The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company The Best Of Gilbert & Sullivan 3CD + BONUS DVD
The Best Of Gilbert & Sullivan
3CD + BONUS DVD
This beautifully packaged collection features over 80 of their best loved songs and choruses.
The recordings are among the finest available, made by the D’Oyle Carte Opera Company conducted by Isidore Godfrey and the Pro Arte Orchestra and The Glyndebourne Festival Chorus conducted by Sir Malcom Sargent.
Also in this unique package is a DVD of Gilbert and Sullivan’s centenary celebrations live from the Royal Albert Hall plus details and cast lists.
Disc: 1
1. The Yeomen Of The Guard (Overture)
2. Hark The Hour Of Ten Is Sounding
3. When I Good Friends Was Called To The Bar
4. My Name Is John Wellington Wells
5. We Sail The Ocean Blue
6. I m Called Little Buttercup
7. My Gallant Crew, Good Morning!
8. I Am The Captain Of The Pinafore
9. When I Was A Lad
10. Fair Moon, To Thee I Sing
11. Things Are Seldom What They Seem
12. Never Mind The Why And Wherefore
13. He Is An Englishman
14. Oh Better Far To Live And Die
15. Climbing Over Rocky Mountain
16. Oh Is There Not One Maiden Breast
17. Poor Wandering One
18. What Ought We To Do?...How Beautifully Blue The Sky
19. I Am The Model Of A Modern Major General
20. When The Foeman Bares His Steel
21. When You Had Left Our Pirate Fold
22. Ah Leave Me Not To Pine
23. When A Felon s Not Engaged In His Employment
24. With Cat-Like Tread
25. I Cannot Tell What This Love May Be
26. So Go To Him And Say To Him
27. If Saphir I Choose To Marry
Disc: 2
1. March And Entry Of The Peers: Loudly Let The Trumpet Bray!
2. The Law Is The True Embodiment
3. When I Went To The Bar
4. When All Night Long A Chap Remains
5. When Britain Really Ruled The Waves
6. O Foolish Fay
7. Love Unrequited Robs Of My Rest
8. When You re Lying Awake With A Dismal Headache
9. If You Go In
10. The Woman Of The Wisest Wit
11. Would You Know The Kind Of Maid?
12. Whenever I Spoke Sarcastic Joke
13. A Wandring Minstrel I
14. Behold The Lord High Executioner
15. As Some Day It Must Happen
16. Comes A Train Of Little Ladies
17. Three Little Maids From School
18. Were You Not To Ko-Ko Plighted
19. Braid The Raven Hair
20. The Sun Whose Rays
21. Here's A How-De-Do
22. A More Humane Mikado
23. The Flowers That Bloom In The Spring
24. On A Tree By A River (Tit Willow)
25. There Is Beauty In The Bellow Of The Blast
26. Finale:For He s Gone And Married Yum-Yum
27. When The Night Wind Howls
28. My Eyes Are Fully Open To My Awful Situation
Disc: 3
1. Tower Warders Under Orders
2. When Our Gallant Norman Foes
3. Is Life A Boon
4. I Have A Song To Sing O!
5. I ve Jibe And Joke
6. Tis Done I Am A Bride
7. Were I Thy Bride
8. O A Private Buffoon!
9. Here-Upon We're Both Agreed
10. Strange Adventure
11. A Man Who Would Woo A Fair Maid
12. When A Wooer Goes A-Wooing
13. For The Merriest Fellows Are We
14. We're Called Gondolieri
15. From The Sunny Spanish Shore
16. In Enterprise Of Martial Kind
17. I Stole The Prince
18. When A Merry Maiden Marries
19. A Regular, Royal Queen
20. Rising Early In The Morning
21. Take A Pair Of Sparkling Eyes
22. Dance A Cachucha
23. There Lived A King
24. In A Contemplative Fashion
25. I Am A Courtier Grave And Serious
26. Once More Gondolieri! Full Company
Disc: 4
Massed Choral Forces led by The Royal Choral Society with the Hertfordshire County Youth Orchestra conducted by Marcus Dods
W.S. Gilbert – Peter Cellier Arthur Sullivan – Peter Rapley Himself – Michael Heyland
Recorded in the Royal Albert Hall, London on October 11th 1982
1. Gilbert & Sullivan Centenary Celebration DVD from Royal Albert Hall including extracts from
2. The Pirates Of Penzance
3. HMS Pinafore
4. The Gondoliers
5. The Mikado
