G&S Discography Revision History
October 3-4, 1998
- Version 14.01 — October 4, 1998 (470 pages)
- Added a list of selections and Adrian Bridgeman's review of the LP soundtrack of The Pirate Movie.
- Added the U.K.-based Interactive Music & Video Shop, http://www.musicshop.co.uk/, to the recordings sources page [page discontinued].
- Version 14.0 — October 3, 1998 (470 pages)
- Added a new page contributed by Stan DeOrsey: "Of Ballads, Songs and Snatches," listing recordings of "lost" or seldom-recorded songs by G&S.
- Added Martyn Green's comments on the making of the film The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan. Also added several B&W still shots from the film itself. Thanks to Robert Morrison.
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Added a considerable wealth of background information on the
1939 Mikado film:
- Extended excerpts from a souvenir program issued in Australia. (Thanks to Robert Morrison.)
- Martyn Green's reminiscences on the making of this film, and also his description of how some of his favorite encores came about. (Thanks to Robert Morrison.)
- A still shot from the film. (Thanks to Robert Morrison.)
- New York Times reviews of the film and of the experimental encore system that was used.
- Transcribed the liner notes of the 1964 Lyric Theater Company Utopia recording. The musical director of that recording, John Landis, makes some astute comments that, I think, are deserving of wider attention.
- Added details and reviews of the new CD, Sullivan & Co.: The Operas That Got Away.
- Added the new overtures disc on Naxos.
- Added the two George Grossmith recitals that Leon Berger and Selwyn Tillett recorded for the Sir Arthur Sullivan Society, "Mr. George Grossmith's Humorous & Musical Recital" and "The Grossmith Family Album."
- Added a new vintage re-issue, The Very Best of Gilbert and Sullivan, Vol. 2. (Thanks to Chris Webster.)
- Added a new D'Oyly Carte CD compilation, The Ultimate Gilbert and Sullivan Collection. (Thanks to J. Donald Smith.)
- Added recordings of Pirates in Esperanto and Trial in Hungarian. (Thanks to J. Donald Smith.)
- Added the 1981 Stratford Festival Pinafore. (Thanks to Bob Lang.)
- Added a 1972 recording of highlights from The Mikado on the Concert Hall label, conducted by Boris Mersson. (Thanks to Geoff Dixon.)
- Added the 1970's album, Songs of Sir Arthur Sullivan. (Thanks to Stan DeOrsey.)
- Added recordings issued by the Sir Arthur Sullivan Society:
- Added excerpts from an interview with Judith DePaul (producer of the Brent Walker videos), which were published when the series first came out. (Thanks to Louis in Titusville, FL.)
- Added Chris Webster's review of the new Divine Art issue of Cox and Box.
- Added Chris Webster's comments on the G&S For All films.
- Added Ben Elton's review of the World Record Club Mikado.
- Added Chris Webster's comments on Martyn Green's 1968 Pirates on RCA.
- Added a summary of how the text used in the Brent Walker Cox and Box compares with the 1867 and Savoy versions of the opera.
- Added additional information on the Cheam Haddon Hall from a recent SavoyNet discussion. (Thanks to Philip Sternenberg and Stephen Turnbull.)
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Chris Webster contributed several miscellaneous items:
- Columbia SCD 2041: "The Mikado — Selection," Harry Davidson and his Orchestra (another issue of an item previously listed).
- Pearl SHE 529, highlights from the Lyric Theatre Company Utopia.
- Decca CEP 543: "Sullivan: Overtures to Pirates and Mikado," conducted by Isidore Godfrey, a 1958 issue on EP.
- Added the 1997 re-release of EMI's A Gilbert & Sullivan Gala. (Thanks to Stephen Hill.)
- Added the double LP release of the soundtrack of The Pirate Movie. (We still don't know the catalogue number, but it's nice at least to know that it existed. Thanks to J. Donald Smith.)
- Added the U.S. CD release of Charles Mackerras's 1977 recordings of Suites from Pineapple Poll and Verdi's The Lady and the Fool.
- Added a list of cuts in the 1922 Pinafore (Thanks to Chris Webster.)
- Added "Recording Sessions" tables to the 1922 Iolanthe and 1922 Pinafore. (Thanks to Chris Webster.)
- Added additional matrix numbers to several vintage recordings: Thanks to Adrian Bridgeman, Philip Goodall, James C. Lockwood, and Chris Webster.
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Added a number of album and/or video cover scans. The following were supplied
by Bob Lang:
- All of the Brent Waker videos.
- The Sargent Pinafore and Mikado.
- Der Mikado.
- The Lyric Theatre Utopia.
- The St. Alban's Rose of Persia.
- The Prince Consort Emerald Isle.
- Gilbert and Sullivan Favorites (instrumental, Stanford Robinson).
- The World of Sir Arthur Sullivan
The following I obtained from various places on the web:
- Various Tom Lehrer album covers
- 1960 Iolanthe
- 1960 Pinafore
- 1961 Gondoliers
- 1961 Patience
- 1968 Pirates
- Gilbert & Sullivan Weekend
- The Ultimate Gilbert and Sullivan Collection
- Here's a Howdy Do! (King's Singers)
- Sullivan: Irish Symphony etc. (Hughes/BBC Concert Orch.)
- The Anna Russell Album?
- Mackerras/Telarc Trial
- Mackerras/Telarc Pinafore
- Mackerras/Telarc Pirates
- Mackerras/Telarc Mikado
- Mackerras/Telarc Yeomen
- 1939 Mikado Film
- Marriner Yeomen
- The Romophone re-issue of the 1929 Pirates and 1930 Pinafore
- Added a number of new web record stores to the recordings sources page [since deleted], and also added a price comparison (thanks to Steven Martin).
- Added a new section to the home page called "Getting Around."
- The Sullivan-without-Gilbert Operas from the 1890s all now have their own home pages: Ivanhoe, Haddon Hall, The Chieftain, The Beauty Stone, The Rose of Persia, The Emerald Isle — as does the one Gilbert-without-Sullivan opera from that era, His Excellency. The G&S in the 1890s page now just contains links to all of these pages.
