Tracklist

  • 1
    The Mikado: Act I. “If you want to know who we are” (Chorus of Nobles)
    3:01
  • 2
    The Mikado: Act I. “A wandering minstrel I” (Nanki-Poo, Chorus)
    4:20
  • 3
    The Mikado: Act I. “Our great Mikado, virtuous man” (Pish-Tush, Chorus)
    2:58
  • 4
    The Mikado: Act I. “Young man, despair, likewise go to” (Pooh-Bah, Nanki-Poo, Pish-Tush)
    2:43
  • 5
    The Mikado: Act I. “And have I journeyed for a month” (Pooh-Bah, Nanki-Poo)
    0:49
  • 6
    The Mikado: Act I. “Behold the Lord High Executioner!” (Ko-Ko, Chorus)
    2:39
  • 7
    The Mikado: Act I. “As some day it may happen” (Ko-Ko, Chorus of Nobles)
    2:00
  • 8
    The Mikado: Act I. “Comes a train of little ladies” (Chorus of Schoolgirls)
    2:12
  • 9
    The Mikado: Act I. “Three little maids from school are we” (Yum-Yum, Peep-Bo, Pitti-Sing, Chorus of Schoolgirls)
    1:32
  • 10
    The Mikado: Act I. “So please you, sir, we much regret” (Yum-Yum, Peep-Bo, Pitti-Sing, Pooh-Bah, Chorus of Schoolgirls)
    1:55
  • 11
    The Mikado: Act I. “Were you not to Ko-Ko plighted” (Yum-Yum, Nanki-Poo)
    2:27
  • 12
    The Mikado: Act I. “I am so proud” (Pooh-Bah, Ko-Ko, Pish-Tush)
    3:00
  • 13
    The Mikado: Act II. “With aspect stern and gloomy stride” (All)
    14:24
  • 14
    The Mikado: Act II. “Braid the raven hair” (Pitti-Sing, Chorus of Schoolgirls)
    3:25
  • 15
    The Mikado: Act II. “The sun, whose rays are all ablaze” (Yum-Yum)
    3:10
  • 16
    The Mikado: Act II. “Brightly dawns our wedding day” (Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sing, Nanki-Poo, Pish-Tush)
    3:58
  • 17
    The Mikado: Act II. “Here’s a how-de-do! If I marry you” (Yum-Yum, Nanki-Poo, Ko-Ko)
    1:13
  • 18
    The Mikado: Act II. “Miya sama, miya sama” (Chorus, Mikado, Katisha)
    2:46
  • 19
    The Mikado: Act II. “A more humane Mikado never did in Japan exist” (Mikado, Chorus)
    4:05
  • 20
    The Mikado: Act II. “The criminal cried as he dropped him down” (Ko-ko, Pitti-Sing, Pooh-Bah, Chorus)
    3:24
  • 21
    The Mikado: Act II. “See how the Fates their gifts allot” (Pitti-Sing, Katisha, Ko-Ko, Pooh-Bah, Mikado)
    2:03
  • 22
    The Mikado: Act II. “The flowers that bloom in the spring” (Nanki-Poo, Ko-Ko, Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sing, Pooh-Bah)
    1:36
  • 23
    The Mikado: Act II. “Alone, and yet alive” (Katisha)
    2:56
  • 24
    The Mikado: Act II. “On a tree by a river, a little tom-tit sang, ‘Willow, tit-willow’” (Ko-Ko)
    2:30
  • 25
    The Mikado: Act II. “There is beauty in the bellow of the blast” (Katisha, Ko-Ko)
    2:00
  • 26
    The Mikado: Act II. “For he’s gone and married Yum-Yum” (All)
    1:53

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