Carl Davis - Topsy-Turvy - The Music of Gilbert & Sullivan: From the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Artist: Carl DavisPerformer: Allan Corduner
Performer: Dexter Fletcher
Performer: Sukie Smith
Performer: Roger Heathcott
Performer: Wendy Nottingham
Performer: Stefan Bednarczyk
Performer: Geoffrey Hutchings
Performer: Timothy Spall
Performer: Francis Lee
Performer: William Neenan
Performer: Adam Searle
Performer: Martin Savage
Performer: Jim Broadbent
Performer: Lesley Manville
Performer: Kate Doherty
Performer: Kenneth Hadley
Performer: Keeley Gainey
Performer: Ron Cook
Performer: Eleanor David
Performer: Gary Yershon
Edition: Music CD
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 1999-12-07
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- 'The Mikado': Behold! The Lord High Executioner - Carl Davis
- 'The Mikado': Overture - Carl Davis
- 'The Mikado': Three Little Maids From School Are We - Dorothy Atkinson/Shirley Henderson/Cathy Sara
- 'Princess Ida': Overture - Carl Davis
- 'Princess Ida': If You Give Me Your Attention - Martin Savage
- 'The Grand Duke': Paris Galop - Carl Davis
- 'The Mikado': Mi-Ya Sa-Ma/A More Humane Mikado - Louise Gold/Timothy Spall
- 'The Sorcerer': But Soft.../Why, Where Be Oi? - Shirley Henderson/Kevin McKidd/Martin Savage
- 'The Yeomen Of The Guard': Alone - Carl Davis
- 'The Mikado': The Criminal Cried As He Dropped Him Down - Dorothy Atkinson/Vincent Franklin/Martin Savage
- 'The Yeomen Of The Guard': Overture - Carl Davis
- 'The Mikado': A Wand'ring Minstrel I - Kevin McKidd/Michael Simkins
- 'The Mikado': The Sun Whose Rays Are All Ablaze - Shirley Henderson
- End Titles ('The Pirates Of Penzance'/'The Grand Duke') - Carl Davis
- 'The Sorcerer': Incantation - Shirley Henderson/Kevin McKidd/Martin Savage
- 'The Gondoliers': The Fitting - Ian Balmain
- The Lost Chord - Eleanor David/John Constable/Shelagh Sutherland
- 'The Mikado': The Mikado: Finale, Act Two - Dorothy Atkinson/Vincent Franklin/Louise Gold/Shirley Henderson/Kevin McKidd/Cathy Sara...
- 'The Long Day Closes': Resolutions - Carl Davis
Free Music Notes for Topsy-Turvy - The Music of Gilbert & Sullivan: From the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Free Music Review: 19th Century Sainthood
Hit: 5 Stars
The society may have been insufferable, but the theaters were grand. The 19th century wasn't much in the way of social justice, but by golly don't you think they had more fun? Gilbert and Sullivan have never meant much to me, but Mike Leigh's movie persuaded me that I had been missing a lot. This CD captures the music; be sure to catch the DVD of this extraordinary film. The film director's recreation of Victorian England, as seen in the Savoy Theatre (front and backstage) and in the respective studies of Gilbert and Sullivan, from which their works of genius issued, constitutes artistry worthy of identification as a National Treasure. The music lives forever.
Topsy-Turvy - The Music of Gilbert & Sullivan: From the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Poster
The producers of Mike Leigh's vibrant Topsy-Turvy took many big studio meetings seeking financing for their film. Word has it all went swimmingly until time for the pitch came--there are apparently no two words as unsettling to Hollywood film execs as "Gilbert & Sullivan." But the studio system's loss turned out to be the indie film's--and our--gain. Leigh's film brought the composers' late-19th-century mounting of their breakthrough The Mikado to an all-too-familiar life, filled with as many neuroses, foibles, and fragile egos as any modern Broadway musical. The film's score, an inviting pastiche adapted from Mikado (and other G&S staples) by veteran Carl Davis, may upset purists with its time-conscious liberties. But then, it might just win over a receptive yet unexposed new audience for whom this music may seem strangely familiar, as well it should: this is where modern musical theater began. --Jerry McCulleySoundtracks Music CDs
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