All three LPs in this exceptionally rare collection are mint, pristine, completely free of any conceivable flaw or blemish, almost certainly have never been handled. Slipcase is near-mint minus. Recorded live at the Adelphi Theatre, London, Feb. 27, 1982.
Tracks include the following excerpts from The Yeomen of the Guard, Cox & Box, The Pirates of Penzance, Trial by Jury, The Sorcerer, HMS Pinafore, Patience, Iolanthe, Princess Ida, The Mikado, Ruddigore, The Gondoliers, Utopia Limited, and The Grand Duke.
Introduction
The London Town Crier
Yeomen
Overture
Cox & Box
"Rataplan" (Meston Reid, Clive Harre, Peter Lyon)
Thespis
"Climbing over Rocky Mountain" (Ladies' Chorus)
Trial By Jury
The Judge's Song (John Reed)
The Sorcerer
Dr. Daly's Song (Kenneth Sandford)
"Dear friends, take pity on my lot" (Lorraine Daniels, Bruce Graham)
"Oh marvellous illusion" (Full Company)
H.M.S. Pinafore
"I am the monarch of the sea" / "When I was a lad" (James Conroy-Ward)
"Ring the merry bells" [sic] (Vivian Tierney, Clive Harre, James Conroy-Ward)
The Pirates of Penzance
"I am the very model of a modern Major-General" (Alistair Donkin)
"Poor wand'ring one" (Vivian Tierney)
Patience
"Silvered is the raven hair" (Patricia Leonard)
"I cannot tell what this love may be" (Jill Washington)
"If Saphir I choose to marry" (Lorraine Daniels, Patricia Leonard, Geoffrey Shovelton, James Conroy-Ward, John Ayldon)
The Magnet and the Churn (Kenneth Sandford)
"So go to him and say to him" (John Reed, Patricia Leonard)
Iolanthe
The Entrance of the Peers (Gentlemen's Chorus)
"In for a penny, in for a pound" (John Reed, Geoffrey Shovelton, John Ayldon)
Finale of Act I (Full Chorus)
Princess Ida
The Kissing Song (Geoffrey Shovelton)
"I am a maiden" (Meston Reid, Geoffrey Shovelton, Clive Harre)
"The world is but a broken toy" (Vivian Tierney, Meston Reid, Geoffrey Shovelton, John Ayldon)
"Now, wouldn't you like to rule the roast" (Beti Lloyd-Jones, Lorraine Daniels)
The Mikado
"Our great Mikado" (Peter Lyon)
"Three little maids" (Vivian Tierney, Roberta Morrell, Lorraine Daniels)
Ruddigore
Mad Margaret's Song (Lorraine Daniels)
"I once was a very abandoned person" (Kenneth Sandford, Lorraine Daniels)
Matter Trio (Peter Lyon, Lorraine Daniels, Kenneth Sandford)
"Ghosts High Noon" (John Ayldon)
"When the buds are blossoming" (Full Company)
The Yeomen of the Guard
"Cock and Bull" (James Conroy-Ward, Kenneth Sandford)
"A man who would woo a fair maid" (Geoffrey Shovelton, Jane Stanford, Lorraine Daniels)
Finale of Act I (Full Company)
The Gondoliers
"Take a pair of sparkling eyes" (Meston Reid)
"We're called gondolieri" (Meston Reid, Peter Lyon)
Gavotte (James Conroy-Ward, Vivian Tierney, Patricia Leonard, Meston Reid, Peter Lyon)
Utopia, Limited
"A wonderful joy our eyes to bless" (Clive Harre)
"Dole Queue" (Ladies Chorus)
The Grand Duke
"Come, bumpers" (Patricia Leonard)
"Prety Lisa" (Kenneth Sandford, Lorraine Daniels)
Roulette Song (John Ayldon)
Utopia, Limited
"Eagle High" (Full Company)
The Mikado
Finale, Act II (Full Company)
The Gondoliers
"We leave you with feelings of pleasure" (Full Company)





