Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. HMS Pianfore: Overture
2. HMS Pinafore, Act One: We Sail the Ocean Blue
3. HMS Pinafore, Act One: Hail, Men O' War's Men
4. HMS Pinafore, Act One: I'm Called Little Buttercup
5. HMS Pinafore, Act One: But Tell Me, Who's the Youth
6. HMS Pinafore, Act One: The Nightingale Sighed for the Moon's ...
7. HMS Pinafore, Act One: A Maiden Fair to See
8. HMS Pinafore, Act One: My Gallant Crew, Good Morning
9. HMS Pinafore, Act One: I Am the Captain of the Pianfore
10. HMS Pinafore, Act One: Sir, You Are Sad
11. HMS Pinafore, Act One: Sorry Her Lot Who Loves Too Well
12. HMS Pinafore, Act One: Over the Bright Blue Sea
13. HMS Pinafore, Act One: I Am the Monarch of the Sea
14. HMS Pinafore, Act One: When I Was a Lad I Served a Term
15. HMS Pinafore, Act One: A British Tar Is a Soaring Soul
16. HMS Pinafore, Act One: Refrain, Audacious Tar
17. HMS Pinafore, Act One: Can I Survive This Overbearing?
18. HMS Pinafore, Act One: Oh Joy, Oh Rapture Unforeseen
19. HMS Pinafore, Act One: This Very Night
20. HMS Pinafore, Act One: Let's Give Three Cheers
21. HMS Pinafore, Act One: Entr'acte
22. HMS Pinafore, Act Two: Fair Moon to Thee I Sing
23. HMS Pinafore, Act Two: Things Are Seldom What They Seem
24. HMS Pinafore, Act Two: The Hours Creep on Apace
25. HMS Pinafore, Act Two: Never Mind the Why and Wherefore
26. HMS Pinafore, Act Two: Kind Captain, I've Important Information
27. HMS Pinafore, Act Two: Carefully on Tiptoe Stealing
28. HMS Pinafore, Act Two: Pretty Daughter of Mine
29. HMS Pinafore, Act Two: He Is an Englishman
30. HMS Pinafore, Act Two: In Uttering a Reprobation
31. HMS Pinafore, Act Two: Farewell My Own
32. HMS Pinafore, Act Two: A Many Years Ago
33. HMS Pinafore, Act Two: Oh Joy, Oh Rapture Unforeseen

Disc 2:

1. Ruddigore: Overture
2. Ruddigore, Act One: Fair Is Rose as Bright May Day
3. Ruddigore, Act One: Sir Rupert Murgatroyd
4. Ruddigore, Act One: If Somebody There Chacned to Be
5. Ruddigore, Act One: I Know a Youth Who Loves a Little Maid
6. Ruddigore, Act One: From the Briny Sea
7. Ruddigore, Act One: I Shipp'd d'Ye See, In a Revenue Sloop
8. Ruddigore, Act One: My Boy, You May Take It from Me
9. Ruddigore, Act One: If Well His Suit Has Sped
10. Ruddigore, Act One: In Sailing O'er Life's Ocean Wide
11. Ruddigore, Act One: Cheerily Carols the Lark
12. Ruddigore, Act One: To a Garden Fulls of Posies
13. Ruddigore, Act One: Welcome Gentry for Your Entry
14. Ruddigore, Act One: Oh, Why Am I Moody and Sad?
15. Ruddigore, Act One: You Understand?
16. Ruddigore, Act One: Hail the Bride of Seventeen Summers
17. Ruddigore, Act One: When the Buds Are Blossoming
18. Ruddigore, Act One: Hold, Bride and Bridegroom
19. Ruddigore, Act One: Oh, Happy the Lily
20. Ruddigore, Act Two: I Once Was as Meek as a New-Born Lamb
21. Ruddigore, Act Two: Happily Coupled Are We
22. Ruddigore, Act Two: In Bygone Days I Hade Thy Love
23. Ruddigore, Act Two: Painted Emblems of a Race
24. Ruddigore, Act Two: When the Night Wind Howls
25. Ruddigore, Act Two: He Yields! He Yields!
26. Ruddigore, Act Two: I Once Was a Very Abandoned Person
27. Ruddigore, Act Two: My Eyes Are Fully Open
28. There Grew a Little Flower
29. Ruddigore, Act Two: Oh, Happy the Lily

Disc 3:

1. Patience: Overture
2. Patience, Act One: Twenty Lovesick Maidens We
3. Patience, Act One: Still Brooding on Their Mad Infatuation
4. Patience, Act One: I Cannot Tell What This Love May Be
5. Patience, Act One: The Soldiers of Our Queen
6. Patience, Act One: In a Doleful Train...Twenty Lovesick Maidens We
7. Patience, Act One: When I First Put This Uniform On
8. Patience, Act One: Am I Alone and Unoberved?
9. Patience, Act One: Long Years Ago, Fourteen Maybe
10. Patience, Act One: Prithee Pretty Maiden
11. Patience, Act One: Let the Merry Cymbals Sound
12. Patience, Act One: Now Tell Us, We Pray You
13. Patience, Act One: Your Maiden Hearts
14. Patience, Act One: Come Walk Up and Purchase With Avidity
15. Patience, Act One: True Love Must Single-Hearted Be
16. Patience, Act One: I Hear the Soft Note...But Who Is This?
17. Patience, Act Two: Sad Is That Woman's Lot
18. Patience, Act Two: Turn, Oh Turn in This Direction
19. Patience, Act Two: A Magnet Hung in Hardware Shop
20. Patience, Act Two: Love Is a Plaintive Song
21. Patience, Act Two: So Go to Him and Say to Him
22. Patience, Act Two: It's Clear That Medieval Art Alone Retains Its Zest
23. Patience, Act Two: If Saphir I Choose to Marry
24. Patience, Act Two: When I Go Out of Door
25. Patience, Act Two: I'm a Waterloo House Young Man
26. Patience, Act Two: After Much Debate Internal
27. Mikado: Overture

Disc 4:

1. Mikado, Act One: If You Want to Know Who We Are
2. Mikado, Act One: Gentlemen, I Pray You Tell Me
3. Mikado, Act One: A Wand'ring Minstrel, I
4. Mikado, Act One: Our Great Mikado, Virtuous Man
5. Mikado, Act One: Young Man, Despair
6. Mikado, Act One: And Have I Journey'd for a Month
7. Mikado, Act One: Behold the Lord High Executioner!
8. Mikado, Act One: As Some Day It May Happen
9. Mikado, Act One: Comes a Train of Little Ladies
10. Mikado, Act One: Three Little Maids from School
11. Mikado, Act One: So Please You, Sir, We Much Regret
12. Mikado, Act One: Were You Not Ko-Ko Plighted?
13. Mikado, Act One: I Am So Proud
14. Mikado, Act One: With Aspect Stern
15. Mikado, Act One: Your Revels Cease!
16. Mikado, Act One: The Hour of Gladness
17. Mikado, Act Two: Braid the Raven Hair
18. Mikado, Act Two: The Sun, Whose Rays Are All Ablaze
19. Mikado, Act Two: Brightly Dawns Our Wedding Day
20. Mikado, Act Two: Here's a How-De-Do!
21. Mikado, Act Two: Miya Sama, Miya Sama
22. Mikado, Act Two: A More Humane Mikado
23. Mikado, Act Two: The Criminal Cried
24. Mikado, Act Two: See How the Fates Their Gifts Allot
25. Mikado, Act Two: The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring
26. Mikado, Act Two: Alone, And Yet Alive!
27. Mikado, Act Two: Hearts Do Not Break
28. Mikado, Act Two: On a Tree by a River a Little Tom-Tit
29. Mikado, Act Two: There Is Beauty in the Bellow of the Blast
30. Mikado, Act Two: For He's Gone and Married Yum-Yum

Disc 5:

1. Trial by Jury: Hark the Hour of Ten Is Sounding
2. Trial by Jury: Now, Jurymen, Hear My Advice
3. Trial by Jury: Is This the Court of the Exchequer?
4. Trial by Jury: When First My Old, Old Love I Knew
5. Trial by Jury: Silence in Court...All Hail, Great Judge
6. Trial by Jury: When I, Good Friends, Was Called to the Bar
7. Trial by Jury: Swear Thou the Jury
8. Trial by Jury: Where Is the Plaintiff?
9. Trial by Jury: Comes the Broken Flower
10. Trial by Jury: Oh, Never, Never, Never
11. Trial by Jury: May It Please You, M'Lud!
12. Trial by Jury: That She Is Reeling Is Plain to Me
13. Trial by Jury: Oh Gentlemen, Listen
14. Trial by Jury: That Seems a Reasonable Proposition
15. Trial by Jury: A Nice Dilemma We Have Here
16. Trial by Jury: I Love Him, I Love Hin
17. Trial by Jury: The Question, Gentlemen Is One of Liquor
18. Trial by Jury: Oh Joy Unbounded
19. Pirates of Penzance: Overture
20. Pirates of Penzance, Act One: Pour, Oh Pour the Pirate Sherry
21. Pirates of Penzance, Act One: When Frederic Was a Little Lad
22. Pirates of Penzance, Act One: Oh, Better Far to Live and Die (I Am ...)
23. Pirates of Penzance, Act One: Oh, False One, You Have Deceived Me!
24. Pirates of Penzance, Act One: What Shall I Do?...Climbing Over ...
25. Pirates of Penzance, Act One: Stop, Ladies, Pray!
26. Pirates of Penzance, Act One: Oh, Is There Not One Maiden Breast?
27. Pirates of Penzance, Act One: Oh, Sisters, Deaf to Pity's Name
28. Pirates of Penzance, Act One: Poor Wandering One
29. Pirates of Penzance, Act One: What Ought We to Do?
30. Pirates of Penzance, Act One: Stay, We Must Not Lose Our Senses
31. Pirates of Penzance, Act One: Here's a First-Rate Opportunity
32. Pirates of Penzance, Act One: Hold, Monsters!
33. Pirates of Penzance, Act One: I Am the Very Model of a Modern ...
34. Pirates of Penzance, Act One: Oh, Men of Dark and Dismal Fate
35. Pirates of Penzance, Act One: I'm Telling a Terrible Story
36. Pirates of Penzance, Act One: Oh, Master, Hear One Word
37. Pirates of Penzance, Act One: Pray Observe the Magnanimity

Disc 6:

1. Pirates of Penzance, Act Two: Oh, Dry the Glistening Tear
2. Pirates of Penzance, Act Two: Then, Frederic, Let Your Escort ...
3. Pirates of Penzance, Act Two: When the Foeman Bares His Steel
4. Pirates of Penzance, Act Two: Now for the Pirates' Lair!
5. Pirates of Penzance, Act Two: Young Frederic!
6. Pirates of Penzance, Act Two: When You Had Left Our Pirate Fold
7. Pirates of Penzance, Act Two: Away, Away! My Heart's on Fire
8. Pirates of Penzance, Act Two: All Is Prepared
9. Pirates of Penzance, Act Two: Stay, Frederic, Stay!
10. Pirates of Penzance, Act Two: Ah, Leave Me Not to Pine
11. Pirates of Penzance, Act Two: In 1940 I of Age Shall Be
12. Pirates of Penzance, Act Two: No, I'll Be Brave!
13. Pirates of Penzance, Act Two: Though in Body and in Mind
14. Pirates of Penzance, Act Two: When a Felon's Not Engaged in His ...
15. Pirates of Penzance, Act Two: A Rollicking Band of Pirates We
16. Pirates of Penzance, Act Two: With Cat-Like Tread
17. Pirates of Penzance, Act Two: Hush, Hush! Not a Word
18. Pirates of Penzance, Act Two: Sighing Softly to the River
19. Pirates of Penzance, Act Two: And What Is This, And What Is That?
20. Pirates of Penzance, Act Two: Frederic Here! Oh Joy!
21. Pirates of Penzance, Act Two: Poor Wandering Ones
22. Iolanthe: Overture
23. Iolanthe, Act One: Tripping Hither, Tripping Thither
24. Iolanthe, Act One: Iolanthe!
25. Iolanthe, Act One: Good Morrow, Good Mother
26. Iolanthe, Act One: Fare Thee Well, Attractive Stranger
27. Iolanthe, Act One: Good Morrow, Good Lover
28. Iolanthe, Act One: None Shall Part Us from Each Other
29. Iolanthe, Act One: Loudly Let the Trumpet Bray!
30. Iolanthe, Act One: The Law Is the True Embodiment
31. Iolanthe, Act One: My Well-Loved Lord and Guardian Dear
32. Iolanthe, Act One: Of All the Young Ladies I Know
33. Iolanthe, Act One: Nay, Tempt Me Not
34. Iolanthe, Act One: Spurn Not the Nobly Born
35. Iolanthe, Act One: My Lords, It May Not Be
36. Iolanthe, Act One: A Shepherd I
37. Iolanthe, Act One: When I Went to the Bar as a Very Young Man

Disc 7:

1. Iolanthe, Act One: When Darkly Looms the Day
2. Iolanthe, Act One: Oh, Shameless One, Tremble!
3. Iolanthe, Act One: In Babyhood Upon Her Lap I Lay
4. Iolanthe, Act One: For Riches and Rank That You Befall
5. Iolanthe, Act One: To You I Give My Heart
6. Iolanthe, Act One: Tripping, Hither, Tripping Thither
7. Iolanthe, Act One: The Lady of My Love
8. Iolanthe, Act One: Go Away, Madam
9. Iolanthe, Act One: Oh, Chancellor Unwary
10. Iolanthe, Act One: Young Strephon Is the Kind of Lout (With ...)
11. Iolanthe, Act Two: When All Night Long a Chap Remains
12. Iolanthe, Act Two: Strephon's a Member of Parliament
13. Iolanthe, Act Two: When Britain Really Ruled the Waves
14. Iolanthe, Act Two: In Vain to Us You Plead
15. Iolanthe, Act Two: Oh, Foolish Fay
16. Iolanthe, Act Two: Though P'r'aps I May Incur Your Blame
17. Iolanthe, Act Two: Love, Unrequited, Robs Me of My Rest
18. Iolanthe, Act Two: When You're Lying Awake With a Dismal Headache
19. Iolanthe, Act Two: If You Go in, You're Sure to Win
20. Iolanthe, Act Two: If We're Weak Enough to Tarry
21. Iolanthe, Act Two: My, Lord, A Suppliant at Your Feet I Kneel
22. Iolanthe, Act Two: He Loves! If in the Bygone Years
23. Iolanthe, Act Two: It May Not Be
24. Iolanthe, Act Two: Soon as We May
25. Gondoliers: Overture
26. Gondoliers, Act One: List and Learn, Ye Dainty Roses
27. Gondoliers, Act One: Good Morrow, Pretty Maids
28. Gondoliers, Act One: For the Merriest Fellows Are We
29. Gondoliers, Act One: Buon'giorno, Signorine
30. Gondoliers, Act One: We're Called Gondolieri
31. Gondoliers, Act One: And Now to Choose Our Brides
32. Gondoliers, Act One: Thank You, Gallant Gondolieri

Disc 8:

1. Gondoliers, Act One: From the Sunny Spanish Shore
2. Gondoliers, Act One: In Enterprise of Martial Kind (The Duke of ...)
3. Gondoliers, Act One: O Rapture When Alone Together
4. Gondoliers, Act One: There Was a Time
5. Gondoliers, Act One: I Stole the Prince
6. Gondoliers, Act One: But, Bless My Heart
7. Gondoliers, Act One: Try We Life-Long
8. Gondoliers, Act One: Bridegroom and Bride
9. Gondoliers, Act One: When a Merry Maiden Marries
10. Gondoliers, Act One: Kind Sirm You Cannot Have the Heart
11. Gondoliers, Act One: Do Not Give Way
12. Gondoliers, Act One: Then One of Us Will Be a Queen
13. Gondoliers, Act One: Replaying, We Sing
14. Gondoliers, Act One: For Everyone Who Feels Inclined
15. Gondoliers, Act One: Come, Let's Sway
16. Gondoliers, Act One: Then Away We Go to an Island Fair
17. Gondoliers, Act Two: Of Happiness the Very Pith
18. Gondoliers, Act Two: Rising Early in the Morning
19. Gondoliers, Act Two: Take a Pair of Sparkling Eyes
20. Gondoliers, Act Two: Here We Are, At the Risk of Our Lives
21. Gondoliers, Act Two: Dance a Cachucha, Fandango, Bolero
22. Gondoliers, Act Two: There Lived a King
23. Gondoliers, Act Two: In a Contemplative Fashion
24. Gondoliers, Act Two: With Ducak Pomp and Ducal Pride
25. Gondoliers, Act Two: On the Day When I Was Wedded
26. Gondoliers, Act Two: To Help Unhapppy Commoners
27. Gondoliers, Act Two: Small Titles Abd Orders
28. Gondoliers, Act Two: I Am a Courtier Grave and Serious
29. Gondoliers, Act Two: Here Is a Case Unprecedented
30. Gondoliers, Act Two: Now Let the Loyal Lleges Gather Round
31. Gondoliers, Act Two: The Royal Prince

Disc 9:

1. Yeomen of the Guard: Overture
2. Yeomen of the Guard, Act One: When Maiden Loves
3. Yeomen of the Guard, Act One: Tower Warders, Under Orders
4. Yeomen of the Guard, Act One: When Our Gallant Norman Foes
5. Yeomen of the Guard, Act One: Alas, I Waver to and Fro
6. Yeomen of the Guard, Act One: Is Life a Boon?
7. Yeomen of the Guard, Act One: Here's a Man of Jollity
8. Yeomen of the Guard, Act One: I Have a Song to Sing, O!
9. Yeomen of the Guard, Act One: How Say You, Maiden, Will You Wed?
10. Yeomen of the Guard, Act One: I've Jibe and Joke
11. Yeomen of the Guard, Act One: 'Tis Done! I Am a Bride!
12. Yeomen of the Guard, Act One: Were I Thy Bride
13. Yeomen of the Guard, Act One: Oh, Sergeant Meryll, Is It True?
14. Yeomen of the Guard, Act One: Forbear My Friends
15. Yeomen of the Guard, Act One: The Prisoner Comes to Meet His Doom
16. Yeomen of the Guard, Act Two: Night Has Spread Her Pall Once More
17. Yeomen of the Guard, Act Two: Oh! A Private Buffoon Is a Light-Hearted
18. Yeomen of the Guard, Act Two: Hereupon We're Both Agreed
19. Yeomen of the Guard, Act Two: Free from His Fetters Grim
20. Yeomen of the Guard, Act Two: Strange Adventure!
21. Yeomen of the Guard, Act Two: Hark! What Was That, Sir?
22. Yeomen of the Guard, Act Two: A Man Who Would Woo a Fair Maid
23. Yeomen of the Guard, Act Two: When a Wooer Goes A-Wooing

Disc 10:

1. Yeomen of the Guard, Act Two: Comes the Pretty Young Bride
2. Yeomen of the Guard, Act Two: Hold, Pretty One!
3. Yeomen of the Guard, Act Two: All Thought of Leonard Meryll Set Aside
4. H.M.S. Pinafore
5. Yeomen of the Guard
6. Di Ballo: Overture - City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra,
7. Pineapple Poll Ballet Suite, Scene One: Opening Dance
8. Pineapple Poll Ballet Suite, Scene One: Poll's Dance and Pas de Deux
9. Pineapple Poll Ballet Suite, Scene One: Belaye's Solo
10. Pineapple Poll Ballet Suite, Scene One: Pas de Trois
11. Pineapple Poll Ballet Suite, Scene One: Finale
12. Pineapple Poll Ballet Suite, Scene Two: Poll's Solo
13. Pineapple Poll Ballet Suite, Scene Two: Jasper's Solo
14. Pineapple Poll Ballet Suite, Scene Two: Belaye's Solo and Sailor's ...
15. Pineapple Poll Ballet Suite, Scene Two: Poll's Solo
16. Pineapple Poll Ballet Suite, Scene Two: Entry of Belaye With ...
17. Pineapple Poll Ballet Suite, Scene Two: Reconciliation
18. Pineapple Poll Ballet Suite, Scene Two: Grand Finale

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17436 in Music
• Released on: 2004-02-09
• Number of discs: 10
• Formats: Box set, Extra tracks
• Running time: 747 minutes

Customer Reviews

More than just a historical curiosity.
For G&S buffs, this is a first class treat. The D'Oyly Carte 1949-51 'Isadore Godfrey Mono Recordings' skillfuly remastered onto CD - and what a box of delights this turns out to be.

The first thing that strikes you about this is just how good the recordings themselves sound. Undrstandably, where there is heavy bass in the orchestra, they can be a little 'boomy' at times but, considering how relatively primitive recording techniques were in 1950, the overall result of this remaster is nothing short of miraculous.

Preserved here, in doubtless better reproductive condition than when they were originally issued, are performances by some of the great 'legends' of D'Oyly Carte. Martyn Green, Darrell Fancourt, Leonard Osborn and Ella Halman all featuring heavily along with others like Peter Pratt and Joyce Wright, who were yet to become great stars with the company.

Of the performances themselves, the main thing that you notice is how 'terribly terribly' correct the English diction is. Most of the time this is of little consequence but just occasionally it intrudes. Muriel Harding's Elsie Maynard in 'Yeoman', for instance, sounds as if she has just stepped out of the hallowed halls of RADA rather than having been on the road as a touring sidekick to a two-bit comic for the past 'whoknowshowmany' years! Incongruous, too, is the use of Ann Drummond-Grant in several roles, including Phoebe Meryll in 'Yeoman', which she never played on stage. Perhaps the fact that she was Mrs Isadore Godfrey at the time had something to do with it!

These, however are but small blemishes in what is otherwise a fascinating twelve hour feast of G&S - a series which shows us just how good many of the stars of yesteryear were. Darrell Fancourt's 'Mikado' is a real collectors item and it is wonderful to hear Alan Styler, a much under-rated and unsung performer at his very best. What a shame he was taken from us at the young age of 45 before the later stereo recordings could make the most of his prodigious talents!

In truth, though, this collection is tribute to the unique talent of Martyn Green. Here is his signature role, Jack Point, in all its pathetic glory, here are those masterful performances of the patter songs, and here is the definitive recording of Bunthorne in 'Patience'- in my opinion, the finest G&S performance of any on record.

This is a collection that will give hours of pleasure to lovers of the Savoy Operas.

Glorious Nostalgia!
I agree wholeheartedly with the review by J.J.Rhodes, but feel I should make the point that the whole set is recorded in full glorious MONO! Once you have got over the shock of the sound stage collapsing into a point source however, the music really is delightful, and takes me back to the days when I used to pay 9d to sit up in the gods at the Golders Green Hippodrome to hear the D'Oyly Carte company sing their way through all those charming numbers. This set has a distinctly dated feel about it, and makes one realise just how much performing styles, as well as recording techniques, have changed in half a century (and some of the artists were clearly chosen for their ability to act rather than their ability to sing!). But for all that, I'm glad I bought it. This is authentic G&S in its heyday as it really was, and any musical director of a modern production of one of the Savoy Operas should have this set in his collection.

The 'Forgotten' G and S Recordings.
Overshadowed by the prewar D'Oyly Carte electric recordings and the later stereo records of the late '50s and the '60s, and ignored now by Decca themselves, this nevertheless is a set every G and S fan should own. The transfers are excellent with only the very slightest distortion in a few of the loudest passages with chorus (remember, Avid did not have access to the original tapes) and the included literature is well done. Nine operas, musicaly complete, and some additional material, all cleverly squeezed onto ten CDs at a bargain price. One reservation over the performance of 'Pirates' - it drags! Certainly Isidore Godfrey luxuriates in the first-time freedom of the LP medium throughout this series but this opera is really slow and unexciting. This, coupled with poor Leonard Osborn's obvious voice problem (he actually sounds as if he has a throat infection on this recording) and Muriel Harding's difficulties with the top notes of 'Poor Wandering One', spoil it for me. However there are eight others to enjoy, especially 'Yeomen' with Martyn Green's definitive Jack Point. All told, a must-have!