G&S Discography Revision History

July 8 — October 27, 1997

Version 11.5 — October 27, 1997 (389 pages)

• Added a review, by J. Donald Smith, of the 1986 Prince Consort recording of The Contrabandista.
• Added a new concerted highlights recording dating from 1965, Gilbert and Sullivan: Best Loved Favourites. (Thanks to Chris Webster.)
• Added a new concerted highlights recording made by former D'Oyly Carte starts, The Best of G&S. (Thanks to Chris Webster.)
• Added significant comments, from various reviewers, to:
  • The 1966 D'Oyly Carte Mikado video
  • The Groucho Marx Mikado
  • The 1949 Trial
  • The 1973 D'Oyly Carte Pinafore video
  • The Stratford videos
  • The Sir Arthur Sullivan Society Sesquicentennial Issue, Volume 2
  • The 1965 instrumental recording, Highlights of Gilbert and Sullivan.
  • The Reader's Digest set
• Added the CD re-issue and many reviewers' comments on the 1971 Pinafore
• Added further details to the Al Goodman Pinafore. (Thanks to Peter Zavon.)
• Added further details to the Danish Pinafore. (Thanks to J. Donald Smith.)
• Added a number of new sources to the Video Sources page [page discontinued]
• Added the Arthur Fiedler recording of the Overture di Ballo. (Thanks to Bob Lang.)
• Added 4-track reel-to-reel tape issues to many of the D'Oyly Carte recordings of the 1950s and '60s. (Thanks to Bob Lang.)
• Added album cover photos to the 1953 Sorcerer and 1966 Sorcerer.
• Lots of filling in and correcting of catalog numbers, too numerous to mention.

Version 11.4 — August 30, 1997 (381 pages)

• Added a page provided by Chris Webster chronicling Decca's errors over the years in the G&S recordings it has isued.
• Added two new items from Grant Wilson: a 1972 cassette of concerted highlights by the English Heritage Singers, and a cassette of instrumental highlights recorded by the Band of the Royal Corps of Transport.
• Added a number of reel-to-reel issues supplied by Peter Parker:
  • An overtures tape conducted by Charles Mackerras.
  • The World Record Club Gondoliers
  • A recording of The Bab Ballads
• Added the new EMI reissue of Charles Mackerras's 1962 recording of Pineapple Poll. (Thanks to Tom Shepard.)
• Added Ian Bond's comments to the St. Alban's Rose of Persia. Also, added Ian's comments to the general discussion of the Prince Consort recordings.
• Added a review of the Stratford Pirates from Katherine Belyea.
• Added vintage recordings of Victorian and Edwardian music boxes and piano rolls from The Musical Wonder House. (Thanks to Stan DeOrsey.)
• Stan DeOrsey found two articles on the web that discuss the history of the LP record and the tape recorder. There are links to these from the main history page. [Since deleted, as the links are no longer valid.]
• Other updates to various issue histories are too numerous to list individually.

Version 11.3 — July 12, 1997 (381 pages)

• Added a review by J. Donald Smith of Put a Penny in the Slot, an adaptation of The Mountebanks by the Royal Victorian Opera Company.
• Added a review by J. Donald Smith of the 1964 Lyric Theater Company Mountebanks. Also, The Mountebanks has its own page in the opera index now. All the Mountebanks pages are illustrated with scanned graphics, as we get more comfortable with our new toy!
• Added a report on the "lost" 1952 film, The Return of Gilbert and Sullivan.
• Added album cover screenshots to most of the The Zoo and Trial By Jury recordings.
• Added my own reviews of the Michael Sammes Yeomen, the Michael Sammes Gondoliers, and the 1970 D'Oyly Carte album Songs and Snatches.

Version 11.2 — July 8, 1997 (378 pages)

• Added pages on Gilbert's six Gallery of Illustration operas, and videos of these by the Royal Victorian Opera Company. Thanks to J. Donald Smith, whose write-ups on the operas and the videos I took verbatim. I've recently acquired a scanner, and you'll see its handiwork on these new pages.
• Added the Stratford Festival Pirates video. (Thanks to J. Donald Smith.)
• Added a cassette version of the Sir Charles Groves overtures disc. (Thanks to Bob Lang.)
• Added a disc called Music of Eric Coates that, despite its name, also contains several Sullivan overtures.
• Added Kenneth Alwyn's 1963 overtures disc. (Thanks to J. Donald Smith.)
• Added the CD issue of highlights from the 1958 Mikado. (Thanks to Chris Webster.)
• Added 4-track reel-to-reel tape issues of the 1958 Mikado, 1971 Pinafore, 1975 Trial By Jury, and 1977 Gondoliers (Thanks to Bob Lang.)
• Added Ian Bond's comments on the recording of The Contrabandista published by the Sir Arthur Sullivan Society. Also, thanks to J. Donald Smith, the Contrabandista page lists one number from this opera that appears on Lesley Garrett's Soprano in Red CD.
• Added reviews of the Fulham Thespis by Roger Wettone and Ian Bond.
• Added a review of the Catalan version of El Mikado. (Thanks to J. Donald Smith.)
• Added a cassette re-issue of the 1960 Pinafore, London OSA5-1205. (Thanks to Leonard Schwab.)
• Added the Camden CAL-433 issue of the Al Goodman Pinafore. (Thanks to Bob Lang.)
• Added the CD re-issue of the 1927 Gondoliers on the Intersound label.
• Added a number of items to the issue histories of the Sargent/EMI recordings. (Sorry; I don't have the energy to list them one by one; there are quite a few of them.)
• Split the listing of D'Oyly Carte compilations onto three pages, because there are so many of them.
• Updated the link to the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company web site.

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