The Best of Gilbert & Sullivan

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  The Yeomen of the Guard: Overture

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  5:30
• 2
  Trial by Jury: Hark the Hour of Ten Is Sounding

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  1:25
• 3
  Trial by Jury: When I, Good Friends, Was Call'd to the Bar

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  2:57
• 4
  The Sorceror: My Name Is John Wellington Wells

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  2:14
• 5
  H.M.S. Pinafore: We Sail the Ocean Blue

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  2:19
• 6
  H.M.S. Pinafore: I'm Called Little Buttercup

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  1:44
• 7
  H.M.S. Pinafore: My Gallant Crew, Good Morning!

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  0:31
• 8
  H.M.S. Pinafore: I Am the Captain of the Pinafore

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  2:00
• 9
  H.M.S. Pinafore: When I Was a Lad / For I Hold That on the Seas

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  3:26
• 10
  H.M.S. Pinafore: Fair Moon, to Thee I Sing

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  2:54
• 11
  H.M.S. Pinafore: Things Are Seldom What They Seem

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  3:11
• 12
  H.M.S. Pinafore: Never Mind the Why and Wherefore

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  2:53
• 13
  H.M.S. Pinafore: He Is an Englishman

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  1:40
• 14
  The Pirates of Penzance: Oh, Better Far to Live and Die

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  2:40
• 15
  The Pirates of Penzance: Climbing Over Rocky Mountain

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  3:55
• 16
  The Pirates of Penzance: Oh, Is There Not One Maiden Breast

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  4:27
• 17
  The Pirates of Penzance: Poor Wandering One

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  2:56
• 18
  The Pirates of Penzance: What Ought We to Do... How Beautifully Blue the Sky

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  2:49
• 19
  The Pirates of Penzance: I Am the Model of a Modern Major-General

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  2:49
• 20
  The Pirates of Penzance: When the Foeman Bares His Steel

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  5:24
• 21
  The Pirates of Penzance: When You Had Left Our Pirate Fold

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  3:54
• 22
  The Pirates of Penzance: Ah Leave Me Not to Pine

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  3:33
• 23
  The Pirates of Penzance: When a Felon's Not Engaged in His Employment

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  2:13
• 24
  The Pirates of Penzance: With Cat-Like Tread

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  2:43
• 25
  Patience: I Cannot Tell What This Love May Be

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  2:25
• 26
  Patience: So Go to Him and Say to Him

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  2:01
• 27
  Patience: If Saphir I Choose to Marry

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  2:47
• CD 2
• 1
  Iolanthe: March and Entry of the Peers: Loudly Let the Trumpet Bray!

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  5:48
• 2
  Iolanthe: The Law Is the True Embodiment

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  2:31
• 3
  Iolanthe: When I Went to the Bar

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  2:00
• 4
  Iolanthe: When All Night Long a Chap Remains

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  4:19
• 5
  Iolanthe: When Britain Really Ruled the Waves

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  3:00
• 6
  Iolanthe: Oh, Foolish Fay

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  3:49
• 7
  Iolanthe: Nightmare Song: Love, Unrequited Robs Me of My Rest

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  0:48
• 8
  Iolanthe: When You're Lying Awake With a Dismal Headache

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  3:03
• 9
  Iolanthe: If You Go In

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  2:35
• 10
  Princess Ida: The Woman of the Wisest Wit

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  2:13
• 11
  Princess Ida: Would You Know the Kind of Maid?

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  2:12
• 12
  Princess Ida: Whene'er I Spoke Sarcastic Joke

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  1:42
• 13
  The Mikado: A Wand'ring Minstrel I

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  4:32
• 14
  The Mikado: Behold the Lord High Executioner

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  2:26
• 15
  The Mikado: As Some Day It May Happen

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  2:02
• 16
  The Mikado: Comes a Train of Little Ladies

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  2:16
• 17
  The Mikado: Three Little Maids From School Are We

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  1:30
• 18
  The Mikado: Were You Not to Ko-Ko Plighted

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  2:32
• 19
  The Mikado: Braid the Raven Hair

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  3:31
• 20
  The Mikado: The Sun, Whose Rays Are All Ablaze

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  2:40
• 21
  The Mikado: Here's a How-De-Do!

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  1:16
• 22
  The Mikado: A More Humane Mikado

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  4:28
• 23
  The Mikado: The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  1:26
• 24
  The Mikado: On a Tree by a River a Little Tom-Tit

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  2:19
• 25
  The Mikado: There Is Beauty in the Bellow of the Blast

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  2:11
• 26
  The Mikado: Finale: For He's Gone and Married Yum-Yum

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  1:56
• 27
  Ruddigore: When the Night Wind Howls

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  2:37
• 28
  Ruddigore: My Eyes Are Fully Open to My Awful Situation

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  1:38
• CD 3
• 1
  The Yeomen of the Guard: Tower Warders, Under Orders

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  4:06
• 2
  The Yeomen of the Guard: When Our Gallant Norman Foes

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  4:28
• 3
  The Yeomen of the Guard: Is Life a Boon

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  2:21
• 4
  The Yeomen of the Guard: I Have a Song to Sing-O!

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  3:42
• 5
  The Yeomen of the Guard: I've Jibe and Joke

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  2:01
• 6
  The Yeomen of the Guard: 'Tis Done, I Am a Bride

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  4:25
• 7
  The Yeomen of the Guard: Were I Thy Bride

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  1:54
• 8
  The Yeomen of the Guard: Oh! A Private Buffoon Is a Light-Hearted Loon

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  3:05
• 9
  The Yeomen of the Guard: Hereupon We're Both Agreed

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  1:50
• 10
  The Yeomen of the Guard: Strange Adventure

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  2:54
• 11
  The Yeomen of the Guard: A Man Who Would Woo a Fair Maid

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  3:46
• 12
  The Yeomen of the Guard: When a Wooer Goes a-Wooing

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  2:58
• 13
  The Gondoliers: For the Merriest Fellows Are We

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  2:20
• 14
  The Gondoliers: We're Called Gondolieri

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  2:12
• 15
  The Gondoliers: From the Sunny Spanish Shore

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  1:39
• 16
  The Gondoliers: In Enterprise of Martial Kind

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  1:46
• 17
  The Gondoliers: I Stole the Prince

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  2:17
• 18
  The Gondoliers: When a Merry Maiden Marries

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  3:25
• 19
  The Gondoliers: Then One of Us Will Be a Queen

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  2:54
• 20
  The Gondoliers: Rising Early in the Morning

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  3:11
• 21
  The Gondoliers: Take a Pair of Sparkling Eyes

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  3:18
• 22
  The Gondoliers: Dance a Cachucha

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  2:16
• 23
  The Gondoliers: There Lived a King

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  3:08
• 24
  The Gondoliers: In a Contemplative Fashion

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  2:07
• 25
  The Gondoliers: I Am a Courtier Grave and Serious

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  3:58
• 26
  The Gondoliers: Finale: Once More Gondolieri

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  1:58
• DVD-Video 4
• 1
  [introduction]

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  1:19
• 2
  The Pirates of Penzance: Pour, oh Pour, the Pirate Sherry

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  2:10
• 3
  The Pirates of Penzance: Stop, Ladies, Pray!

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  1:27
• 4
  The Pirates of Penzance: Oh, Is There Not One Maiden Breast

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  3:26
• 5
  The Pirates of Penzance: Poor Wandering One

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  3:59
• 6
  The Pirates of Penzance: I Am the Model of a Modern Major-General

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  3:02
• 7
  The Pirates of Penzance: A Policeman's Lot Is Not a Happy One

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  2:26
• 8
  [dialogue 1]

  Peter Cellier & Peter Rapley
  1:11
• 9
  H.M.S. Pinafore: My Gallant Crew, Good Morning! / I Am the Captain of the Pinafore

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  2:24
• 10
  H.M.S. Pinafore: When I Was a Lad

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  2:46
• 11
  [dialogue 2]

  Peter Cellier & Peter Rapley
  1:02
• 12
  Iolanthe: When Britain Really Ruled the Waves

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  3:11
• 13
  [dialogue 3]

  Peter Cellier & Peter Rapley
  0:53
• 14
  The Gondoliers: Take a Pair of Sparkling Eyes

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  3:11
• 15
  The Gondoliers: Once More Gondolieri

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  1:59
• 16
  [dialogue 4]

  Peter Cellier & Peter Rapley
  0:44
• 17
  The Mikado: Gentlemen, I Pray You Tell Me

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  0:40
• 18
  The Mikado: A Wand'ring Minstrel I

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  4:22
• 19
  The Mikado: The Sun, Whose Rays Are All Ablaze

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  3:02
• 20
  The Mikado: A More Humane Mikado

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  4:54
• 21
  The Mikado: He's Gone and Married Yum-Yum

  Gilbert & Sullivan
  5:01

More by Gilbert, Sullivan, The D’Oyly Carte Opera Company, Glyndebourne Festival Opera

The Pirates of Penzance

The Pirates of Penzance 2002

The Mikado (1957 D’Oyly Carte cast)

The Mikado (1957 D’Oyly Carte cast) 2002

The Mikado (1950 D’Oyly Carte cast)

The Mikado (1950 D’Oyly Carte cast) 2001

The Mikado (1926 D’Oyly Carte cast) / The Sorcerer (1933 D’Oyly Carte cast)

The Mikado (1926 D’Oyly Carte cast) / The Sorcerer (1933 D’Oyly Carte cast) 1998

The Grand Duke

The Grand Duke 1993

Utopia Limited (1975 D’Oyly Carte cast)

Utopia Limited (1975 D’Oyly Carte cast) 1993

Release credits

• Alexander Young
  lead vocals [2.9, 3.15-17]
• Ann Drummond‐Grant
  contralto vocals [21], lead vocals [2.25, 2.28, 1.27]
• Beryl Dixon
  lead vocals [10, 17, 19, 23, 26], mezzo-soprano vocals [15, 18, 20]
• Darrell Fancourt
  lead vocals [1.27, 2.27]
• Donald Adams
  bass-baritone vocals [14, 21], lead vocals [22]
• Doreen Hume
  lead vocals [10]
• D’Oyly Carte Opera Chorus
  choir vocals [2.12-17, 2.19, 2.22, 2.26-27, 1.14-20, 1.23-25, 1.27]
• D’Oyly Carte Opera Orchestra
  performing orchestra [2.10-26, 1.4, 1.25-27]
• Edna Graham
  lead vocals [15-17, 25]
• Ella Halman
  lead vocals [26]
• Elsie Morison
  lead vocals [3.4, 3.6, 3.11-12, 3.19, 3.24, 1.12]
• Geoffrey Shovelton
  lead vocals [3-4, 14, 17-18, 21]
• George Baker
  lead vocals [2.2-3, 2.7-9, 1.9, 1.12-13]
• Geraint Evans
  lead vocals [4-5, 8-9, 12, 15-17, 25]
• Glyndebourne Festival Opera Company
  choir vocals [1.5, 1.7-9, 1.13, 2.1-2, 2.5-6, 3.1-2, 3.4, 3.13, 3.18-20, 3.22, 3.26]
• Hertfordshire County Youth Orchestra
  performing orchestra [1-7, 9-10, 12, 14-15, 17-21]
• Howard Short
  baritone vocals [24]
• Ian Wallace
  lead vocals [5, 9]
• Isidore Godfrey
  conductor [1.2-4, 1.14-27, 2.10-28]
• James Milligan
  lead vocals [13]
• Jean Hindmarsh
  lead vocals [17-18, 20-21, 23, 26], soprano vocals [16-18, 20, 22]
• Jeffrey Skitch
  lead vocals [10]
• Jennifer Toye
  lead vocals [17]
• John Ayldon
  lead vocals [2, 7, 9, 12, 15, 20-21]
• John Cameron
  lead vocals [1.7-8, 1.10-12, 3.10, 3.14, 3.19-20, 3.23-25]
• John Carol Case
  lead vocals [1]
• Kenneth Sandford
  bass vocals [20, 23], lead vocals [23]
• Leonard Osborn
  lead vocals [10-11]
• Marcus Dods
  conductor [1-7, 9-10, 12, 14-15, 17-21]
• Margaret Mitchell
  lead vocals [25]
• Marian Martin
  mezzo-soprano vocals [15, 18]
• Marjorie Thomas
  lead vocals [1.9, 3.7, 3.11-12, 3.18-19, 3.24], other vocals [13]
• Martyn Green
  lead vocals [2.28, 1.26]
• Monica Sinclair
  lead vocals [3.2, 3.10, 3.15-17, 3.25, 1.6, 1.11, 2.6]
• Muriel Harding
  lead vocals [10]
• Neville Griffiths
  lead vocals [27]
• New Promenade Orchestra
  performing orchestra [2-3]
• New Symphony Orchestra of London
  performing orchestra [14-24]
• Owen Brannigan
  lead vocals [2.4, 3.9, 3.17, 3.23]
• Patricia Leonard
  lead vocals [3, 15, 21]
• Peter Cellier
  spoken vocals [1, 8, 11, 13, 16]
• Peter Pratt
  baritone vocals [19], lead vocals [1.4, 1.27, 2.12, 2.14-15, 2.21, 2.23-26, 4.6, 4.10, 4.21]
• Peter Rapley
  spoken vocals [1, 8, 11, 13, 16]
• Pro Arte Orchestra
  performing orchestra [3.1-26, 1.1, 1.5-13, 2.1-9]
• Richard Lewis
  lead vocals [3, 10-12, 14, 19, 21, 23-25]
• Richard Watson
  lead vocals [1.3, 2.28]
• Royal Choral Society
  choir vocals [2-7, 9-10, 12, 15, 17-18, 20-21]
• Sir Malcolm Sargent
  conductor [2.1-9, 1.1, 1.5-13, 3.1-26]
• Stella Hitchens
  lead vocals [13]
• Thomas Round
  lead vocals [10, 13, 18, 21, 23, 26], tenor vocals [16, 18, 21-22]
• Vivian Tierney
  lead vocals [5, 15, 19, 21]
• Yvonne Dean
  lead vocals [27]
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  The Best of Gilbert & Sullivan

  3x CD, DVD-Video
  2010