HMS Pinafore - When I Was A Lad

[9P9T6]

The lead singer and chorus do a great job on "When I was a lad"; I think for members of the audience hearing it for the first time it would be a great introduction to G&S. However, the poor sound quality makes the orchestral accompaniment quite distracting. I am no singer or musician, but from what I can tell looking at other performances on Youtube, the best versions are those which try to get the vocals and music as close to the original as possible.

[frauirmabunt]

Peculiar uniforms, Russian navy, maybe? Certainly nothing like British nayy from any period

[letoofdune]

When I find that bassoonist, and I will, I will slap them for every whiny, pinched note they played.

[huntergirl121]

wow im doing this as a school play and sir josheph is soo good!!

[stellaXXkdrac]

I have to do this play in Choir.

[MrWiitarded]

Great song, but the sound quality is not great, to say the least

[Tillyvalle]

Wonderful!

[katherine912]

To be honest I thought the vocals on this was one of the best recorded that I have seen on youtube yet! However, I thought the opera company's orchestral accompaniment was something to be desired. The reeded instruments were way to heavy and covered up some of the lines of the vocalist in "When I Was a Lad". . . . I don't know if this was due to the orchestra's interpretation of the work or the recording quality of the video. Other than that I thought it was a great reproduction of a classic!

[RossiniSoprano]

Not only that, but someone needs to shoot the clarinet player! And all those added little bits that Sullivan did not write were neither necessary nor an improvement.

[karlamadeusmozart]

@RossiniSoprano Amen. God its horrid isn't it.

[fosterpilkington]

Entertaining. A great song I like doing myself at gigs

[lardmonk]

jolly good

[Tsannir]

One of my favorites

[iagmule]

thanks for the post