Topsy-Turvy - The Music of Gilbert & Sullivan: From the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Composer: Carl DavisComposer: Arthur Sullivan
Conductor: Carl Davis
Performer: Ian Balmain
Performer: John Constable
Performer: Abb? Paul L?onard
Performer: Angie Wallis
Performer: Anna Francolini
Performer: Ashley Artus
Performer: Ashley Jensen
Performer: Cathy Sara
Performer: Debbie Chazen
Performer: Dorothy Atkinson
Performer: Eleanor David
Performer: Gemma Page
Performer: Heather Craney
Performer: John Alan Griffiths
Performer: John Warnaby
Performer: Julie Jupp
Performer: Kacey Ainsworth
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language); French (Original Language); German (Original Language); Italian (Original Language); Japanese (Original Language)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 1999-12-07
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Mikado/Behold! The Lord High Executioner
- Mikado: Overture
- Mikado/Three Little Maids from School Are We
- Princess Ida: Overture
- Princess Ida: If You Give Me Your Attention
- Paris Galop from the Grand Duke
- Mikado/Mi-Ya Sa-Ma and a More Humane Mikado
- Sorcerer/But Soft .../Why, Where Be Oi?
- Alone from "The Yeomen of the Guard"
- Mikado: The Criminal Cried as He Dropped Him Down
- Yeomen of the Guard: Overture
- Mikado: A Wand'ring Minstrel I
- Mikado: The Sun Whose Rays Are All Ablaze
- End Titles from "The Pirates of Penzance" and "The Grand Duke"
- Sorcerer: Incantation
- Fitting from "The Gondoliers"
- Lost Chord
- Mikado/The Mikado: Finale, Act Two
- Resolutions from "The Long Day Closes"
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 McCulleyMiscellaneous Music CDs
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