- Audio CD (24 Mar 2003)
- Number of Discs: 2
- Label: Decca (UMO)
- ASIN: B00008LJEY
- Other Editions: MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 114,796 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Being just about the only recording of the Sorcerer available, it is lucky that this is version is good. Whilst, perhaps, the performances lack the conidence of others in this series, since the operetta was recorded when it was not in thr D'Oyly Carte repertoire, it is still successful. John Reed as ever deserves special mention as an excellent John Wellington Wells.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This is the only recording of either work currently commercially available.
THE SORCERER was recorded by D'Oyly Carte as a last minute project. The company had been scheduled by Decca to record MIKADO under the batton of Sir Malcolm Sargent, but illness struck and Isadore Godfrey stepped into the breach to complete what is affectionately referred to as the "Decca 2nd Series" with this recording.
THE SORCERER had not been in the repertoire of D'Oyly Carte since before the war, the costumes and scenery having been destroyed in the blitz, and indeed this recording must have been instrumental in the reinstatement of the opera in 1971.
None of the cast on this recording had played the work on stage and therefore there is rather a feeling of a concert performance about the work. John Reed is as usual excellent as John Wellington-Wells, the sorcerer of the title, with Valerie Masterson in truly magnificent form as Aline. Donald Adams (who sang the Notary in the 1953 recording) gives a wonderful account of Sir Marmaduke and is admirably matched by Christine Palmer's Lady Sangazure. Orchestral and choral work is superb.
THE ZOO first appeared in 1875 just three months after TRIAL BY JURY and as with that work is through composed. The libretto by B C Stephenson is a wild burlesque of the Victorian conventions of Grand Opera. The opera was lost to sight for many years and was thought to have been destroyed. However, since the rediscovery of the work in the late 1960's, THE ZOO has become a great favourite with amateur companies as a curtain raiser.
Suffice it to say that although never staged by D'Oyly Carte, the company gives a sparkling performance of what is a really hilarious Musical Folly. I tend to feel that the narration is unnecessary and a mistake, but it is unobtrusive enough not to detract from the overall enjoyment.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
The Sorcerer has been a much neglected opera, so this recording is a real treat. With superb singing from John Reed and Valerie Masterton, it is also a tribute to those great D'Oyly Carte singers who are sadly no longer with us; Donald Adams can never be anything but brilliant,and Alan Styler sounds better than he ever has - very poignant as this recording was made just a few years before his untimely death.
I had not heard The Zoo before, but greatly enjoyed it; Kenneth Sandford as always has such a delightful, expressive voice, and the late Meston Reid was a very fine tenor with a good tone and diction.
This cd is well worth adding to ones G&S collection
I had not heard The Zoo before, but greatly enjoyed it; Kenneth Sandford as always has such a delightful, expressive voice, and the late Meston Reid was a very fine tenor with a good tone and diction.
This cd is well worth adding to ones G&S collection
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