For those interested in Sullivan's unsung (non-Savoy) side, Naxos will present a cd of ballet music: LÎle Enchantée was an early work (1864) and Thespis is apparently a melodrama-esque stage presentation. Amazon USA shows 12 Feb release.
https://smile.amazon.com/Ballet-Music-RTE-Concert-Orchestra/dp/B08QRYXT77/ref=sr_1_56?dchild=1&qid=1610784531&refinements=p_n_date%3A1249114011&rnid=1249111011&s=music&sr=1-56
(https://smile.amazon.com/Ballet-Music-RTE-Concert-Orchestra/dp/B08QRYXT77/ref=sr_1_56?dchild=1&qid=1610784531&refinements=p_n_date%3A1249114011&rnid=1249111011&s=music&sr=1-56)
"Soon after his return from studies in Leipzig, Sir Arthur Sullivan wrote his second work, LÎle Enchantée. This was a ballet score on the subject of a shipwrecked mariner which debuted at Covent Garden in the form of a divertissement at the end of Bellin's La sonnambula, where it was received with acclaim. This premiere recording restores passages Sullivan cut when presenting the work for concert performances. Thespis, a collaboration with W.S. Gilbert, is a flamboyant opera cum pantomime of which only fragments now remain. The work's lost ballet has been rediscovered and restored by Roderick Spencer and Selwyn Tillett."
Ooops....moments after posting this, I realize this is another Naxos re-release of a previous Marco Polo disc, from the 1990's. Mea Culpa. (mods: feel free to delete if this post is thus considered superfluous)
No deletion necessary - it's good to know this recording has been re-released.
Yeah I've had the Marco Polo version forever. It's certainly worth picking up....it's great Naxos is keeping some of these old OOP recordings available as more than an Amazon or Arkiv CDR.