Tring SYM071. The photo, misleadinigly, is of the Papp production.

This recording of highlights from The Pirates of Penzance was issued in 1962 by The World Record Club Limited, an outfit based in Richmond, Surrey. The same group also recorded excerpts from The Mikado and The Gondoliers. The recording seems to have been re-issued on a variety of different labels, and the singers are not always positively identified.

Most of the singers do not seem to have had extensive G&S backgrounds (at least, I've never heard of them). The exception is Elizabeth Harwood (Mabel), who sang Phyllis in the Sadler's Wells Iolanthe, some small soprano parts in the Sargent/EMI series, and made guest appearances on two of the D'Oyly Carte recordings made in the 1960s and conducted by Sargent (Ida and Yeomen). She never sang on stage with D'Oyly Carte, though. Harwood's cadenza on "Poor wand'ring one," with flute accompaniment clearly modeled on Lucia di Lammermoor, is the best on records. The tenor, Edward Darling, is the brother of John Wakefield (real name Darling), who sang Nanki-Poo on the Sadler's Wells Mikado.

Summit SUM 1025

The selections, listed below, comprise very nearly the entire opera:

1. "Pour, oh pour the pirate sherry"
2. "When Frederic was a little lad"
3. "I am a Pirate King"
4. "Oh, is there not one maiden breast"
5. "Poor wandering one"
6. "What are we to do…How beautifully blue the sky"
7. "Stay, we must not lose our senses…Too late"
8. "Hold, monsters"
9. "I am the very model of a modern Major-General"
10. "When the foeman bares his steel"
11. "When you had left our pirate fold"
12. "Stay, Frederic, stay"
13. "When a felon's not engaged in his employment"
14. "With cat-like tread"
15. "Hush, hush"…through Finale