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HMS PINAFORE
[SOUNDTRACK]
Label: Jay
Performed by: New Sadler's Wells Opera Chorus, New Sadler's Wells Opera Orchestra
Conducted by: Simon Phipps
No of Discs: 2
Released February 2006
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HMS PINAFORE
Label: Telarc
Performed by: Welsh National Opera Chorus with Richard Suart, Felicity Palmer, Rebecca Evans, Thomas Allen, Michael Schade, Donald Adams, Valerie Seymour, Richard Van Allan, John King, Philip Lloyd-Evans
Orchestra: Welsh National Opera Orchestra
Conducted by: Sir Charles Mackerras
No of Discs: 1
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HMS PINAFORE
Label: Pearl
Performed by: D'Oyly Carte Opera Company with Martyn Green, Leslie Rands, Leonard Osborn, Muriel Harding, Ella Halman, Darrell Fancourt, Richard Walker, Radley Flynn, Joan Gillingham
Orchestra: D'Oyly Carte Opera Orchestra
Conducted by: Isidore Godfrey
No of Discs: 1
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HMS PINAFORE
Label: London
Performed by: D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus with John Reed, Jeffrey Skitch, Thomas Round, Jean Hindmarsh, Donald Adams, George Cook, Eric Wilson Hyde, Joyce Wright, Gillian Knight
Orchestra: New Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by: Isidore Godfrey
No of Discs: 2
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TRIAL BY JURY /
HMS PINAFORE
Label: Classics for Pleasure
No of Discs: 1
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HMS PINAFORE HIGHLIGHTS [IMPORT]
Label: London
Performed by: New Symphony Orchestra of London
Conducted by: Isidore Godfrey
No of Discs: 1
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HMS PINAFORE
Label: Universal Classics
Performed by: D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus with John Reed, Jeffrey Skitch, Thomas Round, Jean
Hindmarsh, Donald Adams, George Cook, Eric Wilson Hyde, Joyce Wright, Gillian Knight
Orchestra: New Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by: Isidore Godfrey
No of Discs: 2
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HMS PINAFORE [RECORDED 1948]
Label: Naxos Historical
Performed by: D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus with Darrell Fancourt, Leslie Rands, Martyn Green, Radley Flynn, Richard Walker, Leonard Osborn, Muriel Harding, Joan Gillingham, Ella Hallman
Orchestra: New Promenade Orchestra
No of Discs: 1
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HMS
PINAFORE
Label: Regis
Performed by: D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
Conducted by: Isidore Godfrey
No of Discs: 1
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THE YEOMEN OF THE GUARD & HMS PINAFORE
Label: Symposium
No of Discs: 1
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These recordings were made in 1907 by the Gramophone & Typewriter (G&T) Company. They employed so-called studio artists, none of whom were D'Oyly Carte cast members. Even so, the current transcriptions are bright and clear. All of the performers, notably Ada Florence, Walter Sinclair, Harry Dearth, and Ernest Pike presented the Gilbertian traditions of performance. The voices may not always be what listeners to later recordings may be used to, but they are highly professional. Symposium Records and the Sir Arthur Sullivan Society deserve high praise for this desirable historical issue of two of the earliest more or less complete G&S performances. Also very pleasing is the almost
total absence of surface noise, so prevalent, at least in many
listeners' minds, on vintage 78s.
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HMS PINAFORE
Label: TER
Performed by: D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, D'Oyly Carte Opera Orchestra
Conducted by: John Owen Edwards
No of Discs: 2
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This delightful two-CD set is based on a 1995 D'Oyly Carte production, which was revived to great acclaim in London's Royal Festival Hall in August 1999. The recording was made just a month later, and as a result has a dramatic tautness about it and musical flexibility which keeps the comedy absolutely fresh. The tempi feel just right--brisk for the set pieces and more relaxed for the sentimental numbers, though without a hint of mawkishness. The casting is excellent, for the voices are all of the light lyric or character kind perfect for the genre, and no one overacts while singing. Yvonne Barclay is particularly impressive, and brings real vulnerability to her rendition of Josephine's Act 2 "God of love, God of reason" aria. The only problem with the disc is the inclusion of the dialogue scenes, which, as so often happens when removed from the oxygen of live theatre, simply gasp and die. As if in compensation however, the set includes the diverting duet "Reflect, my child", which was cut from the first production and has since been reconstructed from recently discovered band parts.
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HMS
PINAFORE & OPERETTA EXCERPTS [IMPORT]
Label: Decca
Conductors: James Walker, Sir Malcolm Sargent
Performers: D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus with John Reed, Thomas Lawlor, Ralph Mason, Valerie Masterson, John Ayldon, Jon Ellison, Pauline Wales, Christine Palmer, Arthur Jackson
et al.
Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
No of Discs: 2
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HMS PINAFORE
Label: Koch
Conductor: Simon Phipps
Performer: New Sadler's Wells Opera Chorus
Orchestra: New Sadler's Wells Opera Orchestra
No of Discs: 1
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THE
PIRATES OF PENZANCE / HMS PINAFORE
1929 / 1930 D'Oyly Carte Recordings
Label: Lipstick
Conductor: Sir Malcolm Sargent
Performer: D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus with Sir Henry Lytton, George Baker, Charles Goulding, Elsie Griffin, Darrell Fancourt, Sydney Granville, Stuart Robertson, Nellie Briercliffe, Bertha Lewis et al.
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra, et al.
No of Discs: 2
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HMS
PINAFORE / THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE [BOX SET]
Label: Castle Pulse
Number of Discs: 2
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The first electronic recordings of "HMS
Pinafore" and "The Pirates of Penzance" made in the late
1920's/early 1930's. The comic operas would originally have been issued in
albums of about twenty-four sides, each.
Sound is amazingly good mono, considering the great age of the performances, and
not so very different from some first-generation LPs. The voices of the soloists
are very well captured. The choruses sound fine, although a little distant and
slightly compressed. If the orchestra seems confined by digital era standards,
the sound is good and full of detail.
These recordings were made under the personal supervision of Rupert D'Oyly
Carte, whose father, Richard, had founded the opera company and been a partner
with Gilbert (stormily) and Sullivan (happily). His step-mother, Helen, had
succeeded to control of the company, and his daughter, Bridget, would continue
to run it with a whim of iron well past the middle of the 20th Century. Whatever
the eccentricities of the D'Oyly Cartes, this early series of recordings must be
regarded as definitive in setting out the G&S performance tradition.
This set presents two G&S comic opera masterpieces at a rock-bottom price.
It offers surprisingly good sound and first-class performances, my mere
nitpicking to the contrary. It is a must-have for a serious lover of G&S.
For those of you, delicate souls that you are, who must have DDD sound or suffer
the vapours, walk away, this is not for you. For those who give more weight to
artistic quality than to mere mechanical reproduction of sound, this set is
worth five stars, no question about it.
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HMS PINAFORE
Label: TER
Performed by: New Sadler's Wells Opera Chorus with with Nickolas Grace, Gordon
Sandison, Christopher Gillett, Elizabeth Ritchie, Thomas Lawlor, Paul Parfitt, Paul Thomson, Janine Roebuck, Linda Ormiston
Orchestra: New Sadler's Wells Opera Orchestra
Conducted by: Simon Phipps
No of Discs: 2
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TRIAL BY JURY / HMS PINAFORE
Label: EMI Classics
Performed by: Glyndebourne Festival Chorus with George Baker, John Cameron, Richard Lewis, Elsie Morison, Owen Brannigan, James Milligan, Marjorie Thomas, Monica Sinclair, Bernard Turgeon
Orchestra: Pro Arte Orchestra
Conducted by: Sir Malcolm Sargent
No of Discs: 1
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HMS PINAFORE
[IMPORT]
Label: MCA
Conductor: Simon Phipps
Performer: New Sadler's Wells Opera Chorus
Orchestra: New Sadler's Wells Opera Orchestra
No of Discs: 2
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HMS PINAFORE
[IMPORT]
Label: Madacy
Conductor: Simon Phipps
Performer: New Sadler's Wells Opera Chorus
Orchestra: New Sadler's Wells Opera Orchestra
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HMS PINAFORE - HIGHLIGHTS
Label: Decca
Performed by: D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus with John Reed, Jeffrey Skitch, et al.
Orchestra: New Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by: Isidore Godfrey
No of Discs: 1
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