D'Oyly Carte Opera Company

HMS Pinafore (1:11:16)
1-1 Overture 4:20
1-2 Act 1: We Sail The Ocean Blue 2:24
1-3 Act 1: Hail, Men 'O War's Men 0:25
1-4 Act 1: I'm Called Little Buttercup 1:25
1-5 Act 1: But Tell Me, Who's The Youth? 0:27
1-6 Act 1: The Nightingale Sighed For The Moon's Bright Ray 2:09
1-7 Act 1: A Maiden Fair To See 1:54
1-8 Act 1: My Gallant Crew, Good Morning 0:26
1-9 Act 1: I Am The Captain Of The Pinafore 1:50
1-10 Act 1: Sir, You Are Sad 1:26
1-11 Act 1: Sorry Her Lot Loves Too Well 3:08
1-12 Act 1: Over The Bright Blue Sea 3:06
1-13 Act 1: I Am The Monarch Of The Sea 1:17
1-14 Act 1: When I Was A Lad, I Served A Term 3:33
1-15 Act 1: A British Tar Is A Soaring Soul 1:52
1-16 Act 1: Refrain, Audacious Tar 3:01
1-17 Act 1: Can I Survive This Overbearing? 3:14
1-18 Act 1: Oh Joy, Oh Rapture Unforeseen 1:21
1-19 Act 1: This Very Night 1:51
1-20 Act 1: Let's Give Three Cheers 2:28
1-21 Act 1: Entr'Acte 1:18
1-22 Act 2: Fair Moon, To Thee I Sing 2:11
1-23 Act 2: Things Are Seldom What They Seem 2:28
1-24 Act 2: The Hours Creep On Apace 4:35
1-25 Act 2: Never Mind The Why & Wherefore 2:36
1-26 Act 2: Kind Captain, I'Ve Important Information 2:19
1-27 Act 2: Carefully On Tiptoe Stealing 1:41
1-28 Act 2: Pretty Daughter Of Mine 1:20
1-29 Act 2: He Is An Englishman 1:44
1-30 Act 2: In Uttering A Reprobation 2:18
1-31 Act 2: Farewell My Own 2:21
1-32 Act 2: A Many Years Ago 1:57
1-33 Act 2: Oh Joy, Oh Rapture Unforeseen (Reprise) 2:48
Ruddigore (1:14:14)
2-1 Overture 6:43
2-2 Act 1: Fair Is Rose As Bright May Day 2:24
2-3 Act 1: Sir Rupert Murgatroyd 2:28
2-4 Act 1: If Somebody There Chanced To Be 3:01
2-5 Act 1: I Know A Youth Who Loves A Little Maid 3:35
2-6 Act 1: From The Briny Sea 0:50
2-7 Act 1: I Shipp'd, D'ye See, In A Revenue Sloop 3:03
2-8 Act 1: My Boy, You May Take It From Me 1:40
2-9 Act 1: If Well His Suit Has Sped 0:43
2-10 Act 1: In Sailing O'er Life's Ocean Wide 1:57
2-11 Act 1: Cheerily, Carols The Lark 1:51
2-12 Act 1: To A Garden Full Of Posies 2:24
2-13 Act 1: Welcome Gentry For Your Entry 2:28
2-14 Act 1: Oh, Why Am I Moody And Sad? 2:04
2-15 Act 1: You Understand? 1:21
2-16 Act 1: Hail, The Bride Of Seventeen Summers 1:46
2-17 Act 1: When The Buds Are Blossoming 4:49
2-18 Act 1: Hold, Bride And Bridegroom 5:27
2-19 Act 1: Oh, Happy The Lily 2:28
2-20 Act 2: I Once Was As Meek As A New-Born Lamb 2:13
2-21 Act 2: Happily Coupled Are We 1:06
2-22 Act 2: In Bygone Days, I Had Thy Love 1:36
2-23 Act 2: Painted Emblems Of A Race 3:53
2-24 Act 2: When The Night Wind Howls 2:35
2-25 Act 2: He Yields! He Yields! 2:14
2-26 Act 2: I Once Was A Very Abandoned Person 2:46
2-27 Act 2: My Eyes Are Fully Open 1:36
2-28 Act 2: There Grew A Little Flower 4:17
2-29 Act 2: Oh, Happy The Lily 0:49
Patience And The Mikado (Overture) (1:18:32)
3-1 Overture 5:10
3-2 Act 1: Twenty Lovesick Maidens We 4:47
3-3 Act 1: Still Brooding On Their Mad Infatuation 1:05
3-4 Act 1:I Cannot Tell What This Love May Be 2:22
3-5 Act 1: The Soldiers Of Our Queen 3:19
3-6 Act 1: In A Doleful Train... Twenty Lovesick Maidens We 5:01
3-7 Act 1: When I First Put This Uniform On 1:23
3-8 Act 1: Am I Alone And Unobserved? 4:28
3-9 Act 1: Long Years, Fourteen Maybe 2:13
3-10 Act 1: Prithee Pretty Maiden 2:39
3-11 Act 1: Let The Merry Cymbals Sound 1:50
3-12 Act 1: Now Tell Us, We Pray You 2:30
3-13 Act 1: Your Maiden Hearts 1:35
3-14 Act 1: Come Walk Up And Purchase With Avidity 4:16
3-15 Act 1: True Love Must Single-Hearted Be 1:20
3-16 Act 1: I Hear The Soft Note... But Who Is This? 5:10
3-17 Act 2: Sad Is That Woman's Lot 4:03
3-18 Act 2: Turn, Oh Turn In This Direction 1:15
3-19 Act 2: A Magnet Hung In A Hardware Shop 2:27
3-20 Act 2: Love Is A Plaintive Song 3:12
3-21 Act 2: So Go To Him And Say To Him 1:59
3-22 Act 2: It's Clear That Medieval Art Alone Retains Its Zest 2:24
3-23 Act 2: If Saphir I Choose To Marry 2:45
3-24 Act 2: When I Go Out Of Door 1:33
3-25 Act 2: I'm A Waterloo House Young Man 0:42
3-26 Act 2: After Much Debate Internal 1:10
3:27 The Mikado: Overture 7:44
The Mikado (Remainder) (1:16:14)
4-1 Act 1: If You Want To Know Who We Are 2:20
4-2 Act 1: Gentlemen, I Pray You Tell Me 0:42
4-3 Act 1: A Wand'ring Minstrel, I 4:34
4-4 Act 1: Our Great Mikado, Virtuous Man 2:51
4-5 Act 1: Young Man, Despair 2:42
4-6 Act 1: And Have I Journey'd For A Month 0:56
4-7 Act 1: Behold The Lord High Executioner! 2:16
4-8 Act 1: As Some Day It May Happen 2:04
4-9 Act 1: Comes A Train Of Little Ladies 2:12
4-10 Act 1: Three Little Maids From School 1:29
4-11 Act 1: So Please You, Sir, We Much Regret 1:54
4-12 Act 1: Were You Not To Ko-Ko Plighted? 2:26
4-13 Act 1: I Am So Proud 2:46
4-14 Act 1: With Aspect Stern 4:36
4-15 Act 1: Your Revels Cease! 3:59
4-16 Act 1: The Hour Of Gladness 4:30
4-17 Act 2: Braid The Raven Hair 3:22
4-18 Act 2: The Sun, Whose Rays Are All Ablaze 2:35
4-19 Act 2: Brightly Dawns Our Wedding Day 4:00
4-20 Act 2: Here's A How-De-Do! 1:11
4-21 Act 2: Miya Sama, Miya Sama 2:58
4-22 Act 2: A More Humane Mikado 4:11
4-23 Act 2: The Criminal Cried 3:18
4-24 Act 2: See How The Fates Their Gifts Allot 2:10
4-25 Act 2: The Flowers That Bloom In The Spring 1:24
4-26 Act 2: Alone, And Yet Alive! 0:36
4-27 Act 2: Hearts Do Not Break 1:42
4-28 Act 2: On A Tree By A River A Little Tom-Tit 2:28
4-29 Act 2: There Is Beauty In The Bellow Of The Blast 2:03
4-30 Act 2: For He's Gone And Married Yum-Yum 1:54
Trail By Jury / The Pirates Of Penzance (Act 1) (1:17:23)
5-1 Hark The Hour Of Ten Is Sounding 1:24
5-2 Now, Jurymen, Hear My Advice 1:53
5-3 Is This The Court Of The Exchequer? 0:53
5-4 When First My Old, Old Love I Knew 2:46
5-5 Silence In Court... All Hail, Great Judge 2:43
5-6 When I, Good Friends, Was Called To The Bar 3:02
5-7 Swear Thou The Jury 1:12
5-8 Where Is The Plaintiff? 0:40
5-9 Comes The Broken Flower 2:30
5-10 Oh, Never, Never, Never 1:15
5-11 May It Please You, M'Lud! 3:05
5-12 That She Is Reeling Is Plain To Me 0:55
5-13 Oh Gentlemen, Listen 1:48
5-14 That Seems A Reasonable Proposition 0:56
5-15 A Nice Dilemma We Have Here 2:33
5-16 I Love Him, I Love Him 1:31
5-17 The Question, Gentlemen, Is One Of Liquor 1:23
5-18 Oh Joy Unbounded 1:56
5-19 Pirates Of Penzance - Overture 7:52
5-20 Act 1: Pour, Oh Pour The Pirate Sherry 1:42
5-21 Act 1: When Frederic Was A Little Lad 2:21
5-22 Act 1: Oh Better Far To Live And Die (I Am A Pirate King) 2:23
5-23 Act 1: Oh, False One, You Have Deceived Me 2:30
5-24 Act 1: What Shall I Do?... Climbing Over Rocky Mountain 4:03
5-25 Act 1: Stop, Ladies, Pray! 1:21
5-26 Act 1: Oh, Is There Not One Maiden Breast? 3:36
5-27 Act 1: Oh, Sisters, Deaf To Pity's Name 0:30
5-28 Act 1 : Poor Wandering One 2:35
5-29 Act 1: What Ought We To Do? 2:56
5-30 Act 1: Stay, We Must Not Lose Our Senses 0:37
5-31 Act 1: Here's A First Rate Opportunity 0:50
5-32 Act 1: Hold, Monsters! 0:43
5-33 Act 1: I Am The Very Model Of A Modern Major-General 2:45
5-34 Act 1: Oh, Men Of Dark And Dismal Fate 2:24
5-35 Act 1: I'm Telling A Terrible Story 3:33
5-36 Act 1: Oh, Master, Hear One Word 0:38
5-37 Act 1: Pray Observe The Magnanimity 1:32
The Pirates Of Penzance (Act 2) / Iolanthe (First Part) (1:17:31)
6-1 Act 2: Oh, Dry The Glistening Tear 3:12
6-2 Act 2: Then, Frederic, Let Your Escort Lion-Hearted 0:18
6-3 Act 2: When The Foeman Bares His Steel 4:39
6-4 Act 2: Now For The Pirates Lair! 0:34
6-5 Act 2: Young Frederic! 0:50
6-6 Act 2: When You Had Left Our Pirate Fold 3:30
6-7 Act 2: Away, Away! My Heart's On Fire 1:32
6-8 Act 2: All Is Prepared 1:17
6-9 Act 2: Stay, Frederic, Stay! 0:54
6-10 Act 2: Ah, Leave Me Not To Pine 2:55
6-11 Act 2: In 1940 I Of Age Shall Be 1:24
6-12 Act 2: No, I'll Be Brave! 0:26
6-13 Act 2: Though In Body And In Mind 0:51
6-14 Act 2: A Policeman's Lot 2:08
6-15 Act 2: A Rollicking Band Of Pirates We 0:50
6-16 Act 2: With Cat-Like Tread 2:41
6-17 Act 2: Hush, Hush! Not A Word 1:28
6-18 Act 2: Sighing Softly To The River 1:29
6-19 Act 2: And What Is This, And What Is That? 0:45
6-20 Act 2: Frederic Here! Oh Joy! 3:56
6-21 Act 2: Poor Wandering Ones 1:39
6-22 Iolanthe - Overture 7:17
6-23 Act 1: Tripping Hither, Tripping Thither 4:11
6-24 Act 1: Iolanthe! 3:16
6-25 Act 1: Good Morrow, Good Mother 0:42
6-26 Act 1: Fare Thee Well, Attractive Stranger 1:04
6-27 Act 1: Good Morrow, Good Lover 0:43
6-28 Act 1: None Shall Put Us Apart From Each Other 2:55
6-29 Act 1: Loudly Let The Trumpet Bray! 5:44
6-30 Act 1: The Law Is The True Embodiment 2:51
6-31 Act 1: My Well-Loved Lord And Guardian Dear 0:32
6-32 Act 1: Of All The Young Ladies I Know 3:34
6-33 Act 1: Nay, Tempt Me Not 0:23
6-34 Act 1: Spurn Not The Nobly Born 2:01
6-35 Act 1: My Lords, It May Not Be 0:45
6-36 Act 1: A Shepherd I 2:02
6-37 Act 1: When I Went To The Bar 2:04
Iolanthe (Remainder) / The Gondoliers (First Part) (1:11:29)
7-1 Act 1: When Darkly Looms the Day 2:19
7-2 Act 1: Oh, Shameless One, Trmble! 1:37
7-3 Act 1: In Babyhood Upon Her Lap I Lay 2:44
7-4 Act 1: For Riches And Rank That You Befall 0:39
7-5 Act 1: To You I Give My Heart 1:10
7-6 Act 1: Tripping Hither, Tripping Thither 0:32
7-7 Act 1: The Lady Of My Love 1:46
7-8 Act 1: Go Away, Madam 1:27
7-9 Act 1: Oh, Chancellor Unwary 4:03
7-10 Act 1: Young Stephon Is The Kind Of Lout (With Stephon For Your Foe) 2:27
7-11 Act 2: When All Night Long A Chap Remains 3:55
7-12 Act 2: Stephon's A Member Of Parliament 1:29
7-13 Act 2: When Britain Really Rules The Waves 2:57
7-14 Act 2: In Vain To Us You Plead 1:56
7-15 Act 2: Oh, Foolish Fay 3:01
7-16 Act 2: Though P'r'aps I May Incur Your Blame 1:53
7-17 Act 2: Love, Unrequited, Robs Me Of My Rest 0:45
7-18 Act 2: When You're Lying Awake With A Dismal Headache 2:53
7-19 Act 2: If You Go In, You're Sure To Win 2:21
7-20 Act 2: If We're Weak Enough To Tarry 1:29
7-21 Act 2: My Lord, A Suppliant At Your Feet I Knell 0:40
7-22 Act 2: He Loves! If In The Bygone Years 1:35
7-23 Act 2: It May Not Be 2:49
7-24 Act 2: Soon As We May 2:01
7-25 The Gondoliers - Overture 5:55
7-26 Act 1: List And Learn, Ye Dainty Roses 3:29
7-27 Act 1: Good Morrow, Pretty Maids 1:15
7-28 Act 1: For The Merriest Fellows We Are 2:13
7-29 Act 1: Buon'giorno, Signorine 2:35
7-30 Act 1: We're Called Gondolieri 2:12
7-31 Act 1: And Now To Choose Your Brides 2:48
7-32 Act 1: Thank You, Gallant Gondolieri 2:22
The Gondoliers (Remainder) (1:08:10)
8-1 Act 1: From The Sunny Spanish Shore 1:42
8-2 Act 1: In Enterprise Of Martial Kind 1:36
8-3 Act 1: O Rapture When Alone Together 1:52
8-4 Act 1: There Was A Time 3:12
8-5 Act 1: I Stole The Prince 2:25
8-6 Act 1: But, Bless My Heart 0:50
8-7 Act 1: Try We Life-Long 2:06
8-8 Act 1: Bridegroom And Bride 0:40
8-9 Act 1: When A Merry Maiden Marries 2:51
8-10 Act 1: Kind Sir, You Cannot Have The Heart 2:53
8-11 Act 1: Do Not Give Way 0:40
8-12 Act 1: Then One Of Us Will Be Queen 2:50
8-13 Act 1: Replying We Sing 0:53
8-14 Act 1: For Everyone Who Feels Inclined 2:05
8-15 Act 1: Come, Lets Let's Away 4:09
8-16 Act 1: Them Away We Go To An Island Fair 2:04
8-17 Act 2 - Of Happiness The Very Pith 2:02
8-18 Act 2: Rising Early In The Morning 2:46
8-19 Act 2: Take A Pair Of Sparkling Eyes 3:11
8-20 Act 2: Here We Are, At The Risk Of Our Lives 3:09
8-21 Act 2: Dance A Cachucha, Fandango, Bolero 1:49
8-22 Act 2: There Lived A King 2:54
8-23 Act 2: In A Contemplative Fashion 2:01
8-24 Act 2: With Ducal Pomp And Ducal Pride 1:48
8-25 Act 2: On The Day When I Was Wedded 2:29
8-26 Act 2: To Help Unhappy Commoners 0:23
8-27 Act 2: Small Titles And Orders 2:47
8-28 Act 2: I Am A Courtier Grave And Serious 3:46
8-29 Act 2: Here Is A Case Unprecendented 1:32
8-30 Act 2: Let The Loyal Lieges Gather Round 0:57
8-31 Act 2: The Royal Prince 3:44
The Yeomen Of The Guard (First Part) (1:15:30)
9-1 Overture 4:53
9-2 Act 1 - When Maiden Loves 3:36
9-3 Act 1: Tower Warders, Under Orders 3:34
9-4 Act 1: When Our Gallant Foes 4:27
9-5 Act 1: Alas, I Waver To And Fro 2:18
9-6 Act 1: Is Life A Boon? 2:20
9-7 Act 1: Here's A Man Of Jollity 1:11
9-8 Act 1: I Have A Song To Sing, O! 3:33
9-9 Act 1: How Say You, Maiden, Will You Wed? 2:56
9-10 Act 1: I've Jibe And Joke 1:49
9-11 Act 1: 'Tis Done!, I Am A Bride! 3:07
9-12 Act 1: Were I Thy Bride 1:50
9-13 Act 1: Oh, Sergeant Meryll, Is It True? 2:12
9-14 Act 1: Forebear My Friends 6:58
9-15 Act 1: The Prisoner Comes To Meet His Doom 6:57
9-16 Act 2: Night Has Spread Her Pall Once More 4:03
9-17 Act 2: Oh! A Private Buffoon Is A Light-Hearted Loon 2:45
9-18 Act 2: Hereupon We're Both Agreed 1:38
9-19 Act 2: Free From His Fetters Grim 2:36
9-20 Act 2: Strange Adventure! 2:35
9-21 Act 2: Hark! What Was That, Sir? 3:39
9-22 Act 2: A Man Who Would Woo A Fair Maid 2:48
9-23 Act 2: When A Wooer Goes A-Wooing 3:37
The Yeomen Of The Guard (Remainder) / Orchestra Selections (1:18:33)
10-1 Act 2: Pretty Young Bride 2:27
10-2 Act 2: Hold, Pretty One! 1:17
10-3 Act 2: All Thought Of Leonard Meryll Set Aside 5:11
10-4 Orchestral Selection 'HMS Pinafore' 7:38
10-5 Orchestral Selection 'Yeoman Of The Guard' 8:35
10-6 Overture 'Di Ballo' 9:05
10-7 Opening Dance - Ballet Suite 'Pinapple Poll' 3:36
10-8 Poll's Dance And Pas De Deux - Ballet Suite 'Pinapple Poll' 3:27
10-9 Belaye's Solo - Ballet Suite 'Pinapple Poll' 3:08
10-10 Pas De Trois - Ballet Suite 'Pinapple Poll' 3:12
10-11 Finale - Ballet Suite 'Pinapple Poll' 3:51
10-12 Poll's Solo - Ballet Suite 'Pinapple Poll' 3:24
10-13 Jasper's Solo - Ballet Suite 'Pinapple Poll' 3:10
10-14 Belaye's Solo And Sailor's Drill - Ballet Suite 'Pinapple Poll' 3:26
10-15 Poll's Solo - Ballet Suite 'Pinapple Poll' 4:08
10-16 Entry Of Belaye With Blanche As Bride - Ballet Suite 'Pinapple Poll' 3:35
10-17 Reconcilliation - Ballet Suite 'Pinapple Poll' 2:52
10-18 Grande Finale - Ballet Suite 'Pinapple Poll' 5:43
credits:
Baritone Vocals – Alan Styler, Donald Harris (4), Eric Thornton, Fisher Morgan, Geoffrey Sanders, Henry Goodier, Leslie Rands, Martyn Green, Peter Pratt, Richard Watson (6)
Bass Vocals – Radley Flynn
Bass-Baritone Vocals – Darrell Fancourt, Richard Walker (10)
Conductor – George Weldon (tracks: 10-6), Isidore Godfrey (tracks: 1-1 to 1-33, 2-1 to 2-29, 3-1 to 3-27, 4-1 to 4-30, 5-1 to 5-37, 6-1 to 6-37, 7-1 to 7-32, 8-1 to 8-31, 9-1 to 9-23, 10-1 to 10-3), Charles Mackerras* (tracks: 10-7 to 10-18), Stanford Robinson (tracks: 10-4, 10-5)
Contralto Vocals – Ann Drummond-Grant, Caryl Fane, Ella Halman
Mezzo-soprano Vocals – Joan Gillingham, Joyce Wright (2), Yvonne Dean
Orchestra – BBC Theater Orchestra* (tracks: 10-4, 10-5), Birmingham Symphony Orchestra* (tracks: 10-6), Sadler's Wells Orchestra (tracks: 10-7 to 10-18)
Orchestra, Chorus – D'Oyly Carte Opera Company (tracks: 1-1 to 1-33, 2-1 to 2-29, 3-1 to 3-27, 4-1 to 4-30, 5-1 to 5-37, 6-1 to 6-37, 7-1 to 7-32, 8-1 to 8-31, 9-1 to 9-23, 10-1 to 10-3)
Soprano Vocals – Deidree Thurlow, Enid Walsh, Joyce Hill, Margaret Mitchell (2), Muriel Harding
Tenor Vocals – Neville Griffiths, Tom Hancock… (mer)