Three Recordings of Ruddigore
A Comparison of Timings
By Riley Pritchett
| Movement | |||
|
Original Overture |
7:39 |
Omitted |
7:42 |
|
Toye Overture |
6:30 |
6:30 |
Omitted |
|
ACT I | |||
|
No. 1 "Fair is Rose" |
2:39 |
2:49 |
2:38 |
|
No. 2 "Sir Rupert Murgatroyd" |
[1] 2:48 |
3:13 |
3:09 |
|
No. 3 "If somebody there chanced to be" |
2:55 |
3:15 |
3:08 |
|
No. 4 "I know a youth" |
3:27 |
3:29 |
3:20 |
|
No. 5 "From the briny sea" and No. 6 "I shipped, d'ye see" |
2:33 |
3:01 |
2:37 |
|
No. 6a Hornpipe |
1:07 |
1:10 |
[2] 0:56 |
|
No. 7 "My boy, you may take it from me" |
1:28 |
1:42 |
[3] 1:40 |
|
No. 8 "The battle's roar is over" |
2:20 |
2:46 |
2:31 |
|
No. 9 "If well his suit has sped" |
Omitted |
Omitted |
0:43 |
|
No. 10 "In sailing o'er life's ocean wide" |
1:46 |
1:45 |
1:47 |
|
No. 11 "Cheerily carols the lark" |
4:39 |
5:14 |
5:00 |
|
No. 12 "Welcome gentry" |
2:34 |
2:33 |
2:30 |
|
No. 13 "Oh why am I moody and sad?" |
2:14 |
2:32 |
2:45 |
|
No. 14 "You understand?" |
1:20 |
1:21 |
1:18 |
|
No. 15 Finale, Act I "Hail the Bride of seventeen summers" |
14:18 |
14:01 |
[4] 13:14 |
|
ACT II | |||
|
No. 16 "I once was as meek as a new-born lamb" |
2:26 |
2:37 |
[5] 3:06 |
|
No. 17 "Happily coupled are we" |
[6] 1:04 |
2:20 |
2:02 |
|
No. 18 "In bygone days I had thy love" |
1:45 |
1:45 |
1:45 |
|
No. 19 "Painted emblems of a race" |
4:24 |
4:21 |
[7] 7:47 |
|
No. 20 "When the night wind howls" |
2:29 |
2:26 |
2:20 |
|
No. 21 "He yields! He yields!" |
2:35 |
2:30 |
2:36 |
|
No. 22 "Away remorse" |
Omitted |
Omitted |
2:14 |
|
No. 23 "I once was a very abandoned person" |
2:53 |
3:22 |
2:35 |
|
No. 24 "My eyes are fully open" |
1:35 |
1:47 |
1:31 |
|
Melodrame |
Omitted |
Omitted |
1:09 |
|
No. 25 "There grew a little flower" |
4:38 |
4:41 |
3:47 |
|
No. 26 Finale, Act II "When a man has been a naughty Baronet" |
Omitted |
Omitted |
1:46 |
|
No. 26 Finale, Act II "Oh, happy the lily" |
1:15 |
[8] 0:52 |
Omitted |
Notes:
