Three Recordings of Ruddigore

A Comparison of Timings

By Riley Pritchett
Movement

1962 D'OC

1963 Sarg.

1987 S. Wells

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:

  1. Line omitted.
  2. Last repeat omitted.
  3. Played fastest; includes repeats.
  4. The madrigal is played quite fast.
  5. No restored material; just slow.
  6. Verse 2 omitted.
  7. Orchestral section and solo restored.
  8. Dance cut down.