Arthur Sullivan Concerto" by Julian Lloyd Webber (1986); and "The Rose of Persia" (1999); "The Golden Legend" (2001); "Ivanhoe", (2009); and "The Masque at Kenilworth" and "On Shore and Sea" (2014), conducted by, respectively, Tom Higgins, Ronald Corp, David Lloyd-Jones and Richard Bonynge. In 2017 Chandos Records released an album, "Songs", which includes "The Window" and 35 individual Sullivan songs. Mackerras's Sullivan ballet, "Pineapple Poll", has received many recordings since its first performance in 1951. Arthur Sullivan Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan MVO (13 May 1842 – 22 November 1900) was an English composer. He is best known for 14 operatic collaborations with
Pineapple Poll Offenbach, Strauss and Rossini music: "Gaîté Parisienne", "Le Beau Danube" and "La Boutique fantasque". He felt that a similar arrangement of the music of Sullivan would also be popular. He had to wait a decade until the copyright on Sullivan's music expired at the end of 1950. Meanwhile, Mackerras had moved to London, studied conducting in Prague and, in 1948, become assistant conductor and repetiteur for Sadler's Wells Opera. Peggy van Praagh suggested that he work out the idea with the young choreographer John Cranko. Cranko expanded the plot of W. S. Gilbert's Bab Ballad "The Bumboat Woman's Story", in