Composer(s): Sullivan, Arthur
Conductor(s): Godfrey, Isidore
Label: Naxos Historical
Genre: Operetta
Period: Romantic
Catalogue No: 8.110196-97
Barcode: 0636943119624
Distribution Note(s):
Not available in the United States due to possible copyright restrictions
Release Date: 02/2002

SULLIVAN: Pirates of Penzance / Trial by Jury (D'Oyly Carte) (1949)

The Pirates of Penzance and Trial by Jury remain two of the best-loved of all the operettas by the inimitable pair of William Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. These beguiling performances form part of the classic post-war set recorded by the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company under the impeccable direction of Isidore Godfrey, whose name alone is synonymous with vintage Gilbert and Sullivan. Recorded under the direction of the then Company director Bridget D’Oyly Carte, granddaughter of the legendary Richard D’Oyly Carte who had founded the Company in 1876, these historic recordings offer a rare and authoritative glimpse into the grand tradition of Gilbert and Sullivan.

Tracklist

Disc 1
Sullivan, Arthur
Gilbert, William Schwenck - Lyricist
New Promenade Orchestra (Orchestra)
Godfrey, Isidore (Conductor)
Harris, Donald (bass)
D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus (Choir)
Wright, Joyce (mezzo-soprano)
Fancourt, Darrell (bass-baritone)
Osborn, Leonard (tenor)
Halman, Ella (mezzo-soprano)
Gillingham, Joan (mezzo-soprano)
Harding, Muriel (soprano)
Green, Martyn (baritone)
Watson, Richard (bass)
1Overture07:47
New Promenade Orchestra (Orchestra)
Godfrey, Isidore (Conductor)
2Act I: Pour, oh pour the pirate sherry (Pirates, Samuel)01:38
Harris, Donald (bass)
D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus (Choir)
New Promenade Orchestra (Orchestra)
Godfrey, Isidore (Conductor)
3Act I: When Frederic was a little lad (Ruth)02:18
Wright, Joyce (mezzo-soprano)
Godfrey, Isidore (Conductor)
New Promenade Orchestra (Orchestra)
4Act I: Oh, better far th live and die (Pirate King, Pirates)02:21
Fancourt, Darrell (bass-baritone)
D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus (Choir)
Godfrey, Isidore (Conductor)
New Promenade Orchestra (Orchestra)
5Act I: Oh, false one, your have deceived me (Frederic, Ruth)02:28
Osborn, Leonard (tenor)
Halman, Ella (mezzo-soprano)
Godfrey, Isidore (Conductor)
New Promenade Orchestra (Orchestra)
6Act I: What shall I do? (Frederic) - Climbing over rocky mountain (Ladies, Edith, Kate)04:01
Osborn, Leonard (tenor)
Gillingham, Joan (mezzo-soprano)
Wright, Joyce (mezzo-soprano)
D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus (Choir)
Godfrey, Isidore (Conductor)
New Promenade Orchestra (Orchestra)
7Act I: Stop, ladies, pray! (Frederic, Ladies)01:20
Osborn, Leonard (tenor)
D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus (Choir)
Godfrey, Isidore (Conductor)
New Promenade Orchestra (Orchestra)
8Act I: Oh, is there not one maiden breast (Frederic, Ladies)04:05
Osborn, Leonard (tenor)
D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus (Choir)
Godfrey, Isidore (Conductor)
New Promenade Orchestra (Orchestra)
9Act I: Poor wand'ring one (Mabel, Ladies)02:35
Harding, Muriel (soprano)
D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus (Choir)
Godfrey, Isidore (Conductor)
New Promenade Orchestra (Orchestra)
10Act I: What ought we to do (Edith, Kate) - How beautifully blue th sky (Ladies, Mabel, Frederic)02:55
Osborn, Leonard (tenor)
Gillingham, Joan (mezzo-soprano)
Wright, Joyce (mezzo-soprano)
D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus (Choir)
Godfrey, Isidore (Conductor)
New Promenade Orchestra (Orchestra)
11Act I: Stay, we must not lose our senses (Frederic, Ladies)00:38
Osborn, Leonard (tenor)
D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus (Choir)
Godfrey, Isidore (Conductor)
New Promenade Orchestra (Orchestra)
12Act I: Here's a first rate opportunity (Pirates, Ladies)00:50
Fancourt, Darrell (bass-baritone)
D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus (Choir)
Godfrey, Isidore (Conductor)
New Promenade Orchestra (Orchestra)
13Act I: Hold, monsters (Mabel, Samuel, Ladies, Major-General)00:43
Green, Martyn (baritone)
Harding, Muriel (soprano)
Harris, Donald (bass)
D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus (Choir)
Godfrey, Isidore (Conductor)
New Promenade Orchestra (Orchestra)
14Act I: I am the very model of a modern Major-General (Major-General)02:45
Green, Martyn (baritone)
Godfrey, Isidore (Conductor)
New Promenade Orchestra (Orchestra)
15Act I: Oh, men of dark and dismal fate (Major-General)02:24
Green, Martyn (baritone)
Godfrey, Isidore (Conductor)
New Promenade Orchestra (Orchestra)
16Act I: I'm telling a terrible story; Act I finale (Major-General, Ladies, Pirates)05:46
Green, Martyn (baritone)
D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus (Choir)
Godfrey, Isidore (Conductor)
New Promenade Orchestra (Orchestra)
Disc 2
1Act II: O dry the glistening tear (Chorus, Mabel)03:11
Harding, Muriel (soprano)
D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus (Choir)
Godfrey, Isidore (Conductor)
New Promenade Orchestra (Orchestra)
2Act II: Then Frederic, let your escort (Major-General)00:41
Green, Martyn (baritone)
Godfrey, Isidore (Conductor)
New Promenade Orchestra (Orchestra)
3Act II: When foreman bares his steel (Sergeant of Police, Mabel)04:08
Watson, Richard (bass)
Harding, Muriel (soprano)
Godfrey, Isidore (Conductor)
New Promenade Orchestra (Orchestra)
4Act II: Now for the Pirates' lair (Frederic, Ruth, Pirate King)01:24
Fancourt, Darrell (bass-baritone)
Osborn, Leonard (tenor)
Wright, Joyce (mezzo-soprano)
Godfrey, Isidore (Conductor)
New Promenade Orchestra (Orchestra)
5Act II: When you had left your pirate fold (Ruth, Pirate King, Frederic)03:27
Fancourt, Darrell (bass-baritone)
Osborn, Leonard (tenor)
Halman, Ella (mezzo-soprano)
Godfrey, Isidore (Conductor)
New Promenade Orchestra (Orchestra)
6Act II: Away, away! My heart's on fire (Pirate King, Ruth, Frederic)01:31
Fancourt, Darrell (bass-baritone)
Osborn, Leonard (tenor)
Halman, Ella (mezzo-soprano)
Godfrey, Isidore (Conductor)
New Promenade Orchestra (Orchestra)
7Act II: All is prepared (Mabel, Frederic)01:16
Osborn, Leonard (tenor)
Harding, Muriel (soprano)
Godfrey, Isidore (Conductor)
New Promenade Orchestra (Orchestra)
8Act II: Stay, Frederic, star! (Mabel, Frederic)00:47
Osborn, Leonard (tenor)
Harding, Muriel (soprano)
Godfrey, Isidore (Conductor)
New Promenade Orchestra (Orchestra)
9Act II: Ah! Leave me not to pine (Mabel, Frederic)03:04
Osborn, Leonard (tenor)
Harding, Muriel (soprano)
Godfrey, Isidore (Conductor)
New Promenade Orchestra (Orchestra)
10Act II: In 1940 I of age shall be (Frederic, Mabel)01:25
Osborn, Leonard (tenor)
Harding, Muriel (soprano)
Godfrey, Isidore (Conductor)
New Promenade Orchestra (Orchestra)
11Act II: No, I'll be brave (Mabel)00:26
Harding, Muriel (soprano)
Godfrey, Isidore (Conductor)
New Promenade Orchestra (Orchestra)
12Act II: Though in body and in mind (Sergeant)00:51
Watson, Richard (bass)
Godfrey, Isidore (Conductor)
New Promenade Orchestra (Orchestra)
13Act II: When a felon's not engaged (Sergeant, Police)02:09
Watson, Richard (bass)
Godfrey, Isidore (Conductor)
New Promenade Orchestra (Orchestra)
14Act II: A rollicking band of pirates we (Pirates, Police, Sergeant)00:51
Fancourt, Darrell (bass-baritone)
Watson, Richard (bass)
Godfrey, Isidore (Conductor)
New Promenade Orchestra (Orchestra)
15Act II: With cat-like tread (Pirates, Police, Samuel)02:39
Fancourt, Darrell (bass-baritone)
Watson, Richard (bass)
Harris, Donald (bass)
Godfrey, Isidore (Conductor)
New Promenade Orchestra (Orchestra)
16Act II: Hush, hush, not a word (Frederic, Pirates, Major-General)01:27
Fancourt, Darrell (bass-baritone)
Osborn, Leonard (tenor)
Green, Martyn (baritone)
Godfrey, Isidore (Conductor)
New Promenade Orchestra (Orchestra)
17Act II: Sighing sofily to the river (Major-General)01:29
Green, Martyn (baritone)
Godfrey, Isidore (Conductor)
New Promenade Orchestra (Orchestra)
18Act II: Now what is this - Finale (Ladies, Pirate King, Pirates, Major-General, Police, Sergeant, Frederic, Ruth)06:19
Osborn, Leonard (tenor)
Green, Martyn (baritone)
Watson, Richard (bass)
Halman, Ella (mezzo-soprano)
Godfrey, Isidore (Conductor)
New Promenade Orchestra (Orchestra)
D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus (Choir)
Godfrey, Isidore (Conductor)
New Promenade Orchestra (Orchestra)
Flynn, Radley (bass)
Osborn, Leonard (tenor)
Watson, Richard (bass)
Rands, Leslie (baritone)
Harding, Muriel (soprano)
19Hark the hour of ten is sounding (Chorus)01:23
D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus (Choir)
Godfrey, Isidore (Conductor)
New Promenade Orchestra (Orchestra)
20Now jurymen, hear my advice (Usher)01:49
Flynn, Radley (bass)
Godfrey, Isidore (Conductor)
New Promenade Orchestra (Orchestra)
21Is this the court of the exchequer (Defendant)00:55
Osborn, Leonard (tenor)
Godfrey, Isidore (Conductor)
New Promenade Orchestra (Orchestra)
22When first my old, old love I knew (Defendant)01:45
Osborn, Leonard (tenor)
Godfrey, Isidore (Conductor)
New Promenade Orchestra (Orchestra)
23Oh, I was like that (Jurymen)00:59
D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus (Choir)
Godfrey, Isidore (Conductor)
New Promenade Orchestra (Orchestra)
24All hail great judge (Chorus)01:19
D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus (Choir)
Godfrey, Isidore (Conductor)
New Promenade Orchestra (Orchestra)
25For these kind words (Judge)01:26
Watson, Richard (bass)
Godfrey, Isidore (Conductor)
New Promenade Orchestra (Orchestra)
26When I, good friends (Judge)02:55
Watson, Richard (bass)
Godfrey, Isidore (Conductor)
New Promenade Orchestra (Orchestra)
27Swear thou, the jury! (Counsel, Usher)01:51
Rands, Leslie (baritone)
Flynn, Radley (bass)
Godfrey, Isidore (Conductor)
New Promenade Orchestra (Orchestra)
28Comes the broken flower (Chorus of bridesmaids)01:20
D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus (Choir)
Godfrey, Isidore (Conductor)
New Promenade Orchestra (Orchestra)
29O'er the season vernal (Plaintiff)01:08
Rands, Leslie (baritone)
Godfrey, Isidore (Conductor)
New Promenade Orchestra (Orchestra)
30Oh never never never (Judge)01:14
Watson, Richard (bass)
Godfrey, Isidore (Conductor)
New Promenade Orchestra (Orchestra)
31May if please you, my lud (Counsel for plaintiff)03:04
Rands, Leslie (baritone)
Godfrey, Isidore (Conductor)
New Promenade Orchestra (Orchestra)
32That she is reeling (Judge)00:54
Watson, Richard (bass)
Godfrey, Isidore (Conductor)
New Promenade Orchestra (Orchestra)
33Oh gentlemen, listen, I pray (Defendant)01:47
Osborn, Leonard (tenor)
Godfrey, Isidore (Conductor)
New Promenade Orchestra (Orchestra)
34But I submit, m'lud (Counsel)00:57
Rands, Leslie (baritone)
Godfrey, Isidore (Conductor)
New Promenade Orchestra (Orchestra)
35A nice dilemma we have here (Judge, Counsel, Defendant, Plaintiff)02:31
Osborn, Leonard (tenor)
Watson, Richard (bass)
Rands, Leslie (baritone)
Harding, Muriel (soprano)
Godfrey, Isidore (Conductor)
New Promenade Orchestra (Orchestra)
36I love him - I smoke like a furnace (Plaintiff, Defendant)01:30
Osborn, Leonard (tenor)
Harding, Muriel (soprano)
Godfrey, Isidore (Conductor)
New Promenade Orchestra (Orchestra)
37The question, gentlemen (Judge)01:22
Watson, Richard (bass)
Godfrey, Isidore (Conductor)
New Promenade Orchestra (Orchestra)
38Oh joy unbounded (Plaintiff, Counsel, Defendant, Judge, All)01:59
Osborn, Leonard (tenor)
Watson, Richard (bass)
Rands, Leslie (baritone)
D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus (Choir)
Godfrey, Isidore (Conductor)
New Promenade Orchestra (Orchestra)

Total Playing Time: 01:53:47