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GILBERT & SULLIVAN: The Pirates of Penzance (1929)

by: Malcolm Sargent / D'Oyly Carte

Publication date: 1929

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Topics: Gilbert & Sullivan, D'Oyly Carte, Malcolm Sargent, 78rpm

GILBERT & SULLIVAN: The Pirates of Penzance

Major-General Stanley - George Baker
Pirate King - Peter Dawson
Samuel - Stuart Robertson
Frederic - Derek Oldham
Sergeant of Police - Leo Sheffield
Mabel - Elsie Griffin
Edith - Nellie Briercliffe
Kate - Nellie Walker
Ruth - Dorothy Gill

D'Oyly Carte Chorus and Orchestra
Malcolm Sargent, conductor

Victor 78rpm Album C-6 (53374 - 53395)
Recorded in London, February 19 - May 15, 1929
Digital transfer by F. Reeder
(High bit rate)

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Song Title	Versions	Compilations	Covers
01. Overture
02. Pour, O pour the pirate sherry
03. When Frederic was a little lad
04. Oh, better far to live and die
05. Oh, false one, you have deceived me!
06. Climbing over rocky mountain
07. Stop, ladies, pray!
08. Oh, is there not one maiden breast
09. Poor wand’ring one!
10. What ought we to do
11. How beautifully blue the sky
12. Stay, we must not lose our senses
13. Hold, monsters!
14. I am the very model of a modern Major-General
15. Oh, men of dark and dismal fate
16. You may go, for you're at liberty
17. Oh, dry the glist’ning tear
18. Then, Frederic, let your escort lion-hearted
19. Now for the pirates’ lair!
20. When you had left our pirate fold
21. Away, away! my heart’s on fire
22. All is prepared
23. Ah, leave me not to pine
24. No, I am brave!
25. When a felon’s not engaged in his employment
26. A rollicking band of pirates we
27. With cat-like tread
28. Hush, hush! not a word
29. Sighing softly to the river
30. Now what is this, and what is that
31. We triumph now
32. We yield at once, with humbled mien

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Source: 78

Year: 1929

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Reviewer: willis1969 - - April 25, 2020
Subject: yes, one!

This is a uniformly good recording helped by its restoration. It is stiffened, it's true, by non Carters: George Baker is an immaculate Maj.-Gen. while the truly great Peter Dawson is never less than reliable as the Pirate King even if it sounds as if it comes from the score (he was an ace sight-reader) not the stage. Dawson and Sargent had their disagreements, the cond. liked pre-recording rehearsals (good) in full voice where Dawson preferred to 'mark.' Elsie Griffin as Mabel, thinly recorded elsewhere, is on fine form here with first-class coloratura and I swear that when Derek Oldham duets with her in 'Ah leave me not to pine' he opens his vowels and nearly drops the faux Scots accent (for the optimum version, Valerie Masterson/Philip Potter 1965). Leo 'Sheffie' Sheffield gives us a music-hall turn as the Sgt. of Police. There must be a story why Dorothy Gill recorded Ruth (well) instead of Bertha Lewis whom she would succeed in 2 years time on Miss Lewis's tragic death. Was the main company out on tour?

Reviewer: peeknocker - - February 24, 2015
Subject: Priceless

Thank you again to those responsible for carefully remastering and meticulously tracking these early G & S recordings! It is VERY much appreciated!

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