The Mikado (1950 D’Oyly Carte cast)

Album by W.S. Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    The Mikado: Act I. Overture
    7:43
  2. 2.
    The Mikado: Act I. “If you want to know who we are” (Chorus of Nobles)
    2:18
  3. 3.
    The Mikado: Act I. Recitative “Gentlemen, I pray you” (Nanki-Poo)
    0:41
  4. 4.
    The Mikado: Act I. “A wand’ring minstrel I” (Nanki-Poo, Chorus)
    4:29
  5. 5.
    The Mikado: Act I. “Our great Mikado, virtuous man” (Pish-Tush, Chorus)
    2:47
  6. 6.
    The Mikado: Act I. “Young man, despair” (Pooh-Bah, Nanki-Poo, Pish Tush)
    2:39
  7. 7.
    The Mikado: Act I. Recitative “And I have journeyed for a month” (Nanki-Poo, Pooh-Bah)
    0:55
  8. 8.
    The Mikado: Act I. “Behold the Lord High Executioner… Taken from the county jail” (Chorus of Nobles, Ko-Ko)
    2:13
  9. 9.
    The Mikado: Act I. “As some day it may happen” (Ko-Ko, Chorus of Men)
    2:02
  10. 10.
    The Mikado: Act I. “Comes a train of little ladies” (Chorus of Girls)
    2:11
  11. 11.
    The Mikado: Act I. “Three little maids from school” (Yum-Yum, Peep-Bo, Pitti-Sing, Chorus of Girls)
    1:27
  12. 12.
    The Mikado: Act I. “So please sir, we much regret” (Yum-Yum, Peep-Bo, Pitti-Sing, Pooh-Bah)
    1:52
  13. 13.
    The Mikado: Act I. “Were you not to Ko-Ko plighted” (Yum-Yum, Nanki-Poo)
    2:22
  14. 14.
    The Mikado: Act I. “I am so proud” (Pooh-Bah, Ko-Ko, Pish-Tush)
    2:43
  15. 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

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    The Mikado: Act II. “Braid the raven hair” (Pitti-Sing, Chorus of Girls)
    3:19
  2. 3.
    The Mikado: Act II. “The sun whose rays are all ablaze” (Yum-Yum)
    2:33
  3. 4.
    The Mikado: Act II. “Brightly dawns our wedding day” (Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sing, Nanki-Poo, Pish-Tush)
    3:54
  4. 5.
    The Mikado: Act II. “Here’s a how-de-do!” (Yum-Yum, Nanki-Poo, Ko-Ko)
    1:09
  5. 6.
    The Mikado: Act II. “Miya Sama” (Chorus)
    1:06
  6. 7.
    The Mikado: Act II. “From every kind of man” (Mikado, Katisha)
    1:48
  7. 8.
    The Mikado: Act II. “A more humane Mikado… My object all sublime” (Mikado, Chorus)
    4:07
  8. 9.
    The Mikado: Act II. “The criminal cried, as he dropped him down” (Ko-Ko, Pitti-Sing, Pooh-Bah, Chorus)
    3:16
  9. 10.
    The Mikado: Act II. “See how the fates their gifts allot” (Mikado, Pitti-Sing, Katisha, Ko-Ko, Poo-Bah)
    2:09
  10. 11.
    The Mikado: Act II. “The flowers that bloom in the spring” (Nanki-Poo, Ko-Ko, Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sing, Pooh-Bah)
    1:22
  11. 12.
    The Mikado: Act II. “Alone and yet alive… Hearts do not break” (Katisha)
    2:17
  12. 13.
    The Mikado: Act II. “On a tree by a river” (Ko-Ko)
    2:27
  13. 14.
    The Mikado: Act II. “There is beauty in the bellow of the blast” (Katisha, Ko-Ko)
    2:02
  14. 15.
    The Mikado: Act II. Finale Act II (Company)
    1:54

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