The budget Classics for Pleasure line from Britain has reissued a growing variety of famous performances from the 1960s and early 1970s. Some haven't aged a bit; some offer sterling examples of how fashions change. And some fall in between those extremes. Made in 1974, this was a reference recording of Haydn's The Creation for many years, ...
Malcolm Sargent began serving as an accompanist for amateur productions of Gilbert & Sullivan 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, so he clearly had the Gilbert & Sullivan tradition in his blood. During the late '50s and ...
Coming after the huge success of The Mikado, it was almost inevitable that the premiere of Gilbert and Sullivan's Ruddigore would fall short of the original audience's elevated expectations. It has never taken a place as one of the public's favorite Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, perhaps because of an ending that isn't fully realized. In spite of ...
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