Name: H.M.S. Pinafore/Yeomen of the Guard
SKU: 307
Availability: InStock

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