Recent Issues

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Issued: 

• 1949 D'Oyly Carte Recordings
  • Now out of copyright and available for re-issue, Sounds on CD has put out the 1949 D'Oyly Carte recordings of Pinafore, Pirates, and Trial by Jury.

• 1931 Ruddigore
  • J. C. Lockwood 78s 2 CD has re-issued the 1931 D'Oyly Carte Ruddigore on CD.

• H.M.S. Pinafore, D'Oyly Carte
  • The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company has made a new recording of Pinafore, with dialogue, and including the recorded premiere of the newly discovered duet, "Reflect, my child."

• Princess Ida, Ohio Light Opera
  • Newport Classics has issued a new recording of Princess Ida. It is the first published recording of Ida to include all of the dialogue.

• Pinafore/Yeomen
  • The Sir Arthur Sullivan Society and Symposium Records have issued two of the earliest G&S recordings, the 1907 Russell Hunting Company Pinafore and the 1907 Pathé Yeomen. Most of the Pinafore set was not thought to survive until very recently, when a set lacking just one of the cylinders was discovered. The Yeomen set, too, is a great rarity.

• Topsy-Turvy
  • Mike Leigh's has a new film on the making of The Mikado, Topsy-Turvy. The soundtrack CD was released on December 7th, 1999.

• George Grossmith
  • Divine Art has issued A Society Clown: The Songs of George Grossmith, a compilation from two cassettes previously published by the Sir Arthur Sullivan Society.

Announced but not issued:

• "Sounds on CD", by Chris Webster:
  • Ruddigore, 1924
  • Yeomen, 1929
  • Lyric Theater Company Utopia, 1963
  • Lyric Theater company Grand Duke, 1965
• Sullivan & Co., Vol. II
  • Following on the critical and commercial success of Sullivan & Company: The Operas That Got Away, the Sir Arthur Sullivan Society has announced that a sequel will be recorded with the same forces, with issue planned for late 2000 in time for the centenary of Sullivan's death.

• The Golden Legend
  • The Golden Legend will be recorded later this year and issued on Hyperion Records.

• The Martyr of Antioch
  • The Martyr of Antioch will be recorded live at the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival in Buxton and issued on Symposium Records.

• Hymns and Church Music
  • Two separate recordings—one of a selection of Sullivan's hymns, and another of his church music— are expected later this year. The latter, with the tentative title "Lead, Kindly Light," will include the following:
    1. Te Deum Laudamus in D (1866)
    2. Jubilate Deo in D (1866)
    3. Kyrie eleison in D (1866)
    4. O Love the Lord (1864)
    5. O Taste and See (1867)
    6. The Strain Upraise (1868)
    7. Sing, O Heavens (1869)
    8. I will mention the Loving-kindnesses of the Lord (1875)
    9. Who is like unto Thee, O Lord (1883)
    10. Yea, though I walk (from The Light of the World, 1873)
    11. Organ solo (Scene II) (The Martyr of Antioch, 1880)
    12. Brother, thou art gone before us (The Martyr of Anticoh)
    13. Lead, kindly light (Lux in Tenebris)
    14. Psalm 150
    15. O Hearken Thou (adapted from The Light of the World by Frederick Bridge for Coronation Service, 1902.
    16. We have heard with our ears (1860)
    17. There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun (by John Goss, completed after his death by Sullivan)
    18. O Israel (1855) (treble solo)
    The majority of these items will be receiving their first recording.

• Orchestral Music
  • The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and Richard Hickox, conductor, will record shortly the Symphony in E, the Overture "In Memoriam," and excerpts from The Tempest for release on the Chandos label.