Gilbert & Sullivan: The Yeomen of the Guard

Album by Arthur Sullivan & W.S. Gilbert & Sylvia McNair & Jean Rigby & Kurt Streit & Sir Thomas Allen & Bryn Terfel & Academy of St Martin in the Fields & Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chorus & Sir Neville Marriner

Gilbert & Sullivan: The Yeomen of the Guard is an operetta by Arthur Sullivan that premiered in 1888. The score blends the light, tuneful features of Victorian comic opera with sombre, more richly orchestrated and through-composed passages, representing a more musically ambitious and dramatically serious turn in Sullivan's work within the Savoy repertoire.
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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Overture
    4:49
  2. 2.
    Act I: No. 1 Introduction: “When maiden loves”
    3:09
  3. 3.
    Act I: No. 1 Introduction: “Mistress Meryl!”
    1:07
  4. 4.
    Act I: No. 2 Double Chorus: “Tower warders under orders”
    3:48
  5. 5.
    Act I: No. 2 Double Chorus: “A good day to you”
    0:55
  6. 6.
    Act I: No. 3 Song With Chorus: “When our gallant Norman foes”
    4:12
  7. 7.
    Act I: No. 3 Song With Chorus: “Father! Has no reprieve arrived”
    1:32
  8. 8.
    Act I: No. 4 Trio: “Atlas! I waver to and fro”
    2:34
  9. 9.
    Act I: No. 4 Trio: “Nay, lass, be of good cheer”
    0:48
  10. 10.
    Act I: No. 4 Trio: “Nay, pretty pne” / Act I: No. 5 Ballad: “Is life a boon?”
    2:10
  11. 11.
    Act I: No. 5 Ballad: “And now, Sir Richard”
    1:17
  12. 12.
    Act I: No. 6 Chorus: “Here’s a man of jollity”
    1:34
  13. 13.
    Act I: No. 7 Duet: “I have a song to sing, oh!”
    3:20
  14. 14.
    Act I: No. 7 Duet: “Well sung and well danced!”
    1:25
  15. 15.
    Act I: No. 8 Trio: “How say you, maiden”
    2:32
  16. 16.
    Act I: No. 8 Trio: “And so, good fellow” / Act I: No. 9 Recitative and Song: “I’ve jive and joke”
    1:59
  17. 17.
    Act I: No. 9 Recitative and Song: “But I trust you are very careful”
    0:52
  18. 18.
    Act I: No. 10 Recitative and Song: “’Tis done! I am a bride!”
    3:59
  19. 19.
    Act I: No. 10 Recitative and Song: “’Tis an odd freak”
    1:53
  20. 20.
    Act I: No. 10 Recitative and Song: “Oh, how I would love thee!” / Act I: No. 11 Song: “Were I thy bride”
    2:07
  21. 21.
    Act I: No. 11 Song: “The deed is, so far, safely accomplished”
    0:32
  22. 22.
    Act I: No. 12 Finale: “Oh, Sergeant Meryll” / Recitative: “Ye Tower Warders” / Recitative: “Leonard Meryll!” / Recitative: “Forebear, my friends” / Couplets: “Didst thou not” / Recitative: “Leonard!” / Trio: “To thy fraternal care” / Chorus: “The prisoner comes” / “My lord! My lord!” / Trio: “As escort for the prisoner” / Trio: “Astounding news!”
    17:25

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Act II: No. 1 Chorus and Solo: “Night has spread her pall once more”
    4:12
  2. 3.
    Act II: No. 1 Chorus and Solo: “The merry jests of Hugh Ambrose”
    1:40
  3. 4.
    Act II: No. 2 Song: “Oh! A private buffoon”
    2:23
  4. 5.
    Act II: No. 2 Song: “And so thou wouldst be a jester, eh?”
    1:05
  5. 6.
    Act II: No. 3 Duet: “Hereupon we’re both agreed”
    1:44
  6. 7.
    Act II: No. 3 Duet: “Two days gone”
    0:29
  7. 8.
    Act II: No. 4 Ballad: “Free from his fetters grim”
    2:32
  8. 9.
    Act II: No. 4 Ballad: “Well, Sergeant Meryll”
    1:58
  9. 10.
    Act II: No. 5 Quartet: “Strange adventure!”
    2:48
  10. 11.
    Act II: No. 5 Quartet: “So my mysterious bride”
    2:39
  11. 12.
    Act II: No. 6 Scene: “Hark! What was that, sir?” / Recitative: “Who fired that shot!” / Duet and Chorus: “Like a ghost his vigil keeping…” / Recitative: “The river must be dragged”
    3:29
  12. 13.
    Act II: No. 6 Scene: “Nay, sweetheart, be comforted”
    1:07
  13. 14.
    Act II: No. 7 Trio: “A man who would woo a fair maid”
    3:45
  14. 15.
    Act II: No. 7 Trio: “Now listen to me”
    1:33
  15. 16.
    Act II: No. 8 Quartet: “When a wooer goes a-wooing”
    3:02
  16. 17.
    Act II: No. 8 Quartet: “Before I pretend to be a sister to anybody again”
    4:07
  17. 18.
    Act II: No. 9 Duet: “Rapture, rapture!”
    1:29
  18. 19.
    Act II: No. 10 Finale: “Comes the pretty young bride” / Trio: “’Tis said that joy” / Trio: “Hold, pretty one!”
    10:56

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