Part of the only complete canon of digital recordings ot Gilbert and Sullivan. Performeed by the D'Oylye Carte Opera Company and preserved in digital.The production of 'H.M.S. Pinafore' upon which this recording is based first saw the light of day in the D'Oyly Carte's 1994-5 season. It was revived in the summer of 1999 at The Royal Festival Hall and again in February 2000 at London's Savoy Theatre.The nudging of the period setting more towards 1910 (as well as transforming this 'H.M.S. Pinafore' into an earlier steamship) allowed much fun with the female chorus of Sir Joseph Porter's 'sisters and his cousins and his aunts' who became an eccentric gaggle of maiden-aunts, spinsters and protective birds of prey - and also included a pair of identical twins.Listeners familiar with the opera will notice a few departures from the norm on this recording. The recitative before the Act 2 Finale is included, although the material is generally spoken in performance. Also the coda of the Act 2 Finale does not use the fanfare heard at the end of the overture and Act 1, but rather the extended version of what maybe be called Sir Joseph's motif, the four chords that herald his entrance and form the basis of 'I am the monarch of the sea'. We are very fortunate, too, in being able to include the discarded duet, newly-discovered, for Josephine and the Captain ('Reflect, My Child').We also reinstated the dialogue scenes for the character of Hebe. Mrs Howard Paul was to play the part in the original production - but it was soon apparent that, although she excelled as a performer, she could not cope with the musical requirements of the score. Therefore the inexperienced Miss Jessie Bond was hired to bear the vocal brunt of Hebe's role. But when Mrs Paul discovered this, she was so offended that she stormed out of the theatre, never to return and, as a result, most of Hebe's original dialogue was cut.The fact that this production appears at The Savoy Theatre in February 2000 is particularly happy, as we are celebrating not only Sullivan's centenary year, but also the first London production of a Gilbert & Sullivan opera in the 21st century.'Part of the only complete canon of digital recordings ot Gilbert and Sullivan. Performeed by the D'Oylye Carte Opera Company and preserved in digital.DOUBLE CD'

Track Listing

• HMS Pinafore: Overture
• HMS Pinafore: We Sail the Ocean Blue
• HMS Pinafore: Hail Man-O-War's Men / I'm Called Little Buttercup
• HMS Pinafore: Scene: Aye Little Buttercup....
• HMS Pinafore: But Tell Me Who's the Youth
• HMS Pinafore: The Nightingale Sighed for the Moon's Bright Ray
• HMS Pinafore: A Maiden Fair
• HMS Pinafore: Scene: Ah My Poor Lad....
• HMS Pinafore: My Gallant Crew / I Am the Captain of the Pinafore
• HMS Pinafore: Sir You Are Sad
• HMS Pinafore: Sorry Her Lot Who Loves Too Well
• HMS Pinafore: Scene: My Child I Grieve to See....
• HMS Pinafore: Over the Bright Blue Sea / Sir Joseph's Barge Is Seen
• HMS Pinafore: Now Give Three Cheers / I Am the Monarch of the Sea
• HMS Pinafore: When I Was a Lad
• HMS Pinafore: Scene: You've a Remarkably Fine Crew....
• HMS Pinafore: For I Hold That On the Seas
• HMS Pinafore: Scene: Ah! Sir Joseph's a True Gentleman...
• HMS Pinafore: A British Tar
• HMS Pinafore: Scene: It Is Useless....
• HMS Pinafore: Refrain Audacious Tar
• HMS Pinafore: Finale Act One

• HMS Pinafore: Entr'acte
• HMS Pinafore: Fair Moon to Thee I Sing
• HMS Pinafore: Scene: How Sweetly He Carols....
• HMS Pinafore: Things Are Seldom What They Seem
• HMS Pinafore: Scene: Incomprehensible...
• HMS Pinafore: The Hours Creep On Apace
• HMS Pinafore: Scene: Madam It Has Been Represented....
• HMS Pinafore: Never Mind the Why and Wherefore
• HMS Pinafore: Scene: Sir Joseph I Cannot Express to You....
• HMS Pinafore: Kind Captain I've Important Information
• HMS Pinafore: Carefully On Tip-Toe Stealing / Hold! Pretty Daughter of Mine / He Is an Englishman / In Uttering a Reprobation / My Pain and My Distress
• HMS Pinafore: Scene: Now Tell Me My Fine Fellow...
• HMS Pinafore: Farewell My Own
• HMS Pinafore: My Pain and Distress / a Many Years Ago
• HMS Pinafore: Scene: Then I Am to Understand....
• HMS Pinafore: Finale Act Two
• HMS Pinafore: Reflect My Child

Additional Details

Label: JAY Records

Genre: Opera

Run Time: 102 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 11/11/14

UPC: 605288141225