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Sir Malcolm Sargent
12+ albums
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Sargent was born in Bath Villas, Ashford in Kent England to a working-class, but musical family. He was brought up in Stamford, Lincolnshire where he won a scholarship to Stamford School. At the age of fourteen, he accompanied rehearsals for an amateur production of The Gondoliers at Stamford. He earned his diploma from the Royal College of Organists at age sixteen. After a brief service in the army, Sargent worked first as an organist at Melton Mowbray Parish Church, Leicestershire. At the same time, he worked on many musical projects in Leicester, where he not only conducted but also produced Gilbert and Sullivan and other operas for the amateur societies. Sargent's break came when Sir Henry Wood visited De Montfort Hall, Leicester, early in 1921 with the Queen's Hall orchestra. He commissioned Sargent (as it was customary to commission a piece from a local composer) to write a piece Impression on a Windy Day. Sargent soon abandoned composition in favor of conducting, on the advice of Wood, among others. He founded the Leicester Symphony Orchestra, an amateur orchestra, in 1922 and became a lecturer at the Royal College of Music, in London, in 1923. He quickly developed a reputation as an excellent conductor of large choral groups, and he was reportedly associated at one time or another with every major British choral society. Sargent's success and flashy style made him very popular with the ladies, and he was soon forced to marry a serving girl. By 1926, he and his wif
top songs
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Rule Britannia
7702Rule Britannia (Arr. for Orchestra by Henry Wood) - 2013 Remaster
4023HMS Pinafore (or, The Lass that Loved a Sailor) (1987 - Remaster), Act I: We sail the ocean blue (Sailors)
2604The Pirates of Penzance (or, The Slave of Duty), Act I: Oh, better far to live and die (Pirate King, Pirates)
1665Violin Concerto No. 4, K.218, In D: Allegro
1616Oh, is there not one maiden breast
1527The Mikado (or, The Town of Titipu) (1987 - Remaster): Overture
1508The Pirates of Penzance (or, The Slave of Duty): Overture
1499The Mikado (or, The Town of Titipu) (1987 - Remaster), Act I: If you want to know who we are (Nobles)
14810The Pirates of Penzance (or, The Slave of Duty) (1987 - Remaster), Act I: Oh, better far to live and die (Pirate King, Pirates)
142albums
Gilbert & Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance
Gilbert & Sullivan: The Mikado
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Gilbert & Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance - Overtures
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Gilbert & Sullivan: HMS Pinafore - Trial by Jury
Gilbert & Sullivan: HMS Pinafore . Trial by Jury
Gilbert & Sullivan: Iolanthe
Gilbert & Sullivan: The Gondoliers
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Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1 In G Minor, Op. 26; Mozart: Violin Concertos No. 4 In D Major, K.218 & No. 5 In A Major, K.219 - Sony Classical Originals
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The Best of Gilbert and Sullivan (Disc 2)
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The Mikado (1957 Vers)
Holst The Planets etc
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50 Shades of Sensual Classics - 50 Colourful Sensual Moments