The Mikado (1950 D’Oyly Carte cast)

The Mikado (1950 D’Oyly Carte cast)

W.S. Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan

Album
Label Naxos Historical Release date Format 2×CD Country 🇺🇸 United States

Tracklist 82:47

CD 1

1 The Mikado: Act I. Overture 7:43
2 The Mikado: Act I. “If you want to know who we are” (Chorus of Nobles) 2:18
3 The Mikado: Act I. Recitative “Gentlemen, I pray you” (Nanki-Poo) 0:41
4 The Mikado: Act I. “A wand’ring minstrel I” (Nanki-Poo, Chorus) 4:29
5 The Mikado: Act I. “Our great Mikado, virtuous man” (Pish-Tush, Chorus) 2:47
6 The Mikado: Act I. “Young man, despair” (Pooh-Bah, Nanki-Poo, Pish Tush) 2:39
7 The Mikado: Act I. Recitative “And I have journeyed for a month” (Nanki-Poo, Pooh-Bah) 0:55
8 The Mikado: Act I. “Behold the Lord High Executioner… Taken from the county jail” (Chorus of Nobles, Ko-Ko) 2:13
9 The Mikado: Act I. “As some day it may happen” (Ko-Ko, Chorus of Men) 2:02
10 The Mikado: Act I. “Comes a train of little ladies” (Chorus of Girls) 2:11
11 The Mikado: Act I. “Three little maids from school” (Yum-Yum, Peep-Bo, Pitti-Sing, Chorus of Girls) 1:27
12 The Mikado: Act I. “So please sir, we much regret” (Yum-Yum, Peep-Bo, Pitti-Sing, Pooh-Bah) 1:52
13 The Mikado: Act I. “Were you not to Ko-Ko plighted” (Yum-Yum, Nanki-Poo) 2:22
14 The Mikado: Act I. “I am so proud” (Pooh-Bah, Ko-Ko, Pish-Tush) 2:43
15 The Mikado: Act I. Finale Act I (Chorus, Pooh-Bah, Pish-Tush, Yum-Yum, Peep-Bo, Pitti-Sing, Ko-Ko, Katisha, Ensemble) 12:50

CD 2

1 The Mikado: Act II. “Braid the raven hair” (Pitti-Sing, Chorus of Girls) 3:19
2 The Mikado: Act II. “The sun whose rays are all ablaze” (Yum-Yum) 2:33
3 The Mikado: Act II. “Brightly dawns our wedding day” (Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sing, Nanki-Poo, Pish-Tush) 3:54
4 The Mikado: Act II. “Here’s a how-de-do!” (Yum-Yum, Nanki-Poo, Ko-Ko) 1:09
5 The Mikado: Act II. “Miya Sama” (Chorus) 1:06
6 The Mikado: Act II. “From every kind of man” (Mikado, Katisha) 1:48
7 The Mikado: Act II. “A more humane Mikado… My object all sublime” (Mikado, Chorus) 4:07
8 The Mikado: Act II. “The criminal cried, as he dropped him down” (Ko-Ko, Pitti-Sing, Pooh-Bah, Chorus) 3:16
9 The Mikado: Act II. “See how the fates their gifts allot” (Mikado, Pitti-Sing, Katisha, Ko-Ko, Poo-Bah) 2:09
10 The Mikado: Act II. “The flowers that bloom in the spring” (Nanki-Poo, Ko-Ko, Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sing, Pooh-Bah) 1:22
11 The Mikado: Act II. “Alone and yet alive… Hearts do not break” (Katisha) 2:17
12 The Mikado: Act II. “On a tree by a river” (Ko-Ko) 2:27
13 The Mikado: Act II. “There is beauty in the bellow of the blast” (Katisha, Ko-Ko) 2:02
14 The Mikado: Act II. Finale Act II (Company) 1:54