Gilbert & Sullivan: The Yeomen of the Guard

Gilbert & Sullivan: The Yeomen of the Guard

Arthur Sullivan & W.S. Gilbert; Sylvia McNair, Jean Rigby, Kurt Streit, Sir Thomas Allen, Bryn Terfel, Academy of St Martin in the Fields & Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chorus, Sir Neville Marriner

Album
Label Philips Classics Release date Format 2×CD Country 🌍 Europe Discogs https://www.discogs.com/release/16448391

Tracklist 115:13

CD 1

1 Overture Arthur Sullivan 4:49
2 Act I: No. 1 Introduction: “When maiden loves” Arthur Sullivan 3:09
3 Act I: No. 1 Introduction: “Mistress Meryl!” Arthur Sullivan 1:07
4 Act I: No. 2 Double Chorus: “Tower warders under orders” Arthur Sullivan 3:48
5 Act I: No. 2 Double Chorus: “A good day to you” Arthur Sullivan 0:55
6 Act I: No. 3 Song With Chorus: “When our gallant Norman foes” Arthur Sullivan 4:12
7 Act I: No. 3 Song With Chorus: “Father! Has no reprieve arrived” Arthur Sullivan 1:32
8 Act I: No. 4 Trio: “Atlas! I waver to and fro” Arthur Sullivan 2:34
9 Act I: No. 4 Trio: “Nay, lass, be of good cheer” Arthur Sullivan 0:48
10 Act I: No. 4 Trio: “Nay, pretty pne” / Act I: No. 5 Ballad: “Is life a boon?” Arthur Sullivan 2:10
11 Act I: No. 5 Ballad: “And now, Sir Richard” Arthur Sullivan 1:17
12 Act I: No. 6 Chorus: “Here’s a man of jollity” Arthur Sullivan 1:34
13 Act I: No. 7 Duet: “I have a song to sing, oh!” Arthur Sullivan 3:20
14 Act I: No. 7 Duet: “Well sung and well danced!” Arthur Sullivan 1:25
15 Act I: No. 8 Trio: “How say you, maiden” Arthur Sullivan 2:32
16 Act I: No. 8 Trio: “And so, good fellow” / Act I: No. 9 Recitative and Song: “I’ve jive and joke” Arthur Sullivan 1:59
17 Act I: No. 9 Recitative and Song: “But I trust you are very careful” Arthur Sullivan 0:52
18 Act I: No. 10 Recitative and Song: “’Tis done! I am a bride!” Arthur Sullivan 3:59
19 Act I: No. 10 Recitative and Song: “’Tis an odd freak” Arthur Sullivan 1:53
20 Act I: No. 10 Recitative and Song: “Oh, how I would love thee!” / Act I: No. 11 Song: “Were I thy bride” Arthur Sullivan 2:07
21 Act I: No. 11 Song: “The deed is, so far, safely accomplished” Arthur Sullivan 0:32
22 Act I: No. 12 Finale: “Oh, Sergeant Meryll” / Recitative: “Ye Tower Warders” / Recitative: “Leonard Meryll!” / Recitative: “Forebear, my friends” / Couplets: “Didst thou not” / Recitative: “Leonard!” / Trio: “To thy fraternal care” / Chorus: “The prisoner comes” / “My lord! My lord!” / Trio: “As escort for the prisoner” / Trio: “Astounding news!” Arthur Sullivan 17:25

CD 2

1 Act II: No. 1 Chorus and Solo: “Night has spread her pall once more” Arthur Sullivan 4:12
2 Act II: No. 1 Chorus and Solo: “The merry jests of Hugh Ambrose” Arthur Sullivan 1:40
3 Act II: No. 2 Song: “Oh! A private buffoon” Arthur Sullivan 2:23
4 Act II: No. 2 Song: “And so thou wouldst be a jester, eh?” Arthur Sullivan 1:05
5 Act II: No. 3 Duet: “Hereupon we’re both agreed” Arthur Sullivan 1:44
6 Act II: No. 3 Duet: “Two days gone” Arthur Sullivan 0:29
7 Act II: No. 4 Ballad: “Free from his fetters grim” Arthur Sullivan 2:32
8 Act II: No. 4 Ballad: “Well, Sergeant Meryll” Arthur Sullivan 1:58
9 Act II: No. 5 Quartet: “Strange adventure!” Arthur Sullivan 2:48
10 Act II: No. 5 Quartet: “So my mysterious bride” Arthur Sullivan 2:39
11 Act II: No. 6 Scene: “Hark! What was that, sir?” / Recitative: “Who fired that shot!” / Duet and Chorus: “Like a ghost his vigil keeping…” / Recitative: “The river must be dragged” Arthur Sullivan 3:29
12 Act II: No. 6 Scene: “Nay, sweetheart, be comforted” Arthur Sullivan 1:07
13 Act II: No. 7 Trio: “A man who would woo a fair maid” Arthur Sullivan 3:45
14 Act II: No. 7 Trio: “Now listen to me” Arthur Sullivan 1:33
15 Act II: No. 8 Quartet: “When a wooer goes a-wooing” Arthur Sullivan 3:02
16 Act II: No. 8 Quartet: “Before I pretend to be a sister to anybody again” Arthur Sullivan 4:07
17 Act II: No. 9 Duet: “Rapture, rapture!” Arthur Sullivan 1:29
18 Act II: No. 10 Finale: “Comes the pretty young bride” / Trio: “’Tis said that joy” / Trio: “Hold, pretty one!” Arthur Sullivan 10:56