Reed:Art of Song

On this CD:

1. Songs (3) for Mezzo-Soprano, Op. 68
Composed by Gardner Read
Performed by D'Anna Fortunato, John McDonald

2. Songs for a Rainy Night, Op. 48 Noctrune
Composed by Gardner Read
Performed by D'Anna Fortunato

3. Songs for a Rainy Night, Op. 48 All Day I Hear
Composed by Gardner Read
Performed by D'Anna Fortunato

4. Nocturnes (4) for voice & piano, Op. 23
Composed by Gardner Read
Performed by D'Anna Fortunato, John McDonald

5. Songs (3) To Children, Op. 76
Composed by Gardner Read
Performed by D'Anna Fortunato, John McDonald

6. A Lute of Jade, Op. 36 Tears
Composed by Gardner Read
Performed by D'Anna Fortunato, John McDonald

7. A Lute of Jade, Op. 36 The River and the Leaf
Composed by Gardner Read
Performed by D'Anna Fortunato, John McDonald

8. A Lute of Jade, Op. 36 Ode
Composed by Gardner Read
Performed by D'Anna Fortunato, John McDonald

9. A Sheaf of Songs, Op. 84
Composed by Gardner Read
Performed by D'Anna Fortunato, John McDonald

10. Nocturnal Visions, Op. 145
Composed by Gardner Read
Performed by D'Anna Fortunato, John McDonald

Reed:Art of Song, Music, Michael Curry, Gardner Read, D'Anna Fortunato, John McDonald, Classical, Classical Artists, Classical Vocals, Vocal, Vocal Music

Gilbert & Sullivan: Patience
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The best ever version

The Golden Cast of D'Oyly Carte!

The Definitive Recording

Gilbert & Sullivan: Patience
Philip Potter , Kenneth Sandford , Mary Sansom , Jennifer Toye , and D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
Manufacturer: Polygram Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000041VE
Release Date: 1989-07-21

Tracks:

Overture
Act One: Twenty love-sick maidens we
Act One: Still brooding on their mad infatuation
Act One: I cannot tell what this love may be
Act One: Twenty love-sick maidens we
Act One: The soldiers of our Queen
Act One: If you want a receipt for that popular mystery
Act One: In a doleful train two & two we walk all day
Act One: Twenty love-sick maidens we
Act One: When I first put this uniform on
Act One: Am I alone & unobserved?
Act One: If you're anxious for to shine
Act One: Long years ago-fourteen, maybe
Act One: Prithee, pretty maiden-prithee
Act One: Though to marry you
Act One: Let the merry cymbals sound
Act One: Now tell us, we pray you
Act One: Heart broken at my Patience's barbarity
Act One: Stay, we implore you, before our hopes are blighted
Act One: Your maidens hearts, ah, do steel

Tracks:

Act One: Come, walk up, and purchase with avidity
Act One: We've been thrown over, we're aware
Act One: And are you going a ticket to buy?
Act One: Hold! Stay your hand!
Act One: True love must single-hearted be
Act One: I hear the soft note of the echoing voice
Act One: But who is this, whose god-like grace
Act One: List Reginald, whilst I confess a love
Act Two: On such eyes as maidens cherish
Act Two: Sad is a woman's lot who, year by year
Act Two: Silvered is the raven hair
Act Two: Turn, oh turn in this direction
Act Two: A magnet hung in a hardware shop
Act Two: Love is a plaintive song
Act Two: So go to him & say to him
Act Two: It's clear that the mediaeval art
Act Two: If Saphir I choose to marry
Act Two: When I go out of the door
Act Two: I'm a Waterloo House young man
Act Two: After much debate internal, I on Lady Jane decide

Customer Reviews:

The best ever version.......2002-06-07

The wonderful cast transports you to the realms of Gilbert and Sullivan, to make you feel that you are experiencing a first night in 1881! John Reed, as Bunthorne, an aesthetic poet is superb, camp, subversive and a complete fraud. If anyone is not aware, the story of the opera is based upon the idiosyncracies of the Aesthetic movement in England of the 1880's and Gilbert used the public parodies of his friend Oscar Wilde as his major source. The rest of the cast, chorus and orchestra , under the long experienced 'Goddie' are superlative and make for one of the finest line-ups in D'Oyly Carte history. Revel and enjoy, for this is quite the best.

The Golden Cast of D'Oyly Carte!.......1999-04-13

My wish had always been to see John Reed and the D'Oyly Carte Company in a performance of Patience. My mother had done so, remarking that, 'You'd need patience to watch it', she was coloured in her opinion, since she wanted to see 'The Mikado', but had gotten the wrong tickets! The recording, made in 1961, is superb in every detail. You are with the cast, on stage, in the auditorium, it is such a 'live' performance. The dialogue is delivered exquisitely, whilst the singing is uniformerly of the highest standard. I recently portrayed 'Bunthorne' and throughout my performances, I felt that I was continuing the legacy of Gilbert and Sullivan. All the past history of performers were there. I feel that Patience is a magical Savoy Opera. Do not miss the opportunity to own such a definitive performance. Maybe the subject of the 'Art Nouveau' periodof Victorian England is dated, but as one critic has already stated, every generation 'throws up' its poseures, to be knocked. 'Ah, me! lack aday!' BUY IT!

The Definitive Recording.......1998-12-09

For those who prefer the traditional Savoyard renderings of the G&S canon, this is far and away the best recording of this parody of the cult of celebrity. John Reed leads the cast as a delightful Bunthorne, and the recording contains all of the opera's dialogue. "HMS Pinafore," "The Mikado," and "The Pirates of Penzance" may be better known, but "Patience" is deserving of a wider audience.