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title: "Operas of Gilbert & Sullivan"
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# Operas of Gilbert & Sullivan

**Brand:** d'oyly carte opera company
**Price:** € 75.99
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Operas of Gilbert & Sullivan

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A blast from the past
  

*by D***S on Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2023*

These are the performances I grew up with, the D'Oyly Carte recordings made between 1949 and 1951. The sound has been beautifully cleaned, and technical errors have been corrected as much as possible, including the infamous pitch shift in the middle of Trial by Jury. It's wonderful to hear them all again, and to have them at such an excellent price. The individual CDs often contain the second half of one opera and the first half of another, but that's fine with me. I'm disappointed only that the slightly later recordings of The Sorceror and Princess Ida are not included. Pretty good notes in the booklet, including interesting thumbnail biographies of all the soloists.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A good collection, but not all it could or should be
  

*by C***8 on Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2011*

This is a good collection, and for those of us who are most familiar with Martyn Green as the comic tenor, rather than his successor John Reed, it's wonderful to hear him and the cast of that generation again. Though later D'Oyly Carte recordings have been very fine, they have also included all the dialogue, and I have always found that intrusive and a bit annoying. These never did, and I'm enjoying that as well. I do have a few issues.First, my impression is that the tempi are just a shade fast--not enough to change the pitches, but enough to shave minutes off a ten-CD set, and since I know the original recordings so well, I can be fairly certain that they were not THAT fast when the tracks were first laid down. The time between numbers can be measured in nanoseconds, which is fine, but a little disconcerting. I understand the desire to get the whole set on ten CDs, but the speed, and the fact that most of the operettas start midway through one CD and finish on the next one, are clearly decisions made for reasons having to do with marketing--not love of or appreciation for the operettas themselves. The decision to include Pineapple Poll and several orchestral numbers is a sad trade-off for the absence of the duet between Sergeant Meryll and Dame Carruthers ("Ghastly, ghastly!"), and the complete exclusion of Princess Ida, surely one of the most musically sophisticated, if lesser-known works in the canon.I gave this set four stars, and in all honesty, half a star was probably for nostalgia value. That's not to say it's not a good set, and I have been waiting for many years for someone to reissue these old recordings, with Martyn Green, Ann Drummond-Grant, Darrell Fancourt,and others who made those early recordings so wonderful. I think that the music is fine (if fast).The set, as a whole, appears to have been put together by people who do not know or love the operettas, the performers, the company, or the context in which they all came together, and that is very, very obvious. Skillfully, lovingly done, this would be a collector's item, and I'd pay twice the money for it.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A Real Howdy-Do
  

*by K***S on Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2016*

I know, I know -- the dialogue is not included.  But I think some traditional cuts are included, so there's a howdy-do!  I have not memorized every line and tune, though as I have been listening through this set I do find certain pieces constantly running through my head.  O, woe.  But that is the risk anyone takes who listens to Gilbert & Sullivan, especially in such fine performances.  I once had purchased many of these performances, in whole or in part, on LP Mono.  I must say that despite the renewal of enthusiasm for vinyl, the audio work done on the masters for these discs provides far better clarity of artists, choruses, and orchestras than my budget mono plastics had done.  The set covers most of the main operas excepting Princess Ida; nor does it include Utopia or The Grand Duke, omitted without detriment to the whole.  What it does have is Martyn Green and many of his great colleagues from the 1940's Savoyards.  Now, if someone would produce the tapes of the inimitable Ross Allen's WFIU FM Saturday show featuring Mikado's bilious laughs through the ages, my collection would be complete.

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