PATIENCE (2009 BBC PROMS)

PATIENCE (2009 BBC PROMS)
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Gilbert and Sullivan refers to the Victorian era partnership of librettist W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) and composer Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900). The two men collaborated on fourteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896, of which H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado are among the best known.

Gilbert, who wrote the words, created fanciful "topsy-turvy" worlds for these operas, where each absurdity is taken to its logical conclusion—fairies rub elbows with British lords, flirting is a capital offence, gondoliers ascend to the monarchy, and pirates turn out to be noblemen who have gone wrong. Sullivan, six years Gilbert's junior, composed the music, contributing memorable melodies that could convey both humour and pathos.

Patience (1881) satirised the aesthetic movement in general and its colourful poets, in particular, combining aspects of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Oscar Wilde, James McNeill Whistler and others in the rival poets Bunthorne and Grosvenor.  The work also lampoons male vanity and chauvinism in the military. The story concerns two rival "aesthetic" poets, who attract the attention of the young ladies of the village, who had been engaged to the members of a cavalry regiment. But the two poets are each in love with Patience, the village milkmaid, who detests one of them and feels that it is her duty to avoid the other despite her love for him.

PATIENCE

(semi-staged performance)

Live 11 August 2009, London Royal Albert Hall

BBC Promenade Concerts, 2009 Concert No. 35

Broadcast: BBC Radio3

Patience - Rebecca Bottone

Lady Jane - Felicity Palmer

Lady Angela - Pamela Helen Stephen

Lady Ella - Elena Xanthoudakis

Lady Saphir - Sophie-Louise Dann

Reginald Bunthorne - Simon Butteriss

Archibald Grosvenor - Toby Stafford-Allen

Colonel Calverley - Donald Maxwell

Major Murgatroyd - Graeme Danby

Lt. Duke of Dunstable - Bonaventura Bottone

Chorus of English National Opera London

Chorusmaster: Martin Merry

BBC Concert Orchestra

Conductor: Charles Mackerras

VALMOUTH (1982 CHICHESTER FESTIVAL CAST)

VALMOUTH (1982 CHICHESTER FESTIVAL CAST)
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Show: Valmouth
Music: Sandy Wilson
Lyrics: Sandy Wilson
Book: Sandy Wilson

Date: 1982

Performers: Marcia Ashton, Simon Butteriss, Judy Campbell, Fenella Fielding, Doris Hare, Robert Helpmann, Cheryl Kennedy, Robert Meadmore, Bertice Reading, Femi Taylor, Jan Wenham, Jane Wenham, Mark Wynter

Tracks:
1. Opening (Valmouth -- Judy Campbell / Richard Freeman / Jane Wenham / Frank Shelley / Mark Wynter / Femi Taylor / Robert Meadmore...)
2. Magic Fingers -- Bertice Reading
3. Mustapha -- Bertice Reading
4. I Loved a Man -- Cheryl Kennedy
5. What Then Can Make Him Come So Slow? -- Femi Taylor
6. All the Girls Were Pretty -- Judy Campbell / Fenella Fieding / Jane Wenham
7. Just Once More -- Fenella Fielding
8. Lady of the Manor -- Femi Taylor
9. What Do I Want with Love? -- Robert Meadmore
10. My Big Best Shoes -- Bertice Reading / Doris Hare
11. Niri-esther -- Simon Butteriss / Mark Wynter
12. The Cry of the Peacock -- Bertice Reading
13. Little Girl Baby -- Bertice Reading
14. The Cathedral of Clemenza -- Robert Helpmann
15. Only a Passing Phase -- Fenella Fielding
16. Valmouth -- Mark Wynter
17. Where the Trees Are Green with Parrots -- Femi Taylor
18. My Talking Day -- Marcia Ashton
19. I Will Miss You -- Doris Hare / Bertice Reading
20. Finale (Valmouth -- July Campbell / Richard Freeman / Jane Wenham / Frank Shelley / Mark Wynter / Femi Taylor / Robert Meadmore...)

We would like to thank PAUL THOMAS for these presents!!