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Strange Adventure! or...
a fantastic voyage through all 14 operettas
of Gilbert & Sullivan

The Montreal West Operatic Society CD!

To mark our 60th Aniversary in the 1999-2000 season, the MWOS singers and orchestra, including ten soloists, entered the studio from October 29 through 31, 1999, to record the first-ever studio recording to include musical numbers from every one of the 14 Gilbert & Sullivan operettas! The resulting CD was released on January 19, 2000 at a gala launch held at Indigo Books in Montreal. This limited-edition recording in now available in record stores throughout the Montreal region, including all HMV, Sam the Record Man, Archambault and Phatasmagoria outlets. The price is CA$20 + postage and handling.

Douglas Knight Leads the Recording Session

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The Songs

Total timing (75:02):

1. Overture (The Yeoman of the Guard) (6:37)
2. Dance a cachuca, fandango, bolero (The Gondoliers) (2:12)
3. The sun, whose rays are all ablaze (The Mikado) (2:54)
4. A wand'ring minstrel I (The Mikado) (4:23)
5. I am the very model of a modern Major-General (The Pirates of Penzance) (3:20)
6. Hail Poetry, thou heav'n born maid! (The Pirates of Penzance) (0:57)
7. With cat-like tread (The Pirates of Penzance) (2:49)
8. Poor wand'ring one! (The Pirates of Penzance) (3:27)
9. I know a youth who loves a little maid (Ruddigore) (3:30)
10. When the night wind howls (Ruddigore) (2:43)
11. Strange adventure! Maiden wedded (The Yeomen of the Guard) (3:09)
12. When our gallant Norman foes (The Yeomen of the Guard) (4:56)
13. When I, good friends, was calle' to the bar ("The Judge's Song") (Trial by Jury) (3:06)
14. Love is a plaintive song (Patience) (3:39)
15. Love feeds on many kinds of food, I know ("For love alone") (The Sorcerer) (3:31)
16. Little maid of Acadee (Thespis) (2:35)
17. When I was a lad I served a term (H.M.S. Pinafore) (2:58)
18. Minerva! Oh, hear me (Princess Ida) (3:01)
19. Take my advice - when deep in debt ("The Roulette Song") (The Grand Duke) (3:03)
20. Eagle high on cloudland soaring (Utopia, Limited) (4:04)
21. When all night long a chap remains (Iolanthe) (4:14)
22. Every biil and every measure / With Strephon for your foe (Iolanthe) (3:54)

The Soloists

The musical numbers were sung by Robert Charpentier, Charlotte Corwin, Wilfrid de Freitas, Anita Hayes, Dimitris Ilias, Richard Langlois, Mark Oxner, Robert Saigec-Taylor, Andrea Shuster and Patricia Sweeney, and the MWOS chorus.

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