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The Pirates of Penzance

CATALOGUE NUMBER
473 650-2

LISTEN

Overture

Oh, here is love and here is truth

CAST
The Pirates of Penzance or The Slave of Duty
with dialogue

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

Major-General Stanley John Reed
The Pirate King Donald Adams
Samuel George Cook
Frederic Philip Potter
Sergeant of Police Owen Brannigan
Mabel Valerie Masterson
Edith Jean Allister
Kate Pauline Wales
Isabel Susan Maisey
Ruth Christene Palmer

The D’Oyly Carte Opera Company
Soloists and Chorus
James Walker chorus master
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Isidore Godfrey, O.B.E.
Recorded under the direction of Bridget D’Oyly Carte, D.B.E.

RECORDING INFORMATION
Major-General Stanley’s daughters eventually marry an unusual band of Pirates in one of the most popular and tuneful of all Gilbert & Sullivan works which includes “I am the very model of a modern Major-General”, “Poor wand’ring ones” and “A policeman’s lot is not a happy one”.

The recording is superbly spacious and clear throughout, with a fine sense of atmosphere … The CD transfer is remarkable in its added presence … Godfrey’s conducting is as affectionate as ever, more lyrical here, without loosing the rhythmic buoyancy; one can hear him revelling in the many touches of colour in the orchestration which the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra present with great sophistication … Valerie Masterson is an excellent Mabel … but perhaps the greatest joy of this set is Owen Brannigan’s Sergeant of Police, a part this artist was surely born to play.
The Penguin Guide to Opera on CD

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