford, Thomas Round, Donald Adams and Gillian Knight. It was certainly a very sound cast and, naturally, the most experienced in the world in the G&S repertory.

This is a performance in the classic D'Oyly Carte tradition which stretches directly back to the days when genial Sullivan conducted from the pit of the Savoy Theatre and glowering Gilbert was the stage director.

The recordings of the original DCOC can be divided into four strata: the electrical recordings of the late 1920s and early 1930s, the mono recordings of the 1950s, the first stereo recordings of the 1960s and the second stereo recordings of the 1970s. Fans debate with considerable heat about the respective merits of the three earlier strata. (Nobody pays much attention to the final one.) The 1960s cast certainly has its adherents. Purely as a matter of personal taste, I prefer the earlier ones, but they are recorded in the "historic" sound not beloved by ears accustomed to the digital era.

This "Iolanthe" is more brisk than the contemporary and rival version conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent. However the whole Sargent series has been widely criticized from the outset as being unnecessarily lugubrious. What is recorded here is a fair presentation of the tempo of the actual DCOC stage production as I remember it. It is about the same as the 1950s version and, if anything, a bit slower than the 1930s version.

Overall, a good stereo version of "Iolanthe" displaying the absolutely authentic performing tradition for the works of Gilbert and Sullivan.

Five stars.

5 out of 5 stars A Masterpiece.......2006-08-04

"Iolanthe" isn't nearly as famous as "The Pirates of Penzance" or "The Mikado" or "HMS Pinafore" but this Gilbert and Sullivan Musical Play is a masterpiece of equal merit. It is a satire on the English Class System. And it is VERY funny! For example there is track 8 entitled, "Loudly let the trumpet bray". On that track the snobbish Lords are singing to the audience: "Bow ye tradesmen, bow ye masses"...telling all us "masses" and "tradesmen" to bow down to them! The thing that makes this really funny is that these snobbish Lords are a bunch of "silly fellows" who are actually much inferior to "the masses" of their fellow citizens whom they are ordering to bow down to them!

There is much clever and charming dialogue and many clever and tuneful songs. You'll enjoy this CD and you'll look forward to sometime in the future when you can see this charming masterpiece performed on stage in person. Until then, you'll cherish the CD! Email:boland7214@aol.

4 out of 5 stars One of Sullivan's finest.......2003-04-12

Mikado, Pirates, and Pinafore are the most POPULAR of the G&S operettas. Musically, however, the BEST three are Ruddigore, Iolanthe, and Yoemen. If you want to enjoy a total theatre experience one of the first three mentioned might be best (it would certainly be more likely). For a good listen at home - the last three, every time.

This recording is a little dated, technically and performance wise - get hold of a libretto if you can, as the words are not always quite as crystal clear as they might be, and missing any of them would really be too bad.

Until a really good modern recording replaces it - still the best recording of Iolanthe, which means one of the very best operetta recordings you can get!

5 out of 5 stars A classic piece of G&S.......2003-02-16

A wonderful bit of ridiculousness courtesy of Gilbert and Sullivan. This recording is great, and includes the intermediary dialogue. If you like some of the more mainstream Gilbert and Sullivan musicals, such as Pirates of Penzance or the Mikado, then you'll enjoy this one. The story involves a young man named Strephon who is half fairy (from the waist up) and who is in love with Phyllis, a ward in Chancery. Although there are some refrences to British parliament which many American's (myself included) are probably missing out on, it remains an enjoyable and whimsical operetta with a classic happy ending in typical topsy-turvy Gilbert and Sullivan stye.

5 out of 5 stars Excellent G&S.......2000-05-20

The music is simply beautiful; the lyrics are hilarious satire. What a treat for G&S fans. I'm so glad I bought this!
Orchestral Hors d'oeuvres on the Longwood Gardens Organ
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    ASIN: B000009KX5
    Release Date: 1993-05-01

    Tracks:

    1. Mendelssohn, arr. Conte: Ruy Blas Overture Op.95
    2. Sullivan, arr: Conte: Overture to The Pirates ofPenzance
    3. Debussy, arr. Cellier: Prelude to The Afternoon of aFaun
    4. Thomas, arr. Westbrook: Entr'acte Gavotte from Mignon
    5. Sullivan, arr. Conte: Overture to Iolanthe
    6. Mendelssohn, arr. Nevin: Scherzo from A Midsummer Night'sDream
    7. Wagner, arr. Wilkins: Pilgrims' Chorus (Tannhuser)
    8. Dvork, arr. Lemare: Carnival Overture

    Album Description

    Peter Richard Conte, Grand Court Organist for the Wanamaker Organ, plays a fascinating program of orchestral transcriptions on the Longwood Gardens Organ.
    Gilbert & Sullivan: Iolanthe / D'Oyly Carte Opera Company; Godfrey; New Symphony Orchestra of London
    Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
    • Fun with Lords and Fairies
    • Classic D'Oyly Carte Opera Company stereo version of "Iolanthe" from 1960
    • The fastest Iolanthe in the world?
    		 Gilbert & Sullivan: Iolanthe / D'Oyly Carte Opera Company; Godfrey; New Symphony Orchestra of London

    Manufacturer: Decca
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    ASIN: B00008LJES
    Release Date: 2003-05-13

    Tracks:

    1. Overture
    2. Tripping Hither, Tripping Thither
    3. Iolanthe
    4. Good Morrow, Good Mother
    5. Fare Thee Well, Attractive Stranger
    6. Good Morrow, Good Lover
    7. None Shall Part Us
    8. Loudly Let The Trumpet Bray
    9. Entrance Of The Lord Chancellor
    10. The Law Is The Embodiment
    11. My Well-Beloved Lord
    12. Nay, Tempt Me Not
    13. Spurn Not The Nobly Born
    14. Lords, It May Not Be
    15. Said I To Myself, Said I
    16. When Darkly Looms The Day

    Tracks:

    1. When All Night Long A Chap Remains
    2. Strephon's A Member Of Parliament
    3. When Britain Really Ruled The Waves
    4. In Vain To Us You Plead
    5. Oh, Foolish Fay
    6. Though P'r'aps I May Incur Your Blame
    7. Love Unrequited
    8. If You Go In You're Sure To Win
    9. If We're Weak Enough To Tarry
    10. My Lord, A Suppliant At Your Feet
    11. It May Not Be
    12. Soon As We May, Off And Away

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars Fun with Lords and Fairies.......2007-05-12

    Iolanthe was the first Gilbert & Sullivan purchase I'd ever made. I did so for my wife, not for myself. Who knew!? Yes, Gilbert & Sullivan music does indeed "sound like Gilbert & Sullivan" music; I have difficulty listening to this music without visualizing any of a number of Monty Python skits. But I had no idea that Gilbert's lyrics were so witty, nor that they were written as social commentary. Hilarious stuff. I am especially pleased that this recording includes the spoken dialogue between the songs. This really brings the music to life for me.

    5 out of 5 stars Classic D'Oyly Carte Opera Company stereo version of "Iolanthe" from 1960.......2007-03-22

    SOURCE: September 1960 studio recording made in London.

    SOUND: When new, the series of G&S recordings that includes this "Iolanthe" was generally regarded as being at the leading edge of commercial analogue stereo. The digital remastering carried out in the late 1990s was generally successful and the sound on these CDs will be perfectly satisfactory to anyone but hyper-finicky audiophiles.

    CAST: Lord Chancellor - John Reed (patter baritone); Earl Mountararat - Donald Adams (bass-baritone); Earl Tolloller - Thomas Round (tenor); Private Willis - Kenneth Sandford (bass-baritone); Strephon - Alan Styler (baritone); Queen of the Fairies - Gillian Knight (mezzo-soprano); Iolanthe - Yvonne Newman (mezzo-soprano); Celia - Jennifer Toye (soprano); Leila - Pauline Wales (soprano); Fleta - Dawn Bradshaw (speaking part); Phyllis - Mary Sansom (soprano). CONDUCTOR: Isadore Godfrey with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, the New Symphony Orchestra of London and the Band of the Grenadier Guards.

    TEXT: With one significant exception, the text of this performance is the standard text adopted by the D'Oyly Carte Company early in the Twentieth Century and performed by them until the company's demise at the hands of the penny-pinching Thatcher government. The standard text contains one major cut from the opening night's score, a song for Strephon called "Fold Your Flapping Wings." The song was not recorded here, although it has been restored in the 1991 recording of the New D'Oyly Carte Opera Company.

    The exception to the standard text in this performance arises from the fact that the original production of "Iolanthe" was offered to the London audience in an ultra-sumptuous production. That production had a full military brass band to play for the spectacular entrance of the peers in Act One. The D'Oyly Carte touring companies, playing year after year throughout the length and breadth of Britain and Ireland, on the other hand, could not afford the luxury of a second band. For them, Sullivan thriftily provided a version of the entrance music that could be played by the pick-up orchestras playing in the pits of provincial theaters. The touring version became the standard version and was played on all prior recording.

    It should be noted that this set was recorded at a time when the record producers elected to break with the long-established practice of omitting the spoken words. The labels on both the old Lp album and the current CD case proudly proclaim, "Complete with dialogue" and so it is. You are free to regard this fact as a welcome addition or as an insufferable nuisance.

    COMMENTARY: This recording captures the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company--the production company founded by Gilbert, Sullivan and their producer, Richard D'Oyly Carte--at the height of its 1960s form. At its core were stars still held fondly in the hearts of many G&S afficionados: John Reed, Kenneth Sandford, Thomas Round, Donald Adams and Gillian Knight. It was certainly a very sound cast and, naturally, the most experienced in the world in this repertory. This performance is in the classic D'Oyly Carte tradition which stretches back directly to the days when genial Sullivan conducted from the pit of the Savoy Theatre and glowering Gilbert directed the performers on stage.

    The recordings of the original DCOC can be divided into four strata: the electrical recordings of the late 1920s and early 1930s, the mono recordings of the 1950s, the first stereo recordings of the 1960s and the second stereo recordings of the 1970s. Fans debate with considerable heat about the respective merits of the three earlier strata. (Nobody pays much attention to the final one.) The 1960s cast certainly has its adherents. Purely as a matter of personal taste, I prefer the earlier ones, but they are recorded in the "historic" sound not beloved by ears accustomed to the digital era.

    The previous reviewer was struck by the speed of this performance and even suggested some humorous explanations for it. (Ho-ho-ho.) This "Iolanthe" is unquestionably more brisk than the contemporary and rival version conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent. From the outset, however the Sargent series was widely criticized as being overly lugubrious. This recording is a fair presentation of the tempo of the actual DCOC stage production as I remember it. It is about the same as the 1950s recorded version and, if anything, a bit slower than the 1930s version.

    Overall, this is a good stereo "Iolanthe." It showcases the absolutely authentic performing tradition for the works of Gilbert and Sullivan.

    Five stars.

    3 out of 5 stars The fastest Iolanthe in the world?.......2004-07-17

    This is a recording that shows its age a bit. The women's pronounciation is rather like the Queen's: from another era. It's not surprising I suppose, because this was recorded in 1960. John Reed is good as the Lord Chancellor, as is Kenneth Sandford as the Sentry. However, this production is so rushed! I strongly suspect this was recorded so as to end in time for the cast to get to the pub before last orders.
    Another possibility is that it was squeezed to fit a double LP.
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    Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    • Music for the baby!
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    1. H.M.S Pinafore: Now Give Three Cheers...I Am The Monarch Of the Sea...When I Was A Lad
    2. H.M.S Pinafore: I'm Called Little Buttercup
    3. H.M.S Pinafore: Never Mind The Why And Wherefore
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    5. The Mikado: Three Little Maids From School Are We
    6. The Mikado: As Someday It May Happen
    7. The Mikado: The Flowers That Bloom In The Spring
    8. The Mikado: On A Tree By A River A Little Tom-Tit
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    10. The Yeomen Of The Guard: I Have A Song To Sing, O!
    11. The Pirates Of Penzance: I Am The Very Model Of A Modern Major-General
    12. The Pirates Of Penzance: When The Foeman Bares His Steel
    13. The Pirates Of Penzance: Poor Wand'ring One
    14. The Pirates Of Penzance: When A Felon's Not Engaged In His Employment
    15. Iolanthe: Loudly Let The Trumpet Bray
    16. Iolanthe: If You Go In You're Sure To Win
    17. The Gondoliers: We're Called Gondolieri
    18. The Gondoliers: In Eenterprise Of Maritial Kind
    19. The Gondoliers: Take A Pair Of Sparkling Eyes
    20. The Gondoliers: Dance A Cachucha, Fandango, Bolero

    Customer Reviews:

    4 out of 5 stars Music for the baby!.......2006-10-14

    I am the caregiver for my newborn grandson who is VERY VERY fussy. There are all kinds of CDs with soothing music for the babies, BUT I happened to hear that opera was a great listen for the little ears and this one is the best. It has high voices and very low bass voices lots of BOOMs and arias. When I first put it on for him, (in the middle of a loud cry), he quieted down almost as soon as the first stanza was over. He now smiles and waves his little arms and legs around when I turn it on. He Listens and loves this CD, and so do I! The words are hard to understand but the sounds are marvelous. If you know of any mother/father who is wanting music for a small baby/child, tell them about Gilbert and Sullivan (and they will enjoy it, too).

    1 out of 5 stars Unlistenable.......2005-11-11

    The voices are wonderful, but the recording is so faulty that only the two tracks from Iolanthe sound at all okay. At first I thought it was my equipment, then realized that the CD was at fault. And I bought one for myself and one for a friend! I adore Gilbert & Sullivan and D'Oyly Carte is the best, but this particular CD shouldn't be offered for sale.

    5 out of 5 stars THIS is music . . ........2005-07-21

    . . . not rap, not rock, not pop. Light opera! I love Arthur Sullivan's music, even though I'm 11, and I love this CD! The tunes are really catchy, and I'm usually singing one to myself. Not many people my age like light opera, but to me, it's the best music there is. Don't be afraid that you won't like this CD. You'll love it, even though it's hard to understand at sometimes. You might want to listen to some of the songs first to see if you like it. After all, not everyone likes opera.

    5 out of 5 stars A Surefire Method of Loosing the Blues.......2000-03-03

    This recording, done in a studio, allows the listener to "hear" all the words of all the patter songs. John Reed is just excellent as Koko, the Modern Major General, the Monarch of the Sea. Highlights come from Iolanthe, HMS Pinefore, Yeomen, Mikado, Gondoliers. A truly wonderful experience to be enjoyed over and over.
    Gilbert & Sullivan: Greatest Hits
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      Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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      20. Act II: Here's A How-De-Do! - John Holmes
      21. Act II: Miya Sama, Miya Sama - John Holmes
      22. Act II: A More Humane Mikado - John Holmes

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      Customer Reviews:

      5 out of 5 stars A Wonderful Performance.......2007-03-31

      This is an an authentic, accessible, entertaining, and deeply satisfying performance. Although I like all of the principal singers, my two favorite are Clive Revill as Ko-Ko and Jean Allister as Katisha. For me, the key to a successful Gilbert and Sullivan performance is that it is not only funny, but also touching. In my opinion, Revill and Allister score high in both departments. In their final scene together, they are both vulnerable and hilarious at the same time. One small detail about this recording that bothers me slightly is that the overture has been rewritten. It is a nice medley, but I miss the original. I understand that Sullivan did not write it, but it is based on his tunes and I've always liked it. But don't let that stop you from getting this recording. I consider it to be the best Mikado on record.

      5 out of 5 stars ARTICULATE MIKADO.......2007-01-31

      Articulate - both in diction and in musical interpretation - this re-release of the 1960's Sadlers Wells recording of Gilbert and Sullivan's MIKADO is quite delightful. The care and loving detail, which were the keystones of SWO's productions of G & S and operettas in the 1960s onstage, are preserved here in Alexander Faris's splendidly gutsy interpretation of the most popular of all the Savoy Operas; if his speeds are at times too leisurely, all can be forgiven just to hear the superb soloists; the expert diction of Denis Dowling as Pooh-Bah; the heroic tones of John Wakefield as the Wandering Minstrel; Marion Studholme singing the best "Sun Whose Rays" you will ever here on disc; Jean Allister as a correctly dominating Katisha, (hurray - a real contralto!), with a superb glissando in "Beauty and the Bellow"; the glorious Pat Kern as Pitti-Sing making so much more of the traditional soubrette; John Heddle Nash giving a singing and acting lesson with Pish-Tush's only solo; and the droll Clive Revill so completely at ease in the comic role of Ko-Ko, (though it is strange that his running out of breath at the end of his verse in the Act Two trio was not corrected!) I have to say that this recording of THE MIKADO puts all other D'Oyly Carte and Glyndeboune recordings in the shade, and the inclusion of highlights from Sadlers Wells IOLANTHE from 1962 is just an added bonus - the overture in this is simply stunning, and how good to hear Eric Shilling, Heather Begg, and Elizabeth Harwood obviously enjoying themselves so much singing Sullivan's most musical of scores.

      5 out of 5 stars Finally, a worthy recording of the Mikado!.......2004-03-03

      It really does make a difference, when performing Gilbert and Sullivan, to use singers who can act rather than the other way round. Every soloist here utilizes a very forward, "in-the-mask" vocal placement, which not only reduces the need to force, but helps to render their diction crystal-clear. Sample Jean Allister's Katisha. No plummy, oratorio contralto tones for her. Here is all the waspish, incisive malevolence that is already there in the writing; she just reveals it by singing and pronouncing the texts in a light and unforced manner. This approach helps to restore the vim and vigor to an opera that can often seem tired and "played-out" to modern ears. If the recording has any weakness, it may possibly be found in the Yum-yum and Nanki-Poo. Marion Studholme is perhaps more shrill than is necessary, while John Wakefield seems to have wandered in from a performance of Dream of Gerontius. These are minor quibbles, however. The overall excellence of the performance quells any doubts, with Alexander Faris' conducting a model of transparent clarity. The Iolanthe excerpts are also well-done, but it's Mikado that is the jewel here. Don't hesitate; buy it today!

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