2 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in 4 3/4 in digital optical 1.4 m/s stereo digital recording
Other Title:
Operas. Selections
Notes:
Compact discs Previously released material Notes inserted Various vocal soloists, including John Reed (in all productions), with: Valerie Masterson, Colin Wright, Jeffrey Skitch, Gillian Knight, Owen Brannigan, Donald Adams, Thomas Round, Ann Hood, and others ; The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, soloists and chorus ; various orchestras and conductors Recorded from 1960 to 1969
Contents:
Includes excerpts from these operettas: The mikado (p1973) ; HMS Pinafore (p1969) ; Trial by jury (p1964) ; The sorcerer (p1966) ; Patience (p1961) ; The yeomen of the guard (p1964) ; The pirates of Penzance (p1968) ; Ruddigore (p1962) ; Iolanthe (p1960) ; The gondoliers (p1961) ; Princess Ida (p1965) CD 1. The mikado. Three little maids from school are we ; A wand'ring minstrel I ; On a tree by a river a little tom-tit ; Behold the Lord High Executioner ; As some day it may happen that a victim must be found ; The sun, whose rays are all ablaze ; Here's a how-de-do! ; The flowers that bloom in the spring, tra la ; There is beauty in the bellow of the blast ; For he's gone and married Yum-Yum H.M.S. Pinafore. When I was a lad ; I'm called Little Buttercup ; Never mind the why and wherefore ; We sail the ocean blue ; I'm called the captain of the Pinafore ; A joy! Oh rapture unforeseen Trial by jury. When I, good friends, was called to the bar The sorcerer. My name is John Wellington Wells Patience. The soldiers of our Queen ; Am I alone and unobserved? ; If you're anxious for to shine ; So go to him and say to him The yeoman of the guard. When our gallant Norman foes ; I have a song to sing, o! ; When a maiden loves, she sits and sighs ; Tower warders, under orders CD 2. The pirates of Penzance. With catlike tread ; Poor wand'ring one! ; I am the very model of a modern major general ; When the foeman bares his steel ; When a felon's not engaged in his employment Ruddigore. I know a youth who loves a little maid ; When the night wind howls in the chimney cowls ; My eyes are fully open to my awful situation Iolanthe. Loudly let the trumpet bray ; Love unrequited ; If you go in you're sure to win ; When all night long a chap remains ; Said I to myself, said I ; When Britain really ruled the waves The gondoliers. We're called gondolieri, but that's a vagary ; In enterprise of martial kind ; Take a pair of sparkling eyes ; Dance a cachucha, fandango, bolero ; From the sunny Spanish shore ; I stole the prince ; Then one of us will be a queen Princess Ida. If you give me your attention ; The woman of the wisest wit ; I built upon a rock ; Whene'er I spoke sarcastic joke ; This helmet I suppose
