H.M.S. Pinafore

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

H.M.S. Pinafore is a comic opera by W. S. Gilbert, first performed in 1878. The work exemplifies late-Victorian operetta with bright, tuneful melodies, light orchestral accompaniment and a satirical libretto, and it helped popularise English comic opera on the international stage.
First released: 2000

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    H.M.S. Pinafore: Overture
    4:11
  2. 2.
    H.M.S. Pinafore: Act II. Entr'Acte
    1:19
  3. 3.
    H.M.S. Pinafore: Act II. Fair Moon, to Thee I Sing
    2:40
  4. 4.
    H.M.S. Pinafore: Act I. We Sail the Ocean Blue
    2:10
  5. 5.
    H.M.S. Pinafore: Act I. Hail! Men-O'-War's Men... I'm Called Little Buttercup
    2:41
  6. 6.
    H.M.S. Pinafore: Act II. Scene: How Sweetly He Carols
    1:49
  7. 7.
    H.M.S. Pinafore: Act II. Things Are Seldom What They Seem
    3:11
  8. 8.
    H.M.S. Pinafore: Act I. Scene: Aye, Little Buttercup
    1:03
  9. 9.
    H.M.S. Pinafore: Act I. But Tell Me Who's the Youth
    0:24
  10. 10.
    H.M.S. Pinafore: Act II. Scene: Incomprehensible
    1:56
  11. 11.
    H.M.S. Pinafore: Act II. The Hours Creep on Apace
    4:57
  12. 12.
    H.M.S. Pinafore: Act I. The Nightingale Signed for the Moon's Bright Ray
    2:30
  13. 13.
    H.M.S. Pinafore: Act I. A Maiden Fair to See
    2:03
  14. 14.
    H.M.S. Pinafore: Act II. Scene: Madam, It Has Been Represented
    0:53
  15. 15.
    H.M.S. Pinafore: Act II. Never Mind the Why and Wherefore
    2:37
  16. 16.
    H.M.S. Pinafore: Act I. Scene: Ah, My Poor Lad
    1:16
  17. 17.
    H.M.S. Pinafore: Act II. Scene: Sir Joseph, I Cannot Express to You
    1:00
  18. 18.
    H.M.S. Pinafore: Act I. My Gallant Crew / I Am the Captain of the Pinafore
    2:15
  19. 19.
    H.M.S. Pinafore: Act II. Kind Captain, I've Important Information
    2:30
  20. 20.
    H.M.S. Pinafore: Act I. Sir, You Are Sad
    1:32
  21. 21.
    H.M.S. Pinafore: Act II. Carefully on Tiptoe Stealing
    7:33
  22. 22.
    H.M.S. Pinafore: Act I. Sorry Her Lot Who Loves Too Well
    3:30
  23. 23.
    H.M.S. Pinafore: Act II. Scene: Now, Tell Me, My Fine Fellow
    1:14
  24. 24.
    H.M.S. Pinafore: Act I. Scene: My Child, I Grieve to See...
    2:21
  25. 25.
    H.M.S. Pinafore: Act II. Farewell, My Own
    1:59
  26. 26.
    H.M.S. Pinafore: Act I. Over the Bright Blue Sea / Sir Joseph's Barge Is Seen
    2:55
  27. 27.
    H.M.S. Pinafore: Act I. Now Give Three Cheers / I Am the Monarch of the Sea
    1:30
  28. 28.
    H.M.S. Pinafore: Act II. My Pain and My Distress / A Many Years Ago
    3:03
  29. 29.
    H.M.S. Pinafore: Act I. When I Was a Lad
    2:41
  30. 30.
    H.M.S. Pinafore: Act II. Scene: Then I Am to Understand
    1:16
  31. 31.
    H.M.S. Pinafore: Act I. Scene: You've a Remarkably Fine Crew
    2:55
  32. 32.
    H.M.S. Pinafore: Act II. Finale Act Two
    4:27
  33. 33.
    H.M.S. Pinafore: Act II. Reflect, My Child (reconstructed duo)
    2:04
  34. 34.
    H.M.S. Pinafore: Act I. For I Hold That on the Seas
    0:25
  35. 35.
    H.M.S. Pinafore: Act I. Scene: Ah! Sir Joseph's a True Gentleman
    1:37
  36. 36.
    H.M.S. Pinafore: Act I. A British Tar
    2:20
  37. 37.
    H.M.S. Pinafore: Act I. Scene: It Is Useless
    2:43
  38. 38.
    H.M.S. Pinafore: Act I. Refrain, Audacious Tar
    3:41
  39. 39.
    H.M.S. Pinafore: Act I. Finale: Can I Survive This Overbearing?
    9:42

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