The Bab Ballads
W. S. Gilbert
Leído por Graham Redman
The Bab Ballads are a collection of light verse by W. S. Gilbert, illustrated with his own comic drawings. Gilbert wrote the Ballads before he became famous for his comic opera librettos with Arthur Sullivan. In writing the Bab Ballads, Gilbert developed his unique "topsy-turvy" style, where the humour was derived by setting up a ridiculous premise and working out its logical consequences, however absurd. The Ballads also reveal Gilbert's cynical and satirical approach to humour. They became famous on their own, as well as being a source for plot elements, characters and songs that Gilbert would recycle in the Gilbert and Sullivan operas. The Bab Ballads take their name from Gilbert's childhood nickname, and he later began to sign his illustrations "Bab". (summary from Wikipedia) (3 hr 1 min)
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| Captain Reece | 4:55 | Leído por Graham Redman |
| The Rival Curates | 4:07 | Leído por Graham Redman |
| Only A Dancing Girl | 2:29 | Leído por Graham Redman |
| General John | 2:55 | Leído por Graham Redman |
| To A Little Maid - By A Policeman | 1:32 | Leído por Graham Redman |
| John And Freddy | 3:36 | Leído por Graham Redman |
| Sir Guy The Crusader | 3:00 | Leído por Graham Redman |
| Haunted | 3:51 | Leído por Graham Redman |
| The Bishop And The 'Busman | 3:56 | Leído por Graham Redman |
| The Troubadour | 4:14 | Leído por Graham Redman |
| Ferdinando And Elvira; Or, The Gentle Pieman | 5:24 | Leído por Graham Redman |
| Lorenzo De Lardy | 4:20 | Leído por Graham Redman |
| Disillusioned - By An Ex-Enthusiast | 3:02 | Leído por Graham Redman |
| Babette's Love | 4:28 | Leído por Graham Redman |
| To My Bride - (Whoever She May Be) | 3:09 | Leído por Graham Redman |
| The Folly Of Brown - By A General Agent | 4:25 | Leído por Graham Redman |
| Sir Macklin | 4:04 | Leído por Graham Redman |
| The Yarn Of The "Nancy Bell" | 4:54 | Leído por Graham Redman |
| The Bishop Of Rum-Ti-Foo | 4:40 | Leído por Graham Redman |
| The Precocious Baby. A Very True Tale | 4:08 | Leído por Graham Redman |
| To Phoebe | 1:13 | Leído por Graham Redman |
| Baines Carew, Gentleman | 4:45 | Leído por Graham Redman |
| Thomas Winterbottom Hance | 4:49 | Leído por Graham Redman |
| The Reverend Micah Sowls | 4:18 | Leído por Graham Redman |
| A Discontented Sugar Broker | 5:14 | Leído por Graham Redman |
| The Pantomime "Super" To His Mask | 3:11 | Leído por Graham Redman |
| The Force Of Argument | 4:32 | Leído por Graham Redman |
| The Ghost, The Gallant, The Gael, And The Goblin | 4:45 | Leído por Graham Redman |
| The Phantom Curate. A Fable | 4:24 | Leído por Graham Redman |
| The Sensation Captain | 5:00 | Leído por Graham Redman |
| Tempora Mutantur | 2:53 | Leído por Graham Redman |
| At A Pantomime. By A Bilious One | 4:07 | Leído por Graham Redman |
| King Borria Bungalee Boo | 5:11 | Leído por Graham Redman |
| The Periwinkle Girl | 4:02 | Leído por Graham Redman |
| Thomson Green And Harriet Hale | 3:53 | Leído por Graham Redman |
| Bob Polter | 5:14 | Leído por Graham Redman |
| The Story Of Prince Agib | 4:41 | Leído por Graham Redman |
| Ellen McJones Aberdeen | 5:40 | Leído por Graham Redman |
| Peter The Wag | 5:03 | Leído por Graham Redman |
| Ben Allah Achmet; - Or, The Fatal Tum | 4:37 | Leído por Graham Redman |
| The Three Kings of Chickeraboo | 4:18 | Leído por Graham Redman |
| Joe Golightly - Or, The First Lord's Daughter | 4:45 | Leído por Graham Redman |
| To The Terrestrial Globe. By A Miserable Wretch | 1:28 | Leído por Graham Redman |
| Gentle Alice Brown | 6:12 | Leído por Graham Redman |