636943131725

Gilbert Sullivan: Princess Ida

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Format: 2CD

Cat No: 8110317-18

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Release Date:  01 January 2006

Label:  Naxos - Historical / Naxos Historical

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  2

Barcode:  636943131725

Genres:  Classical  

Composer/Series:  Gilbert Sullivan

  • Description

    William Schwenk Gilbert (1836-1911) and Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900)Princess Ida, or 'Castle Adamant'The three-act comic opera Princess Ida appeared,chronologically, between Iolanthe (1882) and TheMikado (1885) and was first performed under the batonof the composer, on 5th January 1884 at the'electrically-lighted' Savoy Theatre. Its initialproduction ran for 246 performances (with a firstAmerican production opening in parallel at New York'sFifth Avenue Theatre, on 11th February). Billed a'respectful Operatic Per-Version of Tennyson's\Princess ', it was a re-working by Gilbert of his ownunsuccessful 1870 burlesque The Princess, itself a satireof Tennyson's narrative poem, but whereas in ThePrincess: A Medley (1847; augmented in 1853) the PoetLaureate had eagerly anticipated female emancipation,in Princess Ida the conservative Gilbert reaffirmed hisown more sceptical view of the feminist movement, astance which, after the establishment during the 1870sof women's colleges at Oxford and Cambridge, wasalready becoming unfashionable.Peter Dempsey""

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Overture
      • 2. Search throughout the panorama
      • 3. Now hearken to my strict command
      • 4. Today we meet, My baby bride and I
      • 5. From the distant panorama - We are warriors three
      • 6. If You Give Me Your Attention
      • 7. P'raps if you address the lady
      • 8. Come, Cyril, Florian - Expressive glances
      • 9. Must we, till then, in prison cell be thrust? - For a month to dwell in a dungeon cell
      • 10. Towards the empyrean heights
      • 11. Mighty maiden with a mission
      • 12. Minerva! Hear me - Oh, goddess wise
      • 13. Gently, gently, evidently
      • 14. They intend to send a wire
      • 15. I am a maiden, cold and stately
      • 16. The world is but a broken toy
      • 17. A lady fair (The Ape and the Lady)
      • 18. The women of the wisest wit
      • 19. Now wouldn't you like to rule the roost
      • 20. Merrily ring the luncheon bell
      • 21. Would you know the kind of maid
      • 22. Finale

      Disc 2

      • 1. Death to the invader!
      • 2. I Built Upon a Rock
      • 3. Whene'er I spoke
      • 4. When anger spreads his song
      • 5. This helmet, I suppose
      • 6. This is our duty plain
      • 7. Finale
      • 8. For the Merriest Fellows are We
      • 9. Buon giorno, signorine
      • 10. From the Sunny Spanish Shore
      • 11. In Enterprise of Martial Kind
      • 12. There Was a Time
      • 13. I Stole the Prince
      • 14. Recit: But bless my heart - Try we lifelong
      • 15. Bridegroom and Bride
      • 16. When a Merry Maiden Marries
      • 17. Then One of Us Will Be a Queen
      • 18. Rising Early in the Morning
      • 19. Take a Pair of Sparkling Eyes
      • 20. There Lived a King
      • 21. I am a courtier, grave and serious
      • 22. Here we are, at risk of our lives
      • 23. Dance a cachucha