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Sullivan & Mackerras - Pineapple Poll. LP. New + sealed From the new name in audiophile-quality LPs Hi·Q RECORDS
Catalogue Number: HIQLP001
Sullivan (arr. Mackerras): Pineapple Poll – ballet
Royal Philahrmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras

• Recorded at EMI’s Abbey Road Studio No.1 on 23 November 1960, Producer Peter Andry
• Cut at EMI’s Abbey Road Studios from the original EMI Master Tapes
• Pressed on 180g vinyl on original EMI presses at The Vinyl Factory, Hayes, England
• Featuring the original album artwork
• LP on Harry Pearson’s ‘TAS’ list (The Absolute Sound)

“This ebullient dish-up of Sullivan…is played here with tremendous élan…the definitive recording.” (Gramophone, 1962)

• Sir Charles Mackerras’s arrangement of music by Sir Arthur Sullivan from the Gilbert & Sullivan operas for a comic ballet created by choreographer John Cranko, and premiered in 1951 at Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London

• “Pineapple Poll” is based on “The Bumboat Woman’s Story’ one of W.S. Gilbert’s ‘Bab Ballads’ written 1870. The same story formed the basis of Gilbert & Sullivan’s “H.M.S. Pinafore” but for the ballet Cranko expanded the story of Bab Ballad and created a happy ending.

• The ballet remains in the repertoire of the Royal Birmingham Ballet and has been recorded many times (by Mackerras and others). This atmospheric first stereo recording remains the finest both musically and technically UK - FREE SHIPPING. EUROPE First CD = £3.99 then 99p each. First LP = £7.99 then £5.99p each. First 2LP = £9.99 then £8.99p each. First Box Set = £7.99 then £5.99p each REST OF WORLD First CD £5.25 then £1.99p each. First LP = £11.99 then £8.99p each. First 2LP = £13.99 then £10.99p each. First Box Set = £9.99 then £7.99p each.  _gsrx_vers_603 (GS 6.9 (603))