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IOLANTHE
Label: London
Performed by: D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus / Grenadier Guards Band / New Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by: Isidore Godfrey
No of Discs: 1
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IOLANTHE / PATIENCE [BOX SET]
Label: Pearl
Performed by: D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
Conducted by: Isidore Godfrey
No of Discs: 3
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IOLANTHE / PINEAPPLE POLL
Complete, without dialogue, recorded 1951
Label: Regis
Performed by: Ann Drummond-Grant, Alan Styler, et al.
Orchestra: Sadler's Wells Orchestra
Conducted by: Isidore Godfrey / Sir Charles Mackerras
No of Discs: 2
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IOLANTHE
[Recorded 1951]
Label: Naxos Historical
Performed by: D'Oyly Carte Opera Company with Ann Drummond-Grant, Martyn
Green, Leonard Osborn, Eric Thornton, Fisher Morgan, Alan
Styler, Ella Halman
Orchestra: New Promenade Orchestra
Conducted by: Isidore Godfrey
No of Discs: 2
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IOLANTHE
/ THE GONDOLIERS [BOX SET]
Label: Castle Pulse
No of Discs: 4
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The first electronic recordings of "Iolanthe"
and "The Gondoliers" made in the late 1920's/early 1930's. The comic
operas would originally have been issued in albums of about twenty-four sides,
each.
Sound is amazingly good mono, considering the great age of the performances, and
not so very different from some first-generation LPs. The voices of the soloists
are very well captured. The choruses sound fine, although a little distant and
slightly compressed. If the orchestra seems confined by digital era standards,
the sound is good and full of detail.
These recordings were made under the personal supervision of Rupert D'Oyly
Carte, whose father, Richard, had founded the opera company and been a partner
with Gilbert (stormily) and Sullivan (happily). His step-mother, Helen, had
succeeded to control of the company, and his daughter, Bridget, would continue
to run it with a whim of iron well past the middle of the 20th Century. Whatever
the eccentricities of the D'Oyly Cartes, this early series of recordings must be
regarded as definitive in setting out the G&S performance tradition.
This set presents two G&S comic opera masterpieces at a rock-bottom price.
It offers surprisingly good sound and first-class performances, my mere
nitpicking to the contrary. It is a must-have for a serious lover of G&S.
For those of you, delicate souls that you are, who must have DDD sound or suffer
the vapours, walk away, this is not for you. For those who give more weight to
artistic quality than to mere mechanical reproduction of sound, this set is
worth five stars, no question about it.
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MIKADO
[COMPLETE] and IOLANTHE [HIGHLIGHTS]
Label: EMI Classics for Pleasure
Performed by: Sadler's Wells Opera Chorus and Orchestra
Conducted by: Alexander Faris
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IOLANTHE
Label: Decca
Performed by: D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, New Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by: Isidore Godfrey
No of Discs: 2
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IOLANTHE
[Soundtrack] & THESPIS
Label: TER
Performed by: D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Regina Hanley, Philip Blake Jones, Jill Pert, Elizabeth Woollett, Richard Suart, Lawrence Richard, Philip Creasey, John Rath, Yvonne Patrick, Madeleine Mitchell, Louise Owen
et al.
Orchestra: D'Oyly Carte Opera Orchestra
Conducted by: John Pryce-Jones
No of Discs: 2
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IOLANTHE / OVERTURE DI BALLO
Label: EMI
Conductor: Sir Malcolm Sargent, Sir Charles Groves
Performer: Marjorie Thomas, John Cameron, et al.
Orchestra: Glyndebourne Festival Chorus, Pro Arte Orchestra
Number of Discs:2
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IOLANTHE / MIKADO [HIGHLIGHTS]
Label: Classics for Pleasure
Performed by: Sadler's Wells Opera Chorus and Orchestra
Conducted by: Alexander Faris
No of Discs: 2
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