(1) Haddon Hall - (2) Cox and Box - (3) The Prodigal Son
(1) HADDON HALL -
the "highest" Savoy opera at last in full score –
George Bernard Shaw contended that "Savoy opera is a genre in itself; and ... Haddon Hall is the highest and most consistent expression it has yet contained" - yet this important work has never hitherto been available in full score.
But Sullivan's first comic opera after his "carpet quarrel" split with W.S. Gilbert is now available as the latest issue in our scholarly Sullivan Edition. Edited by Roger Harris from the composer's autograph manuscript, the work's origins, composition and original performances are discussed in an informative Preface, while a detailed Editorial Commentary lists variant readings to be found among the autograph manuscript, the published vocal score and D'Oyly Carte orchestral parts.
The publication includes the full dialogue, as well as such curiosities as two pieces of "Exit" and "Entry" music not found in the vocal score, an extra verse for Sir George's song "In days of old" and the words of a song for Rupert ("Oh, pity the purely bred Puritan's plight") which was later replaced by "I've heard it said."
Published in two volumes (vol. A: Act I; vol. B: Acts II/III), "Haddon Hall" costs £90.00 (softback: ISMN M-708011-94-1) or £130.00 (hardback: ISMN M-708011-93-4) - in both cases the additional cost of p&p within the UK is £10.00.
To purchase a copy, write to:
R. Clyde,
6 Whitelands Avenue, Chorleywood, Rickmansworth, Herts, WD3 5RD, England
enclosing payment (cheque or money order, payable to "R. Clyde").
Note for American visitors to our web site:
If you would prefer to pay in $US dollars, please ask us for a special quotation.A companion vocal score of Haddon Hall - including the full dialogue - is also available, at a cost of £15.00 (softback: ISMN M-708011-96-5) or £35.00 (hardback: ISMN M-708011-95-8). In both cases the additional cost of p&p for a single copy within the UK is £4.50.
(2) COX AND BOX - a
newly edited vocal score –
Sullivan himself arranged the vocal score of Cox and Box for publication, and this new version of it therefore forms part of the scholarly Sullivan Edition as a companion volume to the full score already published.
The main text of the volume is based on a reprint of the second edition of the vocal score published c.1871 by Boosey & Co., newly revised and edited. Significant variants amongst the various authentic sources – most notably Sullivan’s autograph manuscript full score – are noted in footnotes on the appropriate pages.
– and much, much more!
But the volume is twice as big as any other vocal score of Cox and Box ever issued – because 60 bumper pages of Appendices also include the following items:
A: The original 6/8 setting of No. 4 – Box’s Lullaby "Hush-a-bye, bacon."
B: Transposed versions of Nos. 2, 3, 6 and 9, as suggested by pencilled annotations in Sullivan’s autograph manuscript.
C: Nos. 4 (second version) and 7 with new words – "Birds in the Night" and "Coming Home" – published with Sullivan’s approval as parlour songs.
D: No. 4 (Box’s Lullaby, second version) in Sullivan’s own arrangement as a piano solo, published with the title "Berceuse." This effective example of Sullivan’s pianistic style has been overlooked in recent republications of the composer’s piano pieces – and even in catalogues of his works – and receives its first modern publication in this volume.
The vocal score costs GBP£10.50 (softback) plus GBP£3.00 for postage and packing - or GBP£30.50 (hardback) plus GBP£5.00 for postage and packing.
The full score (first published in 1999) is still available at a cost of GBP£40.50 (softback) plus GBP£8.00 for postage and packing - or GBP£60.50 (hardback) plus GBP£9.00 for postage and packing.
To purchase a copy, write to:
R. Clyde,
6 Whitelands Avenue, Chorleywood, Rickmansworth, Herts, WD3 5RD, England
enclosing payment (cheque or money order, payable to "R. Clyde").
Note for American visitors to our web site:
If you would prefer to pay in $US dollars, please ask us for a special quotation.
(3) THE PRODIGAL SON - follow the new CD with a vocal score
The Prodigal Son, first performed at the Worcester Festival on 8 September 1869, was Sullivan's first oratorio - and indeed the first setting of the parable as a sacred musical composition.
"The story is so natural and pathetic," Sullivan wrote in a preface to the published score, "and forms so complete a whole; its lesson is so thoroughly Christian; the characters, though few, are so perfectly contrasted, and the opportunity for the employment of 'local colour' is so obvious, that it is indeed astonishing to find the subject so long overlooked."
Composed in a mere three weeks, The Prodigal Son not surprisingly has a distinctly Mendelssohnian flavour. Its direct tunefulness, however, have always made it a favourite with church choirs and choral societies, and ensured that it was one of Sullivan's "serious" works which continued to be performed regularly throughout the 20th century.
It has become even better known since a new CD was issued on the Hyperion label towards the end of 2003. The performers are the London Chorus and the New London Orchestra conducted by Ronald Corp - the same forces who recently recorded The Golden Legend using the performing material of the R. Clyde critical edition of the work.
We have now issued a vocal score of The Prodigal Son, reprinted from the 19th-century Boosey 2nd edition. Our score, however, is the only one which includes both the original and revised versions of the quartet "The Lord is nigh unto them." (Orchestral performing material is already available on hire.)
The vocal score costs GBP£10.00 (softback) plus GBP£3.00 for postage and packing - or GBP£30.00 (hardback) plus GBP£5.00 for postage and packing.
To purchase a copy, write to:
R. Clyde,
6 Whitelands Avenue, Chorleywood, Rickmansworth, Herts, WD3 5RD, England
enclosing payment (cheque or money order, payable to "R. Clyde").
Note for American visitors to our web site:
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