Operas of Gilbert and Sullivan

Album by The D’Oyly Carte Opera Company

Released 2004

Tracklist

  • CD 1: HMS Pinafore
  • 1
    Overture
    4:21
  • 2
    We sail the ocean blue
    2:24
  • 3
    Hail, Men o' wars' Men
    0:25
  • 4
    I'm Called Little Buttercup
    1:24
  • 5
    But tell me who's the youth
    0:26
  • 6
    The Nightingale Sighed For The Moon's Bright Ray
    2:09
  • 7
    A maiden fair to see
    1:53
  • 8
    My gallant crew, good morning
    0:25
  • 9
    I am the Captain of the Pinafore
    1:50
  • 10
    Sir, you are sad
    1:26
  • 11
    Sorry her lot who loves too well
    3:08
  • 12
    Over the bright blue sea
    3:05
  • 13
    I am the monarch of the sea
    1:17
  • 14
    When I Was A Lad I Served A Term
    3:33
  • 15
    A British tar is a soaring soul
    1:52
  • 16
    Refrain, audacious tar
    3:01
  • 17
    Can I survive this overbearing?
    3:14
  • 18
    Oh joy, oh rapture unforeseen
    1:21
  • 19
    This very night
    1:51
  • 20
    Let's give three cheers
    2:27
  • 21
    Entr'acte
    1:17
  • 22
    Fair moon, to thee I sing
    2:11
  • 23
    Things are seldom what they seem
    2:27
  • 24
    The hours creep on apace
    4:35
  • 25
    Never mind the why and wherefore
    2:35
  • 26
    Kind Captain, I've important information
    2:18
  • 27
    Carefully on tiptoe stealing
    1:41
  • 28
    Pretty daughter of mine
    1:20
  • 29
    He is an Englishman
    1:43
  • 30
    In uttering a reprobation
    2:17
  • 31
    Farewell, my own
    2:20
  • 32
    A many years ago
    1:57
  • 33
    Oh joy, oh rapture unforeseen
    2:48
  • CD 2: Ruddigore
  • 1
    Overture
    6:45
  • 2
    Act One - Fair is Rose as bright May Day
    2:24
  • 3
    Act One - Sir Rupert Murgatroyd
    2:27
  • 4
    Act One - If somebody there chanced to be
    3:01
  • 5
    Act One - I know a youth who loves a little maid
    3:34
  • 6
    Act One - From the briny sea
    0:49
  • 7
    Act One - I shipped d'ye see, in a Revenue sloop
    3:03
  • 8
    Act One - My boy, you may take it fromme
    1:39
  • 9
    Act One - If well his suit has sped
    0:42
  • 10
    Act One - In sailing o'er lifes ocean wide
    1:56
  • 11
    Act One - Cheerily carols the lark
    1:51
  • 12
    Act One - To a garden full of posies
    2:24
  • 13
    Act One - Welcome gentry for your entry
    2:28
  • 14
    Act One - Oh why am i moody and sad?
    2:03
  • 15
    Act One - You understand?
    1:21
  • 16
    Act One - Hail the bride of seventeen summers
    1:45
  • 17
    Act One - When the buds are blossoming
    4:49
  • 18
    Act One - Hold, bride and bridgegroom
    5:27
  • 19
    Act One - Oh Happy the Lily
    2:33
  • 20
    Act Two - I once was as meek as a new-born lamb
    2:12
  • 21
    Act Two - Happily coupled are we
    1:05
  • 22
    Act Two - In bygone days I had thy love
    1:36
  • 23
    Act Two - Painted emblems of a race
    3:52
  • 24
    Act Two - When the night wind howls
    2:34
  • 25
    Act Two - He yields! He yields!
    2:14
  • 26
    Act Two - I once was a very abandoned person
    2:46
  • 27
    Act Two - My eyes are fully open
    1:36
  • 28
    Act Two - There grew a little flower
    4:16
  • 29
    Act Two - Oh happy ther lily
    0:48
  • CD 3: Patience
  • 1
    Overture
    5:12
  • 2
    Act One - Twenty lovesick maidens are we
    4:46
  • 3
    Act One - Still brooding on their mad infatuation
    1:04
  • 4
    Act One - I cannot tell what this love may be
    2:22
  • 5
    Act One - The Soldiers of our Queen
    3:18
  • 6
    Act One - In a doleful train...Twenty lovesick maidens are we
    5:00
  • 7
    Act One - When I first put this uniform on
    1:22
  • 8
    Act One - Am I alone and unobserved
    4:27
  • 9
    Act One - Long yers ago, fourteen maybe
    2:12
  • 10
    Act One - Prithee pretty maiden
    2:39
  • 11
    Act One - Let the merry cymbals sound
    1:49
  • 12
    Act One - Now tell us, we pray you
    2:30
  • 13
    Act One - Your maiden hearts
    1:35
  • 14
    Act One - Come walk up and purchase with avidity
    4:16
  • 15
    Act One - True love must single-hearted be
    1:20
  • 16
    Act One - I hear the soft note...But who is this
    5:14
  • 17
    Act Two - Sad is the womans lot
    4:02
  • 18
    Act Two - Turn, oh turn on this direction
    1:15
  • 19
    Act Two - A magnet hung in a hardware shop
    2:26
  • 20
    Act Two - Love is a plaintive song
    3:12
  • 21
    Act Two - So go to him and say to him
    1:58
  • 22
    Act Two - Its clear that medieval art alone retains its zest
    2:24
  • 23
    Act Two - If Saphir I choose to marry
    2:44
  • 24
    Act Two - When I go out of door
    1:32
  • 25
    Act Two - Im a WQaterlook House young man
    0:41
  • 26
    Act Two - After much debate internal
    1:14
  • 27
    Overture
    7:44
  • CD 4: The Mikado
  • 1
    If you want to know who we are
    2:21
  • 2
    Gentlemen, I pray you tell me
    0:42
  • 3
    A Wand'ring Minstrel I
    4:33
  • 4
    Our great Mikado, virtuous man
    2:50
  • 5
    Young man, despair
    2:42
  • 6
    And Have I Journey'd For A Month
    0:56
  • 7
    Behold the Lord High Executioner
    2:15
  • 8
    As Some Day It May Happen
    2:04
  • 9
    Comes a train of little ladies
    2:11
  • 10
    Three Little Maids From School
    1:28
  • 11
    So please you, Sir, we much regret
    1:53
  • 12
    Were you not to Ko-Ko plighted
    2:25
  • 13
    I Am So Proud
    2:45
  • 14
    With aspect stern
    4:35
  • 15
    Your revels cease!
    3:58
  • 16
    The hour of gladness
    4:34
  • 17
    Braid the raven hair
    3:22
  • 18
    The Sun Whose Rays Are All Ablaze
    2:34
  • 19
    Brightly Dawns Our Wedding Day
    3:59
  • 20
    Here's a how-de-do!
    1:11
  • 21
    Miya sama, miya sama
    2:58
  • 22
    A More Humane Mikado
    4:11
  • 23
    The criminal cried
    3:18
  • 24
    See how the fates their gifts allot
    2:10
  • 25
    The flowers the bloom in the Spring
    1:23
  • 26
    Alone, and yet alive
    0:36
  • 27
    Hearts do not break
    1:42
  • 28
    On a tree by a river a little tom tit
    2:28
  • 29
    There is beauty in the bellow of the blast
    2:02
  • 30
    For he's gone and married Yum-Yum
    1:53
  • CD 5: Trial By Jury / Pirates of Penzance, Act 1
  • 1
    Hark, the hour of ten is sounding
    1:25
  • 2
    Now jurymen hear my advice
    1:52
  • 3
    Is this the Court of the Exchequer?
    0:53
  • 4
    When first my old, old love I knew
    2:46
  • 5
    Silence in court...all hail great judge
    2:42
  • 6
    When I, good friends, was called to the bar
    3:01
  • 7
    Swear thou the jury
    1:12
  • 8
    Where Is The Plaintiff?
    0:39
  • 9
    Comes the broken flower
    2:29
  • 10
    Oh, never, never, never
    1:15
  • 11
    May it please you, m'Lud!
    3:04
  • 12
    That she is reeliing is plain to me
    0:55
  • 13
    Oh, Gentlemen, Listen
    1:47
  • 14
    That seems a reasonable proposition
    0:56
  • 15
    A nice dilemma we have here
    2:33
  • 16
    I love him, I love him
    1:30
  • 17
    The question, gentlemen, is one of liquor
    1:23
  • 18
    Oh joy unbounded
    2:00
  • 19
    Overture
    7:52
  • 20
    Pour, oh pour the pirate sherry
    1:42
  • 21
    When Frederic was a little lad
    2:20
  • 22
    Oh, Better Far To Live And Die
    2:22
  • 23
    Oh, false one, you have decived me!
    2:30
  • 24
    Climbing Over Rocky Mountain
    4:02
  • 25
    Stop, Ladies, Pray!
    1:21
  • 26
    Oh, is there not one maiden breast
    3:36
  • 27
    Oh, sisters, deaf to pity's name
    0:29
  • 28
    Poor Wandering One
    2:35
  • 29
    What ought we to do?
    2:55
  • 30
    Stay, We Must Not Lose Our Senses
    0:37
  • 31
    Here's A First Rate Opportunity
    0:50
  • 32
    Hold, Monsters!
    0:42
  • 33
    I Am The Very Model Of A Modern Major-General
    2:45
  • 34
    Oh, men of dark and dismal fate
    2:24
  • 35
    I'm telling a terrible story
    3:32
  • 36
    Oh, master, hear one word
    0:38
  • 37
    Pray observe the magnaminity
    1:32
  • CD 6: Pirats of Penzance, Act 2 / Lolanthe, Part 1
  • 1
    Oh, Dry the Glistening Tear
    3:14
  • 2
    Then, Frederic, let your escort lion-hearted
    0:18
  • 3
    When the foeman bares his steel
    4:38
  • 4
    Now for the pirates' lair!
    0:33
  • 5
    Young Frederic!
    0:50
  • 6
    When you had left the pirate fold
    3:30
  • 7
    Away, Away! My Heart's On Fire
    1:31
  • 8
    All is prepared
    1:16
  • 9
    Stay, Frederic, Stay
    0:53
  • 10
    Ah, leave me not to pine
    2:55
  • 11
    In 1940 I of age shall be
    1:24
  • 12
    No, I'll be brave
    0:26
  • 13
    Though in body and in mind
    0:50
  • 14
    When a felon's not engaged in his employment
    2:08
  • 15
    A rollicking band of pirates we
    0:50
  • 16
    With Cat-Like Tread
    2:40
  • 17
    Hush, Hush! Not a Word
    1:28
  • 18
    Sighing softly to the river
    1:29
  • 19
    And what is this, and what is that
    0:45
  • 20
    Frederic here! Oh joy!
    3:55
  • 21
    Poor wandering ones
    1:42
  • 22
    Overture
    7:18
  • 23
    Tripping hither, tripping thither
    4:11
  • 24
    Iolanthe
    3:16
  • 25
    Good morrow, good mother
    0:41
  • 26
    Fare thee well, attractive stranger
    1:03
  • 27
    Good morrow, good lover
    0:42
  • 28
    None shall part us from each other
    2:54
  • 29
    Loudly let the trumpet bray
    5:44
  • 30
    The Law Is The True Embodiment
    2:50
  • 31
    My Well-Loved Lord and Guardian Dear
    0:32
  • 32
    Of all the young ladies I know
    3:34
  • 33
    Nay, tempt me not
    0:23
  • 34
    Spurn not the nobly born
    2:00
  • 35
    My Lords, It May Not Be
    0:44
  • 36
    A shepherd I
    2:02
  • 37
    When I Went To The Bar As A Very Young Man
    2:04
  • CD 7: Lolanthe, Part 2 / Gondoliers, Part 1
  • 1
    When darkly looms the day
    2:21
  • 2
    Oh, shameless one, tremble!
    1:37
  • 3
    In babyhood upon her lap I lay
    2:43
  • 4
    For riches and rank that you befall
    0:39
  • 5
    To you I give my heart
    1:09
  • 6
    Tripping hither, tripping thither
    0:32
  • 7
    The lady of my love
    1:46
  • 8
    Go away, Madam
    1:27
  • 9
    Oh! Chancellor unwary
    4:03
  • 10
    Young Strephon is the kind of lout
    2:29
  • 11
    When all night long a chap remains
    3:55
  • 12
    Strephon's A Member Of Parliament
    1:29
  • 13
    When Britain really ruled the waves
    2:56
  • 14
    In Vain to Us You Plead
    1:56
  • 15
    Oh, Foolish Fay
    3:00
  • 16
    Though p'r'aps I may incur your blame
    1:53
  • 17
    Love, unrequited, roba me of my rest
    0:45
  • 18
    When You're Lying Awake With A Dismal Headache
    2:53
  • 19
    If You Go In, You're Sure To Win
    2:20
  • 20
    If We're Weak Enough To Tarry
    1:29
  • 21
    My Lord, A Suppliant at Your Feet I Kneel
    0:40
  • 22
    He loves! If in the bygone years
    1:35
  • 23
    It may not be
    2:49
  • 24
    Soon As We May
    2:04
  • 25
    Overture
    5:56
  • 26
    List and learn, ye dainty roses
    3:28
  • 27
    Good morrow, pretty maids
    1:15
  • 28
    For the merriest fellows are we
    2:12
  • 29
    Buon' giorno, signorine!
    2:34
  • 30
    We're called gondolieri
    2:12
  • 31
    And now to choose our brides
    2:48
  • 32
    Thank you, gallant gondolierei
    2:21
  • CD 8: The Gondoliers, Part 2
  • 1
    From the sunny Spanish shore
    1:44
  • 2
    In enterprise of martial kind
    1:35
  • 3
    O rapture, when alone together
    1:52
  • 4
    There Was A Time
    3:11
  • 5
    I stole the Prince
    2:24
  • 6
    But, bless my heart
    0:50
  • 7
    Try we life-long
    2:05
  • 8
    Bridegroom and bride
    0:40
  • 9
    When a merry maidem marries
    2:50
  • 10
    Kind sir, you cannot have the heart
    2:53
  • 11
    Do not give way
    0:40
  • 12
    Then one of us will be a queen
    2:49
  • 13
    Replying we sing
    0:53
  • 14
    For everyone who feels inclined
    2:04
  • 15
    Come, let's away
    4:09
  • 16
    Then away we go to an island fair
    2:07
  • 17
    Of happiness the very pith
    2:01
  • 18
    Rising early in the morning
    2:45
  • 19
    Take a pair of sparkling eyes
    3:10
  • 20
    Here we are, at the risk of our lives
    3:09
  • 21
    Dance a cachucha, fandango, bolero
    1:48
  • 22
    There lived a king
    2:54
  • 23
    In a contemplative fashion
    2:00
  • 24
    With ducal pomp and ducal pride
    1:48
  • 25
    On the day when I was wedded
    2:29
  • 26
    To help unhappy commoners
    0:22
  • 27
    Small titles and orders
    2:46
  • 28
    I am a courtier grave and serious
    3:45
  • 29
    Here is a case unprecedented
    1:31
  • 30
    Now let the loyal lieges gather round
    0:56
  • 31
    The Royal Prince
    3:44
  • CD 9: The Yeomen of the Guard, Part 1
  • 1
    Overture
    4:55
  • 2
    When maiden loves
    3:36
  • 3
    Tower wardes under orders
    3:33
  • 4
    When our gallant Norman foes
    4:27
  • 5
    Alas! I waver to and fro
    2:17
  • 6
    Is life a boon?
    2:20
  • 7
    Here's a man of jollity
    1:11
  • 8
    I Have A Song To Sing, O!
    3:32
  • 9
    How say you, maiden, will you wed?
    2:56
  • 10
    I've jibe and joke
    1:48
  • 11
    'Tis done! I am a bride
    3:06
  • 12
    Were I thy bride
    1:50
  • 13
    Oh, Sergeant Meryll, is it true?
    2:12
  • 14
    Forbear my friends
    6:58
  • 15
    The prisoner comes to meet his doom
    7:00
  • 16
    Night has spread her pall once more
    4:02
  • 17
    Oh! A private buffoon is a light-hearted loon
    2:45
  • 18
    Hereupon we're both agreed
    1:37
  • 19
    Free from his fetters grim
    2:36
  • 20
    Strange adventure!
    2:35
  • 21
    Hark! What was that, sir?
    3:38
  • 22
    A man who would woo a fair maid
    2:48
  • 23
    When a wooer goes a-wooing
    3:37
  • CD 10: The Yeomen of the Guard, Part 2 / Pineapple Poll
  • 1
    Comes the pretty young bride
    2:28
  • 2
    Hold, pretty one!
    1:16
  • 3
    All thought of Leonard Meryll set aside
    5:14
  • 4
    HMS Pinafore - Orchestral
    7:43
  • 5
    The Yeoman of the Guard - Orchestral
    8:40
  • 6
    Di Ballo Overture
    9:10
  • 7
    Pineapple Poll 1 - Opening dance
    3:39
  • 8
    Pineapple Poll 1 - Poll's dance and pas de deux
    3:30
  • 9
    Pineapple Poll 1 - Belaye's solo
    3:10
  • 10
    Pineapple Poll 1 - Pas de trois
    3:13
  • 11
    Pineapple Poll 1 - Finale
    3:55
  • 12
    Pineapple Poll 2 - Poll's solo
    3:25
  • 13
    Pineapple Poll 2 - Jasper's solo
    3:13
  • 14
    Pineapple Poll 3 - Belaye's solo and sailor's drill
    3:27
  • 15
    Pineapple Poll 3 - Poll's solo
    4:10
  • 16
    Pineapple Poll 3 - Entry of Belaye with Blanche as bride
    3:36
  • 17
    Pineapple Poll 3 - Reconciliation
    2:54
  • 18
    Pineapple Poll 3 - Grand Finale
    5:43

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