Description
Rare Early Recordings of Gilbert and Sullivan 1907: Excerpts from H.M.S. Pinafore and The Yeomen of the Guard (without spoken dialogue)
1 CD
Duration: 77:00
Price: £10.00
Label: Symposium
Number: SYMPCD1267
Released: 2000
Track listing:
| H.M.S. Pinafore: Ada Florence (contralto); M Anderson (bass); Harry Dearth (bass-baritone); Walter Hyde (Tenor); Ernest Pike (tenor); Bernard Turner (baritone). Orchestral accompaniment described variously as Imperial Infantry Band and London Orchestral Band. | ||
| 1. | Overture | Orchestra |
| 2. | Opening Chorus | Male Chorus |
| 3. | I’m called Little Buttercup | Ada Florence |
| 4. | A maiden fair to see | Walter Hyde |
| 5. | I am the Captain of the Pinafore | Harry Dearth with Chorus |
| 6. | When I was a lad | M. Anderson with Chorus |
| 7. | Selection from Pinafore | Orchestra |
| 8. | Never mind the why and wherefore | Ada Florence, Walter Hyde and Bernard Turner |
| 9. | For he himself has said it | Harry Dearth, Walter Hyde and Bernard Turner |
| 10. | Farewell my won | Principals and Full Chorus |
| The Yeomen of the Guard Amy Evans (soprano); Emily Foxcroft (mezzo-soprano) Ben Ivor (tenor); Francis Ludlow (baritone); Bantock Pierpoint (baritone). Orchestral accompaniment by the Band of H.M. Scots Guards. | ||
| Act 1 | ||
| 11. | When Maiden loves she sits and sighs | Emily Foxcroft |
| 12. | When our gallant Norman foes | Emily Foxcroft |
| 13. | Is life a boon? | Ben Ivor |
| 14. | I have a song to sing, O | Amy Evans and Francis Ludlow |
| 15. | How say you, maiden, will you wed | Bantock Pierpoint and Francis Ludlow |
| 16. | I’ve jibe and joke and quip and crank | Francis Ludlow |
| 17. | Were I thy bride | Emily Foxcroft |
| 18. | Oh, Sergeant Meryll is it true | Bantock Pierpoint and Ben Ivor |
| Dids’t hou not, Oh Leonard Meryll | Francis Ludlow and Ben Ivor | |
| To thy fraternal care | Emily Foxcroft, Bantock Pierpoint and Ben Ivor | |
| The prisoner comes to meet his doom | ||
| Act II | ||
| 19. | Night has spread her pall once more | Chorus |
| 20. | Oh! A private buffoon is a light-hearted loon | Francis Ludlow |
| 21 | Hereupon we’re both agreed | Francis Ludlow and Bantock Pierpoint |
| 22. | Free from his fetters grim | Ben Ivor |
| 23 | Strange adventure! | Amy Evans, Emily Foxcroft, Ben Ivor and Bantock Pierpoint |
| 24. | A man who would woo a fair maid | Ben Ivor, Amy Evans and Emily Foxcroft |
| 25. | When a wooer goes a-wooing | Amy Evans, Emily Foxcroft, Ben Ivor and Francis Ludlow |
