Gilbert & Sullivan - HMS Pinafore
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Label: Linn
Cat No: CKD522
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Opera
Release Date: 20th May 2016
Contents
Artists
Tim Brooke-Taylor (narrator)John Mark Ainsley
Elizabeth Watts
Toby Spence
Hilary Summers
Neal Davies
Andrew Foster-Williams
Gavan Ring
Barnaby Rea
Kitty Whately
Scottish Opera
Conductor
Richard EgarrWorks
HMS PinaforeArtists
Tim Brooke-Taylor (narrator)John Mark Ainsley
Elizabeth Watts
Toby Spence
Hilary Summers
Neal Davies
Andrew Foster-Williams
Gavan Ring
Barnaby Rea
Kitty Whately
Scottish Opera
Conductor
Richard EgarrAbout
The well-crafted, yet light-hearted story unfolds on the HMS Pinafore as Josephine, the captain’s daughter, falls in love with a lowly sailor (Ralph Rackstraw) despite arrangements by her father to marry Sir Joseph Porter. Sir Joseph is a perfect caricature of Britain’s class system of the day – a pompous and splendidly incompetent man. Nevertheless, this likeable character decrees his liberal views and inadvertently encourages a couple in love to reject social conventions and elope. A tale of British silliness, filled with British humour, ends happily for all characters.
Egarr applies his extensive knowledge of period performance practice to recreate the sound and style typical of the late nineteenth century, a first for a Gilbert and Sullivan recording. HMS Pinafore is rich in comic burlesque, sending up theatrical and operatic conventions and parodying the Italian opera of the day. The tongue-in-cheek writing is apparent from the opening chorus and the music is equally rich in comic pastiche and styles; ‘For he is an Englishman’ is one of the greatest master strokes.
Climb aboard the HMS Pinafore for a hugely fun seafaring romp!
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