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The Gilbert & Sullivan Edition

The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, New Symphony Orchestra of London, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden & Philharmonia Orchestra, Isidore Godfrey, Sir Charles Mackerras

The Gilbert & Sullivan Edition

The Gilbert & Sullivan Edition

The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, New Symphony Orchestra of London, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden & Philharmonia Orchestra, Isidore Godfrey, Sir Charles Mackerras

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About

29 May 2011 marks the 100th anniversary of the death of Sir William Schwenck Gilbert – the librettist of one of the most famous musical partnerships in music history.

Decca’s earliest recordings of G&S with the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company were made between 1949 and 1955 in MONO. In 1957, the first in a new series of stereo recordings was initiated with The Pirates of Penzance, culminating in 1966 with The Sorcerer; between 1967 and 1979 a second series of recordings was made.

Contents and tracklist

Sullivan, A: The Gondoliers
Work length2:08:11
  • Dawn Bradshaw (soprano), Daphne Gill (vocalist), Ceinwen Jones (mezzo-soprano), Joseph Riordan (tenor), Michael Wakeham (baritone), George Cook (baritone), Thomas Round (tenor), Alan Styler (baritone), Joyce Wright (soprano), Mary Sansom (soprano), Jennifer Toye (soprano), Gillian Knight (mezzo-soprano), Jeffrey Skitch (baritone), John Reed (baritone), Kenneth Sandford (baritone), Jeanette Roach (contralto)
  • New Symphony Orchestra of London, D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus
  • Isidore Godfrey
  • Recorded: 1960-09
  • Recording Venue: Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London
/ Act 1 Overture
Track length6:40
/ Act 1 1. List and learn
Track length3:33
/ Act 1 2. Good morrow, pretty maids
Track length1:19
/ Act 1 3. For the merriest fellows are we
Track length1:42
/ Act 1 4. See, see at last they come to make their choice
Track length0:34
/ Act 1 5. Buon' giorno, signorine!
Track length2:34
/ Act 1 We're called gondolieri, but that's a vagary
Track length2:08
/ Act 1 7. And now to choose our brides!
Track length1:03
/ Act 1 8. Are you peeping?
Track length1:44
/ Act 1 9. Thank you gallant gondolieri
Track length2:27
/ Act 1 10. From the sunny Spanish shore
Track length7:53
/ Act 1 In enterprise of martial kind
Track length1:32
/ Act 1 12. O rapture, when alone together
Track length4:36
/ Act 1 13. There was a time, a time for ever gone
Track length5:08
/ Act 1 14. I stole the Prince
Track length3:30
/ Act 1 15. But, bless my heart, consider my position!
Track length0:57
/ Act 1 16. Try we life-long we can never
Track length2:07
/ Act 1 17. Bride-groom and bride!
Track length0:40
/ Act 1 18. When a merry maiden marries
Track length8:00
/ Act 1 19. Kind sir, you cannot have the heart, our lives to p
Track length3:07
/ Act 1 20. Do not give way to this uncalled-for grief
Track length0:47
/ Act 1 Then one of us will be a Queen
Track length2:28
/ Act 1 22. Now pray, what us the cause of this
Track length0:33
/ Act 1 23. Replying, we sing as one individual
Track length0:54
/ Act 1 24. For ev'ryone who feels inclined
Track length2:10
/ Act 1 25. Come let's away - our island crown awaits me
Track length0:54
/ Act 1 26. Now, Marco dear, my wishes hear
Track length3:30
/ Act 1 27. Then away they go to an island fair
Track length2:11
/ Act 2 28. Of happiness the very pith
Track length4:01
/ Act 2 29. Rising early in the morning
Track length3:35
/ Act 2 Take a pair of sparkling eyes
Track length3:11
/ Act 2 31. Here we are, at the risk of our lives
Track length1:30
/ Act 2 32. After sailing to this land
Track length2:43
/ Act 2 33. Dance a cachucha, fandango, bolero
Track length3:53
/ Act 2 34. There lived a king, as I've been told
Track length6:42
/ Act 2 35. In a contemplative fashion
Track length2:16
/ Act 2 36. With ducal pomp and ducal pride
Track length0:55
/ Act 2 37. This polite attention
Track length2:33
/ Act 2 38. On the day when I was wedded
Track length3:55
/ Act 2 39. To help unhappy commoners
Track length0:22
/ Act 2 40. Small titles and orders for mayors and recorders
Track length6:14
/ Act 2 41. I am a courtier grave and serious
Track length4:47
/ Act 2 42. Here is a case unprecedented!
Track length1:14
/ Act 2 43. Now let the loyal lieges gather round
Track length1:05
/ Act 2 44. Speak woman speak, we're all attention!
Track length0:23
/ Act 2 45. The royal prince was by the king entrusted
Track length0:49
/ Act 2 46. Luiz! Casilda!
Track length1:44
/ Act 2 47. One more, gondolieri
Track length1:38
Sullivan, A: The Grand Duke
Work length1:38:09
  • Patricia Leonard (mezzo-soprano), Beti Lloyd-Jones (contralto), Glynis Prendergast (soprano), Anne Egglestone (soprano), Jane Metcalfe (mezzo-soprano), Kenneth Sandford (baritone), Meston Reid (vocalist), Julia Goss (soprano), Michael Rayner (baritone), John Reed (baritone), Lyndsie Holland (contralto), James Conroy-Ward (bass), John Ayldon (bass), Barbara Lilley (vocalist)
  • Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus
  • Royston Nash
  • Recorded: 1976-03-16
  • Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London
/ Act 1 Overture
Track length5:18
/ Act 1 Won't it be a pretty wedding?
Track length2:10
/ Act 1 Pretty Lisa, fair and tasty
Track length1:59
/ Act 1 By the mystic regulation
Track length1:35
/ Act 1 Were I a king in very truth
Track length2:03
/ Act 1 How would I play this part
Track length3:36
/ Act 1 My goodness me! What shall I do?
Track length0:47
/ Act 1 Ten minutes since I met a chap
Track length2:26
/ Act 1 About a century since
Track length2:44
/ Act 1 Strange the views some people hold
Track length3:14
/ Act 1 Now take a card, and gaily sing
Track length2:46
/ Act 1 The good Grand Duke of Pfennig Halbpfennig
Track length1:36
/ Act 1 A pattern to professors of monarchical autonomy
Track length1:56
/ Act 1 As o'er out penny roll we sing
Track length2:12
/ Act 1 When you find you're a broken-down critter
Track length2:56
/ Act 1 Come hither, all you people
Track length17:15
/ Act 2 As before you we defile
Track length2:44
/ Act 2 Your loyalty our... At the outset I may mention
Track length4:49
/ Act 2 Yes, Ludwig and his Julia are mated!
Track length0:27
/ Act 2 Take care of him - he's much too good to live!
Track length3:20
/ Act 2 Now Julia, come, consider it from this dainty point of
Track length3:16
/ Act 2 Your Highness, there's a party at the door
Track length2:23
/ Act 2 Now away to the wedding we go
Track length0:54
/ Act 2 So ends my dream...Broken ev'ry promise plighted
Track length5:04
/ Act 2 If the light of love's lingering ember
Track length3:00
/ Act 2 Come, bumpers-aye, ever-so-many
Track length2:25
/ Act 2 Why, who is this approaching?
Track length0:46
/ Act 2 The Prince of Monte-Carlo
Track length2:04
/ Act 2 His Highness we know not
Track length0:53
/ Act 2 We're rigged out in magnificent array
Track length2:42
/ Act 2 Dance
Track length1:29
/ Act 2 Take my advice - when deep in debt
Track length2:45
/ Act 2 Hurrah! Now away to the wedding
Track length0:49
/ Act 2 Well, you're a pretty kind of fellow
Track length2:12
/ Act 2 Happy couples, lightly treading
Track length1:34
Sullivan, A: Overture di Ballo
Work length10:48
Sullivan, A: Incidental Music to Shakespeare's "Henry VIII"
Work length9:37
1. Allegro moderato alla Marcia
Track length4:37
2. Allegretto grazioso
Track length5:00
Sullivan, A: HMS Pinafore
Work length1:37:50
/ Act 1 Overture
Track length4:27
/ Act 1 We shall sail the ocean blue
Track length2:21
/ Act 1 Hail! Men o'war's men..I'm called little buttercup
Track length4:16
/ Act 1 The nightingale sighed
Track length2:17
/ Act 1 A maiden fair to see
Track length2:58
/ Act 1 My gallant crew...I am the Captain of the Pinafore
Track length2:14
/ Act 1 Sir, you are sad
Track length1:39
/ Act 1 Sorry her lot who loves too well
Track length5:53
/ Act 1 Over the bright blue sea
Track length0:48
/ Act 1 Sir Joseph's barge is seen
Track length2:02
/ Act 1 Now give three cheers...I am the monarch of the sea
Track length1:49
/ Act 1 When I was a lad
Track length7:56
/ Act 1 A British tar
Track length4:49
/ Act 1 Refrain, audacious tar
Track length3:54
/ Act 1 Can I survive this overbearing
Track length9:43
/ Act 2 Entracte
Track length1:19
/ Act 2 Fair moon to thee I sing
Track length4:03
/ Act 2 Things are seldom what they seem
Track length4:21
/ Act 2 The hours creep on apace
Track length5:54
/ Act 2 Never mind the why and wherefore
Track length3:27
/ Act 2 Kind Captain, I've important information
Track length2:35
/ Act 2 Carefully on tip-toe...He is an Englishman
Track length8:34
/ Act 2 Farewell, my own
Track length2:44
/ Act 2 A many years ago
Track length4:42
/ Act 2 A joy! Oh rapture unforseen
Track length3:05
Sullivan, A: Iolanthe
Work length1:59:07
/ Act 1 Overture
Track length7:30
/ Act 1 1. Tripping hither, tripping thither
Track length7:17
/ Act 1 2. Iolanthe! From thy dark exile
Track length4:46
/ Act 1 3. Good morrow, good mother, Good mother, good morrow
Track length3:13
/ Act 1 4. Fare thee well, attractive stranger
Track length1:02
/ Act 1 5. Good morrow, good lover! Good lover, good morrow!
Track length1:54
/ Act 1 6. None shall part us from each other
Track length3:04
/ Act 1 Loudly let the trumpet bray
Track length5:50
/ Act 1 8. Entrance of the Lord Chancellor tha's
Track length0:31
/ Act 1 9. The law is the embodiment
Track length4:16
/ Act 1 10. My well-beloved Lord
Track length4:16
/ Act 1 11. Nay, tempt me not
Track length0:28
/ Act 1 12. Spurn not the nobly born
Track length2:09
/ Act 1 13. Lords, it may not be
Track length4:39
/ Act 1 Said I to myself, said I
Track length2:49
/ Act 1 15. When darkly looms the day
Track length19:05
/ Act 2 When all night long a chap remains
Track length4:31
/ Act 2 17. Strephon's a member of Parliament
Track length2:38
/ Act 2 18. When Britain really ruled the waves
Track length3:30
/ Act 2 19. In vain to us you plead
Track length3:30
/ Act 2 20. Oh, foolish fay
Track length7:08
/ Act 2 21. Though p'r'aps I may incur your blame
Track length2:18
/ Act 2 22. Love unrequited
Track length5:35
/ Act 2 23. If you go in you're sure to win
Track length3:56
/ Act 2 24. If you're weak enough to tarry
Track length3:34
/ Act 2 25. My Lord, a suppliant at your feet
Track length2:39
/ Act 2 26. It may not be
Track length5:00
/ Act 2 27. Soon as we may, off and away
Track length1:59
Sullivan, A: The Mikado
Work length1:29:07
  • Colin Wright (tenor), John Broad (bass), Michael Rayner (baritone), Kenneth Sandford (baritone), John Reed (baritone), Valerie Masterson (soprano), Pauline Wales (soprano), Peggy Ann Jones (mezzo-soprano), Lyndsie Holland (contralto), John Ayldon (bass)
  • Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus
  • Royston Nash
  • Recorded: 1973-01
  • Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London
/ Act 1 Overture
Track length7:33
/ Act 1 1. If you want to know who we are
Track length2:27
/ Act 1 2. Gentlemen, I pray you tell me maiden...
Track length0:41
/ Act 1 3. A wand'ring minstrel I
Track length4:30
/ Act 1 4. Our great Mikado, virtuous man
Track length3:08
/ Act 1 5. Young man, despair
Track length2:46
/ Act 1 6. And I have journey'd for a month
Track length0:51
/ Act 1 7. Behold the Lord High Executioner
Track length2:34
/ Act 1 8. As someday it may happen that a victim...
Track length2:19
/ Act 1 9. Comes a train of little ladies
Track length2:14
/ Act 1 10. Three little maids from school are we
Track length1:25
/ Act 1 11. So Please You, Sir, We Much Regret
Track length1:59
/ Act 1 12. Were you not to Ko-Ko plighted
Track length2:30
/ Act 1 13. I am so proud, If I allowed
Track length3:14
/ Act 1 14. With aspect stern and gloomy stride
Track length2:23
/ Act 1 15. The threaten'd cloud has pass'd away
Track length3:04
/ Act 1 16. Your revels cease! Assist me, all of you!
Track length0:52
/ Act 1 17. Oh fool, that flee-est My hallow'd joys!
Track length2:33
/ Act 1 18. For he's going to marry Yum-Yum
Track length1:01
/ Act 1 19. The hour of gladness is dead and gone
Track length2:22
/ Act 1 20. Ye torrents roar! Ye tempests howl!
Track length2:38
/ Act 2 21. Braid the raven hair, Weave the supple tresses
Track length3:37
/ Act 2 22. The sun whose rays are all ablaze
Track length3:04
/ Act 2 23. Brightly dawns our wedding day
Track length3:42
/ Act 2 24. Here's a how-de-do!
Track length1:22
/ Act 2 25. Miya sama, miya sama, o n'mma no maye ni
Track length1:14
/ Act 2 26. From ev'ry kind of man Obedience I expect
Track length1:46
/ Act 2 27. A more humane Mikado never did in Japan exist
Track length4:31
/ Act 2 28. The criminal cried as he dropp'd him down
Track length3:31
/ Act 2 29. See how the fates their gifts allot
Track length2:10
/ Act 2 30. The flowers that bloom in the spring, tra-la
Track length1:36
/ Act 2 31. Alone and yet alive
Track length0:44
/ Act 2 32. Hearts do not break! They sting and ache
Track length1:52
/ Act 2 33. On a tree by a river a little tom tit
Track length2:22
/ Act 2 34. There is beauty in the bellow of the blast
Track length2:13
/ Act 2 35. Fanfare
Track length0:11
/ Act 2 36. For he's gone and married Yum-Yum
Track length2:08
Sullivan, A: Patience
Work length1:52:17
/ Act 1 Overture
Track length5:30
/ Act 1 Twenty love-sick maidens we
Track length6:23
/ Act 1 Still brooding on their mad infatuation!
Track length1:00
/ Act 1 I cannot tell what this love may be
Track length3:40
/ Act 1 Twenty love-sick maidens we (I)
Track length0:41
/ Act 1 The soldiers of our Queen
Track length0:50
/ Act 1 If you want a receipt for that popular mystery
Track length4:31
/ Act 1 In a doleful train two and two we walk all day
Track length9:11
/ Act 1 Twenty love-sick maidens we (II)
Track length0:32
/ Act 1 When I first put this uniform on
Track length1:26
/ Act 1 Am I alone and unobserved?
Track length1:39
/ Act 1 If you're anxious for to shine in the high aesthetic..
Track length7:48
/ Act 1 Long years ago - fourteen, maybe
Track length2:30
/ Act 1 Prithee, pretty maiden - Prithee
Track length6:18
/ Act 1 Though to marry you
Track length0:42
/ Act 1 Let the merry cymbals sound
Track length1:48
/ Act 1 Now tell us, we pray you
Track length0:55
/ Act 1 Heart broken at my Patience's barbarity
Track length1:09
/ Act 1 Stay, we implore you, before our hopes are blighted
Track length0:26
/ Act 1 Your maiden hearts, ah, do steel
Track length1:52
/ Act 1 Come, walk up, and purchase with avidity
Track length0:31
/ Act 1 We've been thrown over, we're aware
Track length0:27
/ Act 1 And are you going a ticket to buy?
Track length1:21
/ Act 1 Hold! Stay your hand!
Track length1:58
/ Act 1 True love must single hearted be
Track length1:27
/ Act 1 I hear the soft note of the echoing voice
Track length2:29
/ Act 1 But who is this, whose god-like grace...
Track length1:40
/ Act 1 List Reginald, whilst I confess a love that's all...
Track length1:21
/ Act 2 On such eyes as maidens cherish
Track length2:02
/ Act 2 Sad is a woman's lot who, year by year
Track length1:52
/ Act 2 Silvered is the raven hair
Track length2:49
/ Act 2 Turn, oh turn in this direction
Track length4:47
/ Act 2 A magnet hung in a hardware shop
Track length6:14
/ Act 2 Love is a plaintive song
Track length4:19
/ Act 2 So go to him and say to him, with compliment ironical
Track length1:56
/ Act 2 It's clear that the mediaeval art alone retains...
Track length5:08
/ Act 2 If Saphir I choose to marry, I shall be fixed...
Track length6:30
/ Act 2 When I go out of the door
Track length2:54
/ Act 2 I'm a Waterloo House young man
Track length2:27
/ Act 2 After much debate internal, I on Lady Jane decide
Track length1:14
Sullivan, A: The Pirates of Penzance
Work length1:43:15
/ Act 1 Overture
Track length8:01
/ Act 1 1. Pour, oh pour the pirate sherry
Track length2:32
/ Act 1 2. When Fred'ric was a little lad
Track length7:02
/ Act 1 3. Oh, better far to live and die
Track length4:28
/ Act 1 4. Oh, false one, you have deceived me
Track length3:18
/ Act 1 5. Climbing over rocky mountain
Track length4:43
/ Act 1 6. Stop! ladies, pray! A man!
Track length1:28
/ Act 1 7. Oh, is there not one maiden breast
Track length3:44
/ Act 1 8. Oh, sisters, deaf to pity's name, For shame!
Track length0:36
/ Act 1 Poor wand'ring one!
Track length2:57
/ Act 1 10. What ought we to do, Gentle sisters say?
Track length0:45
/ Act 1 11. How beautifully blue the sky
Track length2:02
/ Act 1 12. Stay, we must not lose our senses
Track length1:31
/ Act 1 13. Hold, Monsters!
Track length0:53
/ Act 1 14. I am the very model of a modern Major-General
Track length5:13
/ Act 1 15. Oh, men of dark and dismal fate
Track length3:52
/ Act 1 16. Hail Poetry, thou heav'n born maid!
Track length1:02
/ Act 1 17. You may go, for you're at liberty
Track length1:45
/ Act 1 18. Pray observe the magnanimity
Track length1:36
/ Act 2 19. Oh, dry the glist'ning tear
Track length5:11
/ Act 2 20. Then Frederic
Track length0:19
/ Act 2 When the foeman bares his steel
Track length4:49
/ Act 2 22. Now for the pirates lair!
Track length1:21
/ Act 2 23. When you had left our pirate fold
Track length5:58
/ Act 2 24. Away, away, my heart's on fire
Track length1:31
/ Act 2 25. All is prepared
Track length1:26
/ Act 2 26. Stay, Fred'ric stay!
Track length1:00
/ Act 2 27. Ah, leave me not to pine alone and desolate
Track length3:58
/ Act 2 28. Oh, here is love and here is truth
Track length1:02
/ Act 2 19. No, I'll be brave
Track length1:23
/ Act 2 30. Sergeant approach (Dialogue)
Track length1:52
/ Act 2 When a felon's not engaged in his employment
Track length2:30
/ Act 2 32. A rollicking band of pirates we
Track length0:58
/ Act 2 With cat-like tread
Track length2:45
/ Act 2 34. Hush! Hush! Not a word
Track length1:21
/ Act 2 35. Sighing softly to the river
Track length1:14
/ Act 2 36. Now what is this, and what is that
Track length1:58
/ Act 2 37. We triumph now
Track length2:04
/ Act 2 38. Away with them, and place them at the bar
Track length1:12
/ Act 2 39. Poor wand'ring ones, though ye have surely straye
Track length1:55
Sullivan, A: Princess Ida
Work length1:23:32
Act I Overture
Track length3:38
Act I No. 1, I Search Throughout the Panorama
Track length2:56
Act I No. 2, Now Hearken to My Strict Command
Track length1:50
Act I No. 3, Today We Meet – Ida Was a 12-Month Old
Track length3:01
Act I No. 4, From the Distant Panorama – We Are Warriors Three
Track length3:46
Act I No. 5, If You Give Me Your Attention
Track length2:14
Act I No. 6, P'r'aps if You Address the Lady Most Politely
Track length7:18
Act II No. 7, Towards the Empyrean Heights
Track length3:42
Act II No. 8, Mighty Maiden with a Mission
Track length1:23
Act II No. 9, Minerva – Oh, Goddess Wise
Track length3:21
Act II No. 10, Gently, Gently, Evidently
Track length4:36
Act II No. 11, I Am a Maiden, Cold and Stately
Track length2:51
Act II No. 12, The World Is But a Broken Toy
Track length3:02
Act II No. 13, A Lady Fair, of Lineage High
Track length2:45
Act II No. 14, The Woman of the Wisest Wit
Track length2:32
Act II No. 15, Now Would You Like to Rule the Roost
Track length2:35
Act II No. 16, Merrily Ring the Luncheon Bell
Track length1:46
Act II No. 17, Would You Know the Kind of Maid
Track length2:24
Act II No. 18, Oh, Joy! Our Chief Is Sav'd
Track length7:17
Act II No. 19, We May Remark, Tho' Nothing Can Dismay Us
Track length5:05
Act III No. 20, Death to the Invader
Track length3:12
Act III No. 21, I Built Upon a Rock
Track length3:30
Act III No. 22, Whene'er I Spoke Sarcastic Joke
Track length2:01
Act III No. 23, When Anger Spreads His Wing
Track length1:20
Act III No. 24, This Helmet I Suppose
Track length2:14
Act III No. 25, This Is Our Duty Plain
Track length0:49
Act III No. 26, With Joy Abiding
Track length2:24
Sullivan, A: Pineapple Poll
Work length44:51
1. Opening Dance
Track length3:32
2. Poll's solo and Pas de deux
Track length3:38
3. Belaye's solo
Track length3:16
4. Pas de trois
Track length3:02
5. Finale
Track length3:57
6. Poll's solo - Jasper's solo (Intermezzo)
Track length7:14
7. Belayes's solo and Sailors' Drill
Track length3:25
8. Poll's solo
Track length3:59
9. Entry of Belaye with Blanche as Bride
Track length3:45
10. Reconciliation
Track length3:05
11. Grand Finale
Track length5:58
Sullivan, A: Ruddigore
Work length1:25:52
/ Act 1 Overture
Track length6:33
/ Act 1 1. Fair is rose as bright as May day
Track length2:40
/ Act 1 2. Sir Rupert Murgatroyd, his leisure and his riches
Track length2:48
/ Act 1 3. If somebody there chanced to be
Track length2:57
/ Act 1 I know a youth who loves a little maid
Track length3:27
/ Act 1 5. From the briny sea...I shipp'd, d'ye see
Track length2:33
/ Act 1 6. Hornpipe
Track length1:09
/ Act 1 7. My boy, you may take it from me
Track length1:28
/ Act 1 8. The battle's roar is over
Track length2:22
/ Act 1 9. In sailing o'er life's ocean wide
Track length1:47
/ Act 1 10. Cheerily carols the lark...To a garden full ... fposies
Track length4:40
/ Act 1 11. Welcome, gentry
Track length2:35
/ Act 1 12. Oh why am I moody and sad?
Track length2:15
/ Act 1 13. You understand? I think I do
Track length1:22
/ Act 1 14. Hail the bride of seventeen summers
Track length5:54
/ Act 1 15. Hold, bride and bridegroom
Track length8:24
/ Act 2 Overture, Original version
Track length7:43
/ Act 2 16. I once was as meek as a newborn lamb
Track length2:27
/ Act 2 17. Happily coupled are we
Track length1:03
/ Act 2 18. In bygone days I had thy love
Track length1:45
/ Act 2 19. Painted emblems of a race
Track length4:25
/ Act 2 20. When the night wind howls
Track length2:31
/ Act 2 21. He yields! He yields!
Track length2:36
/ Act 2 22. I once was a very abandon'd person
Track length2:53
/ Act 2 23. My eyes are fully open to my awful situation
Track length1:36
/ Act 2 24. There grew a little flower
Track length4:39
/ Act 2 25. Oh, happy the lily when kiss'd by the bee
Track length1:20
Sullivan, A: Cox and Box
Work length29:25
Overture
Track length2:36
We sounded the trumpet
Track length2:06
Stay, Bouncer, stay!
Track length4:22
Hush'd is the bacon on the grid
Track length2:13
My master is punctual always in business
Track length2:22
Who are you, sir?
Track length4:33
The buttercup dwells on the lowly mead
Track length3:36
Not long ago...Finale
Track length7:37
Sullivan, A: The Sorcerer
Work length1:24:42
/ Act 1 Overture
Track length5:36
/ Act 1 1. Ring forth, ye bells
Track length1:50
/ Act 1 2. Constance, my daughter
Track length2:44
/ Act 1 3. When he is here, I sigh with pleasure
Track length3:13
/ Act 1 4. The air is charged with amatory numbers
Track length1:17
/ Act 1 5. Time was, when love and I were well acquainted
Track length2:37
/ Act 1 6. Sir Marmaduke...Minuet
Track length2:17
/ Act 1 7. With heart and voice
Track length1:48
/ Act 1 8. My kindly friends...Oh, happy young heart
Track length2:58
/ Act 1 9. My child, I join in these congratulations
Track length1:00
/ Act 1 10. With heart and with voice
Track length0:48
/ Act 1 11. Welcome joy! adieu to sadness!
Track length4:07
/ Act 1 12. All is prepar'd for sealing and for sighing
Track length2:35
/ Act 1 13. Love feeds on many kinds of food
Track length3:12
/ Act 1 My name is John Wellington Wells
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/ Act 1 15. Sprites of earth and air
Track length4:08
/ Act 1 16. Now to the banquet we press
Track length7:54
/ Act 2 17. 'Tis twelve, I think
Track length6:30
/ Act 2 18. Dear friends, take pity on my lot
Track length5:10
/ Act 2 19. Thou hast the pow'r....It is not love
Track length2:34
/ Act 2 20. I rejoice that it's decided
Track length3:03
/ Act 2 21. Oh, I have wrought much evil with my spells...
Track length4:40
/ Act 2 22. Alexis! Doubt me not...The fearful deed is done
Track length2:33
/ Act 2 23. Oh, my voice is sad and low
Track length2:35
/ Act 2 24. Oh, joyous boon
Track length3:12
/ Act 2 25. Prepare for sad surprises
Track length0:37
/ Act 2 26. Or he or I must die
Track length3:32
Sullivan, A: The Zoo
Work length38:09
Introduction
Track length1:30
The British Public here - you see
Track length2:45
I loved her fondly
Track length2:24
And now let's go back to where we were...Ah maiden fair
Track length3:25
Where is he?
Track length0:55
Once more the face I loved so well
Track length2:33
Help! Ah Help!
Track length3:24
Ho-guards! Minions!
Track length2:28
Ladies and Gentlemen!
Track length1:21
We gather from what you have said
Track length2:17
Where is my daughter?
Track length1:48
I'm a simple little child
Track length3:07
My Father!
Track length4:09
Finale: What do I see in this disguise
Track length6:03
Sullivan, A: Imperial March
Work length6:31
Sullivan, A: Utopia Limited
Work length1:44:26
  • Rosalind Griffiths (soprano), John Reed (baritone), John Ayldon (bass), Kenneth Sandford (baritone), Julia Goss (soprano), Judi Merri (mezzo-soprano), Lyndsie Holland (contralto), Pamela Field (soprano), Meston Reid (tenor), Colin Wright (tenor), Jon Ellison (baritone), James Conroy-Ward (bass), John Broad (bass), Michael Rayner (baritone)
  • Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus
  • Royston Nash
  • Recorded: 1975-07
  • Recording Venue: --, --
/ Act 1 1. Introduction
Track length3:08
/ Act 1 2. In lazy langour (Phylla, Chorus)
Track length2:49
/ Act 1 3. O make way for the Wise Men ! (Chorus)
Track length1:26
/ Act 1 4. In every mental lore (Scaphio, Phantis, Chorus)
Track length1:45
/ Act 1 5. Let all your doubts take wing (Scaphio, Phantis)
Track length2:11
/ Act 1 6. Quaff the nectar (Chorus)
Track length2:19
/ Act 1 7. A king of autocratic power we (King, Chorus)
Track length3:30
/ Act 1 8. Altho' of native maids the cream (Nekaya, Kalyba)
Track length2:53
/ Act 1 9. Bold-fac'd ranger (Lady Sophy, King)
Track length5:37
/ Act 1 10. First you're born (King, Scaphio, Phantis)
Track length2:42
/ Act 1 11. Subjected to your heavenly gaze
Track length3:06
/ Act 1 12. Oh maiden rich in Girton lore (Chorus, Zara... Cpt...
Track length3:37
/ Act 1 13. Ah! gallant solduer, brave and true
Track length1:19
/ Act 1 14. It's understood, I think (Captain, Zara, Saphio...
Track length1:39
/ Act 1 15. Oh admirable art! (Zara, Captain Fitzbattleaxe)
Track length2:43
/ Act 1 16. Altho' your royal summons to appear (Finale, A. 1)
Track length7:00
/ Act 1 17. A Company Promoter this, with special education
Track length12:25
/ Act 2 18. Oh, Zara... A tenor, all singers above (Cpt.)
Track length3:41
/ Act 2 19. Words of love too loudly spoken (Zara, Cpt.)
Track length3:25
/ Act 2 20. Society has quite forsaken all (King, Chorus)
Track length3:52
/ Act 2 21. Entrance of Court
Track length1:34
/ Act 2 22. Drawing room music
Track length2:20
/ Act 2 23. This ceremonial...Eagle high... (King, Chorus)
Track length3:29
/ Act 2 24. With fury deep we burn (Scaphio, Phantis)
Track length1:03
/ Act 2 25. If you think that when...(King, Scaphio, Phantis)
Track length1:32
/ Act 2 26. With wily brain.... (Tarara, Phantis, Scaphio)
Track length2:54
/ Act 2 27. A wonderful joy our eyes to bless (Goldbury)
Track length3:52
/ Act 2 28. Then I may sing and play?
Track length2:31
/ Act 2 29. Oh, would some demon power... When a maid (Sophy)
Track length3:49
/ Act 2 30. Ah, Lady Sophy (King, Lady Sophy)
Track length1:42
/ Act 2 31. Oh rapture unrestrained (King, Lady Sophy)
Track length2:10
/ Act 2 32. Tarantella...Upon our sea-girt land (Chorus)
Track length4:04
/ Act 2 33. There's a little group of isles beyond the wave
Track length2:19
Sullivan, A: Macbeth Overture
Work length8:17
Excerpt,Sullivan, A: Victoria and Merrie England
Work length11:14
Sullivan, A: Marmion Overture
Work length8:05
Sullivan, A: The Yeomen of the Guard
Work length1:31:44
Act I Overture
Track length5:10
Act I No. 1, When Maiden Loves
Track length3:31
Act I No. 2, Tower Warders Under Orders
Track length3:51
Act I No. 3, When Our Gallant Norman Foes
Track length4:52
Act I No. 4, Alas! I Waver To and Fro
Track length2:43
Act I No. 5, Is Life a Boon?
Track length2:17
Act I No. 6, Here's a Man of Jollity
Track length1:18
Act I No. 7, I Have a Song to Sing, Oh!
Track length3:19
Act I No. 8, How Say You, Maiden
Track length2:53
Act I No. 9, I've Jibe and Joke
Track length1:49
Act I No. 10, Tis Done! I Am a Bride!
Track length3:58
Act I No. 11, Were I Thy Bride
Track length2:03
Act I No. 12, Finale. Oh, Sergeant Meryll – Ye Tower Warders – Leonard Meryll! – Forbear, My Friends – Didst Thou Not – Leonard! – As Escort for the Prisoner
Track length17:43
Act II No. 13, Night Has Spread Her Pall Once More
Track length4:14
Act II No. 14, Oh! A Private Buffoon
Track length2:38
Act II No. 15, Hereupon We're Both Agreed
Track length1:49
Act II No. 16, Free From His Fetters Grim
Track length2:39
Act II No. 17, Strange Adventure!
Track length2:48
Act II No. 18, Hark! What Was That, Sir? – Who Fired That Shot? – Like a Ghost His Vigil Keeping – The River Must Be Dragged
Track length3:43
Act II No. 19, A Man Who Would Woo a Fair Maid
Track length3:43
Act II No. 20, When a Wooer Goes a-Wooing
Track length2:55
Act II No. 21, Rapture, Rapture!
Track length1:57
Act II No. 22, Finale. Comes the Pretty Young Bride – 'Tis Said to You Hold, Pretty One!
Track length9:51
Sullivan, A: Trial by Jury
Work length33:02
Hark the Hour of Ten is Sounding
Track length3:57
When First my Old, Old Love I Knew
Track length5:31
When I good friends was called to the Bar
Track length4:12
Where is the Plaintiff?
Track length4:59
May it please you my Lud!
Track length4:03
Oh, Gentlemen Listen I Pray
Track length2:47
A nice dilemma
Track length2:54
I Love him
Track length4:39
Excerpt,Sullivan, A: The Gondoliers or The King of Barataria
Work length11:06
  • John Reed, Christene Palmer (contralto), Philip Potter (tenor), Julia Goss (soprano), Pauline Wales (mezzo-soprano)
  • Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
  • James Walker
  • Recorded: 1970-02-20
  • Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London
/ Act One From The Sunny Spanish Shore
Track length1:43
/ Act One There Was A Time, A Time For Ever Gone
Track length3:44
/ Act Two To Help Unhappy Commoners
Track length3:09
/ Act One Then One Of Us Will Be A Queen
Track length2:30
Excerpt,Sullivan, A: Iolanthe or The Peer and The Peri
Work length12:35
  • Thomas Lawlor (bassbaritonevocalist), Anne Guthrie (frenchhorn), Ralph Mason (drumkit), John Ayldon (bass), Kenneth Sandford (baritone)
  • Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
  • James Walker
  • Recorded: 1970-02-20
  • Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London
/ Act 2 Love Unrequited (Nightmare Song)
Track length3:19
/ Act 1 None Shall Part Us From Each Other
Track length3:08
/ Act 2 If You Go In You're Sure To Win
Track length2:12
/ Act 1 When I Went To The Bar (Said I To Myself, Said I)
Track length1:50
/ Act 2 Though P'r'aps I May Incur Your Blame
Track length2:06
Excerpt,Sullivan, A: Ruddigore
Work length13:31
  • Philip Potter (tenor), Julia Goss (soprano), Christene Palmer (contralto), John Ayldon (bass)
  • Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
  • James Walker
  • Recorded: 1970-02-20
  • Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London
/ Act 1 My Boy, You May Take It From Me
Track length1:30
/ Act 1 I Know A Youth Who Loves A Little Maid
Track length3:14
/ Act 2 There Grew A Little Flower
Track length4:32
/ Act 1 The Battle's Roar Is Over
Track length2:29
/ Act 1 In Sailing O'er Life's Ocean Wide
Track length1:46
Excerpt,Sullivan, A: The Yeomen of the Guard
Work length9:42
  • John Reed, Kenneth Sandford (baritone), Peggy Ann Jones (mezzo-soprano), Philip Potter (tenor), Anne Guthrie (frenchhorn)
  • Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
  • James Walker
  • Recorded: 1970-02-20
  • Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London
/ Act 2 Hereupon We're Both Agreed
Track length1:43
/ Act 1 I've Jibe And Joke
Track length1:48
/ Act 2 When A Wooer Goes A-Wooing
Track length3:16
/ Act 2 A Man Who Would Woo A Fair Maid
Track length2:55
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