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The World of Gilbert & Sullivan, Vol.1

Selections from various Gilbert & Sullivan operettas

John Reed, Jeffrey Skitch, Joyce Wright, Gillian Knight, Jean Hindmarsh, Valerie Masterson, Jean Allister, Peggy Ann Jones, Pauline Wales, Colin Wright, Elizabeth Harwood, Owen Brannigan, Donald Adams, Thomas Round

D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus / New Symphony Orchestra, Isidore Godfrey, Royston...

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Contents

Excerpt, Sullivan, A: HMS Pinafore

Work length9:23
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  • Joyce Wright (soprano), Jean Hindmarsh (soprano), Gillian Knight (contralto), John Reed (baritone), Jeffrey Skitch (baritone)
  • D’Oyly Carte Opera Company, New Symphony Orchestra of London
  • Isidore Godfrey
  • Recorded: 1959-08-12
  • Recording Venue: Watford Town Hall, London

Now give three cheers...When I was a lad

Track length4:53
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I'm called Little Buttercup

Track length1:47
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Never mind the why and wherefore

Track length2:43
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Sullivan, A: The Mikado / Act 1

Work length8:35
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  • John Reed (baritone), Valerie Masterson (soprano), Colin Wright (tenor), Pauline Wales (soprano), Peggy Ann Jones (mezzo-soprano)
  • D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Royston Nash
  • Recorded: 1973-01-15
  • Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

3. A wand'ring minstrel I

Track length4:40
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10. Three little maids from school are we

Track length1:31
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8. As someday it may happen that a victim...

Track length2:24
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Sullivan, A: The Mikado / Act 2

Work length4:08
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  • Valerie Masterson (soprano), Peggy Ann Jones (mezzo-soprano), Colin Wright (tenor), John Reed (baritone), Kenneth Sandford (baritone)
  • Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Royston Nash
  • Recorded: 1973-01-15
  • Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

30. The flowers that bloom in the spring, tra-la

Track length1:41
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33. On a tree by a river a little tom tit

Track length2:27
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Excerpt, Sullivan, A: The Yeomen of the Guard

Work length8:27
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  • Gillian Knight (mezzo-soprano), Elizabeth Harwood (soprano), John Reed (baritone)
  • D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Sir Malcolm Sargent
  • Recorded: 1964-04-11
  • Recording Venue: Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London

When our gallant Norman foes

Track length5:01
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I have a song to sing, oh!

Track length3:26
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Excerpt, Sullivan, A: The Pirates of Penzance

Work length13:38
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  • John Reed (baritone), Valerie Masterson (soprano), Jean Allister (mezzo-soprano), Owen Brannigan (bass (vocal))
  • D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, D’Oyly Carte Opera Company, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Isidore Godfrey
  • Recorded: 1967-12-08
  • Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

I am the very model of a modern Major-General

Track length3:05
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When the foeman bares his steel

Track length4:54
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Poor wand'ring one!

Track length3:02
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When a felon's not engaged in his employment

Track length2:37
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Excerpt, Sullivan, A: Iolanthe

Work length8:24
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  • Thomas Round (tenor), John Reed (baritone), Donald Adams (bass (vocal))
  • D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Band of the Grenadier Guards, D’Oyly Carte Opera Company, New Symphony Orchestra of London
  • Isidore Godfrey
  • Recorded: 1960-09-08
  • Recording Venue: Watford Town Hall, London

Loudly let the trumpet bray

Track length6:00
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If you go in you're sure to win

Track length2:24
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Excerpt, Sullivan, A: The Gondoliers

Work length9:15
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  • Jennifer Toye (soprano), Thomas Round (tenor), Gillian Knight (mezzo-soprano), Alan Styler (baritone), Jeffrey Skitch (baritone), John Reed (baritone)
  • D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, New Symphony Orchestra of London
  • Isidore Godfrey
  • Recorded: 1960-09-12
  • Recording Venue: Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London

We're called gondolieri, but that's a vagary

Track length2:18
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In enterprise of martial kind

Track length1:36
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Take a pair of sparkling eyes

Track length3:16
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Dance a cachucha, fandango, bolero

Track length2:05
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