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

THE BEST OF GILBERT & SULLIVAN (2000)

THE BEST OF GILBERT & SULLIVAN (2000)

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Tracks:

1   H.M.S. Pinafore: Overture
2   We Sail The Ocean Blue from H.M.S. Pinafore
3   Never Mind The Why And Wherefore from H.M.S. Pinafore
4   When Maiden Loves She Sits And Sighs from The Yeomen of the Guard
5   Here's A Man Of Jollity from The Yeomen of the Guard
6   Tripping Hither, Tripping Thither from Iolanthe
7   The Law Is The True Embodiment from Iolanthe
8   When I Went To The Bar from Iolanthe
9   Strephon's A Member Of Parliament! from Iolanthe
10  When Britain Really Rul'd The Waves from Iolanthe
11  Finale Act Two: Soon As We May from Iolanthe
12  The Pirates of Penzance: Overture
13  Poor Wandr'ing One! from The Pirates of Penzance
14  I Am The Very Model from The Pirates of Penzance
15  When The Foeman Bares His Steel from The Pirates of Penzance
16  With Cat-Like Tread The Pirates of Penzance
17  If You Want To Know Who We Are from The Mikado
18  The Flowers That Bloom In The Spring from The Mikado
19  On A Tree By A River from The Mikado
20  The Soldiers Of Our Queen from Patience
21  If You Want a Receipt For That Popular Mystery from Patience
22  Am I Alone And Unobserved from Patience
23  If You're Anxious For To Shine from Patience
24  We're Called Gondolieri from The Gondoliers
25  From The Sunny Spanish Shore from The Gondoliers
26  For Ev'ry One Who Feels Inclined from The Gondoliers
27  Take A Pair Of Sparkling Eyes from The Gondoliers
28  Dance A Cachucha from The Gondoliers

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