Gilbert and Sullivan Edition

Album by The D’Oyly Carte Opera Company

First released: 1st May 2011

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Disc 1

1.
Overture
2.
List and learn
3.
Good morrow, pretty maids
4.
For the merriest fellows are we
5.
See, see at last they come to make their choice
6.
Buon' giorno, signorine!
7.
We're called gondolieri, but that's a vagary
8.
And now to choose our brides!
9.
Are you peeping?
10.
Thank you gallant gondolieri
11.
From the sunny Spanish shore
12.
In enterprise of martial kind
13.
O rapture, when alone together
14.
There was a time, a time for ever gone
15.
I stole the Prince
16.
But, bless my heart, consider my position!
17.
Try we life-long we can never
18.
Bride-groom and bride!
19.
When a merry maiden marries
20.
Kind sir, you cannot have the heart, our lives to part
21.
Do not give way to this uncalled-for grief
22.
Then one of us will be a Queen

Disc 2

2.
Now pray, what us the cause of this
3.
Replying, we sing as one individual
4.
For ev'ryone who feels inclined
5.
Come let's away - our island crown awaits me
6.
Now, Marco dear, my wishes hear
7.
Then away they go to an island fair
8.
Of happiness the very pith
9.
Rising early in the morning
10.
Take a pair of sparkling eyes
11.
Here we are, at the risk of our lives
12.
After sailing to this land
13.
Dance a cachucha, fandango, bolero
14.
There lived a king, as I've been told
15.
In a contemplative fashion
16.
With ducal pomp and ducal pride
17.
This polite attention
18.
On the day when I was wedded
19.
To help unhappy commoners
20.
Small titles and orders for mayors and recorders
21.
I am a courtier grave and serious
22.
Here is a case unprecedented!
23.
Now let the loyal lieges gather round
24.
Speak woman speak, we're all attention!
25.
The royal prince was by the king entrusted
26.
Luiz! Casilda!
27.
One more, gondolieri

Disc 3

3.
Overture
4.
Won't it be a pretty wedding?
5.
Pretty Lisa, fair and tasty
6.
By the mystic regulation
7.
Were I a king in very truth
8.
How would I play this part
9.
My goodness me! What shall I do?
10.
Ten minutes since I met a chap
11.
About a century since
12.
Strange the views some people hold
13.
Now take a card, and gaily sing
14.
The good Grand Duke of Pfennig Halbpfennig
15.
A pattern to professors of monarchical autonomy
16.
As o'er out penny roll we sing
17.
When you find you're a broken-down critter
18.
Come hither, all you people

Disc 4

4.
As before you we defile
5.
Your loyalty our... At the outset I may mention
6.
Yes, Ludwig and his Julia are mated!
7.
Take care of him - he's much too good to live!
8.
Now Julia, come, consider it from this dainty point of
9.
Your Highness, there's a party at the door
10.
Now away to the wedding we go
11.
So ends my dream...Broken ev'ry promise plighted
12.
If the light of love's lingering ember
13.
Come, bumpers-aye, ever-so-many
14.
Why, who is this approaching?
15.
The Prince of Monte-Carlo
16.
His Highness we know not
17.
We're rigged out in magnificent array
18.
Dance
19.
Take my advice - when deep in debt
20.
Hurrah! Now away to the wedding
21.
Well, you're a pretty kind of fellow
22.
Happy couples, lightly treading
23.
Overture di Ballo
24.
Allegro moderato alla Marcia
25.
Allegretto grazioso

Disc 5

5.
Overture
6.
We shall sail the ocean blue
7.
Hail! Men o'war's men..I'm called little buttercup
8.
The nightingale sighed
9.
A maiden fair to see
10.
My gallant crew...I am the Captain of the Pinafore
11.
Sir, you are sad
12.
Sorry her lot who loves too well
13.
Over the bright blue sea
14.
Sir Joseph's barge is seen
15.
Now give three cheers...I am the monarch of the sea
16.
When I was a lad
17.
A British tar
18.
Refrain, audacious tar
19.
Can I survive this overbearing

Disc 6

6.
Entracte
7.
Fair moon to thee I sing
8.
Things are seldom what they seem
9.
The hours creep on apace
10.
Never mind the why and wherefore
11.
Kind Captain, I've important information
12.
Carefully on tip-toe...He is an Englishman
13.
Farewell, my own
14.
A many years ago
15.
A joy! Oh rapture unforseen

Disc 7

7.
Overture
8.
Tripping hither, tripping thither
9.
Iolanthe! From thy dark exile
10.
Good morrow, good mother, Good mother, good morrow
11.
Fare thee well, attractive stranger
12.
Good morrow, good lover! Good lover, good morrow!
13.
None shall part us from each other
14.
Loudly let the trumpet bray
15.
Entrance of the Lord Chancellor tha's
16.
The law is the embodiment
17.
My well-beloved Lord
18.
Nay, tempt me not
19.
Spurn not the nobly born
20.
Lords, it may not be
21.
Said I to myself, said I
22.
When darkly looms the day

Disc 8

8.
When all night long a chap remains
9.
Strephon's a member of Parliament
10.
When Britain really ruled the waves
11.
In vain to us you plead
12.
Oh, foolish fay
13.
Though p'r'aps I may incur your blame
14.
Love unrequited
15.
If you go in you're sure to win
16.
If you're weak enough to tarry
17.
My Lord, a suppliant at your feet
18.
It may not be
19.
Soon as we may, off and away

Disc 9

9.
Overture
10.
If you want to know who we are
11.
Gentlemen, I pray you tell me maiden...
12.
A wand'ring minstrel I
13.
Our great Mikado, virtuous man
14.
Young man, despair
15.
And I have journey'd for a month
16.
Behold the Lord High Executioner
17.
As someday it may happen that a victim...
18.
Comes a train of little ladies
19.
Three little maids from school are we
20.
So please you, Sir, we much regret
21.
Were you not to Ko-Ko plighted
22.
I am so proud, If I allowed
23.
With aspect stern and gloomy stride
24.
The threaten'd cloud has pass'd away
25.
Your revels cease! Assist me, all of you!
26.
Oh fool, that flee-est My hallow'd joys!
27.
For he's going to marry Yum-Yum
28.
The hour of gladness is dead and gone
29.
Ye torrents roar! Ye tempests howl!

Disc 10

10.
Braid the raven hair, Weave the supple tresses
11.
The sun whose rays are all ablaze
12.
Brightly dawns our wedding day
13.
Here's a how-de-do!
14.
Miya sama, miya sama, o n'mma no maye ni
15.
From ev'ry kind of man Obedience I expect
16.
A more humane Mikado never did in Japan exist
17.
The criminal cried as he dropp'd him down
18.
See how the fates their gifts allot
19.
The flowers that bloom in the spring, tra la
20.
Alone and yet alive
21.
Hearts do not break! They sting and ache
22.
On a tree by a river a little tom tit
23.
There is beauty in the bellow of the blast
24.
Fanfare
25.
For he's gone and married Yum-Yum

Disc 11

11.
Overture
12.
Twenty love-sick maidens we
13.
Still brooding on their mad infatuation!
14.
I cannot tell what this love may be
15.
Twenty love-sick maidens we
16.
The soldiers of our Queen
17.
If you want a receipt for that popular mystery
18.
In a doleful train two and two we walk all day
19.
Twenty love-sick maidens we
20.
When I first put this uniform on
21.
Am I alone and unobserved?
22.
If you're anxious for to shine in the high aesthetic..
23.
Long years ago - fourteen, maybe
24.
Prithee, pretty maiden - Prithee
25.
Though to marry you
26.
Let the merry cymbals sound
27.
Now tell us, we pray you
28.
Heart broken at my Patience's barbarity
29.
Stay, we implore you, before our hopes are blighted
30.
Your maiden hearts, ah, do steel

Disc 12

12.
Come, walk up, and purchase with avidity
13.
We've been thrown over, we're aware
14.
And are you going a ticket to buy?
15.
Hold! Stay your hand!
16.
True love must single hearted be
17.
I hear the soft note of the echoing voice
18.
But who is this, whose god-like grace...
19.
List Reginald, whilst I confess a love that's all...
20.
On such eyes as maidens cherish
21.
Sad is a woman's lot who, year by year
22.
Silvered is the raven hair
23.
Turn, oh turn in this direction
24.
A magnet hung in a hardware shop
25.
Love is a plaintive song
26.
So go to him and say to him, with compliment ironical
27.
It's clear that the mediaeval art alone retains...
28.
If Saphir I choose to marry, I shall be fixed...
29.
When I go out of the door
30.
I'm a Waterloo House young man
31.
After much debate internal, I on Lady Jane decide

Disc 13

13.
Overture
14.
Pour, oh pour the pirate sherry
15.
When Fred'ric was a little lad
16.
Oh, better far to live and die
17.
Oh, false one, you have deceived me
18.
Climbing over rocky mountain
19.
Stop! ladies, pray! A man!
20.
Oh, is there not one maiden breast
21.
Oh, sisters, deaf to pity's name, For shame!
22.
Poor wand'ring one!
23.
What ought we to do, Gentle sisters say?
24.
How beautifully blue the sky
25.
Stay, we must not lose our senses
26.
Hold, Monsters!
27.
I am the very model of a modern Major-General

Disc 14

14.
Oh, men of dark and dismal fate
15.
Hail Poetry, thou heav'n born maid!
16.
You may go, for you're at liberty
17.
Pray observe the magnanimity
18.
Oh, dry the glist'ning tear
19.
Then Frederic
20.
When the foeman bares his steel
21.
Now for the pirates lair!
22.
When you had left our pirate fold
23.
Away, away, my heart's on fire
24.
All is prepared
25.
Stay, Fred'ric stay!
26.
Ah, leave me not to pine alone and desolate
27.
Oh, here is love and here is truth
28.
No, I'll be brave
29.
Sergeant approach (Dialogue)
30.
When a felon's not engaged in his employment
31.
A rollicking band of pirates we
32.
With cat-like tread
33.
Hush! Hush! Not a word
34.
Sighing softly to the river
35.
Now what is this, and what is that
36.
We triumph now
37.
Away with them, and place them at the bar
38.
Poor wand'ring ones, though ye have surely straye

Disc 15

15.
Overture
16.
I Search throughout the panorama
17.
Now hearken to my strict command
18.
Today we meet...Ida was a twelve-month old
19.
From the distant panorama...We are warriors three
20.
If you give me your attention
21.
P'raps if you address the lady most politely
22.
Towards the empyrean heights
23.
Mighty maiden with a mission
24.
Minerva...Oh, goddess wise
25.
Gently, gently, evidently
26.
I am a maiden, cold and stately
27.
The world is but a broken toy
28.
A lady fair, of lineage high
29.
The woman of the wisest wit
30.
Now would you like to rule the roost
31.
Merrily ring the luncheon bell
32.
Would you know the kind of maid
33.
Oh, joy! Our chief is sav'd
34.
We may remark, tho' nothing can dismay us

Disc 16

16.
Death to the invader
17.
I built upon a rock
18.
Whene'er I spoke sarcastic joke
19.
When anger spreads his wing
20.
This helmet I suppose
21.
This is our duty plain
22.
With joy abiding
23.
Opening Dance
24.
Poll's solo and Pas de deux
25.
Belaye's solo
26.
Pas de trois
27.
Finale
28.
Poll's solo - Jasper's solo (Intermezzo)
29.
Belayes's solo and Sailors' Drill
30.
Poll's solo
31.
Entry of Belaye with Blanche as Bride
32.
Reconciliation
33.
Grand Finale

Disc 17

17.
Overture
18.
Fair is rose as bright as May day
19.
Sir Rupert Murgatroyd, his leisure and his riches
20.
If somebody there chanced to be
21.
I know a youth who loves a little maid
22.
From the briny sea...I shipp'd, d'ye see
23.
Hornpipe
24.
My boy, you may take it from me
25.
The battle's roar is over
26.
In sailing o'er life's ocean wide
27.
Cheerily carols the lark...To a garden full ... fposies
28.
Welcome, gentry
29.
Oh why am I moody and sad?
30.
You understand? I think I do
31.
Hail the bride of seventeen summers
32.
Hold, bride and bridegroom

Disc 18

18.
Overture, Original version
19.
I once was as meek as a newborn lamb
20.
Happily coupled are we
21.
In bygone days I had thy love
22.
Painted emblems of a race
23.
When the night wind howls
24.
He yields! He yields!
25.
I once was a very abandon'd person
26.
My eyes are fully open to my awful situation
27.
There grew a little flower
28.
Oh, happy the lily when kiss'd by the bee
29.
Overture
30.
We sounded the trumpet
31.
Stay, Bouncer, stay!
32.
Hush'd is the bacon on the grid
33.
My master is punctual always in business
34.
Who are you, sir?
35.
The buttercup dwells on the lowly mead
36.
Not long ago...Finale

Disc 19

19.
Overture
20.
Ring forth, ye bells
21.
Constance, my daughter
22.
When he is here, I sigh with pleasure
23.
The air is charged with amatory numbers
24.
Time was, when love and I were well acquainted
25.
Sir Marmaduke...Minuet
26.
With heart and voice
27.
My kindly friends...Oh, happy young heart
28.
My child, I join in these congratulations
29.
With heart and with voice
30.
Welcome joy! adieu to sadness!
31.
All is prepar'd for sealing and for sighing
32.
Love feeds on many kinds of food
33.
My name is John Wellington Wells
34.
Sprites of earth and air
35.
Now to the banquet we press

Disc 20

20.
'Tis twelve, I think
21.
Dear friends, take pity on my lot
22.
Thou hast the pow'r....It is not love
23.
I rejoice that it's decided
24.
Oh, I have wrought much evil with my spells...
25.
Alexis! Doubt me not...The fearful deed is done
26.
Oh, my voice is sad and low
27.
Oh, joyous boon
28.
Prepare for sad surprises
29.
Or he or I must die
30.
Introduction
31.
The British Public here - you see
32.
I loved her fondly
33.
And now let's go back to where we were...Ah maiden fair
34.
Where is he?
35.
Once more the face I loved so well
36.
Help! Ah Help!
37.
Ho-guards! Minions!
38.
Ladies and Gentlemen!
39.
We gather from what you have said
40.
Where is my daughter?
41.
I'm a simple little child
42.
My Father!
43.
Finale: What do I see in this disguise

Disc 21

21.
Imperial March
22.
Introduction
23.
In lazy langour (Phylla, Chorus)
24.
O make way for the Wise Men ! (Chorus)
25.
In every mental lore (Scaphio, Phantis, Chorus)
26.
Let all your doubts take wing (Scaphio, Phantis)
27.
Quaff the nectar (Chorus)
28.
A king of autocratic power we (King, Chorus)
29.
Altho' of native maids the cream (Nekaya, Kalyba)
30.
Bold-fac'd ranger (Lady Sophy, King)
31.
First you're born (King, Scaphio, Phantis)
32.
Subjected to your heavenly gaze
33.
Oh maiden rich in Girton lore (Chorus, Zara... Cpt...
34.
Ah! gallant solduer, brave and true
35.
It's understood, I think (Captain, Zara, Saphio...
36.
Oh admirable art! (Zara, Captain Fitzbattleaxe)
37.
Altho' your royal summons to appear (Finale, A. 1)
38.
A Company Promoter this, with special education

Disc 22

22.
Oh, Zara... A tenor, all singers above (Cpt.)
23.
Words of love too loudly spoken (Zara, Cpt.)
24.
Society has quite forsaken all (King, Chorus)
25.
Entrance of Court
26.
Drawing room music
27.
This ceremonial...Eagle high... (King, Chorus)
28.
With fury deep we burn (Scaphio, Phantis)
29.
If you think that when...(King, Scaphio, Phantis)
30.
With wily brain.... (Tarara, Phantis, Scaphio)
31.
A wonderful joy our eyes to bless (Goldbury)
32.
Then I may sing and play?
33.
Oh, would some demon power... When a maid (Sophy)
34.
Ah, Lady Sophy (King, Lady Sophy)
35.
Oh rapture unrestrained (King, Lady Sophy)
36.
Tarantella...Upon our sea-girt land (Chorus)
37.
There's a little group of isles beyond the wave
38.
Overture Macbeth
39.
Victoria and Merrie England
40.
Overture: Marmion

Disc 23

23.
Overture
24.
"When maiden loves"
25.
"Tower warders under orders"
26.
When our gallant Norman foes
27.
"Alas! I waver to and fro"
28.
"Is life a boon?"
29.
"Here's a man of jollity"
30.
I have a song to sing, oh!
31.
"How say you, maiden"
32.
"I've jibe and joke"
33.
"'Tis done! I am a bride!"
34.
"Were I thy bride"
35.
"Oh, Sergeant Meryll" - "Ye Tower Warders", "Leonard Meryll!", "Forbear, my friends", "Didst thou not", "Leonard!", "As escort for the prisoner"

Disc 24

24.
"Night has spread her pall once more"
25.
"Oh! a private buffoon"
26.
"Hereupon we're both agreed"
27.
"Free from his fetters grim"
28.
"Strange adventure!"
29.
"Hark! What was that, sir?"-"Who fired that shot?"-"Like a ghost his vigil keeping..."-"The river must be dragged"
30.
"A man who would woo a fair maid"
31.
"When a wooer goes a-wooing"
32.
"Rapture, rapture!"
33.
"Comes the pretty young bride"- "'Tis said to you"-"Hold, pretty one!"
34.
Hark the Hour of Ten is Sounding
35.
When First my Old, Old Love I Knew
36.
When I good friends was called to the Bar
37.
Where is the Plaintiff?
38.
May it please you my Lud!
39.
Oh, Gentlemen Listen I Pray
40.
A nice dilemma
41.
I Love him