The Original Overture from The Pirates of Penzance

[MrSlayer42]

we used to play this in our brass band :)

[danilo22uk]

please do your homework, if you are a true Sullivan fan, youll know this is edited, & it sounds llke D 'oyly Carte Opera Company on Decca too!!!!

[tootintrumpet]

I played the trumpet solos in this piece; I was terrified! BUT ... I LOVED IT!!

[Kwprules]

Here's a more complete version, but I'm still not sure it has all the parts:

youtube.com/watch?v=oRy_qhHcnT­s&feature=related

[mitchell36able]

I wish that I could go back in time and hear all of Gilbert & Sullivan for the first time again.

[lhrlyc]

to be pedantic, nobody knows what the "original" overture sounded like as Sullivan lost his manuscripts enroute to the new york premiere and had to rewrite much of the music ...

[lent77cv]

AMAZING!

[leporello56]

What the hell is all this shite about versions. I f your talking about the shit musical movie thing then you can't say you are familiar with the pirates of penzance at all.

[crzxr]

Anyone with the barest familiarity with the opera, and of the slightest musicality, will recognize that this is a badly truncated and insensitively mangled version of the true overture; poorly cobbled parts of the proper overture. The extremely poor editing would never have been sanctioned by as good a composer as Sullivan, and anyone who seriously thinks this is the original overture in its complete form needs to consider applying to a mental home.

[wks1978]

@crzxr A rather aggressive and condescending attitude, especially as we're not dealing with music of substance, only that of Sir Arthur Sullivan.

Before you suggest people need to apply to a "mental home" consider why you feel the need to show such disrespect and lack of logic towards people you don't even know.

[happydayz1992]

Hey you guy's are right there is a part missing

[contranimal]

this version has the whole middle section missing

[FinalFreek]

you are correct i am a collector of pianoforte gilbert and sullivan opera scores and all the way through i was following it through on the music and you are right a big chunk of the music is missing as if it was cut.

[TQ11AA]

the other version is WAY better

[lizarddavid]

the other version has songs that arent actually in pirates of penzance; this is the true overture.

[christobell123]

what is the "other version" and why is the middle section of this overture missing? This isn't the true overture, the true one has an extract from act two's "Ah, leave me not to pine" between "with cat like tread" and "Heres a first-rate opportunity"

[Louisnodell92]

where did u get the recording of this?