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Gilbert and Sullivan: Favorite Overtures. Sir Malcolm Sargent, the Pro Arte Orchestre. EMI Seraphim 243 5 74010 2 9.(Review)
Gilbert and Sullivan: Favorite Overtures. Sir Malcolm Sargent, the Pro Arte Orchestre. EMI Seraphim 243 5 74010 2 9.
It's great to see that EMI has reinstituted its low-priced Seraphim line of recordings on CD. And they've stocked the series with a good assortment of fine old performances, many of them classics of their kind. This disc, of Gilbert and Sullivan overtures, is a prime example.
Taken from Sir Malcolm Sargent's complete sets, these overtures prove once and for all that the music of Sir Arthur Sullivan (lyrics by Sir W.S. Gilbert) must be taken seriously. Not that Sargent presents the tunes in any highhanded or weighty style; they are simply presented as genuinely thoughtful and entertaining melodies, not slight, music-hall ditties. In fact, the knock against Sargent's presentations of the operettas ...
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