Arthur Sullivan - The Yeomen of the Guard (1993 Marriner recording) - No. 3. "Oh! a private buffoon", "Hereupon we're both agreed", "Free from his fetters", "Strange adventure" & "When a wooer" (Kurt Streit, Thomas Allen, Sylvia McNair, Jean Rigby)

[bhandsdes]

Thanks again, Lindoro Rossini. Best G&S by a considerable margin. I come back time and again. "You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll sing along (to the annoyance of those sitting nearby) . . . a giant roller coaster of an opera." And the adorably honorable and stupid Fairfax . . . how could you not want to chuck him under the chin with one hand and smack him on the back of the head with the other?

[DeadWiegraf]

Sullivan really had a way with madrigal like composition. His Quartets are always my favorite parts of the shows. " The World is but a Broken Toy" in Princess Ida is a wonderful one also.

[drtmuir]

Tom Allen singing in his "oop North" accent, LOL

[grimalover]

It is not hard to fall under the spell of Gilbert and Sullivan. I loved it as a child, and grew up loving. I can remember seeing their operettas on stage.

[racehorse87]

I've heard many a version of Yeomen and this one is well sung! (and probably well danced, if it were a staged show)

[emilygclarinet]

Thanks so much for posting this. I LOVE Gilbert and Sullivan!

[lskarin]

The additional verse "When a jester is outwitted... did not come through. But that's irrelevant to the magnificent work you've done

Thank you so much.

Larry Skarin

Rochester New York USA

[lskarin]

Wish the poster had added the verse:

"When a jester is outwitted, feelings fester, heart is lead;

Would have liked to hear Terfel do that.

[LindoroRossini]

I will upload that particular except in a couple of days, it's been on a small hiatus :P. On a side note, it's actually the equally delightful Thomas Allen who sings the role of Point, while Terfel is awarded the smaller but nonetheless quite worthy role of Wilfred :).

[LindoroRossini]

The second finale will also be presented with the reprise of Elsie's and Point's lovely duet.

[lskarin]

Thank you for the correction. I love G&S and think it's important for us to keep alive and expand the comical/cynical Gilbert did.  I am always updating (on my computer) topicalities Gilbert might do. GASP, in New York City, is the best approximation of D'Oyly Carte I know of.

Cheers.

[LindoroRossini]

I think you'll be happy to know that I've decided to post the final upload right now, as it is high time to properly end the series :). Also, what do you think of this version as a whole :)?

[lskarin]

Wow! Who would have thought Bryn Terfel would be so verbally agile! Martyn Green and John Reed -- step aside!

[jackpoint188]

This compilation is wonderfully sung especially freed from his fetters, more like serious opera.