The Mikado (1950 D’Oyly Carte cast)

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  The Mikado: Act I. Overture
  7:43
• 2
  The Mikado: Act I. “If you want to know who we are” (Chorus of Nobles)
  2:18
• 3
  The Mikado: Act I. Recitative “Gentlemen, I pray you” (Nanki-Poo)
  0:41
• 4
  The Mikado: Act I. “A wand’ring minstrel I” (Nanki-Poo, Chorus)
  4:29
• 5
  The Mikado: Act I. “Our great Mikado, virtuous man” (Pish-Tush, Chorus)
  2:47
• 6
  The Mikado: Act I. “Young man, despair” (Pooh-Bah, Nanki-Poo, Pish Tush)
  2:39
• 7
  The Mikado: Act I. Recitative “And I have journeyed for a month” (Nanki-Poo, Pooh-Bah)
  0:55
• 8
  The Mikado: Act I. “Behold the Lord High Executioner… Taken from the county jail” (Chorus of Nobles, Ko-Ko)
  2:13
• 9
  The Mikado: Act I. “As some day it may happen” (Ko-Ko, Chorus of Men)
  2:02
• 10
  The Mikado: Act I. “Comes a train of little ladies” (Chorus of Girls)
  2:11
• 11
  The Mikado: Act I. “Three little maids from school” (Yum-Yum, Peep-Bo, Pitti-Sing, Chorus of Girls)
  1:27
• 12
  The Mikado: Act I. “So please sir, we much regret” (Yum-Yum, Peep-Bo, Pitti-Sing, Pooh-Bah)
  1:52
• 13
  The Mikado: Act I. “Were you not to Ko-Ko plighted” (Yum-Yum, Nanki-Poo)
  2:22
• 14
  The Mikado: Act I. “I am so proud” (Pooh-Bah, Ko-Ko, Pish-Tush)
  2:43
• 15
  The Mikado: Act I. Finale Act I (Chorus, Pooh-Bah, Pish-Tush, Yum-Yum, Peep-Bo, Pitti-Sing, Ko-Ko, Katisha, Ensemble)
  12:50
• CD 2
• 1
  The Mikado: Act II. “Braid the raven hair” (Pitti-Sing, Chorus of Girls)
  3:19
• 2
  The Mikado: Act II. “The sun whose rays are all ablaze” (Yum-Yum)
  2:33
• 3
  The Mikado: Act II. “Brightly dawns our wedding day” (Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sing, Nanki-Poo, Pish-Tush)
  3:54
• 4
  The Mikado: Act II. “Here’s a how-de-do!” (Yum-Yum, Nanki-Poo, Ko-Ko)
  1:09
• 5
  The Mikado: Act II. “Miya Sama” (Chorus)
  1:06
• 6
  The Mikado: Act II. “From every kind of man” (Mikado, Katisha)
  1:48
• 7
  The Mikado: Act II. “A more humane Mikado… My object all sublime” (Mikado, Chorus)
  4:07
• 8
  The Mikado: Act II. “The criminal cried, as he dropped him down” (Ko-Ko, Pitti-Sing, Pooh-Bah, Chorus)
  3:16
• 9
  The Mikado: Act II. “See how the fates their gifts allot” (Mikado, Pitti-Sing, Katisha, Ko-Ko, Poo-Bah)
  2:09
• 10
  The Mikado: Act II. “The flowers that bloom in the spring” (Nanki-Poo, Ko-Ko, Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sing, Pooh-Bah)
  1:22
• 11
  The Mikado: Act II. “Alone and yet alive… Hearts do not break” (Katisha)
  2:17
• 12
  The Mikado: Act II. “On a tree by a river” (Ko-Ko)
  2:27
• 13
  The Mikado: Act II. “There is beauty in the bellow of the blast” (Katisha, Ko-Ko)
  2:02
• 14
  The Mikado: Act II. Finale Act II (Company)
  1:54

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Release credits

• Alan Styler
  baritone vocals [1.5-6, 1.14-15, 2.3, 2.14]
• Darrell Fancourt
  bass vocals [6-7, 9, 14]
• D’Oyly Carte Opera Chorus
  choir vocals [2.1, 2.5-8, 2.14, 1.2, 1.4-5, 1.8-12, 1.15]
• Ella Halman
  contralto vocals [1.15, 2.6, 2.9, 2.11, 2.13-14]
• Isidore Godfrey
  conductor
• Joan Gillingham
  mezzo-soprano vocals [1.11-12, 1.15, 2.1, 2.3, 2.8-10, 2.14]
• Joyce Wright
  mezzo-soprano vocals [1.11-12, 1.15, 2.14]
• Leonard Osborn
  tenor vocals [1.3-4, 1.6-7, 1.13, 1.15, 2.3-4, 2.10, 2.14]
• Margaret Mitchell
  soprano vocals [1.11-13, 1.15, 2.2-4, 2.10, 2.14]
• Martyn Green
  baritone vocals [1.8-9, 1.14-15, 2.4, 2.8-10, 2.12-14]
• New Promenade Orchestra
  performing orchestra
• Richard Watson
  baritone vocals [1.6-7, 1.12, 1.14-15, 2.8-10, 2.14]

Issues

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  The Mikado (1950 D’Oyly Carte cast)

  2x CD
  2001