The Gondoliers & Trial by Jury (1927/8)

Album by W.S. Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan

The Gondoliers & Trial by Jury is a 1927–28 album of operetta recordings of works by W. S. Gilbert, issued as a commercial recording of the stage pieces. The release presents the comic operetta style—light orchestral accompaniment, chorus-driven passages and brisk, speech-like vocal lines—and reflects the early electrical-era practice of recording Victorian-era stage works for interwar audiences.

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    The Gondoliers: Act I: Overture
    4:43
  2. 2.
    The Gondoliers: Act II: 1: Of Happiness the Very Pith
    1:51
  3. 3.
    The Gondoliers: Act I: 1: List and Learn
    16:51
  4. 4.
    The Gondoliers: Act II: 2: Rising Early in the Morning
    2:45
  5. 5.
    The Gondoliers: Act I: 2: From the Sunny Spanish Shore
    1:40
  6. 6.
    The Gondoliers: Act II: 3: Take a Pair of Sparkling Eyes
    2:59
  7. 7.
    The Gondoliers: Act I: 3: In Enterprise of Martial Kind
    1:30
  8. 8.
    The Gondoliers: Act II: 4: Here We Are at the Risk of Our Lives
    2:53
  9. 9.
    The Gondoliers: Act I: 4: O Rapture, When Alone Together
    1:51
  10. 10.
    The Gondoliers: Act II: 5: Dance a Cachuca
    1:26
  11. 11.
    The Gondoliers: Act II: 6: There Lived a King
    2:43
  12. 12.
    The Gondoliers: Act I: 5: There Was a Time
    3:01
  13. 13.
    The Gondoliers: Act I: 6: I Stole the Prince
    2:13
  14. 14.
    The Gondoliers: Act II: 7: In a Contemplative Fashion
    2:01
  15. 15.
    The Gondoliers: Act II: 8: With Ducal Pomp
    1:29
  16. 16.
    The Gondoliers: Act I: 7: But, Bless My Heart
    0:58
  17. 17.
    The Gondoliers: Act I: 8: Try We Life-Long
    1:56
  18. 18.
    The Gondoliers: Act II: 9: On the Day When I Was Wedded
    2:09
  19. 19.
    The Gondoliers: Act II: 10: To Help Unhappy Commoners... Small Titles and Orders
    3:11
  20. 20.
    The Gondoliers: Act I: 9: Bridegroom and Bride
    0:45
  21. 21.
    The Gondoliers: Act II: 11: I Am a Courtier Grave and Serious
    3:22
  22. 22.
    The Gondoliers: Act I: 9a: When a Merry Maiden Marries
    2:56
  23. 23.
    The Gondoliers: Act I: 10: Kind Sir, You Cannot Have the Heart
    3:47
  24. 24.
    The Gondoliers: Act II: 12: Here Is a Case Unprecedented
    5:51
  25. 25.
    The Gondoliers: Act I: 10a: Then One of Us
    12:17
  26. 26.
    Trial by Jury: 1 (intro)
    3:02
  27. 27.
    Trial by Jury: 1a: Is This the Court of the Exchequer?
    0:54
  28. 28.
    Trial by Jury: 2: When First My Old Love I Knew
    3:03
  29. 29.
    Trial by Jury: 3: All Hail Great Judge...
    2:26
  30. 30.
    Trial by Jury: 4: When, I, Good Friends Was Called to the Bar
    3:07
  31. 31.
    Trial by Jury: 5: Swear Thou the Jury!
    1:19
  32. 32.
    Trial by Jury: 6: Where Is the Plaintiff?
    3:12
  33. 33.
    Trial by Jury: 7: Oh, Never, Never, Never
    1:09
  34. 34.
    Trial by Jury: 8: May It Please You My Lud
    2:41
  35. 35.
    Trial by Jury: 9: That She Is Reeling
    0:54
  36. 36.
    Trial by Jury: 10: Oh, Gentlemen, Listen
    1:30
  37. 37.
    Trial by Jury: 11: That Seems a Reasonable Proposition
    0:55
  38. 38.
    Trial by Jury: 12: A Nice Dilemma We Have Here
    2:31
  39. 39.
    Trial by Jury: 13: I Love Him, I Love Him
    2:36
  40. 40.
    Trial by Jury: 14: Oh, Joy Unbounded
    1:46

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