The Gondoliers

Album by W.S. Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan & The D’Oyly Carte Opera Company & John Pryce‐Jones

The Gondoliers is a comic opera by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, first produced in 1889. Musically it sits within the Savoy operetta tradition, combining light operatic orchestration, brisk ensemble writing and music-hall rhythms with an Italianate setting, and it represents one of the duo's later works that emphasised larger choruses and broader ensemble writing in their career.
First released: 1991

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Overture
    5:37
  2. 2.
    Oh Happiness The Very Pith in Barataria
    2:12
  3. 3.
    Rising Early in the Morning
    3:29
  4. 4.
    List and Learn
    3:13
  5. 5.
    Good morrow, pretty maids
    1:17
  6. 6.
    Take a Pair of Sparkling Eyes
    3:22
  7. 7.
    For the merriest fellows are we
    2:01
  8. 8.
    Here We Are, At the Risk of Our Lives
    3:17
  9. 9.
    Dance a Cachucha
    1:53
  10. 10.
    Buon' giorno, signorine!
    2:19
  11. 11.
    We're called Gondolieri
    2:04
  12. 12.
    There Lived a King
    3:28
  13. 13.
    And now to choose our brides
    1:45
  14. 14.
    In a Contemplative Fashion
    2:24
  15. 15.
    My Papa, He Keeps Three Horses
    1:14
  16. 16.
    With Ducal Pomp and Ducal Pride
    1:52
  17. 17.
    Thank you gallant gondolieri
    2:26
  18. 18.
    On the Day When I Was Wedded
    2:28
  19. 19.
    To Help Unhappy Commoners
    3:49
  20. 20.
    From the sunny Spanish shore
    1:49
  21. 21.
    I Am a Courtier Grave and Serious
    4:05
  22. 22.
    In the Enterprise of Martial Kind
    1:38
  23. 23.
    Here Is a Case Unprecedented
    1:04
  24. 24.
    O rapture, when alone together
    2:09
  25. 25.
    Now Let the Loyal Lieges Gather Round
    2:48
  26. 26.
    There Was a Time, a Time Forever Gone
    3:40
  27. 27.
    This Statement We Receive
    1:33
  28. 28.
    I Stole the Prince, and I Brought Him Here
    2:18
  29. 29.
    Once More Gondolieri
    1:31
  30. 30.
    But, bless my heart
    1:01
  31. 31.
    Try we life-long
    2:08
  32. 32.
    Bridegroom and bride
    0:55
  33. 33.
    When a merry maiden marries
    3:24
  34. 34.
    Kind Sir, You Cannot Have the Heart
    3:36
  35. 35.
    Then one of us will be a queen
    3:32
  36. 36.
    For ev'ry one who feels inclined
    2:52
  37. 37.
    Now, Marco dear, my wishes hear
    3:10
  38. 38.
    Then away they go to an island fair
    2:04

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