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Iolanthe

CATALOGUE NUMBER
473 641-2

LISTEN
Overture
Loudly let the trumpet bray
     


CAST
Iolanthe or The Peer and the Peri
with dialogue

Music by Sir Arthur Sullivan 1842–1900
Words by W.S. Gilbert 1836–1911

The Lord Chancellor John Reed
Earl of Mountararat Donald Adams
Earl Tolloller Thomas Round
Private Willis Kenneth Sandford
Strephon Alan Styler
Queen of the Fairies Gillian Knight
Iolanthe Yvonne Newman
Celia Jennifer Toye
Leila Pauline Wales
Fleta Dawn Bradshaw
Phyllis Mary Sansom


The D’Oyly Carte Opera Company
Soloists and Chorus
W.Cox-Ife chorus master
New Symphony Orchestra of London
Isidore Godfrey, O.B.E.
and a selection of The Band of the Grenadier Guards
Lt R.B. Bashford Director of Music
Recorded under the direction of Bridget D’Oyly Carte, D.B.E.
RECORDING INFORMATION
The House of Lords is invaded by a flock of angry fairies in this unlikely story of how Strephon,
(half man — half fairy) is eventually allowed to marry Phyllis, the Arcadian shepherdess.
Iolanthe contains much of Sullivan’s most heartfelt music as well as the trademark G&S toe-tappers.

The chorus is excellent and the orchestral detail has the usual light Godfrey touch … the production was given added panache by introducing the Grenadier Guards band into the March of the Peers, with spectacular effect … The remastering is very successful, the sound bright but with an admirable acoustic ambience which allows every word to project clearly.
The Penguin Guide to Opera on CD
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