Gilbert & Sullivan: Patience

Philip Potter (Artist), Kenneth Sandford (Artist), Gilbert & Sullivan (Composer), Isidore Godfrey (Conductor), Donald Adams (Performer), Gillian Knight (Performer), John Reed (Performer), John Cartier (Performer), Beti Lloyd-Jones (Performer), Yvonne Newman (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Donald Adams, Gillian Knight, John Reed, John Cartier, Beti Lloyd-Jones, et al.
• Conductor: Isidore Godfrey
• Composer: Gilbert & Sullivan
• Audio CD (July 21, 1989)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: London
• ASIN: B0000041VE
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #105,672 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Overture

2. Act One: Twenty love-sick maidens we

3. Act One: Still brooding on their mad infatuation

4. Act One: I cannot tell what this love may be

5. Act One: Twenty love-sick maidens we

6. Act One: The soldiers of our Queen

7. Act One: If you want a receipt for that popular mystery

8. Act One: In a doleful train two & two we walk all day

9. Act One: Twenty love-sick maidens we

10. Act One: When I first put this uniform on

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Disc: 2

1. Act One: Come, walk up, and purchase with avidity

2. Act One: We've been thrown over, we're aware

3. Act One: And are you going a ticket to buy?

4. Act One: Hold! Stay your hand!

5. Act One: True love must single-hearted be

6. Act One: I hear the soft note of the echoing voice

7. Act One: But who is this, whose god-like grace

8. Act One: List Reginald, whilst I confess a love

9. Act Two: On such eyes as maidens cherish

10. Act Two: Sad is a woman's lot who, year by year

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Golden Cast of D'Oyly Carte!, April 13, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Gilbert & Sullivan: Patience (Audio CD)

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!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best ever version, June 7, 2002

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Papageno "Limpet" (Devon,South West, England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gilbert & Sullivan: Patience (Audio CD)

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.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Definitive Recording, December 8, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Gilbert & Sullivan: Patience (Audio CD)

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.