The Grand Duke

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  The Grand Duke: Overture
  5:21
• 2
  The Grand Duke: Act I. “Won’t it be a pretty wedding?” (Elsa, Bertha, Olga, Gretchen, Chorus)
  2:10
• 3
  The Grand Duke: Act I. “Pretty Lisa, fair and tasty” (Lisa, Ludwig, Chorus)
  1:59
• 4
  The Grand Duke: Act I. “By the mystic regulation” (Ludwig, Chorus)
  1:35
• 5
  The Grand Duke: Act I. “Were I a king in very truth” (Ernest, Chorus)
  2:03
• 6
  The Grand Duke: Act I. “How would I play this part” (Julia, Ernest)
  3:36
• 7
  The Grand Duke: Act I. “My goodness me! What shall I do?” (Chorus, Ludwig)
  0:47
• 8
  The Grand Duke: Act I. “Ten minutes since I met a chap” (Ludwig, Chorus)
  2:26
• 9
  The Grand Duke: Act I. “About a century since” (Dr. Tannhäuser, Julia, Lisa, Ernest, Ludwig)
  2:44
• 10
  The Grand Duke: Act I. “Strange the views some people hold” (Julia, Lisa, Ernest, Dr. Tannhäuser, Ludwig)
  3:14
• 11
  The Grand Duke: Act I. “Now take a card, and gaily sing” (Julia, Lisa, Ernest, Dr. Tannhäuser, Ludwig)
  2:46
• 12
  The Grand Duke: Act I. “The good Grand Duke of Pfenning Halbpfenning” (Chorus)
  1:36
• 13
  The Grand Duke: Act I. “A pattern to professors of monarchical autonomy” (Grand Duke)
  1:56
• 14
  The Grand Duke: Act I. “As o’er our penny roll we sing” (Baroness, Grand Duke)
  2:12
• 15
  The Grand Duke: Act I. “When you find you’re a broken-down critter” (Grand Duke)
  2:56
• 16
  The Grand Duke: Act I. Finale “Come hither, all you people”
  17:15
• CD 2
• 1
  The Grand Duke: Act II. “As before you we defile” (Chorus)
  2:44
• 2
  The Grand Duke: Act II. “Your loyalty our ducal heart-strings touches… At the outset I may mention” (Ludwig, Chorus)
  4:49
• 3
  The Grand Duke: Act II. “Yes, Ludwig and his Julia are mated!” (Ludwig)
  0:27
• 4
  The Grand Duke: Act II. “Take care of him — he’s much too good to live!” (Lisa, Ludwig)
  3:20
• 5
  The Grand Duke: Act II. “Now Julia, come, consider it” (Julia, Ludwig)
  3:16
• 6
  The Grand Duke: Act II. “Your Highness, there’s a party at the door” (Chorus, Baroness, Ludwig)
  2:23
• 7
  The Grand Duke: Act II. “Now away to the wedding we go” (Baroness, Chorus)
  0:54
• 8
  The Grand Duke: Act II. “So ends my dream… Broken ev’ry promise plighted” (Julia)
  5:04
• 9
  The Grand Duke: Act II. “In the light of love’s lingering ember” (Julia, Ernest, Chorus)
  3:00
• 10
  The Grand Duke: Act II. “Come, bumpers — aye, ever so many” (Baroness, Chorus)
  2:25
• 11
  The Grand Duke: Act II. “Why, who is this approaching?” (Ludwig, Chorus)
  0:46
• 12
  The Grand Duke: Act II. “The Prince of Monte Carlo” (Herald, Chorus)
  2:04
• 13
  The Grand Duke: Act II. “His Highness we know not” (Ludwig)
  0:53
• 14
  The Grand Duke: Act II. “We’re rigged out in magnificent array” (Prince of Monte Carlo, Princess of Monte Carlo, Herald, Chorus)
  2:42
• 15
  The Grand Duke: Act II. Dance
  1:29
• 16
  The Grand Duke: Act II. “Take my advice — when deep in debt” (Prince of Monte Carlo, Chorus)
  2:45
• 17
  The Grand Duke: Act II. “Hurrah! Now away to the wedding” (Ernest, Dr. Tannhäuser, Grand Duke, Chorus)
  0:49
• 18
  The Grand Duke: Act II. “Well, you’re a pretty kind of fellow” (Grand Duke, Chorus)
  2:12
• 19
  The Grand Duke: Act II. Finale “Happy couples, lightly treading”
  1:44
• 20
  Overture di Ballo
  10:54
• 21
  March and Graceful Dance from Henry VIII: I. Allegro moderato alla marcia
  4:40
• 22
  March and Graceful Dance from Henry VIII: II. Allegretto grazioso
  4:58

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Release credits

• Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
  performing orchestra
• Royston Nash
  conductor
• The D’Oyly Carte Opera Company
  vocal

Issues

• T
  The Grand Duke

  2x CD
  1993
• T
  The Grand Duke

  2x CD
  2003