Malcolm Sargent served as an accompanist for amateur productions of Gilbert and Sullivan beginning when he was 14, was musical director for the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company from 1926 to 1928, and made complete recordings of several of the operettas with the company during that period, so he clearly had the Gilbert and Sullivan tradition in his blood. During the late '50s and early '60s he recorded nine of the operettas with the Glyndebourne Festival Chorus and the Pro Arte Orchestra, using regular Glyndebourne soloists, ...
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Malcolm Sargent served as an accompanist for amateur productions of Gilbert and Sullivan beginning when he was 14, was musical director for the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company from 1926 to 1928, and made complete recordings of several of the operettas with the company during that period, so he clearly had the Gilbert and Sullivan tradition in his blood. During the late '50s and early '60s he recorded nine of the operettas with the Glyndebourne Festival Chorus and the Pro Arte Orchestra, using regular Glyndebourne soloists, including soprano Elsie Morison, contraltos Monica Sinclair and Marjorie Thomas, tenors Richard Lewis and Alexander Young, baritones John Cameron and George Baker, and bass Owen Brannigan. This collection includes 26 selections from seven of the most popular operettas -- The Pirates of Penzance, H.M.S. Pinafore, The Mikado, Iolanthe, The Gondoliers, Patience, and Yeomen of the Guard, with a good mix of solos, ensembles, and choruses. Sargent's performances are uniformly at a musically...
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