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2004 Naxos Rights International Ltd. Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd ...... Martyn Green Having already mocked the Richard Dauntless ...... Leonard Osborn time-honoured institutions, Sir Despard Murgatroyd of Ruddigore ...... Richard Watson the Navy (HMS Pinafore), Old Adam Goodheart ...... Radley Flynn the judicature (Trial by Jury) Sir Roderick Murgatroyd ...... Darrell Fancourt and the archetypal English & SULLIVAN: GILBERT ‘flower power’ group known Rose Maybud ...... Margaret Mitchell as the Aesthetic Movement Ruddigore Dame Hannah ...... Ella Halman (Patience), in Ruddigore Zorah ...... Deirdre Thurlow W. S. Gilbert ridiculed Mad Margaret ...... Ann Drummond-Grant contemporary obsessions Chorus of Officers, Ancestors, Professional Bridesmaids with etiquette and the and Villagers supernatural. Without being Recorded 21 July and 24 August 1950 London a top G&S favourite, Ruddigore is a highly Decca LK 4027/8, London LLP 243/4; mx ARL 429/32 accomplished score with The D’Oyly Carte Opera Chorus and Orchestra several finely-integrated conducted by Isidore Godfrey dramatic moments, including Ruddigore the memorable ‘gallery of

GILBERT & SULLIVAN: ghosts’ sequence.

1 Overture 6:49 MADE IN 2-* Act I 44:19 THE E.U. (-• Act II 23:11

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