This beautifully packaged collection features over 80 of Gilbert & Sullivan's best loved songs and choruses. The recordings are among the finest available, made by the D'Oyle Carte Opera Company and The Glyndebourne Festival Opera & Chorus, conducted by Sir Malcom Sargent. The DVD was filmed at London's celebrated Albert Hall to commemorate the centenary of The Mikado's premiere.
Track Listing
Disc 1:
- Overture
- Hark The Hour Of Ten Is Sounding
- When I, Good Friends, Was Call'd To The Bar
- My Name Is John Wellington Wells
- We Sail The Ocean Blue
- I'm Called Little Buttercup
- My Gallant Crew, Good Morning!
- I Am The Captain Of The Pinafore
- When I Was A Lad/For I Hold That On The Seas
- Fair Moon, To Thee I Sing
- Things Are Sldom What They Seem
- Never Mind The Why And Wherefore
- He Is An Englishman
- Oh, Better Far To Live And Die
- Climbing Over Rocky Mountain
- Oh, Is There Not One Maiden Breast
- Poor Wandering One
- What Ought We To Do...How Beautifully Blue The Sky
- I Am The Model Of A Modern Major General
- When The Foeman Bares His Steel
- When You Had Left Our Pirate Fold
- Ah Leave Me Not To Pine
- When A Felon's Not Engaged In His Employment
- With Cat-Like Tread
- I Cannot Tell What This Love May Be
- So Go To Him And Say To Him
- If Saphir I Choose To Marry
Disc 2:
- Loudly Let The Trumpet Bray!
- The Law Is The True Embodiment
- When I Went To The Bar
- When All Night Long A Chap Remains
- When Britain Really Ruled The Waves
- Oh, Foolish Fay
- Love, Unrequited Robs Me Of My Rest
- When You're Lying Awake With A Dismal Headache
- If You Go In
- The Woman Of The Wisest Wit
- Would You Know The Kind Of Maid'
- Whene'er I Spoke Sarcastic Joke
- A Wand'ring Minstel I
- Behold The Lord High Executioner
- As Some Day It May Happen
- Comes A Train Of Little Ladies
- Three Little Maids From School Are We
- Were You Not Ko-Ko Plighted
- Braid The Raven Hair
- The Sun, Whose Rays Are All Ablaze
- Here's A How-De-Do!
- More Humane Mikado
- The Flowers That Bloom In The Spring
- On A Tree By A River A Little Tom-Tit
- There Is Beauty In The Bellow Of The Blast
- For He's Gone And Married Yum-Yum
- When The Night Wind Howls
- My Eyes Are Fully Open To My Awful Situation
Disc 3:
- Tower Warders, Under Orders
- When Our Gallant Norman Foes
- Is Life A Boon
- I Have A Song To Sing-O!
- I've Jibe And Joke
- 'Tis Done, I Am A Bride
- Were I Thy Bride
- Oh! A Private Buffoon Is A Light-Hearted Loon
- Hereupon We're Both Agreed
- Strange Adventure
- A Man Who Would Woo A Fair Maid
- When A Wooer Goes A-Wooing
- For The Merriest Fellows Are We
- We're Called Goldolieri
- From The Sunny Spanish Shore
- In Enterprise Of Martial Kind
- I Stole The Prince
- When A Merry Maiden Marries
- Then One Of Us Will Be A Queen
- Rising Early In The Morning
- Take A Pair Of Sparkling Eyes
- Dance A Cachucha
- There Lived A King
- In A Contemplative Fashion
- I Am A Courtier And Serious
- Once More Gondolieri
Disc 4:
- Pour, Oh Pour The Pirate Sherry
- Stop Ladies Pray
- Oh, Is There Not One Maiden Breast'
- Poor Wand'ring One
- I Am The Very Model Of A Modern Major General
- A Policeman's Lot Is Not A Happy One
- My Gallant Crewe...I Am The Captain Of The Pinafore
- When I Was A Lad
- When Britain Really Ruled The Waves
- Take A Pair Of Sparkling Eyes
- Once More Gondolieri
- Gentlemen, I Pray You Tell Me
- A Wandering Minstrel I
- The Sun Whose Rays
- A More Humane Mikado
- For He's Gone And Married Yum-Yum
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