Pineapple Poll - Charles Mackerras / Sadler's Wells - Columbia 1951

Sir Arthur Sullivan / Charles Mackerras:  "Pineapple Poll"
Scene One: Opening Dance, Poll's solo, Pas de deux, Belaye's solo, Pas de trois, Finale 
Scene Two: Poll's solo, Jasper's solo 
Scene Three: Belaye's solo, Sailor's Drill, Poll's solo, Entry of Belaye with Blanche as Bride, Reconciliation, Grand Finale 

Sadler's Wells Orchestra  conducted by  Charles Mackerras

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Columbia  33SX 1001  1959 pressing/matrices: XAX157/158 -3N.  Recorded: 7/8 June 1951 - EMI Studio 1, Abbey Road.   Sleeve-note >>>

Slightly re-edited August 2025 from the WAV files. No auto-declick but have re-eq'd Scene 2 by <1.5dB Treble - which sounded rather inferior (duff tape or end-of-side decay). Within a few hours it had a MediaFire 'copyright claim' (as if).. as with "Tchaikovsky Sym.4" (etc)

Robert Irving / Royal Opera House - Sadler's Wells Ballet Silver Jubilee - HMV 1956

Purcell  arr.Lambert:  "Comus" - Overture & Minuet
Boyce  arr.Lambert:  "Prospect Before Us" - Fugue in D major
Couperin  orch.Jacob:  "Harlequin in the Street" - Allegro
Mendelssohn  orch.Jacob:  "Lord of Burleigh" - Agitato & Allegro vivace
Auber  arr.Lambert:  "Les Rendezvous" - Allegro non troppo & Allegro
Gavin Gordon:  "The Rake's Progress" - Sarabande & Orgy
Liszt  orch.Jacob:  "Apparitions" - Consolation & Galop
Lambert:  "Horoscope" - Valse for the Gemini
Berners:  "Wedding Bouquet" - Tango & Waltz
Bliss:  "Adam Zero" - Dance of Summer
Prokofiev:  "Cinderella" - Waltz & Midnight  
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Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden  conducted by  Robert Irving  

EMI Angel  35521  (HMV CLP 1070)  1957 EMI pressing/matrices: 2XEA886/7 -2N.  Recorded: 25-26 January 1956.   HMV HQM 1078 reissue  (Lambert/Bliss/Gordon)   Sleeve-note >>>