Est 1923

Sullivan Sesquicentennial Issue, Vol 2

Record and Artist Details

Composer or Director: Arthur (Seymour) Sullivan

Label: Symposium

Media Format: CD or Download

Media Runtime: 71

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Catalogue Number: SYMCD1206

Tracks:

Composition Artist Credit
(The) Sorcerer, Movement: My name is John Wellington Wells Arthur (Seymour) Sullivan, Composer
(Anonymous) Orchestra
Arthur (Seymour) Sullivan, Composer
Walter Passmore, Baritone
HMS Pinafore (or The Lass that Loved a Sailor), Movement: When I was a lad I served a term Arthur (Seymour) Sullivan, Composer
(Anonymous) Orchestra
Arthur (Seymour) Sullivan, Composer
Chorus
Walter Passmore, Baritone
(The) Pirates of Penzance (or The Slave of Duty), Movement: ~ Arthur (Seymour) Sullivan, Composer
(Anonymous) Orchestra
Arthur (Seymour) Sullivan, Composer
Walter Passmore, Baritone
Patience (or Bunthorne's Bride), Movement: ~ Arthur (Seymour) Sullivan, Composer
(Anonymous) Orchestra
Arthur (Seymour) Sullivan, Composer
Robert Howe, Baritone
Walter Passmore, Baritone
Patience (or Bunthorne's Bride), Movement: When I go out of door Arthur (Seymour) Sullivan, Composer
(Anonymous) Orchestra
Arthur (Seymour) Sullivan, Composer
Robert Howe, Baritone
Walter Passmore, Baritone
Iolanthe (or The Peer and the Peri), Movement: ~ Arthur (Seymour) Sullivan, Composer
(Anonymous) Orchestra
Arthur (Seymour) Sullivan, Composer
Walter Passmore, Baritone
(The) Mikado (or The Town of Titipu), Movement: The flowers that bloom in the spring Arthur (Seymour) Sullivan, Composer
(Anonymous) Orchestra
Arthur (Seymour) Sullivan, Composer
Walter Passmore, Baritone
(The) Yeomen of the Guard (or The Merryman and his, Movement: I have a song to sing, O! Arthur (Seymour) Sullivan, Composer
(Anonymous) Orchestra
Arthur (Seymour) Sullivan, Composer
Hilda Francis, Soprano
Walter Passmore, Baritone
(The) Yeomen of the Guard (or The Merryman and his, Movement: Hark! what was that, sir? Arthur (Seymour) Sullivan, Composer
(Anonymous) Orchestra
Arthur (Seymour) Sullivan, Composer
Morgan Kingston, Baritone
Robert Howe, Baritone
Walter Passmore, Baritone
(The) Gondoliers (or The King of Barataria), Movement: I stole the prince Arthur (Seymour) Sullivan, Composer
(Anonymous) Orchestra
Arthur (Seymour) Sullivan, Composer
Walter Passmore, Baritone
(The) Mikado (or The Town of Titipu), Movement: As some day it may happen Arthur (Seymour) Sullivan, Composer
(Anonymous) Orchestra
Ada Florence, Mezzo soprano
Arthur (Seymour) Sullivan, Composer
Elsie Sinclair, Soprano
Harry Dearth, Bass
Harry Thornton, Baritone
Walter Hyde, Tenor
Walter Passmore, Baritone
(The) Mikado (or The Town of Titipu), Movement: I am so proud Arthur (Seymour) Sullivan, Composer
(Anonymous) Orchestra
Ada Florence, Mezzo soprano
Arthur (Seymour) Sullivan, Composer
Elsie Sinclair, Soprano
Harry Dearth, Bass
Harry Thornton, Baritone
Walter Hyde, Tenor
Walter Passmore, Baritone
(The) Mikado (or The Town of Titipu), Movement: Here's a how-de-do! Arthur (Seymour) Sullivan, Composer
(Anonymous) Orchestra
Ada Florence, Mezzo soprano
Arthur (Seymour) Sullivan, Composer
Elsie Sinclair, Soprano
Harry Dearth, Bass
Harry Thornton, Baritone
Walter Hyde, Tenor
Walter Passmore, Baritone
(The) Mikado (or The Town of Titipu), Movement: There is beauty in the bellow of the blast Arthur (Seymour) Sullivan, Composer
(Anonymous) Orchestra
Ada Florence, Mezzo soprano
Arthur (Seymour) Sullivan, Composer
Elsie Sinclair, Soprano
Harry Dearth, Bass
Harry Thornton, Baritone
Walter Hyde, Tenor
Walter Passmore, Baritone
(The) Pirates of Penzance (or The Slave of Duty), Movement: I am the very model of a modern Major-General Arthur (Seymour) Sullivan, Composer
(Anonymous) Orchestra
Arthur (Seymour) Sullivan, Composer
Charles Herbert Workman, Baritone
Iolanthe (or The Peer and the Peri), Movement: When I went to the Bar as a very young man Arthur (Seymour) Sullivan, Composer
(Anonymous) Orchestra
Arthur (Seymour) Sullivan, Composer
Charles Herbert Workman, Baritone
(The) Mikado (or The Town of Titipu), Movement: On a tree by a river a little tom-tit (Tit Willow) Arthur (Seymour) Sullivan, Composer
(Anonymous) Orchestra
Arthur (Seymour) Sullivan, Composer
Charles Herbert Workman, Baritone
(The) Gondoliers (or The King of Barataria), Movement: In enterprise of martial kind Arthur (Seymour) Sullivan, Composer
(Anonymous) Orchestra
Arthur (Seymour) Sullivan, Composer
Charles Herbert Workman, Baritone
Utopia Limited (or The Flowers of Progress), Movement: First you're born Arthur (Seymour) Sullivan, Composer
(Anonymous) Orchestra
Arthur (Seymour) Sullivan, Composer
Charles Herbert Workman, Baritone
(The) Rose of Persia (or The Story-teller and the, Movement: There was once a small Street Arab Arthur (Seymour) Sullivan, Composer
(Anonymous) Orchestra
Arthur (Seymour) Sullivan, Composer
Charles Herbert Workman, Baritone
Walter Passmore and Charles Workman are celebrated not only as Gilbert and Sullivan creators (both were in the first production of The Grand Duke) but more particularly as distinguished early performers of the leading comedy roles. This collection has been designed partly to highlight the contrasts of style between the two, with four numbers sung by both performers. Passmore was George Grossmith’s immediate successor, though he also sang (as here) Don Alhambra and the Sergeant of Police. He was seemingly a more limited singer, whose strength lay in his ability to put words across with quite superb clarity. By contrast Workman, who sang the Grossmith roles in the 1906-09 repertory seasons under Gilbert, displays a more highly accomplished singing voice in such numbers as “Softly sighing to the river”. Apart from a fake encore in Passmore’s “Here’s a how-de-do” and a highly exaggerated falsetto in Workman’s “Tit Willow”, the numbers here are all sung expressively but commendably ‘straight’.
The transfers are remarkably good, enabling the voices and orchestra to rise above surface noise that has been reduced to an absolute minimum. One way and another this is a fascinating historical document, and it is a pity that annotators persist in getting Workman’s year of birth wrong. As I indicated when reviewing a Workman LP in these pages 20 years ago (8/76), he was born in 1872 and not 1873 as stated in the notes accompanying the CD.'

Sullivan Sesquicentennial Issue, Vol 2

(The) Sorcerer, Movement: My name is John Wellington Wells

HMS Pinafore (or The Lass that Loved a Sailor), Movement: When I was a lad I served a term

(The) Pirates of Penzance (or The Slave of Duty), Movement: ~

Patience (or Bunthorne's Bride), Movement: ~

Patience (or Bunthorne's Bride), Movement: When I go out of door

Iolanthe (or The Peer and the Peri), Movement: ~

(The) Mikado (or The Town of Titipu), Movement: The flowers that bloom in the spring

(The) Yeomen of the Guard (or The Merryman and his, Movement: I have a song to sing, O!

(The) Yeomen of the Guard (or The Merryman and his, Movement: Hark! what was that, sir?

(The) Gondoliers (or The King of Barataria), Movement: I stole the prince

(The) Mikado (or The Town of Titipu), Movement: As some day it may happen

(The) Mikado (or The Town of Titipu), Movement: I am so proud

(The) Mikado (or The Town of Titipu), Movement: Here's a how-de-do!

(The) Mikado (or The Town of Titipu), Movement: There is beauty in the bellow of the blast

(The) Pirates of Penzance (or The Slave of Duty), Movement: I am the very model of a modern Major-General

Iolanthe (or The Peer and the Peri), Movement: When I went to the Bar as a very young man

(The) Mikado (or The Town of Titipu), Movement: On a tree by a river a little tom-tit (Tit Willow)

(The) Gondoliers (or The King of Barataria), Movement: In enterprise of martial kind

Utopia Limited (or The Flowers of Progress), Movement: First you're born

(The) Rose of Persia (or The Story-teller and the, Movement: There was once a small Street Arab

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