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Gilbert & Sullivan

HMS Pinafore
Martyn Green, Leslie Rands
D'Oyly Carte Opera Compnay
New Promenade O/Isadore Godfrey
rec. 1948
8.110175

Review by Chris Webber

The Mikado
Darrell Fancourt, Leonard Osborn
D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
New Promenade O/Isadore Godfrey
rec. 1950
8.110176-77

Review by Chris Webber

The Pirates of Penzance, Trial by Jury
D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
New Promenade O/Isidore Godfrey
rec. 1949
8.110196-97

Review by Raymond Walker

The Gondoliers
Martyn Green, Henry Goodier
D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
New Promenade O/Isidore Godfrey
rec. 1950
8.110209-10

Review by Raymond Walker

Iolanthe
Martyn Green, Ann Drummond-Grant
D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
New Promenade O/Isidore Godfrey
rec. 1951
8.110231-32

Review by Raymond Walker

Patience
Martyn Green, Margaret Mitchell
D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
New Promenade O/Isidore Godfrey
rec. 1951
8.110233

Reviews by Raymond Walker and Arthur Baker

The Yeomen of the Guard
Donald Harris, Leonard Osborn
D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
New Promenade O/Isidore Godfrey
rec. 1951
8.110293-94

Reviews by Em Marshall

Ruddigore
Martyn Green, Richard Watson
D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
New Promenade O/Isidore Godfrey
rec. 1951
8.110295

Review by Patrick Gary

The Sorcerer
Fisher Morgan, Neville Griffiths, Darrell Fancourt, Derek Oldham
D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
New Promenade O/Isidore Godfrey
rec. 1933/53
8.110785-86

Reviews by Em Marshall, Ray Walker and Patrick Gary

The Best of Gilbert & Sullivan
8.111311-12

Review by Michael Greenhalgh

Franz Lehar

The Merry Widow
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Erich Kunz, Nicolaï Gedda
Philharmonia O & Ch/Otto Ackermann
rec. 1953
8.111007

Reviews by Jonathan Woolf and Göran Forsling

Johann Strauss II

Die Fledermaus
Julius Patzak, Hilde Gueden
Vienna State Opera Ch, Vienna PO/Clemens Krauss
rec. 1950
8.110180-81

Review by Robert Farr

Eine Nacht in Venedig
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Erich Kunz, Nicolaï Gedda
Philharmonia O & Ch/Otto Ackermann
rec. 1954
8.111254

Review by Göran Forsling

Wiener Blut
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Erich Kunz, Nicolaï Gedda
Philharmonia O & Ch/Otto Ackermann
rec. 1954
8.111257

Review by Göran Forsling

Collections

Viennese Operetta Gems
rec. 1927-49
8.110292

Review by Robert Farr

 


 

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