"Iolanthe" - Complete Opera with dialogue
A 2 disc box set with a full-sized 16 page booklet, Library of Congress Catalog Number 76-750162. This number applies to OSA 12104, which is printed on the booklet only.
"Records Imported From England"
Recorded under the direction of Bridget D'Oyly Carte
The Decca Record Company Ltd.
side 1 Act 1:
No.1: Tripping hither, tripping thither
No.2: Invocation
No.3: Good morrow, good Mother
No.4: Fare thee well, attractive stranger
No.5: None shall part us from each other
side 2:
No.6: Loudly let the trumpet bray
No.7: The law is the true embodiment
No.8: My well loved lord
No.9: Nay tempt me not
No.10: Spurn not the nobly born
No.11: My lords, it may not be
No.12: When I went to the bar
No.13: Finale (Start) When darkly looms the day
side 3 Act 1:
No.13: Finale (Concl.) Oh, shameless one, tremble
side 3 Act 2:
No.1: When all night long a chap remains
No.2: Strephon's a member of parliament
No.3: When Britain really rules the waves
No.4: In Vain to us you plead
No.5: Oh! Foolish fay
side 4:
No.6: Tho' p'raps I may incur your blame
No.7: Love unrequited robs me of my rest
No.8: If you go in you're sure to win
No.9: If we're weak enough to tarry
No.10: My lord, a suppliant at your feet I kneel
No.11: It may not be
No.12: Finale; Soon as we may, off and away
We call the headline artist name the "Primary artist" and they are chosen not by you, me and our valued contributors, but by the record companies. It is there to identify the record, not the individual performers.
The magic of the Classical World system for individual performers is that that a comprehensive discography is shown for each, even though many, in particular the popular composers, are automatically converted to the preferred form of their name, sometimes with a little additional help from the moderators!
To illustrate my point, click on the main artist at the top of this page, and see where it leads... then come back here, and click on Royal Philharmonic Orchestra name in performers box... see the difference?
The main benefit of the performers box in Classical world, and one of the key reasons why this world needs this method, where others don't, is due to the multitude of artists that could (and usually do) go into making up the main "Artist"...
(Often given in different formulations on the very same disc / sleeve!)
...Multitudes of different collaborations make it impossible to fit all of those headline or main artists into pseudonyms for each individual artist.
Yehudi Menuhin, for example, has worked with everyone under the sun, and his main page could not accommodate all this (I've tried it! :) but by adding each name INDIVIDUALLY into the performers box means we don't have to, as their participation, or involvement in any given work will associate the name in that box with their discography...
...So, however the main Artist is given (At the top of the page - for the item itself), and with whatever collaborations or formulations there are there, the individual name is the prime associating factor.
Important shift of Paradigm <I love using that word :) - Main item artist is effectively secondary, and unimportant, next to the INDIVIDUAL names entered in the performers box.
My own opionion is, that this is so, to the extent, that the main artist for an item at the head of the page, could either be done away with altogether (not practical for item search purposes, perhaps, but irrelevant to the artist discography search)... or more realistically, made to be not a link (not blue clickable text), as it is likely to be a unique formulation, and not lead to any of the artists involved... main item artist in classical world is effectively, functionally, and practically useless, but just a design carry over from 45cat, and other 45worlds for more popular music, where it is useful (essential), relevant, and functonal.
There's plenty of thinking to do yet for classical, as just illustrated, but don't worry too much about getting artist collaborations tied up here yet... just get the names INDIVIDUALLY in the performers box, then we'll have something toworl with, and give shape to :)
Bang' em in, then we'll shape 'em up (When admin get around to making the necessary changes ;)