Sullivan: Princess Ida & A Gilbert & Sullivan Spectacular

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Release Date: 18th May 2018
Catalogue No: ELQ4825349
Label: Eloquence
Length: 2 hours 9 minutes

Sullivan, A: Princess Ida

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Fisher Morgan (bass), Peter Pratt (baritone), Victoria Sladen (soprano), Jeffrey Skitch (baritone), Thomas Round (tenor), Donald Adams (bass), Cynthia Morey (soprano), Ann Drummond-Grant (contralto), John Banks (bass), Beryl Dixon (mezzo-soprano), Trevor Hills (bass), Leonard Osborn (tenor), Muriel Harding (soprano)
New Symphony Orchestra, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus
Isidore Godfrey
Recorded: 1954
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Overture

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1. Search throughout the panorama

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2. Now hearken to my strict command

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3. Today we meet...Ida was a twelve-month old

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4. From the distant panorama...We are warriors three

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5. If you give me your attention

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6. P'raps if you address the lady most politely

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7. Towards the empyrean heights

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8. Mighty maiden with a mission

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9. Minerva...Oh, goddess wise

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10. Gently, gently, evidently

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11. I am a maiden, cold and stately

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12. The world is but a broken toy

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13. A lady fair, of lineage high

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14. The woman of the wisest wit

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15. Now would you like to rule the roost

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16. Merrily ring the luncheon bell

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17. Would you know the kind of maid

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18. Oh, joy! Our chief is sav'd

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19. We may remark, tho' nothing can dismay us

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20. Death to the invader

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21. I built upon a rock

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22. Whene'er I spoke sarcastic joke

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23. When anger spreads his wing

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24. This helmet I suppose

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25. This is our duty plain

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26. With joy abiding

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Excerpt, Sullivan, A: HMS Pinafore

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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Recorded: 1965-12-03

Overture

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We shall sail the ocean blue

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Excerpt, Sullivan, A: The Pirates of Penzance

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Valerie Masterson (soprano), Anthony Raffell (bass), John Reed (baritone)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Recorded: 1965

13. Hold, Monsters!

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14. I am the very model of a modern Major-General

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Excerpt, Sullivan, A: The Mikado

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Pauline Wales (soprano), Valerie Masterson (soprano), Peggy Ann Jones (mezzo-soprano)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Recorded: 1965

10. Three little maids from school are we

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Excerpt, Sullivan, A: The Pirates of Penzance

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Anthony Raffell (bass)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Recorded: 1965

33. With cat-like tread

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Excerpt, Sullivan, A: The Mikado

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John Reed (baritone), Peggy Ann Jones (mezzo-soprano), Pauline Wales (soprano), Valerie Masterson (soprano), Philip Potter (tenor)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Recorded: 1965

33. On a tree by a river a little tom tit

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

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Excerpt, Sullivan, A: HMS Pinafore

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Alan Styler (baritone), Pauline Wales (soprano), John Reed (baritone)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Recorded: 1965-12-03
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My gallant crew...I am the Captain of the Pinafore

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Now give three cheers...I am the monarch of the sea

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When I was a lad

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Excerpt, Sullivan, A: The Mikado

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Philip Potter (tenor), Donald Adams (bass)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus
Sir Malcolm Sargent

3. A wand'ring minstrel I

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27. A more humane Mikado never did in Japan exist

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Excerpt, Sullivan, A: The Pirates of Penzance

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Donald Adams (bass), Ann Hodd (soprano), Valerie Masterson (soprano)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Recorded: 1965

21. When the foeman bares his steel

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Excerpt, Sullivan, A: Ruddigore

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Christene Palmer (mezzo-soprano), Donald Adams (bass)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Recorded: 1965

24. There grew a little flower

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Excerpt, Sullivan, A: HMS Pinafore

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Pauline Wales (soprano), Christene Palmer (mezzo-soprano), John Reed (baritone), Alan Styler (baritone)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Recorded: 1965-12-03
Recording Venue: --, --

For he's the Captain of the Pinafore

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The first full-length D’Oyly Carte company recording of a late Savoy opera (Princess Ida), newly remastered and generously coupled with a Phase 4 album featuring hit songs and numbers from the unequalled partnership of W.S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan.

Princess Ida is unusual among Savoy operas for having a pair of tenor leads, and it is a rare treat to two of the finest tenors in the history of D’Oyly Carte side by side in this recording, and forming a superb trio with baritone Jeffrey Skitch’s Florian. Thomas Round gives a heroic performance as the romantic lead, Prince Hilarion, and Leonard Osborn takes the comic role of Hilarion’s friend Cyril.

The two previous recordings of Princess Ida were heavily cut, whereas this 1954 set presents Sullivan’s score (one of his finest) very nearly complete. Also notable is the presence of the soprano Victoria Sladen in the title role. Though not a member of the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company, she was cast to give vocal authority to one of the most uncompromisingly and thrillingly operatic parts in the G&S canon. Ida is conducted with warm authority by Isidore Godfrey, music director at the D’Oyly Carte for nearly 40 years. But Sir Malcolm Sargent’s involvement with the company predated his by three years, beginning in 1926, and he continued to work with it throughout his career, including a complete Princess Ida recording of his own in 1965. In the same year he conducted a selection of hits from the G&S catalogue recorded with Decca’s Phase 4 stereo technique, which used multi-making to create dramatic spatial effects across the sound stage. The selection includes favourite numbers from H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado and ‘There grew a little flower’ from Ruddigore. With featured singers including Donald Adams, Valerie Masterson, Kenneth Sandford and John Reed, masterminded by Sargent with sprightly tempi and vivaciously pointed phrases, the pleasure and authenticity of this collection is assured.

‘Mr Godfrey has obviously taken great pains with this recording and lets the orchestra speak during the accompaniments … he gives a musical performance of one of the composer’s most interesting scores.’ Gramophone, September 1955 (Princess Ida ‘The Phase 4 sonic sorcerers […] shrewdly have eschewed sensational effects in favour of providing maximum vividness and stereo expansiveness as a showcase for a well-varied, spirited programme.’ High Fidelity, January 1967 (G&S Spectacular)

Sullivan: Princess Ida & A Gilbert & Sullivan Spectacular

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