Gilbert and Sullivan Edition

Compilation by D'Oyly Carte Opera Company

Released 1 May 2011

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CD 1: The Gondoliers (Version with dialogue)
1
Overture
2
List and learn
3
Good morrow, pretty maids
4
For the merriest fellows are we
5
See, see at last they come to make their choice
6
Buon' giorno, signorine!
7
We're called gondolieri, but that's a vagary
8
And now to choose our brides!
9
Are you peeping?
10
Thank you gallant gondolieri
11
From the sunny Spanish shore
12
In enterprise of martial kind
13
O rapture, when alone together
14
There was a time, a time for ever gone
15
I stole the Prince
16
But, bless my heart, consider my position!
17
Try we life-long we can never
18
Bride-groom and bride!
19
When a merry maiden marries
20
Kind sir, you cannot have the heart, our lives to part
21
Do not give way to this uncalled-for grief
22
Then one of us will be a Queen
CD 2: The Gondoliers (Version with dialogue) (continued)
1
Now pray, what us the cause of this
2
Replying, we sing as one individual
3
For ev'ryone who feels inclined
4
Come let's away - our island crown awaits me
5
Now, Marco dear, my wishes hear
6
Then away they go to an island fair
7
Of happiness the very pith
8
Rising early in the morning
9
Take a pair of sparkling eyes
10
Here we are, at the risk of our lives
11
After sailing to this land
12
Dance a cachucha, fandango, bolero
13
There lived a king, as I've been told
14
In a contemplative fashion
15
With ducal pomp and ducal pride
16
This polite attention
17
On the day when I was wedded
18
To help unhappy commoners
19
Small titles and orders for mayors and recorders
20
I am a courtier grave and serious
21
Here is a case unprecedented!
22
Now let the loyal lieges gather round
23
Speak woman speak, we're all attention!
24
The royal prince was by the king entrusted
25
Luiz! Casilda!
26
One more, gondolieri
CD 3: The Grand Duke
1
Overture
2
Won't it be a pretty wedding?
3
Pretty Lisa, fair and tasty
4
By the mystic regulation
5
Were I a king in very truth
6
How would I play this part
7
My goodness me! What shall I do?
8
Ten minutes since I met a chap
9
About a century since
10
Strange the views some people hold
11
Now take a card, and gaily sing
12
The good Grand Duke of Pfennig Halbpfennig
13
A pattern to professors of monarchical autonomy
14
As o'er out penny roll we sing
15
When you find you're a broken-down critter
16
Come hither, all you people
CD 4: The Grand Duke (Continued)
1
As before you we defile
2
Your loyalty our... At the outset I may mention
3
Yes, Ludwig and his Julia are mated!
4
Take care of him - he's much too good to live!
5
Now Julia, come, consider it from this dainty point of
6
Your Highness, there's a party at the door
7
Now away to the wedding we go
8
So ends my dream...Broken ev'ry promise plighted
9
If the light of love's lingering ember
10
Come, bumpers-aye, ever-so-many
11
Why, who is this approaching?
12
The Prince of Monte-Carlo
13
His Highness we know not
14
We're rigged out in magnificent array
15
Dance
16
Take my advice - when deep in debt
17
Hurrah! Now away to the wedding
18
Well, you're a pretty kind of fellow
19
Happy couples, lightly treading
20
Overture di Ballo
21
Allegro moderato alla Marcia
22
Allegretto grazioso
CD 5: H.M.S. Pinafore (Act One)
1
Overture
2
We shall sail the ocean blue
3
Hail! Men o'war's men..I'm called little buttercup
4
The nightingale sighed
5
A maiden fair to see
6
My gallant crew...I am the Captain of the Pinafore
7
Sir, you are sad
8
Sorry her lot who loves too well
9
Over the bright blue sea
10
Sir Joseph's barge is seen
11
Now give three cheers...I am the monarch of the sea
12
When I was a lad
13
A British tar
14
Refrain, audacious tar
15
Can I survive this overbearing
CD 6: H.M.S. Pinafore (Act Two)
1
Entracte
2
Fair moon to thee I sing
3
Things are seldom what they seem
4
The hours creep on apace
5
Never mind the why and wherefore
6
Kind Captain, I've important information
7
Carefully on tip-toe...He is an Englishman
8
Farewell, my own
9
A many years ago
10
A joy! Oh rapture unforseen
CD 7: Iolanthe or The Peer and The Peri (Version with dialogue) (Act One)
1
Overture
2
Tripping hither, tripping thither
3
Iolanthe! From thy dark exile
4
Good morrow, good mother, Good mother, good morrow
5
Fare thee well, attractive stranger
6
Good morrow, good lover! Good lover, good morrow!
7
None shall part us from each other
8
Loudly let the trumpet bray
9
Entrance of the Lord Chancellor tha's
10
The law is the embodiment
11
My well-beloved Lord
12
Nay, tempt me not
13
Spurn not the nobly born
14
Lords, it may not be
15
Said I to myself, said I
16
When darkly looms the day
CD 8: Iolanthe or The Peer and The Peri (Version with dialogue) (Act Two)
1
When all night long a chap remains
2
Strephon's a member of Parliament
3
When Britain really ruled the waves
4
In vain to us you plead
5
Oh, foolish fay
6
Though p'r'aps I may incur your blame
7
Love unrequited
8
If you go in you're sure to win
9
If you're weak enough to tarry
10
My Lord, a suppliant at your feet
11
It may not be
12
Soon as we may, off and away
CD 9: The Mikado or The Town of Titipu (Version without dialogue) (Act One)
1
Overture
2
If you want to know who we are
3
Gentlemen, I pray you tell me maiden...
4
A wand'ring minstrel I
5
Our great Mikado, virtuous man
6
Young man, despair
7
And I have journey'd for a month
8
Behold the Lord High Executioner
9
As someday it may happen that a victim...
10
Comes a train of little ladies
11
Three little maids from school are we
12
So please you, Sir, we much regret
13
Were you not to Ko-Ko plighted
14
I am so proud, If I allowed
15
With aspect stern and gloomy stride
16
The threaten'd cloud has pass'd away
17
Your revels cease! Assist me, all of you!
18
Oh fool, that flee-est My hallow'd joys!
19
For he's going to marry Yum-Yum
20
The hour of gladness is dead and gone
21
Ye torrents roar! Ye tempests howl!
CD 10: The Mikado or The Town of Titipu (Version without dialogue) (Act Two)
1
Braid the raven hair, Weave the supple tresses
2
The sun whose rays are all ablaze
3
Brightly dawns our wedding day
4
Here's a how-de-do!
5
Miya sama, miya sama, o n'mma no maye ni
6
From ev'ry kind of man Obedience I expect
7
A more humane Mikado never did in Japan exist
8
The criminal cried as he dropp'd him down
9
See how the fates their gifts allot
10
The flowers that bloom in the spring, tra la
11
Alone and yet alive
12
Hearts do not break! They sting and ache
13
On a tree by a river a little tom tit
14
There is beauty in the bellow of the blast
15
Fanfare
16
For he's gone and married Yum-Yum
CD 11: Patience (Version with dialogue) (Act One)
1
Overture
2
Twenty love-sick maidens we
3
Still brooding on their mad infatuation!
4
I cannot tell what this love may be
5
Twenty love-sick maidens we
6
The soldiers of our Queen
7
If you want a receipt for that popular mystery
8
In a doleful train two and two we walk all day
9
Twenty love-sick maidens we
10
When I first put this uniform on
11
Am I alone and unobserved?
12
If you're anxious for to shine in the high aesthetic..
13
Long years ago - fourteen, maybe
14
Prithee, pretty maiden - Prithee
15
Though to marry you
16
Let the merry cymbals sound
17
Now tell us, we pray you
18
Heart broken at my Patience's barbarity
19
Stay, we implore you, before our hopes are blighted
20
Your maiden hearts, ah, do steel
CD 12: Patience (Version with dialogue) (Act One continued, Act Two)
1
Come, walk up, and purchase with avidity
2
We've been thrown over, we're aware
3
And are you going a ticket to buy?
4
Hold! Stay your hand!
5
True love must single hearted be
6
I hear the soft note of the echoing voice
7
But who is this, whose god-like grace...
8
List Reginald, whilst I confess a love that's all...
9
On such eyes as maidens cherish
10
Sad is a woman's lot who, year by year
11
Silvered is the raven hair
12
Turn, oh turn in this direction
13
A magnet hung in a hardware shop
14
Love is a plaintive song
15
So go to him and say to him, with compliment ironical
16
It's clear that the mediaeval art alone retains...
17
If Saphir I choose to marry, I shall be fixed...
18
When I go out of the door
19
I'm a Waterloo House young man
20
After much debate internal, I on Lady Jane decide
CD 13: The Pirates of Penzance or The Slave of Duty (Version with dialogue) (Act One)
1
Overture
2
Pour, oh pour the pirate sherry
3
When Fred'ric was a little lad
4
Oh, better far to live and die
5
Oh, false one, you have deceived me
6
Climbing over rocky mountain
7
Stop! ladies, pray! A man!
8
Oh, is there not one maiden breast
9
Oh, sisters, deaf to pity's name, For shame!
10
Poor wand'ring one!
11
What ought we to do, Gentle sisters say?
12
How beautifully blue the sky
13
Stay, we must not lose our senses
14
Hold, Monsters!
15
I am the very model of a modern Major-General
CD 14: The Pirates of Penzance or The Slave of Duty (Version with dialogue) (Act One continued, Act Two)
1
Oh, men of dark and dismal fate
2
Hail Poetry, thou heav'n born maid!
3
You may go, for you're at liberty
4
Pray observe the magnanimity
5
Oh, dry the glist'ning tear
6
Then Frederic
7
When the foeman bares his steel
8
Now for the pirates lair!
9
When you had left our pirate fold
10
Away, away, my heart's on fire
11
All is prepared
12
Stay, Fred'ric stay!
13
Ah, leave me not to pine alone and desolate
14
Oh, here is love and here is truth
15
No, I'll be brave
16
Sergeant approach (Dialogue)
17
When a felon's not engaged in his employment
18
A rollicking band of pirates we
19
With cat-like tread
20
Hush! Hush! Not a word
21
Sighing softly to the river
22
Now what is this, and what is that
23
We triumph now
24
Away with them, and place them at the bar
25
Poor wand'ring ones, though ye have surely straye
CD 15: Princess Ida or Castle Adamant (Version without dialogue) (Act One and Two)
1
Overture
2
I Search throughout the panorama
3
Now hearken to my strict command
4
Today we meet...Ida was a twelve-month old
5
From the distant panorama...We are warriors three
6
If you give me your attention
7
P'raps if you address the lady most politely
8
Towards the empyrean heights
9
Mighty maiden with a mission
10
Minerva...Oh, goddess wise
11
Gently, gently, evidently
12
I am a maiden, cold and stately
13
The world is but a broken toy
14
A lady fair, of lineage high
15
The woman of the wisest wit
16
Now would you like to rule the roost
17
Merrily ring the luncheon bell
18
Would you know the kind of maid
19
Oh, joy! Our chief is sav'd
20
We may remark, tho' nothing can dismay us
CD 16: Princess Ida or Castle Adamant (Version without dialogue) (Act Three), Pineapple Poll (arr. Mackerras)
1
Death to the invader
2
I built upon a rock
3
Whene'er I spoke sarcastic joke
4
When anger spreads his wing
5
This helmet I suppose
6
This is our duty plain
7
With joy abiding
8
Opening Dance
9
Poll's solo and Pas de deux
10
Belaye's solo
11
Pas de trois
12
Finale
13
Poll's solo - Jasper's solo (Intermezzo)
14
Belayes's solo and Sailors' Drill
15
Poll's solo
16
Entry of Belaye with Blanche as Bride
17
Reconciliation
18
Grand Finale
CD 17: Ruddigore or The Witch's Curse (Without dialogue)
1
Overture
2
Fair is rose as bright as May day
3
Sir Rupert Murgatroyd, his leisure and his riches
4
If somebody there chanced to be
5
I know a youth who loves a little maid
6
From the briny sea...I shipp'd, d'ye see
7
Hornpipe
8
My boy, you may take it from me
9
The battle's roar is over
10
In sailing o'er life's ocean wide
11
Cheerily carols the lark...To a garden full ... fposies
12
Welcome, gentry
13
Oh why am I moody and sad?
14
You understand? I think I do
15
Hail the bride of seventeen summers
16
Hold, bride and bridegroom
CD 18: Ruddigore or The Witch's Curse (Without dialogue)
1
Overture, Original version
2
I once was as meek as a newborn lamb
3
Happily coupled are we
4
In bygone days I had thy love
5
Painted emblems of a race
6
When the night wind howls
7
He yields! He yields!
8
I once was a very abandon'd person
9
My eyes are fully open to my awful situation
10
There grew a little flower
11
Oh, happy the lily when kiss'd by the bee
12
Overture
13
We sounded the trumpet
14
Stay, Bouncer, stay!
15
Hush'd is the bacon on the grid
16
My master is punctual always in business
17
Who are you, sir?
18
The buttercup dwells on the lowly mead
19
Not long ago...Finale
CD 19: The Sorcerer (Version without dialogue)
1
Overture
2
Ring forth, ye bells
3
Constance, my daughter
4
When he is here, I sigh with pleasure
5
The air is charged with amatory numbers
6
Time was, when love and I were well acquainted
7
Sir Marmaduke...Minuet
8
With heart and voice
9
My kindly friends...Oh, happy young heart
10
My child, I join in these congratulations
11
With heart and with voice
12
Welcome joy! adieu to sadness!
13
All is prepar'd for sealing and for sighing
14
Love feeds on many kinds of food
15
My name is John Wellington Wells
16
Sprites of earth and air
17
Now to the banquet we press
CD 20: The Sorcerer (Version without dialogue) (Act Two)
1
'Tis twelve, I think
2
Dear friends, take pity on my lot
3
Thou hast the pow'r....It is not love
4
I rejoice that it's decided
5
Oh, I have wrought much evil with my spells...
6
Alexis! Doubt me not...The fearful deed is done
7
Oh, my voice is sad and low
8
Oh, joyous boon
9
Prepare for sad surprises
10
Or he or I must die
11
Introduction
12
The British Public here - you see
13
I loved her fondly
14
And now let's go back to where we were...Ah maiden fair
15
Where is he?
16
Once more the face I loved so well
17
Help! Ah Help!
18
Ho-guards! Minions!
19
Ladies and Gentlemen!
20
We gather from what you have said
21
Where is my daughter?
22
I'm a simple little child
23
My Father!
24
Finale: What do I see in this disguise
CD 21: Utopia Limited (Comic opera in two acts) (Act One)
1
Imperial March
2
Introduction
3
In lazy langour (Phylla, Chorus)
4
O make way for the Wise Men ! (Chorus)
5
In every mental lore (Scaphio, Phantis, Chorus)
6
Let all your doubts take wing (Scaphio, Phantis)
7
Quaff the nectar (Chorus)
8
A king of autocratic power we (King, Chorus)
9
Altho' of native maids the cream (Nekaya, Kalyba)
10
Bold-fac'd ranger (Lady Sophy, King)
11
First you're born (King, Scaphio, Phantis)
12
Subjected to your heavenly gaze
13
Oh maiden rich in Girton lore (Chorus, Zara... Cpt...
14
Ah! gallant solduer, brave and true
15
It's understood, I think (Captain, Zara, Saphio...
16
Oh admirable art! (Zara, Captain Fitzbattleaxe)
17
Altho' your royal summons to appear (Finale, A. 1)
18
A Company Promoter this, with special education
CD 22: Utopia Limited (Comic opera in two acts) (Act Two)
1
Oh, Zara... A tenor, all singers above (Cpt.)
2
Words of love too loudly spoken (Zara, Cpt.)
3
Society has quite forsaken all (King, Chorus)
4
Entrance of Court
5
Drawing room music
6
This ceremonial...Eagle high... (King, Chorus)
7
With fury deep we burn (Scaphio, Phantis)
8
If you think that when...(King, Scaphio, Phantis)
9
With wily brain.... (Tarara, Phantis, Scaphio)
10
A wonderful joy our eyes to bless (Goldbury)
11
Then I may sing and play?
12
Oh, would some demon power... When a maid (Sophy)
13
Ah, Lady Sophy (King, Lady Sophy)
14
Oh rapture unrestrained (King, Lady Sophy)
15
Tarantella...Upon our sea-girt land (Chorus)
16
There's a little group of isles beyond the wave
17
Overture Macbeth
18
Victoria and Merrie England
19
Overture: Marmion
CD 23: The Yeomen of the Guard (Version without dialogue) (Act One)
1
Overture
2
"When maiden loves"
3
"Tower warders under orders"
4
When our gallant Norman foes
5
"Alas! I waver to and fro"
6
"Is life a boon?"
7
"Here's a man of jollity"
8
I have a song to sing, oh!
9
"How say you, maiden"
10
"I've jibe and joke"
11
"'Tis done! I am a bride!"
12
"Were I thy bride"
13
"Oh, Sergeant Meryll" - "Ye Tower Warders", "Leonard Meryll!", "Forbear, my friends", "Didst thou not", "Leonard!", "As escort for the prisoner"
CD 24: The Yeomen of the Guard (Version without dialogue) (Act Two)
1
"Night has spread her pall once more"
2
"Oh! a private buffoon"
3
"Hereupon we're both agreed"
4
"Free from his fetters grim"
5
"Strange adventure!"
6
"Hark! What was that, sir?"-"Who fired that shot?"-"Like a ghost his vigil keeping..."-"The river must be dragged"
7
"A man who would woo a fair maid"
8
"When a wooer goes a-wooing"
9
"Rapture, rapture!"
10
"Comes the pretty young bride"- "'Tis said to you"-"Hold, pretty one!"
11
Hark the Hour of Ten is Sounding
12
When First my Old, Old Love I Knew
13
When I good friends was called to the Bar
14
Where is the Plaintiff?
15
May it please you my Lud!
16
Oh, Gentlemen Listen I Pray
17
A nice dilemma
18
I Love him
CD 25: Songs And Snatched (First International CD Release)
1
From The Sunny Spanish Shore
2
There Was A Time, A Time For Ever Gone
3
To Help Unhappy Commoners
4
Then One Of Us Will Be A Queen
5
Love Unrequited (Nightmare Song)
6
None Shall Part Us From Each Other
7
If You Go In You're Sure To Win
8
When I Went To The Bar (Said I To Myself, Said I)
9
Though P'r'aps I May Incur Your Blame
10
My Boy, You May Take It From Me
11
I Know A Youth Who Loves A Little Maid
12
There Grew A Little Flower
13
The Battle's Roar Is Over
14
In Sailing O'er Life's Ocean Wide
15
Hereupon We're Both Agreed
16
I've Jibe And Joke
17
When A Wooer Goes A-Wooing
18
A Man Who Would Woo A Fair Maid

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Release credits

Adam Hood
vocal [20]
Ann Hood
vocal [16.7, 15.8, 15.14-15, 15.19]
Anthony Raffell
vocal [15.5, 15.19-20, 16.5, 16.7]
Bridget D’Oyly Carte
task [13.1-15, 14.1-25]
Charles Mackerras
conductor [8-18]
Christene Palmer
contralto vocals [13.3, 13.5, 14.8-10, 14.24], vocal [16.7, 15.16-17, 15.19-20]
Colin Moorfoot
engineer [8-18]
Colin Wright
vocal [9.3-4, 9.13, 9.17, 9.20-21, 10.3-4, 10.10]
David Palmer
vocal [15.7, 15.11-15, 15.17-20, 16.7]
Donald Adams
bass-baritone vocals [14.3, 14.8-10, 14.20, 14.22-23, 13.4], vocal [16.5, 16.7, 15.5, 15.19-20]
D’Oyly Carte Opera Chorus
choir vocals [15.2-3, 15.5-10, 15.17, 15.19-20, 2.1-3, 2.6-7, 2.10-12, 2.15-17, 2.22-23, 2.25-26, 10.10, 9.12, 1.2-6, 1.8-10, 1.17-19, 16.1, 16.3-6, 21.3-5, 21.7-8, 21.10, 22.3, 22.15], performer [9.1-11, 9.13-21, 10.1-9, 10.11-12, 10.14-16], vocal [21.13-14, 22.6, 25.1]
Elizabeth Harwood
soprano vocals [15.10, 15.13, 15.19-20, 16.2, 16.7]
George Cook
baritone vocals [13.2, 13.14, 14.3, 14.19], vocal [15.5, 15.19-20, 16.5, 16.7]
Isidore Godfrey
conductor [25.1, 6.1-10, 8.1-12, 5.1-15, 19.2-17, 2.1-26, 13.1-15, 14.1-25, 12.1-20, 7.1-16, 1.1-22, 17.1-16, 18.1-19, 20.1-10, 11.1-20]
James Conroy-Ward
vocal [11]
James Mallinson
producer [8-18]
Jean Allister
mezzo-soprano vocals [13.6-7, 13.11, 14.7, 14.22]
Jeffrey Skitch
vocal [15.2, 15.7, 15.11-15, 15.19-20, 16.7]
John Ayldon
vocal [10.6-7, 21.5-6, 21.11, 21.15, 22.7-9]
John Reed
baritone vocals [13.14-15, 14.1, 14.3, 14.6, 14.20-21, 14.24], vocal [16.3, 16.7, 21.5-6, 21.11, 21.15, 22.7-9, 9.8-9, 9.14-15, 10.4, 10.8-10, 10.13-14, 10.16, 15.6-7]
Jon Ellison
vocal [9]
Judi Merri
vocal [22.11, 21.9]
Julia Goss
vocal [21.9, 22.11]
Kenneth Sandford
vocal [21.8, 21.11-12, 22.3, 22.6, 22.8, 22.13-14, 15.3, 15.7, 15.19-20, 16.7, 10.10, 9.6-7, 9.12, 9.16]
Lyndsie Holland
vocal [21.10, 21.12, 22.12-14, 10.11-12]
Meston Reid
vocal [22.1-2, 21.13-16]
Michael Rayner
vocal [22.10-11, 9.5]
New Symphony Orchestra of London
performing orchestra [25.1, 5.1-15, 6.1-10, 8.1-12, 11.1-20, 1.1-22, 7.1-16, 12.1-20, 2.1-26]
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
performing orchestra [24.1-18, 18.1-19, 17.1-16]
Owen Brannigan
bass vocals [7, 15, 17-18, 23]
Pamela Field
vocal [21.13-16, 22.2]
Pauline Wales
mezzo-soprano vocals [14.22, 13.6-7, 13.11], vocal [12]
Peggy Ann Jones
vocal [9.12, 9.18-19, 10.1, 10.10]
Philharmonia Orchestra
performing orchestra [8-18]
Philip Potter
tenor vocals [14.6, 14.8-13, 14.20, 13.5, 13.7-8, 13.12-13], vocal [15.4, 15.7, 15.11-15, 15.19-20, 16.7]
Pro Arte Orchestra
performing orchestra [1]
Rosalind Griffiths
vocal [3]
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
performing orchestra [4.1-22, 3.1-16]
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
performing orchestra [9.1-21, 13.1-15, 22.1-16, 23.1-13, 20.1-24, 21.1-18, 16.1-7, 10.1-16, 14.1-25, 15.1-20, 19.2-17]
Royston Nash
conductor [22.1-16, 4.1-22, 3.1-16, 21.1-18, 9.1-21, 10.1-16, 20.11-24]
Sir Malcolm Sargent
conductor [15.1-20, 16.1-7, 19.1, 23.1-13]
The D’Oyly Carte Opera Company
vocal [11.1-20, 25.1, 8.1-12, 13.9-13, 13.15, 12.1-20, 24.1-18, 4.1-22, 3.1-16, 14.2, 14.4-5, 14.14-25, 7.1-16, 23.2-13]
Valerie Masterson
soprano vocals [10.10, 13.8-10, 13.12, 13.14, 14.5, 14.7, 14.11-13, 14.15, 14.22], vocal [9.11-12, 10.2, 10.4, 15.8, 15.15-16, 15.19-20, 16.1, 16.7]

Issues

G
Gilbert and Sullivan Edition
25x CD
1 May 2011