Scottish Opera, Richard Egarr, Tim Brooke-Taylor - Gilbert & Sullivan: HMS Pinafore (2016) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

CD1
01. HMS Pinafore: 1. Overture
02. HMS Pinafore: 2. Act I, Chorus. We Sail the Ocean Blue
03. HMS Pinafore: 3. Act I, Recitative and Song. Hail, Men-o'-war's Men
04. HMS Pinafore: 4. Act I, Recitative. But, Tell Me
05. HMS Pinafore: 5. Act I, Scena. The Nightingale Sighed
06. HMS Pinafore: 6. Act I, Recitative and Song. My Gallant Crew, Good Morning
07. HMS Pinafore: 7. Act I, Recitative. Sir, You Are Sad!
08. HMS Pinafore: 8. Act I, Song. Sorry Her Lot
09. HMS Pinafore: 9. Act I, Chorus of Women. Over the Bright Blue Sea
10. HMS Pinafore: 10. Act I, Chorus of Sailors and Relatives. We Sail the Ocean Blue
11. HMS Pinafore: 11. Act I, Recitative, Song and Chorus. I Am the Monarch of the Sea
12. HMS Pinafore: 12. Act I, Song. When I was a lad
13. HMS Pinafore: 13. Act I, Exit for Ladies. For I Hold That on the Seas
14. HMS Pinafore: 14. Act I, Trio. A British Tar
15. HMS Pinafore: 15. Act I, Duet. Refrain, Audacious Tar
16. HMS Pinafore: 16. Act I, Finale. Can I Survive This Overbearing

CD2
01. HMS Pinafore: 17. Entr'acte
02. HMS Pinafore: 18. Act II, Song. Fair Moon, to Thee I Sing
03. HMS Pinafore: 19. Act II, Duet. Things Are Seldom What They Seem
04. HMS Pinafore: 20. Act II, Scena. The Hours Creep on Apace
05. HMS Pinafore: 21. Act II, Trio. Never Mind the Why and Wherefore
06. HMS Pinafore: 22. Act II, Duet. Kind Captain
07. HMS Pinafore: 23. Act II, Soli. Carefully on Tiptoe Stealing
08. HMS Pinafore: 24. Act II, Scena. Pretty Daughter of Mine
09. HMS Pinafore: 25. Act II, Octet. Farewell, My Own
10. HMS Pinafore: 26. Act II, Legend. A Many Years Ago
11. HMS Pinafore: 27. Act II, Finale. Oh Joy, Oh Rapture Unforeseen



This live recording of an acclaimed one-off, sold-out performance at the 2015 Edinburgh International Festival captures the wit and fun of Gilbert & Sullivan's HMS Pinafore.

Heading up a cast that reads like a 'who's who' of the opera world is John Mark Ainsley, Elizabeth Watts and Toby Spence. Completing the star-studded line up is comedian Tim Brooke-Taylor (The Goodies, I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue) as the narrator.

Conductor Richard Egarr (AAM, SCO) applies his extensive knowledge of period performance practice to recreate the sound and style typical of the late nineteenth century, a first for a G&S recording.

HMS Pinafore is rich in comic burlesque, sending up theatrical and operatic conventions and parodying the Italian opera of the day. The tongue-in-cheek writing is apparent from the opening chorus and the music is equally rich in comic pastiche and styles; 'For he is an Englishman' is one of the greatest master strokes.

The complete cast list is: John Mark Ainsley (The Rt Hon. Sir Joseph Porter KCB), Elizabeth Watts (Josephine), Andrew Foster-Williams (Captain Corcoran), Toby Spence (Ralph Rackstraw), Kitty Whately (Hebe), Neal Davies (Dick Deadeye), Hilary Summers (Little Buttercup), Gavan Ring (Bill Bobstay) and Barnaby Rea (Bob Becket).

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