Discography
The first commercial recording of Cox & Box was not made until 1961. Both D'Oyly Carte recordings use the heavily cut "Savoy Version" of the score that the company performed as a curtain raiser to other operas, whereas the more recent recordings use a less heavily pruned score. All the recordings listed below except the Chandos set include dialogue.
- 1961 D'Oyly Carte (with The Gondoliers) – Conductor, Isidore Godfrey; Joseph Riordan (Box), Alan Styler (Cox) and Donald Adams (Bouncer).
- 1972 Gilbert and Sullivan for All (with Trial by Jury) – Piano accompaniment by John Burrows; Thomas Round (Box), Adams (Cox) and Thomas Lawlor (Bouncer).
- 1978 D'Oyly Carte (with The Zoo) – Conductor, Royston Nash; Geoffrey Shovelton (Box), Gareth Jones (Cox) and Michael Rayner (Bouncer).
- 1984 Sir Arthur Sullivan Society – Piano accompaniment by Kenneth Barclay; Ian Kennedy (Box), Leon Berger (Cox) and Donald Francke (Bouncer).
- 2004 BBC National Orchestra of Wales (with Trial by Jury) – Conductor, Richard Hickox; James Gilchrist (Box), Neal Davies (Cox) and Donald Maxwell (Bouncer); issued on the Chandos label. Dialogue is omitted and replaced by a narration written by Maxwell and delivered by him in the character of Bouncer.
For a nearly complete orchestral version with all the numbers that Sullivan composed, there is a video recording produced in 1982 as part of the Brent Walker series of Gilbert and Sullivan videos, together with Trial by Jury. Conductor, Alexander Faris; John Fryatt (Box), Russell Smythe (Cox) Thomas Lawlor (Bouncer). The Gilbert and Sullivan Discography considers this video to be the best of the series.
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