The Very Best of Gilbert & Sullivan
Compilation by Gilbert & Sullivan; The D’Oyly Carte Opera Company
Released 1998
Tracklist
- CD 1
- 1The Mikado: “Three little maids from school”Gilbert & Sullivan1:29
- 2The Mikado: “A wandering minstrel I”Gilbert & Sullivan4:35
- 3The Mikado: “On a tree by the river a little tom‐tit”Gilbert & Sullivan2:26
- 4The Mikado: “Behold the lord high executioner!”Gilbert & Sullivan2:39
- 5The Mikado: “As some day it may happen”Gilbert & Sullivan2:24
- 6The Mikado: “The sun whose rays are all ablaze”Gilbert & Sullivan3:07
- 7The Mikado: “Here’s a how‐de‐do”Gilbert & Sullivan1:25
- 8The Mikado: “The flowers that bloom in the spring”Gilbert & Sullivan1:40
- 9The Mikado: “There is beauty in the bellow of blast”Gilbert & Sullivan2:16
- 10The Mikado: “For he’s gone and married Yum‐Yum”Gilbert & Sullivan2:10
- 11H.M.S. Pinafore: “When I was a lad”Gilbert & Sullivan4:47
- 12H.M.S. Pinafore: “I’m called little Buttercup”Gilbert & Sullivan1:46
- 13H.M.S. Pinafore: “Nevermind the way and wherefore”Gilbert & Sullivan2:41
- 14H.M.S. Pinafore: “We sail the ocean blue”Gilbert & Sullivan2:27
- 15H.M.S. Pinafore: “I’m called the captain of Pinafore”Gilbert & Sullivan2:20
- 16H.M.S. Pinafore: “Oh joy! Oh rapture unforeseen”Gilbert & Sullivan3:06
- 17Trial by Jury: “When I, good friends, was called to the bar”Gilbert & Sullivan2:56
- 18The Sorcerer: “My name is John Wellington Wells”Gilbert & Sullivan2:15
- 19Patience: “The soldiers of our queen”Gilbert & Sullivan0:53
- 20Patience: “Am I alone and unobserved?”Gilbert & Sullivan1:42
- 21Patience: “If you’re anxious to shine”Gilbert & Sullivan2:33
- 22Patience: “So go to him and say to him”Gilbert & Sullivan2:00
- 23The Yeomen of the Guard: “When our gallant norman foes”Gilbert & Sullivan4:55
- 24The Yeomen of the Guard: “I have a song to sing, o!”Gilbert & Sullivan3:23
- 25The Yeomen of the Guard: “When maiden loves, she sits and sighs”Gilbert & Sullivan3:35
- 26The Yeomen of the Guard: “Tower warders under orders”Gilbert & Sullivan3:54
- CD 2
- 1The Pirates of Penzance: “With cat‐like tread”Gilbert & Sullivan2:49
- 2The Pirates of Penzance: “Poor wand’ring one”Gilbert & Sullivan2:59
- 3The Pirates of Penzance: “I am the very model of a modern major general”Gilbert & Sullivan3:00
- 4The Pirates of Penzance: “When the foeman bares his steel”Gilbert & Sullivan4:53
- 5The Pirates of Penzance: “When a felon’s not engaged in his employment”Gilbert & Sullivan2:34
- 6Ruddigore: “I know a youth who loves a maid”Gilbert & Sullivan3:30
- 7Ruddigore: “When the night wind howls in the chimney cowls”Gilbert & Sullivan2:34
- 8Ruddigore: “My eyes are fully open to my awful situation”Gilbert & Sullivan1:40
- 9Iolanthe: “Loudly let the trumpet bray”Gilbert & Sullivan5:54
- 10Iolanthe: “Love unrequited”Gilbert & Sullivan3:36
- 11Iolanthe: “If you’re in you’re sure to win”Gilbert & Sullivan2:23
- 12Iolanthe: “When all night long a chap remains”Gilbert & Sullivan4:35
- 13Iolanthe: “Said I to myself, said I”Gilbert & Sullivan1:56
- 14Iolanthe: “When Britain really ruled the waves”Gilbert & Sullivan3:09
- 15The Gondoliers: “We’re called gondolieri”Gilbert & Sullivan2:13
- 16The Gondoliers: “In enterprise of a martial kind”Gilbert & Sullivan1:37
- 17The Gondoliers: “Take a pair of sparkling eyes”Gilbert & Sullivan3:15
- 18The Gondoliers: “Dance a cachucha, fandango, bolero”Gilbert & Sullivan1:51
- 19The Gondoliers: “From the sunny spanish shore”Gilbert & Sullivan1:47
- 20The Gondoliers: “I stole the prince”Gilbert & Sullivan2:30
- 21The Gondoliers: “Then one of us will be a queen”Gilbert & Sullivan2:24
- 22Princess Ida: “If you give me your attention”Gilbert & Sullivan2:18
- 23Princess Ida: “The woman of the wisest wit”Gilbert & Sullivan2:34
- 24Princess Ida: “I built upon a rock”Gilbert & Sullivan3:32
- 25Princess Ida: “Whene’er I spoke sarcastic joke”Gilbert & Sullivan2:04
- 26Princess Ida: “This helmet I suppose”Gilbert & Sullivan2:16
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Release credits
- conductor [2.5, 2.9, 1.5]
- performer, performer
Issues
T1998