Malcolm Sargent served as an accompanist for amateur productions of Gilbert & Sullivan beginning when he was 14, was musical director for the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company from 1926 to 1928, and made complete recordings of several of the operettas with the company during that period, so he clearly had the Gilbert & Sullivan tradition in his blood. ...
Malcolm Sargent recorded nine Gilbert and Sullivan operettas in productions based on performances at the Glyndebourne Festival in the late '50s and early '60s, and this version of H.M.S. Pinafore is among his most successful efforts. Sargent's reading is notable for its typically nuanced attention to details of the score, and the performances by ...
Early in his career, Malcolm Sargent was musical director of the D'Oyly Carte Opera, so the spirit of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas was in his blood, and with that company he made the first complete recording of The Yeoman of the Guard in 1928. Thirty years later, he made his second (of three versions) based on a Glyndebourne production featuring ...
Malcolm Sargent was at one time the musical director of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, so he brings real authority to this 1956 recording of The Mikado, made with the Glyndebourne Festival Chorus and the Pro Arte Orchestra. The clarity of his conducting makes the score sparkle and brings out felicities of orchestration that are too often lost. ...
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