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Recordings played to date (in broadcast order):-
"The Merry Widow" Franz Lehár - 1958 Sadler's Wells Opera highlights recording starring June Bronhill & Thomas Round, (plus Lehar songs from Richard Tauber, Peter Dawson, June Bronhill and Gladys Moncrieff.)
"Die Fledermaus" Johann Strauss Jnr. - 1982 Australian Opera complete 'live' recording starring Dame Joan Sutherland, et al.
"The Gypsy Baron" Johann Strauss Jnr. - 1965 Sadler's Wells Opera highlights recording featuring June Bronhill
"The Song of Norway" Edvard Greig adapt. Wright & Forrest - 1992 complete English studio cast recording.
"The Geisha" Sidney Jones - 1999 complete English studio cast recording, (plus a Rita Pauncefort recording from "San Toy".)
"The Maid of the Mountains" Harold Fraser-Simson - 2000 complete English studio cast recording, (supplemented by Gladys Moncrieff's original recordings from the same show.)
"The Arcadians" Lionel Monckton & Howard Talbot - 1968 English studio cast highlights recording with June Bronhill supplemented with additional songs from 1999 Ohio Light Opera Co. 'live' recording.
"The Beggar's Opera" John Gay - 1955 complete H.M.V. English studio cast recording
"Bittersweet" Noël Coward - 1988 New Sadler's Wells Opera complete recording
"The Count of Luxembourg" Franz Lehár - 1983 New Sadler's Wells Opera highlights recording
"Candide" Leonard Bernstein - 1956 original Broadway cast recording supplemented with additional songs from 1991 English studio cast recording
"Cox and Box" Sullivan & Burnand - 1961 D'Oyly Carte Opera Co. complete recording, plus "Trial By Jury" - Gilbert & Sullivan - 1961 H.M.V. English studio cast complete recording, plus ballet music from "Thespis" - Sullivan - 1992 RTE Concert Orchestra, Dublin recording
"Kismet" Alexander Borodin adapt. Wright & Forrest - 1990 English studio cast complete recording
"Old Chelsea" Richard Tauber - 1943 original London cast (B.B.C. radio highlights)
"Orpheus in the Underworld" Jacques Offenbach - 1994 D'Oyly Carte Opera Co. complete recording
"Countess Maritza" Emmerich Kálmán - 1983 New Sadler's Wells Opera highlights recording
"The Bartered Bride" Bedrich Smetana - 1963 Sadler's Wells Opera highlights recording
"La Belle Helene" Jacques Offenbach - 1963 Sadler's Well Opera highlights recording
"H.M.S. Pinafore" Gilbert & Sullivan - 1958 H.M.V. English Studio cast complete recording
"La Vie Parisienne" Jacques Offenbach - 1960 Sadler's Well Opera highlights recording with June Bronhill
"The New Moon" Sigmund Romberg - 2004 N.Y.C.C. "Encores!" concert cast recording, plus selections from "My Maryland" conducted by Romberg, 1945 - 50 recordings
"Paganini" Franz Lehár - 1997 English studio cast complete recording, interpolated with 1937 original London cast highlights recordings featuring Richard Tauber and Evelyn Laye
"The Land of Smiles" Franz Lehár - 1959 Sadler's Well Opera highlights recording with June Bronhill, supplemented with additional songs from 1996 English studio cast complete recording
"The Contrabandista" Sullivan & Burnand - 2004 English studio cast complete recording, plus "The Zoo" Sullivan & Rowe - 1978 D'Oyly Carte Opera Co. complete recording
"Merrie England" Edward German - 1960 H.M.V. English studio complete recording with June Bronhill
"The Sorcerer" Gilbert & Sullivan - 1982 English Studio cast complete recording
"Magdalena" Heitor Villa-Lobos adapt. Wright & Forrest - 1988 U.S. concert cast recording
"The Czarivitch" Franz Lehár - 1995 English studio cast complete recording
"The Adventures of Marco Polo" Rimsky-Korsakov adapt. Clay Warnick & Mel Pahl - 1956 U.S. T.V. cast, plus "Scheherazade" orchestral suite - Rimsky- Korsakov - London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras
"The Pirates of Penzance" Gilbert & Sullivan - 1957 D'Oyly Carte Opera Co. recording
Operetta Pot-Pourri Miscellaneous vocal and orchestral selections by Strauss, Zeller, O. Straus, Offenbach, Lehár, Audran, Suppé, Messager, Millöcker, Planquette & Mozart.
"Lilac Time" Franz Schubert adapt. Berté amp; Clutsam - 1959 H.M.V. English studio highlights recording with June Bronhill & Thomas Round plus selections from "Blossom Time" conducted by Sigmund Romberg, 1945 - 50 recordings and "Blossom Time" (1934 film version) with Richard Tauber
"Waltzes from Vienna" Johann Strauss Snr. & Jnr. - 1959 H.M.V. English studio cast highlights recording with June Bronhill plus orchestral selections by the Strauss family - Johann Snr., Johann Jnr., Josef and Eduard
"Patience" Gilbert & Sullivan - 1998 Australian Opera 'live' recording with Dennis Olsen & Anthony Warlow
"A Waltz Dream" Oscar Straus - 1960 H.M.V. English studio cast highlights recording with June Bronhill plus vocal selections from "The Chocolate Soldier" - Oscar Straus - 1962 H.M.V. English studio cast recording, plus orchestral selections conducted by Oscar Straus - 1947 London studio recordings
"Giuditta" Franz Lehár - 1996 English studio cast complete recording
"The Happiest Girl in the World" Jacques Offenbach adapt. E. Y. Harburg - 1961 original Broadway cast recording, plus complete ballet score "Gaîté Parisienne" - Offenbach arranged by Manuel Rosenthal - Boston Pops Orchestra conducted by Arthur Fiedler
"The Student Prince" Sigmund Romberg - 1989 English studio cast complete recording
"The Brigands" Jacques Offenbach & W.S. Gilbert - 2003 Ohio Light Opera complete recording
"Iolanthe" Gilbert & Sullivan - 1959 H.M.V. English studio cast recording
"The Merry Widow" Franz Lehár - 1968 H.M.V. English studio cast recording with June Bronhill and Jeremy Brett, plus "The Merry Widow" overture, "Gold and Silver" waltz, "The Count of Luxembourg" waltz and "The Land of Smiles" overture - Zürich Tonhalle Orchestra conducted by Franz Lehár - 1947 Swiss studio recordings
"Summer Song" Antonin Dvořák adapt. Bernard Grun & Eric Maschwitz - 1956 original London cast recording, plus Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 "From The New World" - The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Rudolf Kempe
"The Vagabond King" Rudolf Friml - 1961 H.M.V. English studio cast highlights recording plus vocal selections from "The Firefly" - Rudolf Friml - 1961 H.M.V. English studio cast recording and orchestral selections from "The Three Musketeers" - Rudolf Friml - 1930 New Mayfair Orchestra recording
"Tom Jones" Edward German - 1975 English complete "live" concert recording
"Bless the Bride" Vivian Ellis & A. P. Herbert - 1947 original London cast recording (radio broadcast highlights) plus vocal selections from "Streamline" - Vivian Ellis & A. P. Herbert - 1934 original London cast recordings
An Evening with June Bronhill - song selections from "The Merry Widow", "The Land of Smiles", "Orpheus in the Underworld", "La Vie Parisienne", "The Sound of Music", "The Gypsy Baron", "Robert and Elizabeth", plus June Bronhill at the Sydney Opera House - December 1975 'live' concert recording highlights
"Princess Ida" Gilbert & Sullivan - 1965 D’Oyly Carte Opera Co. recording
"White Horse Inn" Ralph Benatzky & Robert Stoltz - 1961 H.M.V. English studio cast highlights recording, plus vocal selections from "Wild Violets" - Robert Stolz - 1959 H.M.V. English studio cast recording, plus orchestral and song selections by Robert Stolz
"The Arcadians" Lionel Monckton & Howard Talbot - (encore presentation) - 1975 English studio cast recording supplemented with songs from 1968 H.M.V. English highlights recording with June Bronhill and 1999 Ohio Light Opera Co. "live" recording.
"Die Fledermaus" Johann Strauss Jnr. - (encore presentation) - 1959 Sadler's Wells Opera highlights recording, plus "A Night in Venice" - Johann Strauss Jnr. - 1962 Reader's Digest studio cast vocal selections recording, plus "Indigo and the Forty Robbers" Overture - The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Willi Boskovsky
"On The Twentieth Century" Cy Coleman, Betty Comden & Adolph Green - 1978 original Broadway cast recording, plus a musical tribute to trains including "The Enchanted Train" (Jerome Kern & P.G. Wodehouse), "Non-Stop Fast Polka" (Eduard Strauss), "Coronation Scot" (Vivian Ellis), "The 5.52 from Victorloo" (Sydney Torch), "Puffin' Billy" (Edward White), "Running off the Rails" (Clive Richardson) and "Murder on the Orient Express" (Richard Rodney Bennett)
"Der Zigeunerprimás" (The Gypsy Violinist) Emmerich Kálmán - 2001 Ohio Light Opera complete recording
"Carmen Jones" Georges Bizet adapt. Oscar Hammerstein II - 1943 original Broadway cast selections recording with additional songs from 1947 N.B.C. radio version & 1991 original London cast recording, plus "L' Arlésienne" Suite No. 1 - Bizet - Detroit Symphony Orchestra conducted by Paul Paray
"The Mikado" Gilbert & Sullivan - 1962 Sadler’s Wells Opera Co. complete recording
"Babes in Toyland" Victor Herbert - 1993 U.S. 'live' concert complete recording
The Melodies of Lionel Monckton Song and musical selections from The Shop Girl, The Geisha, The Circus Girl, A Runaway Girl, San Toy, The Messenger Boy, The Toreador, A Country Girl, The Orchid, The Cingalee, The Girls of Gottenberg, Our Miss Gibbs, The Arcadians, The Quaker Girl and Bric-a-Brac - various recordings from 1915 - 2007
The Melodies of Victor Herbert Orchestral and vocal selections from The Fortune Teller, Mlle. Modiste, The Red Mill, Naughty Marietta, The Enchantress, Sweethearts, The Princess Pat and Eileen - various recordings from 1935 - 1994
"The Desert Song" Sigmund Romberg - 1959 H.M.V. English studio cast highlights recording with June Bronhill, plus Sigmund Romberg conducts vocal selections from "The Blue Paradise", "Maytime", "Rosalie", "Viennese Nights" and "The Night Is Young" - 1945 - 50 U.S. RCA Victor recordings
"Ruddigore" Gilbert & Sullivan - 1963 H.M.V. English studio cast recording
"Kismet" Alexander Borodin adapt. Wright & Forrest - (encore presentation) - original 1953 Broadway cast recording supplemented with interpolations from 1955 MGM movie soundtrack recording, plus the music of Borodin - Notturno from String Quartet No. 2 in D major - St. Petersburg Camerata conducted by Saulius Sondeckis and In the Steppes of Central Asia - New York Philharmonic conducted by Leonard Bernstein
The World of Noël Coward 1976 'live' London concert compered by Evelyn Laye, with June Bronhill, Joan Savage, John Hanson, John Rye and the Nigel Brooks Singers
"Rose Marie" Rudolf Friml & Herbert Stothart - 1961 H.M.V. English studio cast highlights recording, plus the music of Rudolf Friml - orchestral and vocal selections from The Firefly, High Jinks, Katinka, Sometime and The Vagabond King - The Eastman-Dryden Orchestra conducted by Donald Hunsberger
"Conversation Piece" Noël Coward - 1951 U.S. Columbia studio cast recording with Noël Coward and Lily Pons, plus 1934 original London cast recordings
"El Capitan" John Philip Sousa - 1997 U.S. studio cast complete recording
The Melodies of Leslie Stuart - popular music hall songs and vocal selections from Florodora, The School Girl, Havana and Peggy - various recordings from 1900 - 1996
"The Arcadians" Lionel Monckton & Howard Talbot - (Centenary tribute encore presentation) - 1975 English studio cast recording supplemented with interpolations from 1968 H.M.V. English studio cast highlights recording with June Bronhill and 1999 Ohio Light Opera Co. 'live' recording
"Engaged! or Cheviot's Choice" Gilbert & Sullivan adapt. George Rowell & Kenneth Mobbs - 1963 Bristol Opera School complete 'live' recording; plus "Pineapple Poll" ballet score (Sullivan arr. Mackerras) - Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras - 1982 recording; plus selections from "H.M.S. Pinafore" - Gilbert & Sullivan - 1930 H.M.V. recordings
"Bitter Sweet" Noël Coward - (80th Anniversary presentation) - 1988 New Sadler's Wells Opera complete recording
"La Périchole" Jacques Offenbach - 1956 Metropolitan Opera highlights recording, plus Offenbach vocal selections by Cyril Ritchard, June Bronhill, Kevin Miller, Malcolm McEachern, Harold Williams and Glenda Raymond
The Musicals of Lionel Monckton "A Country Girl" - 1966 English studio cast highlights recording; plus "The Quaker Girl" - 1946 Australian "Musical Comedy Theatre" broadcast transcription, plus additional songs from the score featuring Marilyn Hill Smith and Peter Morrison, Neil Williams and original 1910 London cast member Gertie Millar.
"The Dancing Years" Ivor Novello & Christopher Hassell - 1939 original London cast recordings supplemented with additional songs from 1967 and 1995 English studio cast recordings.
"Little Mary Sunshine" Rick Besoyan - 1959 original off-Broadway cast recording supplemented with additional songs from 1962 original London cast recording; plus the inspiration behind Rick Besoyan's parodies including songs from Naughty Marietta, Rose Marie, Sally, Music in the Air, Florodora, Madame Sherry and Annie Get Your Gun.
"The Yeomen of The Guard" Gilbert & Sullivan - 1950 D’Oyly Carte Opera Co. recording "Song of Norway" Edvard Grieg adapt. Wright & Forrest - 1944 original Broadway cast highlights recording with additional vocal and orchestral excerpts from 1990 complete English studio cast recording; plus Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 (Grieg) - the London Promenade Orchestra conducted by Eric Hammerstein, and Solveig's Song - the National Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Charles Gerhardt
Recordings to be featured in future broadcasts:-
"The Beauty Stone" Sullivan & Carr - 1983 English studio cast complete recording
"The Chocolate Soldier" Oscar Straus - 1958 U.S. studio cast highlights recording
"Chu Chin Chow" Frederic Norton & Oscar Asche - 1959 H.M.V. English studio cast highlights recording
"The Emerald Isle" Sullivan & German - 1982 English studio cast complete recording
"The Great Waltz" Johann Strauss Snr. & Jnr. adapt. Wright & Forrest - 1965 Los Angeles Light Opera highlights recording
"Haddon Hall" Sullivan & Grundy - 2000 English studio cast complete recording
"Hugh the Drover" Ralph Vaughan Williams - 1994 English studio cast complete recording
"The Lilac Domino" Charles Cuvillier - 1960 H.M.V. English studio cast selections recording
"Pacific 1860" Noël Coward - 1946 original London cast highlights recording
"The Rose of Persia" Sullivan & Hood - 1999 B.B.C. English studio cast complete recording
"The Gondoliers" Gilbert & Sullivan - 1959 D’Oyly Carte Opera Co. recording
"Utopia (Limited)" Gilbert & Sullivan - 1976 D’Oyly Carte Opera Co. recording
"The Grand Duke" Gilbert & Sullivan - 1973 University of Michigan G&S Society complete studio recording
Selections from: A Waltz Dream; Mlle. Modiste; Babes In Toyland; Naughty Marietta; Rose Marie; Blossom Time; The Red Mill; Roberta - 1962 Reader's Digest Studio cast recordings
Romberg conducts Romberg, Vols. 1 & 2: Selections from: Blossom Time; Maytime; The Blue Paradise; Rosalie; Viennese Nights; May Wine; Sunny River; Up In Central Park - 1945 - 50 U.S. RCA recordings
The Lionel Monckton Album: - Selections from The Cingalee; The Arcadians; The Quaker Girl - 2002/3 Estonian (Theatre Bel-Etage) recordings
Ivor Novello: The Great Shows - original London cast recordings of Glamorous Night (1935); Careless Rapture (1936); Crest Of The Wave (1937); Arc de Triomphe (1943); Perchance to Dream (1945), King's Rhapsody (1949); Gay's The Word (1951).
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