Pirates of Penzance

D'Oyly Carte Opera Company

Genre: music4me > Soundtracks > Musical

Format: CD Album

Released: Tue 13 May 2003

Catalogue Number: DCAB000018702.2

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Description:
This is a reissue of a very well-performed and fun-filled recording from 1968 by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, which includes the dialog. The cast and chorus bring out the humor of the operetta by taking their parts seriously. The dialog is not delivered with the singsong, exaggerated sentiment found in some of the other D'Oyly Carte recordings. The stars of the performance are Valerie Masterson, who has no difficulty handling the coloratura flights in "Poor Wand'ring One," and John Reed as the Major-General, who recites his model characteristics with aplomb and not so speedily as to turn it into nonsense. Philip Potter as Frederic, Donald Adams as the Pirate King, and Christene Palmer as Ruth round out the cast. This is the last recording conductor Isidore Godfrey made with the company, retiring shortly afterward, having been its music director for 39 years. He makes Pirates sound more like grand opera than light opera. One minor regret is that in transferring the recording, it was not possible to get all of Act 1 on one CD. This means, since the dialog is on the same track as the immediately preceding musical number, the first CD ends rather surprisingly after the orphan/often misunderstanding between the Major-General and the Pirate King. This recording, along with the 1959 H.M.S. Pinafore, represents the best stereo recordings made by the company that premiered the works in the nineteenth century. ~ Patsy Morita, AMG

Details:

Distributor: Universal Music
Discs: 2
Release Year: 2003

Track Listing:

Disk 1
1.	Overture
2.	Pour, Oh Pour the Pirate
3.	When Fred'ric Was A
4.	Oh, Better Far to Live
5.	Oh, False One, You Have
6.	Climbing Over Rocky
7.	Stop! Ladies, Pray! A Ma
8.	Oh, There Is Not One
9.	Oh, Sisters, Deaf To
10.	Poor Wand'ring One!
11.	What Ought We Do, Gentle
12.	How Beautifully Blue The
13.	Stay, We Must Not Lose
14.	Hold, Monsters!
15.	I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General
Disk 2
1.	Oh, Men of Dark And
2.	Vulnerability (Interlude)
3.	You May Go, for You're
4.	Pray Observe the Magnani
5.	Oh, Dry the Glist'ning
6.	Then Frederic
7.	When the Foeman Bares
8.	Now for the Pirates Lair
9.	When You Had Left Our
10.	Away, Away, My Heart's
11.	All Is Prepared
12.	Stay, Fred'ric Stay!
13.	Ah, Leave Me Not to Pine
14.	Oh, Here Is Love and Her
15.	No, I'll Be Brave
16.	Sergeant Approach
17.	When a Felon's Not
18.	A Rollicking Band Of
19.	With Cat-Like Tread
20.	Hush! Hush! Not a Word
21.	Sighing Softly to the Ri
22.	No What Is This, And
23.	We Triumph Now
24.	Away with Them, and Plac
25.	Poor Wand'ring Ones,

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