G&S Discography Revision History

July 7, 2009 — Present

Version 24.02 (600 pages)

• Decca Eloquence has re-issued the 1969 LP Gilbert & Sullivan Choruses in a two-CD budget set that also includes sixteen Sullivan overtures.
• Also on Decca Eloquence, a re-issue of Sir Charles Mackerras's 1983 recording of Pineapple Poll, along with excerpts from Henry VIII and Victoria and Merrie England.
• Four Sullivan overtures that Charles Mackerras recorded in the 1950s have been re-issued on CD, coupled with music of Eric Coates, also conducted by Mackerras.
• A new label, Magdalen, has re-issued the 1957 Mikado (its first on a commercial label), coupled with two other rarities, John Hollingsworth's 1957 recording of Pineapple Poll and four overtures recorded by Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops in 1952.

Version 24.01 (600 pages)

• Sam Silvers kindly supplied a cast list and links to a couple of online reviews of the Ohio Light Opera Ruddigore

Version 24.0 — July 11, 2010 (600 pages)

• The site has a new style sheet and logo.
• Added the new Chandos Ivanhoe.
• Added the new Ohio Light Opera Ruddigore.
• Added the 2006 original cast recording of the Robert Sickinger musical Topsy Turvy Loves, based on W. S. Gilbert's 1877 play Engaged.
• Added An Album of Victorian Songs (Syposium, 1989)
• Added the 2008 recording of The Tempest by the Kansas City Symphony under Michael Stern.
• Added the CD re-issue of the Lyric Theater Company Mountebanks.
• Maxwell Siegel provided additional background (recording dates, clarified issue dates, album scans) for Gilbert and Sullivan and Danny Kaye.
• Donald Shirer supplied reviews of the Opera Australia Trial and Pinafore.

Version 23.06 — July 26, 2009 (596 pages)

• Added the Blu-Ray re-release of the Opera Australia Pirates.
• Added Daniel Osborn's reviews of the Ohio Light Opera Sorcerer and Gondoliers, Daniel Florip's review of their Sorcerer, and Associate Artistic Director Julie Wright's comments on their Mikado.
• Added Dan Kravetz's review of The Cool Mikado.
• Lastly, I believe I've solved a long-standing mystery, thanks to correspondent Teresa Chase. The baritone on the National Musicale recordings who sounds so much like Vincent Price is actually Ralston Hill.

Version 23.05 — July 14, 2009 (596 pages)

• Added album cover art to Gilbert & Sullivan Go Kosher and The Tailors of Poznance. Also, added a link from both pages to Iain Kerr's home page. (Thanks to Vincent Daniels for one of the scans.)

Version 23.04 — July 13, 2009 (596 pages)

• The Cool Mikado is now out on DVD. I've added my own comments and a few others.

Version 23.03 — July 12, 2009 (596 pages)

• Added comparative timings of the major recordings of Pinafore, Pirates, Mikado, and Ruddigore, all supplied by Riley Pritchett.
• Added the AVID re-issues of:
  • 2-CD set containing 1955 Ida and Nelson Eddy: Patter Songs
  • 2-CD set containing 1953 Sorcerer, Gilbert and Sullivan and Danny Kaye, and Martyn Green's Gilbert and Sullivan
  • 10-CD set containing the entire nine-opera series recorded 1949–51, plus Pineapple Poll, the Overture ’Di Ballo’, and orchestral highlights (S. Robinson) from Pinafore and Yeomen
  • 2-CD set containing highlights from the 1949–1953 D'Oyly Carte monaural recordings, plus overtures

  The 1945 recording of the Overture ’di Ballo’ (George Weldon, City of Birmingham Orchestra) included on two of these sets was not previously known to me. (Thanks to David Lovell, Stephen Turnbull, Dan Kravetz, Peter Parker, and Tim Riley for details.)

• Added another recording of the Overture di Ballo from the 1950s (Major F. J. Harris MBE, conductor). Thanks to Peter Parker.
• Added miscellaneous highlight items:
  • Gilbert & Sullivan: Overtures (Universal Classics CD, 2003)
  • Gilbert & Sullivan: Greatest Hits (Decca CD, 2004)
• Added Tyson Vick's review of Rebecca Hains's solo CD.
• Added the 2005 re-issue of Karaoke Gilbert and Sullivan that was falsely credited to the Bournemouth Gilbert and Sullivan Ensemble

Version 23.02 — July 9, 2009 (590 pages)

• Added the Opera Australia video productions of Trial, Pinafore, and Pirates
• Added J. Derrick McClure's comments to the Prince Consort Ivanhoe
• Added the DVD re-issue of the Essgee Pirates

Version 23.01 — July 8, 2009 (587 pages

• Added Rebecca Hains's solo disc, The Gilbert & Sullivan Soprano Arias

Version 23.0 — July 7, 2009 (586 pages)

• The site has a new home: http://gasdisc.oakapplepress.com/
• The navigation and stylesheet for the site have been completely rewritten
• Recordings added include:
  • The Best of Gilbert & Sullivan (Gala Ensemble, 2008).
  • The Ohio Light Opera Sorcerer (2005), Gondoliers (2007) and Mikado (2008).
  • The 2006 recording of Pineapple Poll and the Symphony in E ("Irish") by David Lloyd-Jones and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
• Other less significant updates include:
  • Video re-issues of The Gentlemen of Titipu
  • CD re-issue of the Groucho Marx Mikado
  • CD highlights of the 1957 Hallmark Hall of Fame Yeomen.
• Many other pages have updates too numerous to itemize.

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