Gilbert and Sullivan Edition

Tracklist

CD 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

CD 2

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

CD 3

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

CD 4

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

CD 5

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

CD 6

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

CD 7

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

CD 8

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

CD 9

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

CD 10

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

CD 11

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

CD 12

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

CD 13

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

CD 14

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

CD 15

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

CD 16

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

CD 17

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

CD 18

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

CD 19

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

CD 20

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

CD 21

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

CD 22

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

CD 23

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

CD 24

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

CD 25

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