BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox - Sullivan: Cox and Box / Trial by Jury (2005) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Cox and Box (original Version): Overture
02. Cox and Box (original Version): It Seemed Like Just Another Day … (Bouncer)
03. Cox and Box (original Version): Song: Rataplan: Yes, Yes, In Those Merry Days (Bouncer)
04. Cox and Box (original Version): Now for Some Reason or Other (Bouncer)
05. Cox and Box (original Version): Duet: Stay, Bouncer, Stay! (Cox, Bouncer)
06. Cox and Box (original Version): At Last He Left! (Bouncer)
07. Cox and Box (original Version): Song: A Lullaby: Hush'd Is the Bacon On the Grid (Box)
08. Cox and Box (original Version): Song and Dance: My Master Is Punctual (Cox)
09. Cox and Box (original Version): Disaster! (Bouncer)
10. Cox and Box (original Version): Trio: Who Are You, Sir? (Cox, Box, All)
11. Cox and Box (original Version): Not Even Rataplan Could Settle This… (Bouncer)
12. Cox and Box (original Version): Duet Serenade: The Buttercup (Cox, Box)
13. Cox and Box (original Version): Music, It Seemed, Wasn't Their Only Mutual Interest (Bouncer)
14. Cox and Box (original Version): Romance: Not Long Ago (Box, Cox)
15. Cox and Box (original Version): An Ingenious Scheme (Bouncer)
16. Cox and Box (original Version): Finale: My Hand Upon It (Box, Bouncer)
17. Trial By Jury: Solo and Chorus: Hark, the Hour of Ten Is Sounding (Usher, Chorus)
18. Trial By Jury: Is This the Court of the Exchequer? (Defendant, All, Chorus of Jurymen)
19. Trial By Jury: Song and Chorus: When First My Old, Old Love I Knew (Defendant, Chorus of Jurymen, Usher)
20. Trial By Jury: Chorus and Solo: All Hail, Great Judge! (Judge, All, Chorus)
21. Trial By Jury: Song: When I, Good Friends … (Judge, All, Chorus)
22. Trial By Jury: Swear Thou the Jury (Counsel, Usher, Jury)
23. Trial By Jury: Chorus of Bridesmaids: Where's the Plaintiff? (Counsel, Usher, Chorus of Bridemaids, Plaintiff)
24. Trial By Jury: Oh Never, Never, Never … (Judge, Jury, Foreman, Plaintiff, Bridesmaids, Usher)
25. Trial By Jury: Counsel of Plaintiff: May It Please You, M'lud! (All, Counsel, Jury, Plaintiff)
26. Trial By Jury: That She Is Reeling Is Plain to See! (Judge, Foreman, Plaintiff, All, Counsel)
27. Trial By Jury: Song: Oh Gentlemen Listen I Pray (Defendant, Bridesmaids)
28. Trial By Jury: That Seems a Reasonable Proposition (Judge, Counsel, Bridesmaids, Jury)
29. Trial By Jury: Sestet and Chorus: A Nice Dilemna We Have Here (Judge, Counsel, Defendant, Plaintiff, All, Usher)
30. Trial By Jury: Duet and Chorus: I Love Him - I Love Him (Plaintiff, Defendant, Jury, Judge, Counsel, All)
31. Trial By Jury: Finale: Oh Joy Unbounded (Plaintiff, Counsel, Defendant, Usher, All, Judge)



Coupling the best-known of Sullivan’s pre-Gilbert operettas with the first of their collaborations produces a programme that is not only entertaining but also shows just how essential Gilbert’s verbal coruscations were in enabling his comic genius to take flight…The performances are equally sparkling. Donald Maxwell takes the Judge’s Song at a cracking pace yet sacrifices not a jot of comic effect, and Matthew Brook’s gloriously mangled pseudo-aristocratic vowels as Counsel for the Plaintiff are guaranteed to induce helpless mirth.

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