Original Cast (New Sadler’s Wells Opera): HMS Pinafore, 2CD
Original Cast (New Sadler's Wells Opera)

First complete recording of the authentic version of one of Gilbert and Sullivan’s most beloved Operas.

To follow up the release of the English National Opera recording of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado, Jay Records is proud to announce the second in the Gilbert and Sullivan series, HMS Pinafore. This will coincide with the premiere of the greatly anticipated new Mike Leigh movie on the life of Gilbert and Sullivan this summer. This complete recording of the authentic version of HMS Pinafore, with synopsis and sleeve notes prepared by Britain’s leading authority on the works of Gilbert and Sullivan, Dr. David Russell Hulme, features the soloists, chorus and orchestra of The New Sadler’s Wells Opera, conducted by Simon Phipps. It was recorded at the famous Abbey Road Studios in London in Digital Stereo. This recording is now the recommended recording by both The Penquin Guide to Opera on Compact Discs and The Gramophone CD Guide, over and above the old Decca and EMI recordings.

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE

1. Overture – New Sadler’s Wells Opera Orchestra
2. We Sail the Ocean Blue – Men’s Chorus
3. Hail, Men-O-War’s Men / I’m Called Little Buttercup / But Tell Me Who’s the Youth – Linda Ormiston, Paul Parfitt
4. The Nightingale / a Maiden Fair to See – Christopher Gillett, Linda Ormiston, Men’s Chorus
5. My Gallant Crew / I Am the Captain of the Pinafore / Sir You Are Sad – Gordon Sandison, Linda Ormiston, Men’s Chorus
6. Sorry Her Lot – Elizabeth Ritchie
7. Over the Bright Blue Sea / Sir Joseph’s Barge Is Seen – Chorus
8. Now Give Three Cheers / I Am the Monarch of the Sea – Gordon Sandison, Janine Roebuck, Ladies’ Chorus, Nickolas Grace
9. When I Was a Lad / for I Hold That On the Seas – Chorus, Janine Roebuck, Nickolas Grace
10. A British Tar – Christopher Gillett, Men’s Chorus, Paul Parfitt, Paul Thomson
11. Refrain, Audacious Tar – Christopher Gillett, Elizabeth Ritchie
12. Finale Act One – Christopher Gillett, Company, Elizabeth Ritchie, Gordon Sandison, Janine Roebuck, Linda Ormiston, Nickolas Grace, Thomas Lawl

DISC TWO

1. Entr’acte – Arthur Sullivan, Gilbert And Sullivan, John Yap, New Sadler’s Wells Opera, Simon Phipps, William S. Gilbert
2. Fair Moon, to Thee I Sing – Gordon Sandison
3. Things Are Seldom What They Seem – Gordon Sandison, Linda Ormiston
4. The Hours Creep On Apace – Elizabeth Ritchie
5. Never Mind the Why and Wherefore – Elizabeth Ritchie, Gordon Sandison, Nickolas Grace
6. Kind Captain, I’ve Important Information – Gordon Sandison, Thomas Lawlor
7. Carefully On Tiptoe Stealing / Hold, Pretty Daughter of Mine / He Is an Englishman / Uttering a Reprobation / My Pain and My – Christopher Gillett, Company, Elizabeth Ritchie, Gordon Sandison, Janine Roebuck, Nickolas Grace, Thomas Lawlor
8. Farewell My Own! – Christopher Gillett, Company, Elizabeth Ritchie, Nickolas Grace
9. My Pain and My Distress / a Many Years Ago – Company, Linda Ormiston, Nickolas Grace
10. Here Take Her Sir / Oh Joy, Oh Rapture Unforeseen (Finale Act Two – the Golden Jubilee Version) – Christopher Gillett, Company, Elizabeth Ritchie, Gordon Sandison, Linda Ormiston, Nickolas Grace
11. Finale Act Two (Original Version) – Company
12. Finale Act Two (The D’Oyly Carte Version) – Company