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THE COTSWOLD SAVOYARDS

Concert Live on BBC Radio 2

Details taken from the Programme:


Cheltenham Town Hall

Saturday 18th January 1997 at 7.30pm

BBC Radio 2 presents

in association with Cheltenham Borough Council

MESSRS.  GILBERT, SULLIVAN and BRUCE

BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA

(Leader: MARTIN LOVEDAY)                   

Concert Orchestra
conducted by
BARRY WORDSWORTH

with soloists
VALERIE MASTERSON Soprano

GILLIAN KNIGHT Mezzo Soprano

DAVID FIELDSEND Tenor

DONALD MAXWELL Baritone

and the

CHORUS OF THE COTSWOLD SAVOYARDS

(Chorus Master: DAVID MANIFOLD)

Introduced by
KEN BRUCE

Produced by ALAN BOYD

Tonight's concert is a live broadcast on BBC Radio 2 88-91FM



PART ONE


TRIAL BY JURY (1875)
    Opening Chorus: Hark, The Hour of Ten is Sounding
        -
Cotswold Savoyards

H.M.S. PINAFORE (or The Lass That Loved a Sailor) (1878)
    Overture - Orchestra
    Opening Chorus: We Sail the Ocean Blue
        -
Cotswold Savoyards
    I'm Called Little Buttercup -
Mrs Cripps
    A Maiden Fair to See -
Ralph Rackshaw
    I
am the Captain of the Pinafore
        -
Captain Corcoran, Cotswold Savoyards
    Sorry Her Lot Who Loves Too Well -
Josephine
    When I was a Lad
        -
Sir Joseph Porter, Cotswolds Savoyards

PIRATES OF PENZANCE (1880)
    O
False One - Ruth and Frederic
    Oh, is There Not One Maiden Breast -
Frederic and Mabel
    Poor Wand'ring One - Mabel, Cotswold Savoyards
    The Major General's Song
        -
Major General Stanley, Cotswold Savoyards
    The Paradox Trio -
Ruth, Frederic and The Pirate King
    Stay Frederic Stay! -
Mabel and Frederic
    When a Felon's not Engaged in his Employment
        -
Sergeant of Police, Cotswold Savoyards
    With a Cat-Like Tread -
Chorus of Pirates

PATIENCE (or Bunthorne's Bride)
    Finale: After Much Debate Internal--
Duke of Dunstable
        Reginald Bunthorne,
Saphir, Angela,
        Cotswold Savoyards



INTERVAL


PART TWO

IOLANTHE (1882)
    Entrance and March of the Peers -
Cotswold Savoyards
    None Shall Part Us -
Phyllis and Strephon
    O
Foolish Fay - Queen, Chorus of Fairies

THE MIKADO (or The Town of Titipu) (1885)
    Overture -
Orchestra
    A Wand'ring Minstrel -
Nanki-Poo, Cotswold Savoyards
     The Sun, Whose Rays are all Ablaze -
Yum-Yum
    Madrigal: Brightly Dawns our Wedding Day
        -
Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sing, Nanki-Poo and Pish-Tush
    Tit Willow-
Ko-Ko
    There is Beauty in the Below -
Katisha and Ko-Ko

RUDDIGORE (1887)
    Welcome Gentry -
Cotswold Savoyards

THE YEOMEN OF THE GUARD
   
(or The Merryman and his Maid) (1888)
    A Man who Would Woo A Fair Maid
        -
Elsie, Phoebe and Colonel Fairfax

THE GONDOLIERS (1889)
    A Regular Royal Queen
        -
Gianetta, Tessa, Marco and Guiseppe
    Dance a Cachuca -
Cotswold Savoyards

THE GRAND DUKE (or The Statutory Duel) (1896)
    Finale: Happy Couples Lightly Treading - Entire Company


THE END

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