The Gilbert & Sullivan Edition

Release Date: 16th May 2011
Catalogue No: 4782748
Label: Decca
Length: 24 hours 5 minutes

Sullivan, A: The Gondoliers / Act 1

Work length1:14:41

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Jennifer Toye (soprano), Dawn Bradshaw (soprano), Thomas Round (tenor), Alan Styler (baritone), Mary Sansom (soprano), Gillian Knight (mezzo-soprano), Daphne Gill (singer), Joyce Wright (soprano), Jeffrey Skitch (baritone), Ceinwen Jones (mezzo-soprano), John Reed (baritone), Joseph Riordan (tenor), Kenneth Sandford (baritone), Michael Wakeham (baritone), George Cook (baritone)
New Symphony Orchestra of London, D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus
Isidore Godfrey
Recorded: 1960-09
Recording Venue: Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London

Overture

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1. List and learn

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2. Good morrow, pretty maids

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3. For the merriest fellows are we

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4. See, see at last they come to make their choice

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5. Buon' giorno, signorine!

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We're called gondolieri, but that's a vagary

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7. And now to choose our brides!

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8. Are you peeping?

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9. Thank you gallant gondolieri

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10. From the sunny Spanish shore

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In enterprise of martial kind

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12. O rapture, when alone together

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13. There was a time, a time for ever gone

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14. I stole the Prince

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15. But, bless my heart, consider my position!

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16. Try we life-long we can never

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17. Bride-groom and bride!

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18. When a merry maiden marries

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19. Kind sir, you cannot have the heart, our lives to p

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20. Do not give way to this uncalled-for grief

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Then one of us will be a Queen

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22. Now pray, what us the cause of this

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23. Replying, we sing as one individual

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24. For ev'ryone who feels inclined

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25. Come let's away - our island crown awaits me

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26. Now, Marco dear, my wishes hear

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27. Then away they go to an island fair

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Sullivan, A: The Gondoliers / Act 2

Work length53:30

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Dawn Bradshaw (soprano), Gillian Knight (mezzo-soprano), Thomas Round (tenor), Jennifer Toye (soprano), Mary Sansom (soprano), John Reed (baritone), Alan Styler (baritone), Joyce Wright (soprano), Kenneth Sandford (baritone), Ceinwen Jones (mezzo-soprano), Jeffrey Skitch (baritone), Jeanette Roach (contralto)
D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, New Symphony Orchestra of London
Isidore Godfrey
Recorded: 1960-09
Recording Venue: Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London

28. Of happiness the very pith

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29. Rising early in the morning

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Take a pair of sparkling eyes

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31. Here we are, at the risk of our lives

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32. After sailing to this land

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33. Dance a cachucha, fandango, bolero

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34. There lived a king, as I've been told

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35. In a contemplative fashion

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36. With ducal pomp and ducal pride

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37. This polite attention

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38. On the day when I was wedded

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39. To help unhappy commoners

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40. Small titles and orders for mayors and recorders

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41. I am a courtier grave and serious

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42. Here is a case unprecedented!

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43. Now let the loyal lieges gather round

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44. Speak woman speak, we're all attention!

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45. The royal prince was by the king entrusted

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46. Luiz! Casilda!

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47. One more, gondolieri

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Sullivan, A: The Grand Duke / Act 1

Work length54:33

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Patricia Leonard (mezzo-soprano), Jane Metcalfe (singer), Meston Reid (singer), Julia Goss (soprano), Michael Rayner (baritone), John Reed (baritone), Lyndsie Holland (counter-tenor), Beti Lloyd-Jones (counter-tenor), Kenneth Sandford (baritone), Glynis Prendergast (soprano), Anne Egglestone (soprano)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus
Royston Nash
Recorded: 1976-03-16
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Overture

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Won't it be a pretty wedding?

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Pretty Lisa, fair and tasty

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By the mystic regulation

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Were I a king in very truth

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How would I play this part

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My goodness me! What shall I do?

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Ten minutes since I met a chap

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About a century since

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Strange the views some people hold

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Now take a card, and gaily sing

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The good Grand Duke of Pfennig Halbpfennig

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A pattern to professors of monarchical autonomy

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As o'er out penny roll we sing

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When you find you're a broken-down critter

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Come hither, all you people

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Sullivan, A: The Grand Duke / Act 2

Work length43:36

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Kenneth Sandford (baritone), Jane Metcalfe (singer), Julia Goss (soprano), Lyndsie Holland (counter-tenor), James Conroy-Ward (bass (vocal)), John Ayldon (bass (vocal)), John Reed (baritone), Michael Rayner (baritone), Meston Reid (singer), Barbara Lilley (singer)
D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Royston Nash
Recorded: 1976-03-16
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

As before you we defile

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Your loyalty our... At the outset I may mention

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Yes, Ludwig and his Julia are mated!

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Take care of him - he's much too good to live!

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Now Julia, come, consider it from this dainty point of

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Your Highness, there's a party at the door

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Now away to the wedding we go

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So ends my dream...Broken ev'ry promise plighted

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If the light of love's lingering ember

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Come, bumpers-aye, ever-so-many

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Why, who is this approaching?

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The Prince of Monte-Carlo

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His Highness we know not

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We're rigged out in magnificent array

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Dance

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Take my advice - when deep in debt

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Hurrah! Now away to the wedding

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Well, you're a pretty kind of fellow

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Happy couples, lightly treading

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Sullivan, A: Overture di Ballo

Work length10:48

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Philharmonia Orchestra
Sir Charles Mackerras
Recorded: 1982-11-27
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Sullivan, A: Incidental Music to Shakespeare's "Henry VIII"

Work length9:37

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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Royston Nash
Recorded: 1974
Recording Venue: --, --

1. Allegro moderato alla Marcia

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2. Allegretto grazioso

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Sullivan, A: H.M.S. Pinafore / Act 1

Work length57:06

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Gillian Knight (mezzo-soprano), Thomas Round (tenor), Jeffrey Skitch (baritone), Jean Hindmarsh (soprano), John Reed (baritone), George Cook (baritone), Donald Adams (bass (vocal)), Joyce Wright (soprano), Eric Wilson-Hyde (bass (vocal))
D’Oyly Carte Opera Company, New Symphony Orchestra of London, D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus
Isidore Godfrey
Recorded: 1959-08-12
Recording Venue: Watford Town Hall, London

Overture

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We shall sail the ocean blue

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Hail! Men o'war's men..I'm called little buttercup

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The nightingale sighed

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A maiden fair to see

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My gallant crew...I am the Captain of the Pinafore

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Sir, you are sad

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Sorry her lot who loves too well

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Over the bright blue sea

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Sir Joseph's barge is seen

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Now give three cheers...I am the monarch of the sea

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When I was a lad

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A British tar

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Refrain, audacious tar

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Can I survive this overbearing

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Sullivan, A: H.M.S. Pinafore / Act 2

Work length40:44

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Jeffrey Skitch (baritone), Gillian Knight (mezzo-soprano), Jean Hindmarsh (soprano), Donald Adams (bass (vocal)), Eric Wilson-Hyde (bass (vocal)), John Reed (baritone), Thomas Round (tenor), George Cook (baritone), Joyce Wright (soprano)
D’Oyly Carte Opera Company, New Symphony Orchestra of London, D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus
Isidore Godfrey
Recorded: 1959-08-12
Recording Venue: Watford Town Hall, London

Entracte

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Fair moon to thee I sing

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Things are seldom what they seem

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The hours creep on apace

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Never mind the why and wherefore

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Kind Captain, I've important information

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Carefully on tip-toe...He is an Englishman

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Farewell, my own

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A many years ago

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A joy! Oh rapture unforseen

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Sullivan, A: Iolanthe / Act 1

Work length1:12:49

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Jennifer Toye (soprano), Alan Styler (baritone), Mary Sansom (soprano), John Reed (baritone), Pauline Wales (soprano), Thomas Round (tenor), Gillian Knight (mezzo-soprano), Donald Adams (bass (vocal)), Yvonne Newman (mezzo-soprano)
New Symphony Orchestra of London, Band of the Grenadier Guards, D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus
Isidore Godfrey
Recorded: 1960-09
Recording Venue: Watford Town Hall, London

Overture

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1. Tripping hither, tripping thither

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2. Iolanthe! From thy dark exile

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3. Good morrow, good mother, Good mother, good morrow

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4. Fare thee well, attractive stranger

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5. Good morrow, good lover! Good lover, good morrow!

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6. None shall part us from each other

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Loudly let the trumpet bray

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8. Entrance of the Lord Chancellor tha's

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9. The law is the embodiment

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10. My well-beloved Lord

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11. Nay, tempt me not

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12. Spurn not the nobly born

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13. Lords, it may not be

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Said I to myself, said I

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15. When darkly looms the day

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Sullivan, A: Iolanthe / Act 2

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Kenneth Sandford (baritone), Yvonne Newman (mezzo-soprano), Donald Adams (bass (vocal)), Pauline Wales (soprano), Gillian Knight (mezzo-soprano), Mary Sansom (soprano), John Reed (baritone), Alan Styler (baritone), Jennifer Toye (soprano), Thomas Round (tenor)
D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, New Symphony Orchestra of London
Isidore Godfrey
Recorded: 1960-09
Recording Venue: Watford Town Hall, London

When all night long a chap remains

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17. Strephon's a member of Parliament

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18. When Britain really ruled the waves

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19. In vain to us you plead

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20. Oh, foolish fay

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21. Though p'r'aps I may incur your blame

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22. Love unrequited

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23. If you go in you're sure to win

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24. If you're weak enough to tarry

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25. My Lord, a suppliant at your feet

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26. It may not be

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27. Soon as we may, off and away

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Sullivan, A: The Mikado / Act 1

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Colin Wright (tenor), Michael Rayner (baritone), John Reed (baritone), Valerie Masterson (soprano), Lyndsie Holland (contralto), John Broad (bass (vocal)), Kenneth Sandford (baritone), Pauline Wales (soprano), Peggy Ann Jones (mezzo-soprano)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus
Royston Nash
Recorded: 1973-01
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Overture

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1. If you want to know who we are

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2. Gentlemen, I pray you tell me maiden...

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3. A wand'ring minstrel I

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4. Our great Mikado, virtuous man

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5. Young man, despair

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6. And I have journey'd for a month

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7. Behold the Lord High Executioner

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8. As someday it may happen that a victim...

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9. Comes a train of little ladies

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10. Three little maids from school are we

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11. So Please You, Sir, We Much Regret

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12. Were you not to Ko-Ko plighted

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13. I am so proud, If I allowed

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14. With aspect stern and gloomy stride

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15. The threaten'd cloud has pass'd away

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16. Your revels cease! Assist me, all of you!

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17. Oh fool, that flee-est My hallow'd joys!

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18. For he's going to marry Yum-Yum

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19. The hour of gladness is dead and gone

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20. Ye torrents roar! Ye tempests howl!

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Sullivan, A: The Mikado / Act 2

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Valerie Masterson (soprano), Lyndsie Holland (contralto), Peggy Ann Jones (mezzo-soprano), John Ayldon (bass (vocal)), Pauline Wales (soprano), Colin Wright (tenor), John Reed (baritone), Kenneth Sandford (baritone), Michael Rayner (baritone)
D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Royston Nash
Recorded: 1973-01
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

21. Braid the raven hair, Weave the supple tresses

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22. The sun whose rays are all ablaze

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23. Brightly dawns our wedding day

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24. Here's a how-de-do!

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25. Miya sama, miya sama, o n'mma no maye ni

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26. From ev'ry kind of man Obedience I expect

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27. A more humane Mikado never did in Japan exist

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28. The criminal cried as he dropp'd him down

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29. See how the fates their gifts allot

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30. The flowers that bloom in the spring, tra-la

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31. Alone and yet alive

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32. Hearts do not break! They sting and ache

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33. On a tree by a river a little tom tit

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34. There is beauty in the bellow of the blast

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35. Fanfare

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36. For he's gone and married Yum-Yum

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Sullivan, A: Patience / Act 1

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Philip Potter (tenor), Gillian Knight (contralto), Jennifer Toye (soprano), Mary Sansom (soprano), Donald Adams (bass (vocal)), Kenneth Sandford (baritone), John Cartier (baritone), Yvonne Newman (mezzo-soprano), Beti Lloyd-Jones (contralto), Beti Lloyd-Jones (counter-tenor), John Reed (baritone), Gillian Knight (mezzo-soprano)
New Symphony Orchestra of London, D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, D’Oyly Carte Opera Company
Isidore Godfrey
Recorded: 1961-09
Recording Venue: Watford Town Hall, London

Overture

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Twenty love-sick maidens we

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Still brooding on their mad infatuation!

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I cannot tell what this love may be

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Twenty love-sick maidens we (I)

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The soldiers of our Queen

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If you want a receipt for that popular mystery

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In a doleful train two and two we walk all day

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Twenty love-sick maidens we (II)

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When I first put this uniform on

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Am I alone and unobserved?

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If you're anxious for to shine in the high aesthetic..

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Long years ago - fourteen, maybe

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Prithee, pretty maiden - Prithee

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Though to marry you

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Let the merry cymbals sound

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Now tell us, we pray you

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Heart broken at my Patience's barbarity

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Stay, we implore you, before our hopes are blighted

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Your maiden hearts, ah, do steel

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Come, walk up, and purchase with avidity

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We've been thrown over, we're aware

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And are you going a ticket to buy?

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Hold! Stay your hand!

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True love must single hearted be

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I hear the soft note of the echoing voice

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But who is this, whose god-like grace...

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List Reginald, whilst I confess a love that's all...

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Sullivan, A: Patience / Act 2

Work length42:12

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Gillian Knight (mezzo-soprano), Kenneth Sandford (baritone), Mary Sansom (soprano), Philip Potter (tenor), Yvonne Newman (mezzo-soprano), Jennifer Toye (soprano), John Reed (baritone), John Cartier (baritone), Beti Lloyd-Jones (contralto), Donald Adams (bass (vocal))
D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, D’Oyly Carte Opera Company, New Symphony Orchestra of London
Isidore Godfrey
Recorded: 1961-09
Recording Venue: Watford Town Hall, London

On such eyes as maidens cherish

Track length2:02

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Sad is a woman's lot who, year by year

Track length1:52

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Silvered is the raven hair

Track length2:49

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Turn, oh turn in this direction

Track length4:47

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The Gilbert & Sullivan Edition

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