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The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royston Nash - Gilbert & Sullivan: The Gondoliers (2015)

The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royston Nash - Gilbert & Sullivan: The Gondoliers (2015)
  • Title: Gilbert & Sullivan: The Gondoliers
  • Year Of Release: 2015
  • Label: Decca
  • Genre: Classical
  • Quality: FLAC (tracks)
  • Total Time: 02:05:22
  • Total Size: 591 Mb
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Tracklist:

The Gondoliers (Sir Arthur Sullivan)
1. Overture 05:32
The Gondoliers / Act 1 (Sir Arthur Sullivan)
2. 1. List and Learn 03:01
3. 2. Good Morrow, Pretty Maids 01:17
4. 3. For the Merriest Fellows Are We 01:38
5. 4. See, See at Last They Come to Make Their Choice 00:27
6. 5. Buon' giorno, signorine! 01:56
7. 6. We're Called Gondolieri, but That's a Vagary 02:08
8. 7. And now to Choose Our Brides! 01:00
9. 8. Are You Peeping? 01:46
10. 9. Thank You Gallant Gondolieri 02:30
11. 10. From the Sunny Spanish Shore 07:15
12. 11. In Enterprise of Martial Kind 01:32
13. 12. O Rapture, When Alone Together 04:13
14. 13. There Was a Time, a Time for Ever Gone 04:55
15. 14. I Stole the Prince 03:55
16. 15. But, Bless My Heart, Consider My Position! 00:52
17. 16. Try We Life-Long We Can Never 02:0
19. 18. When a Merry Maiden MarriesJane Metcalfe 08:10
20. 19. Kind Sir, You Cannot Have the Heart, Our Lives to Part 03:46
21. 20. Do Not Give Way to This Uncalled-for Grief 00:52
22. 21. Then One of Us Will Be a Queen 02:24
23. 22. Now Pray, What Is the Cause of This 00:32
24. 23. Replying, We Sing As One Individual 00:45
25. 24. For Ev'ryone Who Feels Inclined 02:23
26. 25. Come Let's Away - Our Island Crown Awaits MeJane Metcalfe 00:48
27. 26. Now, Marco Dear, My Wishes Hear 03:22
28. 27. Then Away They Go to an Island Fair 02:11
The Gondoliers / Act 2 (Sir Arthur Sullivan)
29. 28. Of Happiness the Very Pith 03:56
30. 29. Rising Early in the MorningMichael Rayner 04:04
31. 30. Take a Pair of Sparkling Eyes 03:03
32. 31. Here We Are, at the Risk of Our Lives 01:28
33. 32. After Sailing to This Land 02:58
34. 33. Dance a Cachucha, Fandango, Bolero 03:57
35. 34. There Lived a King, as I've Been Told 07:25
36. 35. In a Contemplative Fashion 02:03
37. 36. With Ducal Pomp and Ducal Pride 00:59
38. 37. This Polite Attention 02:29
39. 38. On the Day when I Was Wedded 03:36
40. 39. To Help Unhappy Commoners 00:24
41. 40. Small Titles and Orders for Mayors and Recorders 05:42
42. 41. I Am a Courtier Grave and Serious 04:20
43. 42. Here Is a Case Unprecedented! 01:08
44. 43. Now Let the Loyal Lieges Gather Round 01:11
45. 44. Speak Woman Speak, We're All Attention! 00:20
46. 45. The Royal Prince Was by the King EntrustedBeti Lloyd-Jones 00:49
47. 46. Luiz! Casilda! 01:42
48. 47. One More, Gondolieri 01:42

Performers:
John Reed (Duke of Plaza-Toro), Geoffrey Shovelton (Luiz), Kenneth Sandford (Don Alhambra), Meston Reid (Marco), Michael Rayner (Giuseppe), James Conroy-Ward (Antonio), Barry Clark (Francesco), Michael Buchan (Giorgio), Lyndsie Holland (Duchess of Plaza-Toro), Julia Goss (Casilda), Barbara Lilley (Gianetta), Jane Metcalfe (Tessa), Glynis Prendergast (Fiametta), Caroline Baker (Vittoria), Anne Eggleston (Giulia), Beti Lloyd-Jones (Inez)

D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Royston Nash

The Gondoliers is the sunniest of all the Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas, and was one of the most harmonious collaborations between two such temperamentally incompatible yet artistically well-matched men. The morning after the rapturously received opening night in December 1889, Gilbert wrote to Sullivan: ‘I must thank you for the magnificent work you have put into the piece. It gives one the chance of shining through the twentieth century [and beyond!] with a reflected light.’ Sullivan’s reply was equally gushing: ‘In such a perfect book as The Gondoliers you shone with an individual brilliancy which no other writer can hope to attain.’

This recording, made in February 1977, and receiving its first release on CD, was one of the last the original D’Oyly Carte Opera Company made before it was disbanded in 1982. Preserving its unique performing tradition dating from the original productions of the Savoy Operas, the company set down invaluable records of performances from almost every era of its existence (though, sadly, there is little from the original stars of the Savoy, when recording technology was still in its infancy). The company first recorded The Gondoliers complete in 1927; this is its fourth set, the second in stereo.


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