Isidore Godfrey, Malcolm Sargent - Gilbert & Sullivan: Princess Ida (1954) [2015]
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BAND/ARTIST: Isidore Godfrey, Malcolm Sargent
- Title: Gilbert & Sullivan: Princess Ida
- Year Of Release: 1954 [2015]
- Label: Decca / Eloquence
- Genre: Classical
- Quality: FLAC (Tracks)
- Total Time: 02:10:08
- Total Size: 668 mb (+3%rec.)
- WebSite: Album Preview
The first full-length D’Oyly Carte company recording of a late Savoy opera, newly remastered and generously coupled with a Phase 4 album featuring hit songs and numbers from the unequalled partnership of W.S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan.
Princess Ida is unusual among Savoy operas for having a pair of tenor leads and it is a rare treat that two of the finest tenors in the history of D’Oyly Carte perform side by side in this recording, forming a superb trio with baritone Jeffrey Skitch’s Florian. Thomas Round gives an heroic performance as the romantic lead, Prince Hilarion and Leonard Osborn takes the comic role of Hilarion’s friend, Cyril.
The two previous recordings of Princess Ida were heavily cut whereas this 1954 set presents Sullivan’s score (one of his finest) very nearly complete. Also notable is the presence of the soprano, Victoria Sladen, in the title role. Though not a member of the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company, she was cast to give vocal authority to one of the most uncompromisingly and thrillingly operatic parts in the G&S canon.
Ida is conducted with warm authority by Isidore Godfrey, music director at the D’Oyly Carte for nearly 40 years. But Sir Malcolm Sargent’s involvement with the company predated his by three years, beginning in 1926, and he continued to work with it throughout his career, including a complete Princess Ida recording of his own in 1965. In the same year he conducted a selection of hits from the G&S catalogue recorded with Decca’s Phase 4 stereo technique which used multi-making to create dramatic spatial effects across the sound stage. The selection includes favourite numbers from H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado and ‘There grew a little flower’ from Ruddigore. With featured singers including Donald Adams, Valerie Masterson, Kenneth Sandford and John Reed, masterminded by Sargent with sprightly tempi and vivaciously pointed phrases, the pleasure and authenticity of this collection is assured.
Tracks:
ARTHUR SULLIVAN
WILLIAM SCHWENCK GILBERT
Princess Ida
(1954 recording)
D’Oyly Carte Opera Company
Chorus and New Symphony Orchestra
Isidore Godfrey
GILBERT & SULLIVAN SPECTACULAR
Highlights from:
H.M.S. Pinafore
The Pirates of Penzance
The Mikado
The Pirates of Penzance
The Mikado
H.M.S. Pinafore
The Mikado
The Pirates of Penzance
Ruddigore
H.M.S. Pinafore
D’Oyly Carte Opera Company
James Walker, chorus master
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Malcolm Sargent
Princess Ida is unusual among Savoy operas for having a pair of tenor leads and it is a rare treat that two of the finest tenors in the history of D’Oyly Carte perform side by side in this recording, forming a superb trio with baritone Jeffrey Skitch’s Florian. Thomas Round gives an heroic performance as the romantic lead, Prince Hilarion and Leonard Osborn takes the comic role of Hilarion’s friend, Cyril.
The two previous recordings of Princess Ida were heavily cut whereas this 1954 set presents Sullivan’s score (one of his finest) very nearly complete. Also notable is the presence of the soprano, Victoria Sladen, in the title role. Though not a member of the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company, she was cast to give vocal authority to one of the most uncompromisingly and thrillingly operatic parts in the G&S canon.
Ida is conducted with warm authority by Isidore Godfrey, music director at the D’Oyly Carte for nearly 40 years. But Sir Malcolm Sargent’s involvement with the company predated his by three years, beginning in 1926, and he continued to work with it throughout his career, including a complete Princess Ida recording of his own in 1965. In the same year he conducted a selection of hits from the G&S catalogue recorded with Decca’s Phase 4 stereo technique which used multi-making to create dramatic spatial effects across the sound stage. The selection includes favourite numbers from H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado and ‘There grew a little flower’ from Ruddigore. With featured singers including Donald Adams, Valerie Masterson, Kenneth Sandford and John Reed, masterminded by Sargent with sprightly tempi and vivaciously pointed phrases, the pleasure and authenticity of this collection is assured.
Tracks:
ARTHUR SULLIVAN
WILLIAM SCHWENCK GILBERT
Princess Ida
(1954 recording)
D’Oyly Carte Opera Company
Chorus and New Symphony Orchestra
Isidore Godfrey
GILBERT & SULLIVAN SPECTACULAR
Highlights from:
H.M.S. Pinafore
The Pirates of Penzance
The Mikado
The Pirates of Penzance
The Mikado
H.M.S. Pinafore
The Mikado
The Pirates of Penzance
Ruddigore
H.M.S. Pinafore
D’Oyly Carte Opera Company
James Walker, chorus master
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Malcolm Sargent
Classical | Oldies | FLAC / APE
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