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CD 1
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1The Mikado: Overture (arr. Dodgson)
orchestra:
Sadler’s Wells Opera Orchestra
conductor:
Alexander Faris (conductor)
recording of:
The Mikado: Overture (arr. Dodgson)
composer:
Arthur Sullivan (composer)
arranger:
Stephen Dodgson
revision of:
The Mikado: Overture
Gilbert and Sullivan5:00
2The Mikado: Act I. No. 1 "If you want to know who we are"Gilbert and Sullivan2:15
3The Mikado: Act I. No. 1a "Gentleman - I pray you tell me"Gilbert and Sullivan0:42
4The Mikado: Act I. No. 2 "A wand'ring minstrel I"Gilbert and Sullivan4:28
5The Mikado: Act I. No. 3 "Our great Mikado, virtuous man"Gilbert and Sullivan2:48
6The Mikado: Act I. No. 4 "Young man, despair, likewise go to"Gilbert and Sullivan2:36
7The Mikado: Act I. No. 4a "And I have journey'd for a month"Gilbert and Sullivan0:44
8The Mikado: Act I. No. 5 "Behold the Lord High Executioner!"Gilbert and Sullivan2:32
9The Mikado: Act I. No. 5a "As some day it may happen"
vocals:
Sadler’s Wells Opera Chorus
orchestra:
Sadler’s Wells Opera Orchestra
conductor:
Alexander Faris (conductor)
recording of:
The Mikado: Act I, no. 5a “As someday it may happen” (Ko-Ko and Men) (I’ve got a little list)
lyricist:
W.S. Gilbert (librettist)
composer:
Arthur Sullivan (composer)
part of:
The Mikado: Act I
Gilbert and Sullivan2:12
10The Mikado: Act I. No. 6 "Comes a train of little ladies"Gilbert and Sullivan2:28
11The Mikado: Act I. No. 7 "Three little maids from school"Gilbert and Sullivan1:29
12The Mikado: Act I. No. 8 "So please you, Sir, we much regret"Gilbert and Sullivan1:52
13The Mikado: Act I. No. 9 "Were you not to Ko-Ko plighted"Gilbert and Sullivan2:31
14The Mikado: Act I. No. 10 "I am so proud"Gilbert and Sullivan2:56
15The Mikado: Act I. No. 11 "With aspect stern, and gloomy stride"Gilbert and Sullivan4:58
16The Mikado: Act I. No. 11a "Your revels cease!"Gilbert and Sullivan8:52
17The Mikado: Act II. No. 1 "Braid the raven hair"Gilbert and Sullivan4:00
18The Mikado: Act II. No. 2 "The sun, whose rays are all ablaze"Gilbert and Sullivan2:40
19The Mikado: Act II. No. 3 "Brightly dawns our wedding day"Gilbert and Sullivan3:34
20The Mikado: Act II. No. 4 "Here's a how-de-do! If I marry you"Gilbert and Sullivan1:15
21The Mikado: Act II. No. 5 "Mi-ya-sa-ma, mi-ya-sa-ma"Gilbert and Sullivan3:00
22The Mikado: Act II. No. 6 "A more humane Mikado never did in Japan exist"
bass vocals:
John Holmes (Bass) (from 1962-05 until 1962-06)
vocals:
Sadler’s Wells Opera Chorus
orchestra:
Sadler’s Wells Opera Orchestra
conductor:
Alexander Faris (conductor)
recording of:
The Mikado: Act II, no. 17, “A More Humane Mikado” (Mikado, Chorus)
lyricist:
W.S. Gilbert (librettist)
composer:
Arthur Sullivan (composer)
part of:
The Mikado: Act II
Gilbert and Sullivan4:00
CD 2
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1The Mikado: Act II. No. 7 "The criminal cried, as he dropped him down"Gilbert and Sullivan3:33
2The Mikado: Act II. No. 8 "See how the Fates their gifts allot"Gilbert and Sullivan1:50
3The Mikado: Act II. No. 9 "The flowers that bloom in the spring"Gilbert and Sullivan1:39
4The Mikado: Act II. No. 10 "Alone and yet alive!"Gilbert and Sullivan0:42
5The Mikado: Act II. No. 10a "Hearts do not break!"Gilbert and Sullivan2:00
6The Mikado: Act II. No. 11 "On a tree by a river, a little Tom-tit sang Willow, tit-Willow"
orchestra:
Sadler’s Wells Opera Orchestra
conductor:
Alexander Faris (conductor)
recording of:
The Mikado: Act II, no. 22, “On a Tree by a River” (Ko-Ko) (willow, tit-willow)
lyricist:
W.S. Gilbert (librettist)
composer:
Arthur Sullivan (composer)
part of:
The Mikado: Act II
Gilbert and Sullivan2:22
7The Mikado: Act II. No. 12 "There is a beauty in the bellow of the blast"Gilbert and Sullivan2:06
8The Mikado: Act II. No. 13 "For he's gone and married Yum-Yum"Gilbert and Sullivan2:00
9Iolanthe: Act I. Overture
orchestra:
Sadler’s Wells Opera Orchestra
conductor:
Alexander Faris (conductor)
recording of:
Iolanthe: Overture
composer:
Arthur Sullivan (composer)
part of:
Iolanthe
Gilbert and Sullivan7:19
10Iolanthe: Act I. No. 5 "None shall part us"Gilbert and Sullivan2:22
11Iolanthe: Act I. No. 6a Entrance and March of the Peers "Loudly let the trumpet bray"Gilbert and Sullivan5:51
12Iolanthe: Act I. No. 9 "Nay tempt me not"Gilbert and Sullivan0:28
13Iolanthe: Act I. No. 10 "Spurn not the nobly born"Gilbert and Sullivan2:45
14Iolanthe: Act I. No. 12 "When I went to the bar"Gilbert and Sullivan1:26
15Iolanthe: Act I. No. 13 "When next your houses do assemble"Gilbert and Sullivan5:08
16Iolanthe: Act II. No. 1 "When all night long a chap remains"Gilbert and Sullivan3:17
17Iolanthe: Act II. No. 2 "Strephon's a member of Parliament"Gilbert and Sullivan1:24
18Iolanthe: Act II. No. 3 "When Britain really ruled the waves"Gilbert and Sullivan3:10
19Iolanthe: Act II. No. 5 "O foolish fay"Gilbert and Sullivan3:45
20Iolanthe: Act II. No. 7 "Love, unrequited robs me of my rest"Gilbert and Sullivan0:53
21Iolanthe: Act II. No. 7a "When you're lying awake with a dismal headache"Gilbert and Sullivan2:56
22Iolanthe: Act II. No. 8 "He who shies at such a prize"Gilbert and Sullivan2:32
23Iolanthe: Act II. No. 9 "If we're weak enough to tarry"Gilbert and Sullivan1:32
24Iolanthe: Act II. No. 10 "My Lord - a suppliant at your feet"Gilbert and Sullivan0:46
25Iolanthe: Act II. No. 10a "He loves if in the bygone years"Gilbert and Sullivan2:16
26Iolanthe: Act II. No. 11 "It may not be - for so the Fates decide"Gilbert and Sullivan3:35
27Iolanthe: Act II. No. 12 "Soon as we may"Gilbert and Sullivan1:13