W.S. Gilbert

The Best of Gilbert & Sullivan

Featuring
Release date 2010

Tracklist

1
The Yeomen of the Guard: Overture
5:30
5:30
2
Trial by Jury: Hark the hour of ten is sounding
1:25
1:25
3
Trial by Jury: When I, good friends
2:57
2:57
4
The Sorceror: My Name Is John Wellington Wells
2:14
2:14
5
H.M.S. Pinafore: Act I. “We sail the ocean blue” (Sailors)
2:19
2:19
6
H.M.S. Pinafore: Act I. “I’m called Little Buttercup” (Buttercup)
1:44
1:44
7
H.M.S. Pinafore: Act I. “My gallant crew, good morning” (Captain Corcoran, Sailors)
0:31
0:31
8
H.M.S. Pinafore: Act I. “I am the captain of the Pinafore” (Captain Corcoran, Sailors)
2:00
2:00
9
H.M.S. Pinafore: Act I. “When I was a lad I served a term” (Sir Joseph, Relatives, Sailors)
3:26
3:26
10
H.M.S. Pinafore: Act II. “Fair moon to thee I sing” (Captain Corcoran)
2:54
2:54
11
H.M.S. Pinafore: Act II. “Things are seldom what they seem” (Buttercup, Captain, Corcoran)
3:11
3:11
12
H.M.S. Pinafore: Act II. “Never mind the why and wherefore” (Captain Corcoran, Sir Joseph, Josephine)
2:53
2:53
13
H.M.S. Pinafore: Act II. “Carefully on tiptoe stealing” (Ralph, Josephine, Sailors, Captain Corcoran, Dick)
1:40
1:40
14
The Pirates of Penzance: Act I. “Oh, better far to live and die”
2:40
2:40
15
The Pirates of Penzance: Act I. “Climbing over rocky mountain”
3:55
3:55
16
The Pirates of Penzance: Oh, Is There Not One Maiden Breast
4:27
4:27
17
The Pirates of Penzance: Act I. “Poor wand’ring one”
2:56
2:56
18
The Pirates of Penzance: What Ought We to Do... How Beautifully Blue the Sky
2:49
2:49
19
The Pirates of Penzance: Act I. “I am the very model of a modern Major-General”
2:49
2:49
20
The Pirates of Penzance: When the Foeman Bares His Steel
5:24
5:24
21
The Pirates of Penzance: When You Had Left Our Pirate Fold
3:54
3:54
22
The Pirates of Penzance: Ah Leave Me Not to Pine
3:33
3:33
23
The Pirates of Penzance: Act II. “When a felon’s not engaged in his employment”
2:13
2:13
24
The Pirates of Penzance: Act II. “With cat-like tread”
2:43
2:43
25
Act One - I cannot tell what this love may be
2:25
2:25
26
Act Two - So go to him and say to him
2:01
2:01
27
Act Two - If Saphir I choose to marry
2:47
2:47
28
Iolanthe: Act I. “Loudly let the trumpet bray!” (March of the Peers) (Peers)
5:48
5:48
29
Iolanthe: Act I. “The Law is the true embodiment” (Lord Chancellor, Peers)
2:31
2:31
30
Iolanthe: Act I. “When I went to the Bar as a very young man” (Lord Chancellor)
2:00
2:00
31
Iolanthe: Act II. “When all night long a chap remains” (Sentry Song) (Private Willis)
4:19
4:19
32
Iolanthe: Act II. “When Britain really ruled the waves” (Mountararat, Fairies, Peers)
3:00
3:00
33
Iolanthe: Act II. “Oh, foolish fay” (Queen, Fairies)
3:49
3:49
34
Iolanthe: Act II. “Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest” (Lord Chancellor)
0:48
0:48
35
Iolanthe: Act II. “When you’re lying awake with a dismal headache” (Nightmare Song) (Lord Chancellor)
3:03
3:03
36
Iolanthe: Act II. “If you go in, you’re sure to win” (Tolloller, Mountararat, Lord Chancellor)
2:35
2:35
37
Princess Ida: The Woman of the Wisest Wit
2:13
2:13
38
Princess Ida: Would You Know the Kind of Maid?
2:12
2:12
39
Princess Ida: Whene'er I Spoke Sarcastic Joke
1:42
1:42
40
The Mikado: Act I. “A wand’ring minstrel I”
4:32
4:32
41
The Mikado: Behold the Lord High Executioner
2:26
2:26
42
The Mikado: Act I. “As some day it may happen”
2:02
2:02
43
The Mikado: Act I. “Comes a train of little ladies”
2:16
2:16
44
The Mikado: Act I. “Three little maids from school are we”
1:30
1:30
45
The Mikado: Act I. “Were you not to Ko-Ko plighted”
2:32
2:32
46
The Mikado: Act II. “Braid the raven hair”
3:31
3:31
47
The Mikado: Act II. “The sun, whose rays are all ablaze”
2:40
2:40
48
The Mikado: Act II. “Here’s a how-de-do”
1:16
1:16
49
The Mikado: Act II. “A more humane Mikado never did in Japan exist”
4:28
4:28
50
The Mikado: Act II. “The flowers that bloom in the spring”
1:26
1:26
51
The Mikado: Act II. “On a tree by a river a little tom-tit”
2:19
2:19
52
The Mikado: Act II. “There is beauty in the bellow of the blast”
2:11
2:11
53
The Mikado: Act II. “For he’s gone and married Yum-Yum”
1:56
1:56
54
Ruddigore: When the Night Wind Howls
2:37
2:37
55
Ruddigore: My Eyes Are Fully Open to My Awful Situation
1:38
1:38
56
The Yeomen of the Guard: Act I. “Tower warders, under orders” (People, Yeomen of the Guard, Second Yeoman)
4:06
4:06
57
The Yeomen of the Guard: Act I. “When our gallant Norman foes” (Dame Carruthers, Yeoman)
4:28
4:28
58
The Yeomen of the Guard: Act I. “Is life a boon?” (Fairfax)
2:21
2:21
59
The Yeomen of the Guard: Act I. “I have a song to sing, O!” (Elsie, Point, Crowd)
3:42
3:42
60
The Yeomen of the Guard: Act I. “I’ve jibe and joke” (Point)
2:01
2:01
61
The Yeomen of the Guard: Act I. “’Tis done! I am a bride” (Elsie)
4:25
4:25
62
The Yeomen of the Guard: Act I. “Were I thy bride” (Phœbe)
1:54
1:54
63
The Yeomen of the Guard: Act II. “A private buffoon is a light-hearted loon” (Point)
3:05
3:05
64
The Yeomen of the Guard: Act II. “Here-upon we’re both agreed” (Point, Wilfred)
1:50
1:50
65
The Yeomen of the Guard: Act II. “Strange adventure!” (Kate, Dame Carruthers, Fairfax, Meryll)
2:54
2:54
66
The Yeomen of the Guard: Act II. “A man who would woo a fair maid” (Fairfax, Elsie, Phœbe)
3:46
3:46
67
The Yeomen of the Guard: Act II. “When a wooer goes a-wooing” (Elsie, Fairfax, Point, Phœbe)
2:58
2:58
68
The Gondoliers: Act I. “For the merriest fellows” (Antonio, Chorus, Fiametta)
2:20
2:20
69
The Gondoliers: Act I. “We’re called gondolieri” (Marco, Giuseppe)
2:12
2:12
70
The Gondoliers: Act I. “From the sunny Spanish shore” (Duke, Duchess, Casilda, Luiz)
1:39
1:39
71
The Gondoliers: Act I. “In enterprise of martial kind” (Duke, Casilda, Duchess, Luiz)
1:46
1:46
72
The Gondoliers: Act I. “I stole the Prince” (Don Alhambra, Casilda, Luiz, Duke, Duchess)
2:17
2:17
73
The Gondoliers: Act I. “When a merry maiden marries” (Tessa, Chorus)
3:25
3:25
74
The Gondoliers: Act I. “Then one of us will be a queen” (Gianetta, Tessa, Marco, Giuseppe, Chorus)
2:54
2:54
75
The Gondoliers: Act II. “Rising early in the morning” (Giuseppe, Chorus)
3:11
3:11
76
The Gondoliers: Act II. “Take a pair of sparkling eyes” (Marco)
3:18
3:18
77
The Gondoliers: Act II. “Dance a cachucha, fandango, bolero” (Chorus)
2:16
2:16
78
The Gondoliers: Act II. “There lived a king” (Don Alhambra, Marco, Giuseppe)
3:08
3:08
79
The Gondoliers: Act II. “In a contemplative fashion” (Gianetta, Tessa, Marco, Giuseppe)
2:07
2:07
80
The Gondoliers: Act II. “I am a courtier grave and serious” (Casilda, Duchess, Marco, Giuseppe, Duke)
3:58
3:58
81
The Gondoliers: Finale: Once More Gondolieri
1:58
1:58
82
[introduction]
1:19
1:19
83
The Pirates of Penzance: "Pour, oh pour, the pirate sherry"
2:10
2:10
84
The Pirates of Penzance: "Stop, ladies, pray!"
1:27
1:27
85
The Pirates of Penzance: Oh Is There Not One Maiden Breast?
3:26
3:26
86
Poor wandering one (The Pirates of Penzance)
3:59
3:59
87
The Pirates of Penzance: I Am the Model of a Modern Major-General
3:02
3:02
88
The Pirates of Penzance: A Policeman's Lot Is Not a Happy One
2:26
2:26
89
[dialogue 1]
1:11
1:11
90
H.M.S. Pinafore: My Gallant Crew, Good Morning! / I Am the Captain of the Pinafore
2:24
2:24
91
H.M.S. Pinafore: When I Was a Lad
2:46
2:46
92
[dialogue 2]
1:02
1:02
93
Iolanthe: When Britain Really Ruled the Waves
3:11
3:11
94
[dialogue 3]
0:53
0:53
95
The Gondoliers: Take a Pair of Sparkling Eyes
3:11
3:11
96
The Gondoliers: “Once more gondolieri”
1:59
1:59
97
[dialogue 4]
0:44
0:44
98
The Mikado: Gentlemen, I Pray You Tell Me
0:40
0:40
99
The Mikado: A Wand'Ring Minstrel I
4:22
4:22
100
The Mikado: The Sun Whose Rays Are All Ablaze
3:02
3:02
101
The Mikado: A More Humane Mikado
4:54
4:54
102
The Mikado: He's Gone and Married Yum-Yum
5:01
5:01