G&S Discography: Revision History

G&S Discography Revision History

May 6, 1999 — November 7, 1999

Version 16.1 — November 7, 1999 (496 pages)

Added the new Mike Leigh film (and soundtrack CD) Topsy-Turvy.
Added the new Symposium/S.A.S.S. issue, The Masque at Kenilworth: Music for Royal and National Occasions.
Added the new Divine Art issue of A Society Clown: The Songs of George Grossmith.
Added the new recording of G&S highlights with old and new D'Oyly Carte stars, Classic G&S.
Added Chris Webster's new issues of the 1929 HMV Iolanthe, the 1917 HMV Mikado, the 1920 HMV Pirates, the 1924 HMV Ida, the Prince Consort recordings of The Beauty Stone and The Emerald Isle, and F. Charles Adler's 1955 recording of The Tempest and Henry VIII.
Added James Lockwood's new issues of the 1921 HMV Patience and the 1924 HMV Ida.
Added James Tappin's new CD issue of the 1924 HMV Princess Ida.
Added Thomas Round's recording of The Lost Chord (and other songs).
Added F. Charles Adler's The Tempest. (Thanks to many people, including Ron Orenstein, Nathan Chan, David Sommerfield, and Bob Lang, but especially Jim Drew.)
Added the 1970s recording of The Light of the World on the Rare Recorded Editions label. (Thanks to Martin Wright.)
Added the 1986 Pearl LP Sullivan Without Gilbert. (Thanks to Nathan Chan.)
Added Bruce Miller's detailed reviews of the Al Goodman Pinafore, The Coolest Mikado, and The Best of Gilbert and Sullivan (James Verity).
Added Roy Mills's review of the Essgee Pinafore.
Corrected and expanded the issue history of Arthur Fiedler's Gilbert & Sullivan Overtures. (Thanks to Bruce Miller.)
Made numerous additions to the Recording Details for the 1917 HMV Mikado and the 1924 HMV Ruddigore thanks to Robert Morrison). Also, added a Recording Sessions for these two recordings.
Added the following album cover scans:
- From Tim Devlin:
- From Bruce Miller:
- From Stan DeOrsey (Stan's son, actually):
  - Gilbert and Sullivan: The Early Records
  - The Hey-Day of Gilbert and Sullivan
  - The Arabesque Book-of-the-Month Club triple issue of the 1936 Mikado, the 1930 Pinafore, and the 1929 Pirates.
- From other sources:
Bruce Miller has nailed down more precisely the issue dates for many of the early recordings: The Mikado (1917), The Mikado (1926), Trial (1927), Yeomen (1928), Iolanthe (1929), Pinafore (1930), Patience (1930), Ruddigore (1931), The Mikado (1936), Victor Light Opera Company Pinafore, and Al Goodman Pinafore and Mikado.
Chris Webster filled in the story of how King Gama's Act III song came to be omitted from one of the Decca re-issues of the 1955 Ida.
Updated Stan DeOrsey's Lost Songs page to discuss the original Act I finale of The Sorcerer, "Reflect, my child" in H.M.S. Pinafore, and "When you find you're a broken-down critter" in The Grand Duke.
Added the recent Aussie/NZ releases of the Brent Walker videos. (Thanks to Mel Moratti.)
Added the cassette issue of the 1974 Mikado. (Thanks to Elizabeth Endsley.) I suspect that there are yet more of these cassette issues to be catalogued.
Renamed the Odeon Mikado to reflect the date when it was recorded (1907), as opposed to the date it was published (1908).

Version 16.0a — May 7, 1999 (487 pages)

Added catalog numbers to the BBC Music Magazine recording of The Rose of Persia. (Thanks to L. Donald Bartholomew.)
Corrected a display error in the Artist Index.

Version 16.0 — May 6, 1999 (487 pages)

Added the new BBC Music Magazine recording of The Rose of Persia.
Added a new recording of Sullivan's cello concerto (Martin Ostertag/Klaus Arp).
Added Chris Webster's new release of The Contrabandista and The Chieftain.
Redesigned the Artist Index.
Robert Morrison has made a number of contributions filling out the details of the early D'Oyly Carte recordings:
- There is a series of reviews of the HMV acoustical series by N. Cameron that appeared in The Gramophone in 1927.
- The Gramophone also reviewed all the entries in the electrical series as they came out, and reviews have been added to the following pages:
- In 1934, after the bulk of the electrical recordings had come out, Elsie D. McLachlan published a survey in The Gramophone, in which she selected her fifty favorite discs from the series.
- There is a series of articles describing the techical limitations of acoustical recordings.
Updated the Lost Songs page to incorporate the discovery of a song from H.M.S. Pinafore that was once thought lost, "Reflect, my child" (duet for Captain Corcoran and Josephine).
Added a 1966 instrumental release, Gilbert and Sullivan in Brass (Thanks to Tim Devlin, who also provided the album cover scan.)
Added a 1994 concerted highlights CD made in New Zealand, Gilbert and Sullivan Highlights. (Thanks to Tim Devlin, who also provided the CD cover scan.)
Added an enormous number of new album cover scans. The following were supplied by Tim Devlin. In some cases, Tim has provided more faithful scans of covers I already had posted. In these instances, I dropped my own scans in favor of his.
- 1972 Fulham Thespis
- 1949 D'Oyly Carte Trial
- 1964 D'Oyly Carte Trial
- 1975 D'Oyly Carte Trial
- 1953 D'Oyly Carte Sorcerer
- 1930 D'Oyly Carte Pinafore
- 1949 D'Oyly Carte Pinafore
- 1958 Sargent/EMI Pinafore
- 1960 D'Oyly Carte Pinafore
- 1971 D'Oyly Carte Pinafore
- 1987 New Sadler's Wells Pinafore
- 1931 D'Oyly Carte Pirates
- 1949 D'Oyly Carte Pirates
- 1957 D'Oyly Carte Pirates
- 1962 World Record Club Pirates
- 1966 RCA Victrola Pirates
- 1983 Papp's Pirates (Video)
- 1994 Essgee Pirates
- 1951 D'Oyly Carte Patience
- 1961 D'Oyly Carte Patience
- 1995 Opera Australia Pataience
- 1951 D'Oyly Carte Iolanthe
- 1959 Sargent/EMI Iolanthe
- 1960 D'Oyly Carte Iolanthe
- 1972 G&S For All Iolanthe
- 1974 D'Oyly Carte Iolanthe
- 1936 D'Oyly Carte Mikado
- 1954 Allegro-Royale Mikado
- 1957 D'Oyly Carte Mikado
- 1962 World Record Club Mikado
- 1987 Australian Opea Mikado
- 1962 Sadler's Wells Mikado/Iolanthe
- 1966 Michael Sammes Mikado
- 1950 D'Oyly Carte Ruddigore
- 1962 D'Oyly Carte Ruddigore
- 1972 G&S For All Ruddigore
- 1987 New Sadler's Wells Ruddigore
- 1928 HMV Yeomen
- 1950 D'Oyly Carte Yeomen
- 1958 Sargent/EMI Yeomen
- 1964 D'Oyly Carte Yeomen
- 1972 G&S For All Yeomen
- 1979 D'Oyly Carte Yeomen
- 1993 New D'Oyly Carte Yeomen
- Michael Sammes Yeomen
- 1927 D'Oyly Carte Gondoliers
- 1950 D'Oyly Carte Gondoliers
- 1961 D'Oyly Carte Gondoliers
- 1962 World Record Club Gondoliers
- 1972 G&S For All Gondoliers
- Michael Sammes Gondoliers
- 1963 Lyric Theatre Utopia
- 1976 D'Oyly Carte Utopia
- 1976 D'Oyly Carte Grand Duke
- 1972 Beaufort Opera Ivanhoe
- 1989 Prince Consort Ivanhoe
- Derek Oldham: Yeomen, Pirates, Iolanthe
- Martyn Green in Famous Gilbert and Sullivan Songs
- The World of Gilbert and Sullivan (D'OC, 1962)
- Choruses from the Savoy Operas (D'OC, 1962)
- Ballads, Song, and Snatches (D'OC, 1966)
- Ballads, Song, and Snatches, Vol. 2 (D'OC, 1966)
- The World of Gilbert & Sullivan, Vol. 1 (D'OC, 1969)
- The World of Gilbert & Sullivan, Vol. 3 (D'OC, 1971)
- Gilbert & Sullivan Highlights No. 1 (Sargent, 1960s)
- A Gilbert & Sullivan Songbook (Ralph Hunter)
- A Gilbert and Sullivan Spectacular (D'OC, 1966)
- Reader's Digest "Best of Gilbert & Sullivan"
- A Gilbert and Sullivan Gala (EMI)
- D'Oyly Carte: The Last Night
- A Gilbert and Sullivan Spectacular (Dods, 1977)
- Best of Gilbert and Sullivan (Michael Sammes
- Sullivan Overtures (D'OC, 1972)
- Gilbert and Sullivan Favourites (Robinson)
- Pineapple Poll (Hollingsworth)
- Sullivan: Ballet Music (Penny)
- Sullivan: Incidental Music (Penny)
- Sullivan: Macbeth / King Arthur (Penny)
- Victoria and Merry England (Penny)
- Dick Deadeye
The following were supplied by James Tappin:
- 1924 D'Oyly Carte Princess Ida
- 1955 D'Oyly Carte Ida
- 1950 D'Oyly Carte Gondoliers
- 1957 Sargent/EMI Gondoliers
- 1966 Michael Sammes Gondoliers
- 1977 D'Oyly Carte Gondoliers
- 1976 D'Oyly Carte Utopia
- 1976 D'Oyly Carte Grand Duke
The following were supplied by Chris Webster:
- 1906 G&T Mikado
- 1921 HMV Patience
- 1922 HMV Pinafore
- 1939 Mikado Film (CD Transfer)
- Stanley Holloway Reads W. S. Gilbert
The following came from other sources:
- 1960 D'Oyly Carte Pinafore
- Brent Walker Pinafore
- 1968 D'Oyly Carte Pirates
- 1926 HMV Mikado
- 1973 D'Oyly Carte Mikado
- New D'Oyly Carte Mikado
- The Hot Mikado
- 1963 Sargent/EMI Ruddigore
- 1993 Marriner Yeomen
- 1927 HMV Gondoliers
- Brent Walker Gondoliers
- New D'Oyly Carte Gondoliers
- Gilbert and Sullivan and Danny Kaye
- CBC's A Gilbert and Sullivan Gala
- Karaoke Gilbert & Sullivan
- Gilbert and Sullivan Overtures (Ward)
- Gilbert & Sullivan Highlights (Sargent)
- Sullivan Overtures (Sargent)
- The Gilbert and Sullivan Overtures (Penny)
- Sir Arthur Sullivan: Sacred and Secular Music
- Guinevere
Added a number of contemporary advertisements (most taken from The Gilbert and Sullivan News) provided by Chris Webster. See:
- 1927 HMV Trial by Jury
- 1929 HMV Pirates
- 1930 HMV Pinafore
- 1931 HMV Abridged Pirates
- 1930 HMV Patience
- 1929 HMV Iolanthe
- 1932 HMV Princess Ida
- 1930 Columbia Mikado
- 1936 HMV Mikado
- 1931 HMV Ruddigore
- 1928 HMV Yeomen
- 1931 HMV Abridged Yeomen
- 1927 HMV Gondoliers
- 1931 HMV Abridged Gondoliers
Made numerous additions to the Recording Details for the 1919 HMV Gondoliers thanks to Robert Morrison) and added a Recording Sessions table.
Clarified the U.K. release dates and catalog numbers of many of the Sargent/EMI recordings. (Thanks Philip Goodall and Robert Morrison.) Added a number of Australia & New Zealand issues for these recordings. (Thanks to Tim Devlin and Mel Moratti.)
Added information on the Aussie/NZ release of D'Oyly Carte: The Last Night. (Thanks to Tim Devlin and Mel Moratti.)
Clarified the issue dates of the Sadler's Wells Mikado and Iolanthe. (Thanks to Robert Morrison.)
Clarified the issue dates of the Al Goodman Pinafore and Mikado. (Thanks to Bruce Miller.)
Added a review of the 1981 Stratford Pinafore.
Added a review of the 1965 D'Oyly Carte Patience broadcast.
Added Mel Moratti's review of A Gilbert & Sullivan Songbook (Ralph Hunter Choir).
Added yet another Sargent compilation from the 1970s, A Taste of Gilbert & Sullivan. (Thanks to Mel Moratti.)
Corrected the name of the accompanist on the 1972 G&S For All Cox and Box to John Burrows (was incorrectly given as Peter Murray). Thanks to Burrows himself for pointing this out.
Corrected number of errors in the artist index. Thanks to Louis Silverstein for pointing these out.

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