Gilbert and Sullivan Edition

Album by The D’Oyly Carte Opera Company

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Disc 1

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

Disc 2

  1. 1.
    Now pray, what us the cause of this
  2. 2.
    Replying, we sing as one individual
  3. 3.
    For ev'ryone who feels inclined
  4. 4.
    Come let's away - our island crown awaits me
  5. 5.
    Now, Marco dear, my wishes hear
  6. 6.
    Then away they go to an island fair
  7. 7.
    Of happiness the very pith
  8. 8.
    Rising early in the morning
  9. 9.
    Take a pair of sparkling eyes
  10. 10.
    Here we are, at the risk of our lives
  11. 11.
    After sailing to this land
  12. 12.
    Dance a cachucha, fandango, bolero
  13. 13.
    There lived a king, as I've been told
  14. 14.
    In a contemplative fashion
  15. 15.
    With ducal pomp and ducal pride
  16. 16.
    This polite attention
  17. 17.
    On the day when I was wedded
  18. 18.
    To help unhappy commoners
  19. 19.
    Small titles and orders for mayors and recorders
  20. 20.
    I am a courtier grave and serious
  21. 21.
    Here is a case unprecedented!
  22. 22.
    Now let the loyal lieges gather round
  23. 23.
    Speak woman speak, we're all attention!
  24. 24.
    The royal prince was by the king entrusted
  25. 25.
    Luiz! Casilda!
  26. 26.
    One more, gondolieri

Disc 3

  1. 1.
    Overture
  2. 2.
    Won't it be a pretty wedding?
  3. 3.
    Pretty Lisa, fair and tasty
  4. 4.
    By the mystic regulation
  5. 5.
    Were I a king in very truth
  6. 6.
    How would I play this part
  7. 7.
    My goodness me! What shall I do?
  8. 8.
    Ten minutes since I met a chap
  9. 9.
    About a century since
  10. 10.
    Strange the views some people hold
  11. 11.
    Now take a card, and gaily sing
  12. 12.
    The good Grand Duke of Pfennig Halbpfennig
  13. 13.
    A pattern to professors of monarchical autonomy
  14. 14.
    As o'er out penny roll we sing
  15. 15.
    When you find you're a broken-down critter
  16. 16.
    Come hither, all you people

Disc 4

  1. 1.
    As before you we defile
  2. 2.
    Your loyalty our... At the outset I may mention
  3. 3.
    Yes, Ludwig and his Julia are mated!
  4. 4.
    Take care of him - he's much too good to live!
  5. 5.
    Now Julia, come, consider it from this dainty point of
  6. 6.
    Your Highness, there's a party at the door
  7. 7.
    Now away to the wedding we go
  8. 8.
    So ends my dream...Broken ev'ry promise plighted
  9. 9.
    If the light of love's lingering ember
  10. 10.
    Come, bumpers-aye, ever-so-many
  11. 11.
    Why, who is this approaching?
  12. 12.
    The Prince of Monte-Carlo
  13. 13.
    His Highness we know not
  14. 14.
    We're rigged out in magnificent array
  15. 15.
    Dance
  16. 16.
    Take my advice - when deep in debt
  17. 17.
    Hurrah! Now away to the wedding
  18. 18.
    Well, you're a pretty kind of fellow
  19. 19.
    Happy couples, lightly treading
  20. 20.
    Overture di Ballo
  21. 21.
    Allegro moderato alla Marcia
  22. 22.
    Allegretto grazioso

Disc 5

  1. 1.
    Overture
  2. 2.
    We shall sail the ocean blue
  3. 3.
    Hail! Men o'war's men..I'm called little buttercup
  4. 4.
    The nightingale sighed
  5. 5.
    A maiden fair to see
  6. 6.
    My gallant crew...I am the Captain of the Pinafore
  7. 7.
    Sir, you are sad
  8. 8.
    Sorry her lot who loves too well
  9. 9.
    Over the bright blue sea
  10. 10.
    Sir Joseph's barge is seen
  11. 11.
    Now give three cheers...I am the monarch of the sea
  12. 12.
    When I was a lad
  13. 13.
    A British tar
  14. 14.
    Refrain, audacious tar
  15. 15.
    Can I survive this overbearing

Disc 6

  1. 1.
    Entracte
  2. 2.
    Fair moon to thee I sing
  3. 3.
    Things are seldom what they seem
  4. 4.
    The hours creep on apace
  5. 5.
    Never mind the why and wherefore
  6. 6.
    Kind Captain, I've important information
  7. 7.
    Carefully on tip-toe...He is an Englishman
  8. 8.
    Farewell, my own
  9. 9.
    A many years ago
  10. 10.
    A joy! Oh rapture unforseen

Disc 7

  1. 1.
    Overture
  2. 2.
    Tripping hither, tripping thither
  3. 3.
    Iolanthe! From thy dark exile
  4. 4.
    Good morrow, good mother, Good mother, good morrow
  5. 5.
    Fare thee well, attractive stranger
  6. 6.
    Good morrow, good lover! Good lover, good morrow!
  7. 7.
    None shall part us from each other
  8. 8.
    Loudly let the trumpet bray
  9. 9.
    Entrance of the Lord Chancellor tha's
  10. 10.
    The law is the embodiment
  11. 11.
    My well-beloved Lord
  12. 12.
    Nay, tempt me not
  13. 13.
    Spurn not the nobly born
  14. 14.
    Lords, it may not be
  15. 15.
    Said I to myself, said I
  16. 16.
    When darkly looms the day

Disc 8

  1. 1.
    When all night long a chap remains
  2. 2.
    Strephon's a member of Parliament
  3. 3.
    When Britain really ruled the waves
  4. 4.
    In vain to us you plead
  5. 5.
    Oh, foolish fay
  6. 6.
    Though p'r'aps I may incur your blame
  7. 7.
    Love unrequited
  8. 8.
    If you go in you're sure to win
  9. 9.
    If you're weak enough to tarry
  10. 10.
    My Lord, a suppliant at your feet
  11. 11.
    It may not be
  12. 12.
    Soon as we may, off and away

Disc 9

  1. 1.
    Overture
  2. 2.
    If you want to know who we are
  3. 3.
    Gentlemen, I pray you tell me maiden...
  4. 4.
    A wand'ring minstrel I
  5. 5.
    Our great Mikado, virtuous man
  6. 6.
    Young man, despair
  7. 7.
    And I have journey'd for a month
  8. 8.
    Behold the Lord High Executioner
  9. 9.
    As someday it may happen that a victim...
  10. 10.
    Comes a train of little ladies
  11. 11.
    Three little maids from school are we
  12. 12.
    So please you, Sir, we much regret
  13. 13.
    Were you not to Ko-Ko plighted
  14. 14.
    I am so proud, If I allowed
  15. 15.
    With aspect stern and gloomy stride
  16. 16.
    The threaten'd cloud has pass'd away
  17. 17.
    Your revels cease! Assist me, all of you!
  18. 18.
    Oh fool, that flee-est My hallow'd joys!
  19. 19.
    For he's going to marry Yum-Yum
  20. 20.
    The hour of gladness is dead and gone
  21. 21.
    Ye torrents roar! Ye tempests howl!

Disc 10

  1. 1.
    Braid the raven hair, Weave the supple tresses
  2. 2.
    The sun whose rays are all ablaze
  3. 3.
    Brightly dawns our wedding day
  4. 4.
    Here's a how-de-do!
  5. 5.
    Miya sama, miya sama, o n'mma no maye ni
  6. 6.
    From ev'ry kind of man Obedience I expect
  7. 7.
    A more humane Mikado never did in Japan exist
  8. 8.
    The criminal cried as he dropp'd him down
  9. 9.
    See how the fates their gifts allot
  10. 10.
    The flowers that bloom in the spring, tra la
  11. 11.
    Alone and yet alive
  12. 12.
    Hearts do not break! They sting and ache
  13. 13.
    On a tree by a river a little tom tit
  14. 14.
    There is beauty in the bellow of the blast
  15. 15.
    Fanfare
  16. 16.
    For he's gone and married Yum-Yum

Disc 11

  1. 1.
    Overture
  2. 2.
    Twenty love-sick maidens we
  3. 3.
    Still brooding on their mad infatuation!
  4. 4.
    I cannot tell what this love may be
  5. 5.
    Twenty love-sick maidens we
  6. 6.
    The soldiers of our Queen
  7. 7.
    If you want a receipt for that popular mystery
  8. 8.
    In a doleful train two and two we walk all day
  9. 9.
    Twenty love-sick maidens we
  10. 10.
    When I first put this uniform on
  11. 11.
    Am I alone and unobserved?
  12. 12.
    If you're anxious for to shine in the high aesthetic..
  13. 13.
    Long years ago - fourteen, maybe
  14. 14.
    Prithee, pretty maiden - Prithee
  15. 15.
    Though to marry you
  16. 16.
    Let the merry cymbals sound
  17. 17.
    Now tell us, we pray you
  18. 18.
    Heart broken at my Patience's barbarity
  19. 19.
    Stay, we implore you, before our hopes are blighted
  20. 20.
    Your maiden hearts, ah, do steel

Disc 12

  1. 1.
    Come, walk up, and purchase with avidity
  2. 2.
    We've been thrown over, we're aware
  3. 3.
    And are you going a ticket to buy?
  4. 4.
    Hold! Stay your hand!
  5. 5.
    True love must single hearted be
  6. 6.
    I hear the soft note of the echoing voice
  7. 7.
    But who is this, whose god-like grace...
  8. 8.
    List Reginald, whilst I confess a love that's all...
  9. 9.
    On such eyes as maidens cherish
  10. 10.
    Sad is a woman's lot who, year by year
  11. 11.
    Silvered is the raven hair
  12. 12.
    Turn, oh turn in this direction
  13. 13.
    A magnet hung in a hardware shop
  14. 14.
    Love is a plaintive song
  15. 15.
    So go to him and say to him, with compliment ironical
  16. 16.
    It's clear that the mediaeval art alone retains...
  17. 17.
    If Saphir I choose to marry, I shall be fixed...
  18. 18.
    When I go out of the door
  19. 19.
    I'm a Waterloo House young man
  20. 20.
    After much debate internal, I on Lady Jane decide

Disc 13

  1. 1.
    Overture
  2. 2.
    Pour, oh pour the pirate sherry
  3. 3.
    When Fred'ric was a little lad
  4. 4.
    Oh, better far to live and die
  5. 5.
    Oh, false one, you have deceived me
  6. 6.
    Climbing over rocky mountain
  7. 7.
    Stop! ladies, pray! A man!
  8. 8.
    Oh, is there not one maiden breast
  9. 9.
    Oh, sisters, deaf to pity's name, For shame!
  10. 10.
    Poor wand'ring one!
  11. 11.
    What ought we to do, Gentle sisters say?
  12. 12.
    How beautifully blue the sky
  13. 13.
    Stay, we must not lose our senses
  14. 14.
    Hold, Monsters!
  15. 15.
    I am the very model of a modern Major-General

Disc 14

  1. 1.
    Oh, men of dark and dismal fate
  2. 2.
    Hail Poetry, thou heav'n born maid!
  3. 3.
    You may go, for you're at liberty
  4. 4.
    Pray observe the magnanimity
  5. 5.
    Oh, dry the glist'ning tear
  6. 6.
    Then Frederic
  7. 7.
    When the foeman bares his steel
  8. 8.
    Now for the pirates lair!
  9. 9.
    When you had left our pirate fold
  10. 10.
    Away, away, my heart's on fire
  11. 11.
    All is prepared
  12. 12.
    Stay, Fred'ric stay!
  13. 13.
    Ah, leave me not to pine alone and desolate
  14. 14.
    Oh, here is love and here is truth
  15. 15.
    No, I'll be brave
  16. 16.
    Sergeant approach (Dialogue)
  17. 17.
    When a felon's not engaged in his employment
  18. 18.
    A rollicking band of pirates we
  19. 19.
    With cat-like tread
  20. 20.
    Hush! Hush! Not a word
  21. 21.
    Sighing softly to the river
  22. 22.
    Now what is this, and what is that
  23. 23.
    We triumph now
  24. 24.
    Away with them, and place them at the bar
  25. 25.
    Poor wand'ring ones, though ye have surely straye

Disc 15

  1. 1.
    Overture
  2. 2.
    I Search throughout the panorama
  3. 3.
    Now hearken to my strict command
  4. 4.
    Today we meet...Ida was a twelve-month old
  5. 5.
    From the distant panorama...We are warriors three
  6. 6.
    If you give me your attention
  7. 7.
    P'raps if you address the lady most politely
  8. 8.
    Towards the empyrean heights
  9. 9.
    Mighty maiden with a mission
  10. 10.
    Minerva...Oh, goddess wise
  11. 11.
    Gently, gently, evidently
  12. 12.
    I am a maiden, cold and stately
  13. 13.
    The world is but a broken toy
  14. 14.
    A lady fair, of lineage high
  15. 15.
    The woman of the wisest wit
  16. 16.
    Now would you like to rule the roost
  17. 17.
    Merrily ring the luncheon bell
  18. 18.
    Would you know the kind of maid
  19. 19.
    Oh, joy! Our chief is sav'd
  20. 20.
    We may remark, tho' nothing can dismay us

Disc 16

  1. 1.
    Death to the invader
  2. 2.
    I built upon a rock
  3. 3.
    Whene'er I spoke sarcastic joke
  4. 4.
    When anger spreads his wing
  5. 5.
    This helmet I suppose
  6. 6.
    This is our duty plain
  7. 7.
    With joy abiding
  8. 8.
    Opening Dance
  9. 9.
    Poll's solo and Pas de deux
  10. 10.
    Belaye's solo
  11. 11.
    Pas de trois
  12. 12.
    Finale
  13. 13.
    Poll's solo - Jasper's solo (Intermezzo)
  14. 14.
    Belayes's solo and Sailors' Drill
  15. 15.
    Poll's solo
  16. 16.
    Entry of Belaye with Blanche as Bride
  17. 17.
    Reconciliation
  18. 18.
    Grand Finale

Disc 17

  1. 1.
    Overture
  2. 2.
    Fair is rose as bright as May day
  3. 3.
    Sir Rupert Murgatroyd, his leisure and his riches
  4. 4.
    If somebody there chanced to be
  5. 5.
    I know a youth who loves a little maid
  6. 6.
    From the briny sea...I shipp'd, d'ye see
  7. 7.
    Hornpipe
  8. 8.
    My boy, you may take it from me
  9. 9.
    The battle's roar is over
  10. 10.
    In sailing o'er life's ocean wide
  11. 11.
    Cheerily carols the lark...To a garden full ... fposies
  12. 12.
    Welcome, gentry
  13. 13.
    Oh why am I moody and sad?
  14. 14.
    You understand? I think I do
  15. 15.
    Hail the bride of seventeen summers
  16. 16.
    Hold, bride and bridegroom

Disc 18

  1. 1.
    Overture, Original version
  2. 2.
    I once was as meek as a newborn lamb
  3. 3.
    Happily coupled are we
  4. 4.
    In bygone days I had thy love
  5. 5.
    Painted emblems of a race
  6. 6.
    When the night wind howls
  7. 7.
    He yields! He yields!
  8. 8.
    I once was a very abandon'd person
  9. 9.
    My eyes are fully open to my awful situation
  10. 10.
    There grew a little flower
  11. 11.
    Oh, happy the lily when kiss'd by the bee
  12. 12.
    Overture
  13. 13.
    We sounded the trumpet
  14. 14.
    Stay, Bouncer, stay!
  15. 15.
    Hush'd is the bacon on the grid
  16. 16.
    My master is punctual always in business
  17. 17.
    Who are you, sir?
  18. 18.
    The buttercup dwells on the lowly mead
  19. 19.
    Not long ago...Finale

Disc 19

  1. 1.
    Overture
  2. 2.
    Ring forth, ye bells
  3. 3.
    Constance, my daughter
  4. 4.
    When he is here, I sigh with pleasure
  5. 5.
    The air is charged with amatory numbers
  6. 6.
    Time was, when love and I were well acquainted
  7. 7.
    Sir Marmaduke...Minuet
  8. 8.
    With heart and voice
  9. 9.
    My kindly friends...Oh, happy young heart
  10. 10.
    My child, I join in these congratulations
  11. 11.
    With heart and with voice
  12. 12.
    Welcome joy! adieu to sadness!
  13. 13.
    All is prepar'd for sealing and for sighing
  14. 14.
    Love feeds on many kinds of food
  15. 15.
    My name is John Wellington Wells
  16. 16.
    Sprites of earth and air
  17. 17.
    Now to the banquet we press

Disc 20

  1. 1.
    'Tis twelve, I think
  2. 2.
    Dear friends, take pity on my lot
  3. 3.
    Thou hast the pow'r....It is not love
  4. 4.
    I rejoice that it's decided
  5. 5.
    Oh, I have wrought much evil with my spells...
  6. 6.
    Alexis! Doubt me not...The fearful deed is done
  7. 7.
    Oh, my voice is sad and low
  8. 8.
    Oh, joyous boon
  9. 9.
    Prepare for sad surprises
  10. 10.
    Or he or I must die
  11. 11.
    Introduction
  12. 12.
    The British Public here - you see
  13. 13.
    I loved her fondly
  14. 14.
    And now let's go back to where we were...Ah maiden fair
  15. 15.
    Where is he?
  16. 16.
    Once more the face I loved so well
  17. 17.
    Help! Ah Help!
  18. 18.
    Ho-guards! Minions!
  19. 19.
    Ladies and Gentlemen!
  20. 20.
    We gather from what you have said
  21. 21.
    Where is my daughter?
  22. 22.
    I'm a simple little child
  23. 23.
    My Father!
  24. 24.
    Finale: What do I see in this disguise

Disc 21

  1. 1.
    Imperial March
  2. 2.
    Introduction
  3. 3.
    In lazy langour (Phylla, Chorus)
  4. 4.
    O make way for the Wise Men ! (Chorus)
  5. 5.
    In every mental lore (Scaphio, Phantis, Chorus)
  6. 6.
    Let all your doubts take wing (Scaphio, Phantis)
  7. 7.
    Quaff the nectar (Chorus)
  8. 8.
    A king of autocratic power we (King, Chorus)
  9. 9.
    Altho' of native maids the cream (Nekaya, Kalyba)
  10. 10.
    Bold-fac'd ranger (Lady Sophy, King)
  11. 11.
    First you're born (King, Scaphio, Phantis)
  12. 12.
    Subjected to your heavenly gaze
  13. 13.
    Oh maiden rich in Girton lore (Chorus, Zara... Cpt...
  14. 14.
    Ah! gallant solduer, brave and true
  15. 15.
    It's understood, I think (Captain, Zara, Saphio...
  16. 16.
    Oh admirable art! (Zara, Captain Fitzbattleaxe)
  17. 17.
    Altho' your royal summons to appear (Finale, A. 1)
  18. 18.
    A Company Promoter this, with special education

Disc 22

  1. 1.
    Oh, Zara... A tenor, all singers above (Cpt.)
  2. 2.
    Words of love too loudly spoken (Zara, Cpt.)
  3. 3.
    Society has quite forsaken all (King, Chorus)
  4. 4.
    Entrance of Court
  5. 5.
    Drawing room music
  6. 6.
    This ceremonial...Eagle high... (King, Chorus)
  7. 7.
    With fury deep we burn (Scaphio, Phantis)
  8. 8.
    If you think that when...(King, Scaphio, Phantis)
  9. 9.
    With wily brain.... (Tarara, Phantis, Scaphio)
  10. 10.
    A wonderful joy our eyes to bless (Goldbury)
  11. 11.
    Then I may sing and play?
  12. 12.
    Oh, would some demon power... When a maid (Sophy)
  13. 13.
    Ah, Lady Sophy (King, Lady Sophy)
  14. 14.
    Oh rapture unrestrained (King, Lady Sophy)
  15. 15.
    Tarantella...Upon our sea-girt land (Chorus)
  16. 16.
    There's a little group of isles beyond the wave
  17. 17.
    Overture Macbeth
  18. 18.
    Victoria and Merrie England
  19. 19.
    Overture: Marmion

Disc 23

  1. 1.
    Overture
  2. 2.
    "When maiden loves"
  3. 3.
    "Tower warders under orders"
  4. 4.
    When our gallant Norman foes
  5. 5.
    "Alas! I waver to and fro"
  6. 6.
    "Is life a boon?"
  7. 7.
    "Here's a man of jollity"
  8. 8.
    I have a song to sing, oh!
  9. 9.
    "How say you, maiden"
  10. 10.
    "I've jibe and joke"
  11. 11.
    "'Tis done! I am a bride!"
  12. 12.
    "Were I thy bride"
  13. 13.
    "Oh, Sergeant Meryll" - "Ye Tower Warders", "Leonard Meryll!", "Forbear, my friends", "Didst thou not", "Leonard!", "As escort for the prisoner"

Disc 24

  1. 1.
    "Night has spread her pall once more"
  2. 2.
    "Oh! a private buffoon"
  3. 3.
    "Hereupon we're both agreed"
  4. 4.
    "Free from his fetters grim"
  5. 5.
    "Strange adventure!"
  6. 6.
    "Hark! What was that, sir?"-"Who fired that shot?"-"Like a ghost his vigil keeping..."-"The river must be dragged"
  7. 7.
    "A man who would woo a fair maid"
  8. 8.
    "When a wooer goes a-wooing"
  9. 9.
    "Rapture, rapture!"
  10. 10.
    "Comes the pretty young bride"- "'Tis said to you"-"Hold, pretty one!"
  11. 11.
    Hark the Hour of Ten is Sounding
  12. 12.
    When First my Old, Old Love I Knew
  13. 13.
    When I good friends was called to the Bar
  14. 14.
    Where is the Plaintiff?
  15. 15.
    May it please you my Lud!
  16. 16.
    Oh, Gentlemen Listen I Pray
  17. 17.
    A nice dilemma
  18. 18.
    I Love him

Disc 25

  1. 1.
    From The Sunny Spanish Shore
  2. 2.
    There Was A Time, A Time For Ever Gone
  3. 3.
    To Help Unhappy Commoners
  4. 4.
    Then One Of Us Will Be A Queen
  5. 5.
    Love Unrequited (Nightmare Song)
  6. 6.
    None Shall Part Us From Each Other
  7. 7.
    If You Go In You're Sure To Win
  8. 8.
    When I Went To The Bar (Said I To Myself, Said I)
  9. 9.
    Though P'r'aps I May Incur Your Blame
  10. 10.
    My Boy, You May Take It From Me
  11. 11.
    I Know A Youth Who Loves A Little Maid
  12. 12.
    There Grew A Little Flower
  13. 13.
    The Battle's Roar Is Over
  14. 14.
    In Sailing O'er Life's Ocean Wide
  15. 15.
    Hereupon We're Both Agreed
  16. 16.
    I've Jibe And Joke
  17. 17.
    When A Wooer Goes A-Wooing
  18. 18.
    A Man Who Would Woo A Fair Maid

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