There is beauty in the bellow of the blast
Opera details:
Opera title: | The Mikado |
Composer: | Arthur Sullivan |
Language: | English |
Synopsis: | The Mikado Synopsis |
Libretto: | The Mikado Libretto |
Translation(s): | Not entered yet. |
Duet details:
Type: | duet |
Role(s): | Ko-Ko / Katisha |
Voice(s): | Baritone / Contralto |
Act: | 2.12 |
| Previous scene: | Hearts do not break! |
| Next scene: | For he's gone and married Yum-Yum |
12 Mikado 1930 There is Beauty in the Bellow of the Blast; Act II Finale
Singer: Robert CarrW.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, The Mikado (Selection)
Recorded: November 1930
Performers: Robert Carr, Joan Cross, Randell Jackson, Dan Jones, Alice Lilley, Appleton Moore, Nellie Walker. Joseph Batten is the listed conductor, but the recordings were probably conducted by Charles Prentice.
Format: 6 x 78rpm 10†disks (16 tracks)
Label: Columbia 255 (DB 321-326)
Released: 1931
The records are played on an HMV 102 portable gramophone from about 1931, and recorded with a Blue Yeti USB microphone, using Audacity software. There has been no post-processing. This is, so far as possible, how a recording of ninety years ago would have sounded when played on one of the most popular machines of the day.
I bought this boxed set in 1974. Sadly, disk 4 was broken, and the broken part had been thrown away.
Watch videos with other singers performing There is beauty in the bellow of the blast:
2 - Lyndsie Holland
6 - John Reed
6 - Martyn Green
3 - Ella Halman
6 - Martyn Green
6 - Geraint Evans
7 - Owen Brannigan
3 - Ann Drummond-Grant
6 - Peter Pratt
3 - Monica Sinclair
6 - Geraint Evans
6 - James Pease
6 - Martyn Green
1 - Felicity Palmer
1 - Marie McLaughlin
2 - Anne Howells
6 - Robert Carr
3 - Jean Allister
2 - Joyce Wright
6 - Alan Styler
6 - Darrell Fancourt
6 - Martyn Green
6 - Richard Watson
6 - Peter Dawson
6 - Earl Wrightson
Other videos of the same singers performing There is beauty in the bellow of the blast:
2 - Lyndsie Holland
6 - John Reed
3 - Ella Halman
6 - Martyn Green
6 - Martyn Green
6 - Martyn Green
6 - Martyn Green
6 - Martyn Green
English Libretto or Translation:
Not entered yet.External links for There is beauty in the bellow of the blast
| Sheetmusic for duet |  Sheetmusicplus.com |
| Sheetmusic for opera | Sheetmusicplus.com |
| MP3's for this duet | on Amazon.com |
| DVD/CD's for this opera | on Amazon.com |
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