COMPOSERS: Sullivan
LABELS: Eloquence
ALBUM TITLE: Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance and Cox and Box
WORKS: The Pirates of Penzance; Cox and Box
PERFORMER: D’Oyly Carte Opera Company, New Symphony Orchestra of London/Isidore Godfrey; *RPO/Royston Nash
CATALOGUE NO: 480 7059 (1958/78)
D’Oyly Carte recorded better versions of Pirates in the 1960s and ’70s. Ann Drummond-Grant’s fruity Ruth and Jean Hindmarsh’s soubrettish Mabel shine in a lacklustre cast. Cox and Box has more wit. Christopher Cook