Portal:Gilbert and Sullivan/Selected audio

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Selected biographies list

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• "The Lost Chord"
  A 1913 recording of "The Lost Chord" sung by Reed Miller. The lyrics are by Christian mystic poet Adelaide Anne Procter, and were set to music by Arthur Sullivan at the bedside of his dying brother, Fred Sullivan, to whom the song is dedicated. "The Lost Chord" proved immediately successful and remains one of the most enduring of Sullivan's non-operatic compositions.

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• "Pinafore airs", pt. 1
  Part of a four-part Edison Records recording from 1911. Includes "We have sailed the ocean blue" "Hail, men of oarsmen", "I'm called Little Buttercup", and "A maiden fair to see"

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• "Pinafore airs", pt. 2
  Part of a four-part Edison Records recording from 1911. Includes "My gallant crew, good morning", "I am the Captain of the Pinafore", "Sorry her lot" (second verse, beginning "Sad is the hour"), "Over the bright blue sea", and "I am the monarch of the sea"

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• Very early recording of "The Lost Chord"
  The Lost Chord, recorded by George Gouraud for the August 14, 1888 press conference that introduced the phonograph to London.

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• After-dinner speech by Arthur Sullivan at the Little Menlo, London
  A very early wax cylinder recording (October 5, 1888) of Arthur Sullivan recording an audio letter to be sent back to Thomas Alva Edison at a phonograph party hosted by Edison's London representative, George Gouraud.

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• "Favourite airs from The Mikado"
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  A 1914 Edison Records recording of extracts from Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado. It includes selections from the overture, "A wand'ring minstrel", "Three little maids", "Tit-willow", and the Act II finale.

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• Little Maid of Arcadee
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  Recording of "Little maid of Arcadee" from Thespis (opera)

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