Gilbert & Sullivan: The Yeomen of the Guard

Album by Arthur Sullivan & W.S. Gilbert; Sylvia McNair, Jean Rigby, Kurt Streit, Thomas Allen, Bryn Terfel, Academy & Chorus of St. Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner

Released 1998

classical opera

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CD 1
1
Overture
Arthur Sullivan
4:49
2
Act I: No. 1 Introduction: “When maiden loves”
Arthur Sullivan
3:09
3
Act I: No. 1 Introduction: “Mistress Meryl!”
Arthur Sullivan
1:07
4
Act I: No. 2 Double Chorus: “Tower warders under orders”
Arthur Sullivan
3:48
5
Act I: No. 2 Double Chorus: “A good day to you”
Arthur Sullivan
0:55
6
Act I: No. 3 Song With Chorus: “When our gallant Norman foes”
Arthur Sullivan
4:12
7
Act I: No. 3 Song With Chorus: “Father! Has no reprieve arrived”
Arthur Sullivan
1:32
8
Act I: No. 4 Trio: “Atlas! I waver to and fro”
Arthur Sullivan
2:34
9
Act I: No. 4 Trio: “Nay, lass, be of good cheer”
Arthur Sullivan
0:48
10
Act I: No. 4 Trio: “Nay, pretty pne” / Act I: No. 5 Ballad: “Is life a boon?”
Arthur Sullivan
2:10
11
Act I: No. 5 Ballad: “And now, Sir Richard”
Arthur Sullivan
1:17
12
Act I: No. 6 Chorus: “Here’s a man of jollity”
Arthur Sullivan
1:34
13
Act I: No. 7 Duet: “I have a song to sing, oh!”
Arthur Sullivan
3:20
14
Act I: No. 7 Duet: “Well sung and well danced!”
Arthur Sullivan
1:25
15
Act I: No. 8 Trio: “How say you, maiden”
Arthur Sullivan
2:32
16
Act I: No. 8 Trio: “And so, good fellow” / Act I: No. 9 Recitative and Song: “I’ve jive and joke”
Arthur Sullivan
1:59
17
Act I: No. 9 Recitative and Song: “But I trust you are very careful”
Arthur Sullivan
0:52
18
Act I: No. 10 Recitative and Song: “’Tis done! I am a bride!”
Arthur Sullivan
3:59
19
Act I: No. 10 Recitative and Song: “’Tis an odd freak”
Arthur Sullivan
1:53
20
Act I: No. 10 Recitative and Song: “Oh, how I would love thee!” / Act I: No. 11 Song: “Were I thy bride”
Arthur Sullivan
2:07
21
Act I: No. 11 Song: “The deed is, so far, safely accomplished”
Arthur Sullivan
0:32
22
Act I: No. 12 Finale: “Oh, Sergeant Meryll” / Recitative: “Ye Tower Warders” / Recitative: “Leonard Meryll!” / Recitative: “Forebear, my friends” / Couplets: “Didst thou not” / Recitative: “Leonard!” / Trio: “To thy fraternal care” / Chorus: “The prisoner comes” / “My lord! My lord!” / Trio: “As escort for the prisoner” / Trio: “Astounding news!”
Arthur Sullivan
17:25
CD 2
1
Act II: No. 1 Chorus and Solo: “Night has spread her pall once more”
Arthur Sullivan
4:12
2
Act II: No. 1 Chorus and Solo: “The merry jests of Hugh Ambrose”
Arthur Sullivan
1:40
3
Act II: No. 2 Song: “Oh! A private buffoon”
Arthur Sullivan
2:23
4
Act II: No. 2 Song: “And so thou wouldst be a jester, eh?”
Arthur Sullivan
1:05
5
Act II: No. 3 Duet: “Hereupon we’re both agreed”
Arthur Sullivan
1:44
6
Act II: No. 3 Duet: “Two days gone”
Arthur Sullivan
0:29
7
Act II: No. 4 Ballad: “Free from his fetters grim”
Arthur Sullivan
2:32
8
Act II: No. 4 Ballad: “Well, Sergeant Meryll”
Arthur Sullivan
1:58
9
Act II: No. 5 Quartet: “Strange adventure!”
Arthur Sullivan
2:48
10
Act II: No. 5 Quartet: “So my mysterious bride”
Arthur Sullivan
2:39
11
Act II: No. 6 Scene: “Hark! What was that, sir?” / Recitative: “Who fired that shot!” / Duet and Chorus: “Like a ghost his vigil keeping…” / Recitative: “The river must be dragged”
Arthur Sullivan
3:29
12
Act II: No. 6 Scene: “Nay, sweetheart, be comforted”
Arthur Sullivan
1:07
13
Act II: No. 7 Trio: “A man who would woo a fair maid”
Arthur Sullivan
3:45
14
Act II: No. 7 Trio: “Now listen to me”
Arthur Sullivan
1:33
15
Act II: No. 8 Quartet: “When a wooer goes a-wooing”
Arthur Sullivan
3:02
16
Act II: No. 8 Quartet: “Before I pretend to be a sister to anybody again”
Arthur Sullivan
4:07
17
Act II: No. 9 Duet: “Rapture, rapture!”
Arthur Sullivan
1:29
18
Act II: No. 10 Finale: “Comes the pretty young bride” / Trio: “’Tis said that joy” / Trio: “Hold, pretty one!”
Arthur Sullivan
10:56