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Gilbert & Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance / D'Oyly Carte


Release Date: 10/19/1993 
Label:  Sony   Catalog #: 58892   Spars Code: DDD 
Composer:  Arthur Sullivan
Performer:  Patricia Cameron,  Juliet Arthur,  Gareth Jones,  Philip Creasy,   ... 
Conductor:  John Pryce-Jones
Orchestra/Ensemble:  D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus,  D'Oyly Carte Opera Orchestra
Number of Discs: 2 
Recorded in: Stereo 
Length: 1 Hours 26 Mins. 

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Marilyn Hill Smith trips through "Poor wandering one" with a delectable display of vocal agility, while the dotty exchanges between Simon Masterton-Smith's Sergeant of Police and his police force are sheer joy.

Philip Creasy is an engaging and vocally secure Frederic, and Marilyn Hill Smith trips through "Poor wandering one" with a delectable display of vocal ability and agility. The couple's interplay with the chorus in "How beautifully blue the sky" is quite enchanting, and their exchanges in "Stay, Frederic, stay" splendidly convincing. Moreover, Eric Roberts gives the Major-General a personality that is sadly missing from his Ko-Ko [Mikado], while the dotty exchanges between Read more Simon Masterton-Smith's Sergeant of Police and his police force are sheer joy. Even such details as the girls' screams at the appearance of the pirates in Act 1 have an effectiveness rarely to be heard. This new version (without dialogue) is certainly one to be recommended warmly alongside the Decca (which includes the dialogue) and the EMI (which has various overtures as fillers).

By chance I sat down to review these new recordings just a couple of days after receiving a copy of Kurt Ganzl's Blackwell Guide to the Musical Theatre on Record (Blackwell: 1990), a stimulating new survey of musical theatre LP recordings. Ganzl's opinions do not always coincide with mine, but on these two works we are reasonably in accord. Like me, he admires both the earlier versions of The Pirates of Penzance, to which I now add my recommendation for this new release.

-- Gramophone [9/1990]
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Works on This Recording

1. Pirates of Penzance by Arthur Sullivan
Performer:  Patricia Cameron (Soprano), Juliet Arthur (Soprano), Gareth Jones (Baritone),
Philip Creasy (Tenor), Eric Roberts (Baritone), Simon Masterson-Smith (Bass),
Marilyn Hill Smith (Soprano), Pauline Birchall (), Malcolm Rivers (Bass Baritone),
Susan Gorton (Alto)
Conductor:  John Pryce-Jones
Orchestra/Ensemble:  D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus,  D'Oyly Carte Opera Orchestra
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1879; England 
 Date of Recording: 1990 
Language: English 

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