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Tracklist

The Gondoliers (Version with dialogue)
1-1	Overture
Act One
1-2	List and learn
1-3	Good morrow, pretty maids
1-4	For the merriest fellows are we
1-5	See, see at last they come to make their choice
1-6	Buon' giorno, signorine!
1-7	We're called gondolieri, but that's a vagary
1-8	And now to choose our brides!
1-9	Are you peeping?
1-10	Thank you gallant gondolieri
1-11	From the sunny Spanish shore
1-12	In enterprise of martial kind
1-13	O rapture, when alone together
1-14	There was a time, a time for ever gone
1-15	I stole the Prince
1-16	But, bless my heart, consider my position!
1-17	Try we life-long we can never
1-18	Bride-groom and bride!
1-19	When a merry maiden marries
1-20	Kind sir, you cannot have the heart, our lives to part
1-21	Do not give way to this uncalled-for grief
1-22	Then one of us will be a Queen
Disc: 2
Act One (continued)
2-1	Now pray, what us the cause of this
2-2	Replying, we sing as one individual
2-3	For ev'ryone who feels inclined
2-4	Come let's away - our island crown awaits me
2-5	Now, Marco dear, my wishes hear
2-6	Then away they go to an island fair
Act Two
2-7	Of happiness the very pith
2-8	Rising early in the morning
2-9	Take a pair of sparkling eyes
2-10	Here we are, at the risk of our lives
2-11	After sailing to this land
2-12	Dance a cachucha, fandango, bolero
2-13	There lived a king, as I've been told
2-14	In a contemplative fashion
2-15	With ducal pomp and ducal pride
2-16	This polite attention
2-17	On the day when I was wedded
2-18	To help unhappy commoners
2-19	Small titles and orders for mayors and recorders
2-20	I am a courtier grave and serious
2-21	Here is a case unprecedented!
2-22	Now let the loyal lieges gather round
2-23	Speak woman speak, we're all attention!
2-24	The royal prince was by the king entrusted
2-25	Luiz! Casilda!
2-26	One more, gondolieri
Disc: 3
The Grand Duke
3-1	Overture
Act One
3-2	Won't it be a pretty wedding?
3-3	Pretty Lisa, fair and tasty
3-4	By the mystic regulation
3-5	Were I a king in very truth
3-6	How would I play this part
3-7	My goodness me! What shall I do?
3-8	Ten minutes since I met a chap
3-9	About a century since
3-10	Strange the views some people hold
3-11	Now take a card, and gaily sing
3-12	The good Grand Duke of Pfennig Halbpfennig
3-13	A pattern to professors of monarchical autonomy
3-14	As o'er out penny roll we sing
3-15	When you find you're a broken-down critter
3-16	Come hither, all you people
Disc: 4
The Grand Duke
Act Two
4-1	As before you we defile
4-2	Your loyalty our... At the outset I may mention
4-3	Yes, Ludwig and his Julia are mated!
4-4	Take care of him - he's much too good to live!
4-5	Now Julia, come, consider it from this dainty point of
4-6	Your Highness, there's a party at the door
4-7	Now away to the wedding we go
4-8	So ends my dream...Broken ev'ry promise plighted
4-9	If the light of love's lingering ember
4-10	Come, bumpers-aye, ever-so-many
4-11	Why, who is this approaching?
4-12	The Prince of Monte-Carlo
4-13	His Highness we know not
4-14	We're rigged out in magnificent array
4-15	Dance
4-16	Take my advice - when deep in debt
4-17	Hurrah! Now away to the wedding
4-18	Well, you're a pretty kind of fellow
4-19	Happy couples, lightly treading
4-20	Overture di Ballo
Incidental Music to Shakespeare's "Henry VIII"
4-21	Allegro moderato alla Marcia
4-22	Allegretto grazioso
Disc: 5
H.M.S. Pinafore
5-1	Overture
Act One
5-2	We shall sail the ocean blue
5-3	Hail! Men o'war's men..I'm called little buttercup
5-4	The nightingale sighed
5-5	A maiden fair to see
5-6	My gallant crew...I am the Captain of the Pinafore
5-7	Sir, you are sad
5-8	Sorry her lot who loves too well
5-9	Over the bright blue sea
5-10	Sir Joseph's barge is seen
5-11	Now give three cheers...I am the monarch of the sea
5-12	When I was a lad
5-13	A British tar
5-14	Refrain, audacious tar
5-15	Can I survive this overbearing
Disc: 6
H.M.S. Pinafore
6-1	Entracte
Act Two
6-2	Fair moon to thee I sing
6-3	Things are seldom what they seem
6-4	The hours creep on apace
6-5	Never mind the why and wherefore
6-6	Kind Captain, I've important information
6-7	Carefully on tip-toe...He is an Englishman
6-8	Farewell, my own
6-9	A many years ago
6-10	A joy! Oh rapture unforseen
Disc: 7
Iolanthe or The Peer and The Peri (Version with dialogue)
7-1	Overture
Act One
7-2	Tripping hither, tripping thither
7-3	Iolanthe! From thy dark exile
7-4	Good morrow, good mother, Good mother, good morrow
7-5	Fare thee well, attractive stranger
7-6	Good morrow, good lover! Good lover, good morrow!
7-7	None shall part us from each other
7-8	Loudly let the trumpet bray
7-9	Entrance of the Lord Chancellor tha's
7-10	The law is the embodiment
7-11	My well-beloved Lord
7-12	Nay, tempt me not
7-13	Spurn not the nobly born
7-14	Lords, it may not be
7-15	Said I to myself, said I
7-16	When darkly looms the day
Disc: 8
Iolanthe or The Peer and The Peri (Version with dialogue)
Act Two
8-1	When all night long a chap remains
8-2	Strephon's a member of Parliament
8-3	When Britain really ruled the waves
8-4	In vain to us you plead
8-5	Oh, foolish fay
8-6	Though p'r'aps I may incur your blame
8-7	Love unrequited
8-8	If you go in you're sure to win
8-9	If you're weak enough to tarry
8-10	My Lord, a suppliant at your feet
8-11	It may not be
8-12	Soon as we may, off and away
Disc: 9
The Mikado or The Town of Titipu (Version without dialogue)
9-1	Overture
Act One
9-2	If you want to know who we are
9-3	Gentlemen, I pray you tell me maiden...
9-4	A wand'ring minstrel I
9-5	Our great Mikado, virtuous man
9-6	Young man, despair
9-7	And I have journey'd for a month
9-8	Behold the Lord High Executioner
9-9	As someday it may happen that a victim...
9-10	Comes a train of little ladies
9-11	Three little maids from school are we
9-12	So please you, Sir, we much regret
9-13	Were you not to Ko-Ko plighted
9-14	I am so proud, If I allowed
9-15	With aspect stern and gloomy stride
9-16	The threaten'd cloud has pass'd away
9-17	Your revels cease! Assist me, all of you!
9-18	Oh fool, that flee-est My hallow'd joys!
9-19	For he's going to marry Yum-Yum
9-20	The hour of gladness is dead and gone
9-21	Ye torrents roar! Ye tempests howl!
Disc: 10
The Mikado or The Town of Titipu (Version without dialogue)
Act Two
10-1	Braid the raven hair, Weave the supple tresses
10-2	The sun whose rays are all ablaze
10-3	Brightly dawns our wedding day
10-4	Here's a how-de-do!
10-5	Miya sama, miya sama, o n'mma no maye ni
10-6	From ev'ry kind of man Obedience I expect
10-7	A more humane Mikado never did in Japan exist
10-8	The criminal cried as he dropp'd him down
10-9	See how the fates their gifts allot
10-10	The flowers that bloom in the spring, tra la
10-11	Alone and yet alive
10-12	Hearts do not break! They sting and ache
10-13	On a tree by a river a little tom tit
10-14	There is beauty in the bellow of the blast
10-15	Fanfare
10-16	For he's gone and married Yum-Yum
Disc: 11
Patience (Version with dialogue)
11-1	Overture
Act One
11-2	Twenty love-sick maidens we
11-3	Still brooding on their mad infatuation!
11-4	I cannot tell what this love may be
11-5	Twenty love-sick maidens we
11-6	The soldiers of our Queen
11-7	If you want a receipt for that popular mystery
11-8	In a doleful train two and two we walk all day
11-9	Twenty love-sick maidens we
11-10	When I first put this uniform on
11-11	Am I alone and unobserved?
11-12	If you're anxious for to shine in the high aesthetic..
11-13	Long years ago - fourteen, maybe
11-14	Prithee, pretty maiden - Prithee
11-15	Though to marry you
11-16	Let the merry cymbals sound
11-17	Now tell us, we pray you
11-18	Heart broken at my Patience's barbarity
11-19	Stay, we implore you, before our hopes are blighted
11-20	Your maiden hearts, ah, do steel
Disc: 12
Patience (Version with dialogue)
Act One (continued)
12-1	Come, walk up, and purchase with avidity
12-2	We've been thrown over, we're aware
12-3	And are you going a ticket to buy?
12-4	Hold! Stay your hand!
12-5	True love must single hearted be
12-6	I hear the soft note of the echoing voice
12-7	But who is this, whose god-like grace...
12-8	List Reginald, whilst I confess a love that's all...
Act Two
12-9	On such eyes as maidens cherish
12-10	Sad is a woman's lot who, year by year
12-11	Silvered is the raven hair
12-12	Turn, oh turn in this direction
12-13	A magnet hung in a hardware shop
12-14	Love is a plaintive song
12-15	So go to him and say to him, with compliment ironical
12-16	It's clear that the mediaeval art alone retains...
12-17	If Saphir I choose to marry, I shall be fixed...
12-18	When I go out of the door
12-19	I'm a Waterloo House young man
12-20	After much debate internal, I on Lady Jane decide
Disc: 13
The Pirates of Penzance or The Slave of Duty (Version with dialogue)
13-1	Overture
Act One
13-2	Pour, oh pour the pirate sherry
13-3	When Fred'ric was a little lad
13-4	Oh, better far to live and die
13-5	Oh, false one, you have deceived me
13-6	Climbing over rocky mountain
13-7	Stop! ladies, pray! A man!
13-8	Oh, is there not one maiden breast
13-9	Oh, sisters, deaf to pity's name, For shame!
13-10	Poor wand'ring one!
13-11	What ought we to do, Gentle sisters say?
13-12	How beautifully blue the sky
13-13	Stay, we must not lose our senses
13-14	Hold, Monsters!
13-15	I am the very model of a modern Major-General
Disc: 14
The Pirates of Penzance or The Slave of Duty (Version with dialogue)
Act One (continued)
14-1	Oh, men of dark and dismal fate
14-2	Hail Poetry, thou heav'n born maid!
14-3	You may go, for you're at liberty
14-4	Pray observe the magnanimity
Act Two
14-5	Oh, dry the glist'ning tear
14-6	Then Frederic
14-7	When the foeman bares his steel
14-8	Now for the pirates lair!
14-9	When you had left our pirate fold
14-10	Away, away, my heart's on fire
14-11	All is prepared
14-12	Stay, Fred'ric stay!
14-13	Ah, leave me not to pine alone and desolate
14-14	Oh, here is love and here is truth
14-15	No, I'll be brave
14-16	Sergeant approach (Dialogue)
14-17	When a felon's not engaged in his employment
14-18	A rollicking band of pirates we
14-19	With cat-like tread
14-20	Hush! Hush! Not a word
14-21	Sighing softly to the river
14-22	Now what is this, and what is that
14-23	We triumph now
14-24	Away with them, and place them at the bar
14-25	Poor wand'ring ones, though ye have surely straye
Disc: 15
Princess Ida or Castle Adamant (Version without dialogue)
15-1	Overture
Act One
15-2	I Search throughout the panorama
15-3	Now hearken to my strict command
15-4	Today we meet...Ida was a twelve-month old
15-5	From the distant panorama...We are warriors three
15-6	If you give me your attention
15-7	P'raps if you address the lady most politely
Act Two
15-8	Towards the empyrean heights
15-9	Mighty maiden with a mission
15-10	Minerva...Oh, goddess wise
15-11	Gently, gently, evidently
15-12	I am a maiden, cold and stately
15-13	The world is but a broken toy
15-14	A lady fair, of lineage high
15-15	The woman of the wisest wit
15-16	Now would you like to rule the roost
15-17	Merrily ring the luncheon bell
15-18	Would you know the kind of maid
15-19	Oh, joy! Our chief is sav'd
15-20	We may remark, tho' nothing can dismay us
Disc: 16
Princess Ida or Castle Adamant (Version without dialogue)
Act Three
16-1	Death to the invader
16-2	I built upon a rock
16-3	Whene'er I spoke sarcastic joke
16-4	When anger spreads his wing
16-5	This helmet I suppose
16-6	This is our duty plain
16-7	With joy abiding
Pineapple Poll (arr. Mackerras)
Scene 1
16-8	Opening Dance
16-9	Poll's solo and Pas de deux
16-10	Belaye's solo
16-11	Pas de trois
16-12	Finale
Scene 2
16-13	Poll's solo - Jasper's solo (Intermezzo)
Scene 3
16-14	Belayes's solo and Sailors' Drill
16-15	Poll's solo
16-16	Entry of Belaye with Blanche as Bride
16-17	Reconciliation
16-18	Grand Finale
Disc: 17
Ruddigore or The Witch's Curse (Without dialogue)
17-1	Overture
Act One
17-2	Fair is rose as bright as May day
17-3	Sir Rupert Murgatroyd, his leisure and his riches
17-4	If somebody there chanced to be
17-5	I know a youth who loves a little maid
17-6	From the briny sea...I shipp'd, d'ye see
17-7	Hornpipe
17-8	My boy, you may take it from me
17-9	The battle's roar is over
17-10	In sailing o'er life's ocean wide
17-11	Cheerily carols the lark...To a garden full ... fposies
17-12	Welcome, gentry
17-13	Oh why am I moody and sad?
17-14	You understand? I think I do
17-15	Hail the bride of seventeen summers
17-16	Hold, bride and bridegroom
Disc: 18
Ruddigore or The Witch's Curse (Without dialogue)
18-1	Overture, Original version
Act Two
18-2	I once was as meek as a newborn lamb
18-3	Happily coupled are we
18-4	In bygone days I had thy love
18-5	Painted emblems of a race
18-6	When the night wind howls
18-7	He yields! He yields!
18-8	I once was a very abandon'd person
18-9	My eyes are fully open to my awful situation
18-10	There grew a little flower
18-11	Oh, happy the lily when kiss'd by the bee
Cox and Box (Version with dialogue)
18-12	Overture
18-13	We sounded the trumpet
18-14	Stay, Bouncer, stay!
18-15	Hush'd is the bacon on the grid
18-16	My master is punctual always in business
18-17	Who are you, sir?
18-18	The buttercup dwells on the lowly mead
18-19	Not long ago...Finale
Disc: 19
The Sorcerer (Version without dialogue)
19-1	Overture
Act One
19-2	Ring forth, ye bells
19-3	Constance, my daughter
19-4	When he is here, I sigh with pleasure
19-5	The air is charged with amatory numbers
19-6	Time was, when love and I were well acquainted
19-7	Sir Marmaduke...Minuet
19-8	With heart and voice
19-9	My kindly friends...Oh, happy young heart
19-10	My child, I join in these congratulations
19-11	With heart and with voice
19-12	Welcome joy! adieu to sadness!
19-13	All is prepar'd for sealing and for sighing
19-14	Love feeds on many kinds of food
19-15	My name is John Wellington Wells
19-16	Sprites of earth and air
19-17	Now to the banquet we press
Disc: 20
The Sorcerer (Version without dialogue)
Act Two
20-1	'Tis twelve, I think
20-2	Dear friends, take pity on my lot
20-3	Thou hast the pow'r....It is not love
20-4	I rejoice that it's decided
20-5	Oh, I have wrought much evil with my spells...
20-6	Alexis! Doubt me not...The fearful deed is done
20-7	Oh, my voice is sad and low
20-8	Oh, joyous boon
20-9	Prepare for sad surprises
20-10	Or he or I must die
The Zoo
20-11	Introduction
20-12	The British Public here - you see
20-13	I loved her fondly
20-14	And now let's go back to where we were...Ah maiden fair
20-15	Where is he?
20-16	Once more the face I loved so well
20-17	Help! Ah Help!
20-18	Ho-guards! Minions!
20-19	Ladies and Gentlemen!
20-20	We gather from what you have said
20-21	Where is my daughter?
20-22	I'm a simple little child
20-23	My Father!
20-24	Finale: What do I see in this disguise
Disc: 21
21-1	Imperial March
Utopia Limited (Comic opera in two acts)
Act One
21-2	Introduction
21-3	In lazy langour (Phylla, Chorus)
21-4	O make way for the Wise Men ! (Chorus)
21-5	In every mental lore (Scaphio, Phantis, Chorus)
21-6	Let all your doubts take wing (Scaphio, Phantis)
21-7	Quaff the nectar (Chorus)
21-8	A king of autocratic power we (King, Chorus)
21-9	Altho' of native maids the cream (Nekaya, Kalyba)
21-10	Bold-fac'd ranger (Lady Sophy, King)
21-11	First you're born (King, Scaphio, Phantis)
21-12	Subjected to your heavenly gaze
21-13	Oh maiden rich in Girton lore (Chorus, Zara... Cpt...
21-14	Ah! gallant solduer, brave and true
21-15	It's understood, I think (Captain, Zara, Saphio...
21-16	Oh admirable art! (Zara, Captain Fitzbattleaxe)
21-17	Altho' your royal summons to appear (Finale, A. 1)
21-18	A Company Promoter this, with special education
Disc: 22
Utopia Limited (Comic opera in two acts)
Act Two
22-1	Oh, Zara... A tenor, all singers above (Cpt.)
22-2	Words of love too loudly spoken (Zara, Cpt.)
22-3	Society has quite forsaken all (King, Chorus)
22-4	Entrance of Court
22-5	Drawing room music
22-6	This ceremonial...Eagle high... (King, Chorus)
22-7	With fury deep we burn (Scaphio, Phantis)
22-8	If you think that when...(King, Scaphio, Phantis)
22-9	With wily brain.... (Tarara, Phantis, Scaphio)
22-10	A wonderful joy our eyes to bless (Goldbury)
22-11	Then I may sing and play?
22-12	Oh, would some demon power... When a maid (Sophy)
22-13	Ah, Lady Sophy (King, Lady Sophy)
22-14	Oh rapture unrestrained (King, Lady Sophy)
22-15	Tarantella...Upon our sea-girt land (Chorus)
22-16	There's a little group of isles beyond the wave
22-17	Overture Macbeth
22-18	Victoria and Merrie England
22-19	Overture: Marmion
Disc: 23
The Yeomen of the Guard (Version without dialogue)
23-1	Overture
Act One
23-2	"When maiden loves"
23-3	"Tower warders under orders"
23-4	When our gallant Norman foes
23-5	"Alas! I waver to and fro"
23-6	"Is life a boon?"
23-7	"Here's a man of jollity"
23-8	I have a song to sing, oh!
23-9	"How say you, maiden"
23-10	"I've jibe and joke"
23-11	"'Tis done! I am a bride!"
23-12	"Were I thy bride"
23-13	"Oh, Sergeant Meryll" - "Ye Tower Warders", "Leonard Meryll!", "Forbear, my friends", "Didst thou not", "Leonard!", "As escort for the prisoner"
Disc: 24
The Yeomen of the Guard (Version without dialogue)
Act Two
24-1	"Night has spread her pall once more"
24-2	"Oh! a private buffoon"
24-3	"Hereupon we're both agreed"
24-4	"Free from his fetters grim"
24-5	"Strange adventure!"
24-6	"Hark! What was that, sir?"-"Who fired that shot?"-"Like a ghost his vigil keeping..."-"The river must be dragged"
24-7	"A man who would woo a fair maid"
24-8	"When a wooer goes a-wooing"
24-9	"Rapture, rapture!"
24-10	"Comes the pretty young bride"- "'Tis said to you"-"Hold, pretty one!"
Trial by Jury
24-11	Hark the Hour of Ten is Sounding
24-12	When First my Old, Old Love I Knew
24-13	When I good friends was called to the Bar
24-14	Where is the Plaintiff?
24-15	May it please you my Lud!
24-16	Oh, Gentlemen Listen I Pray
24-17	A nice dilemma
24-18	I Love him
Disc: 25
Songs and Snatched (First Internatonal CD Release)
The Gondoliers
Act One
25-1	From The Sunny Spanish Shore
25-2	There Was A Time, A Time For Ever Gone
Act Two
25-3	To Help Unhappy Commoners
Act One
25-4	Then One Of Us Will Be A Queen
Iolanthe or The Peer and The Peri
Act Two
25-5	Love Unrequited (Nightmare Song)
Act One
25-6	None Shall Part Us From Each Other
Act Two
25-7	If You Go In You're Sure To Win
Act One
25-8	When I Went To The Bar (Said I To Myself, Said I)
Act Two
25-9	Though P'r'aps I May Incur Your Blame
Ruddigore or The Witch's Curse
Act One
25-10	My Boy, You May Take It From Me
25-11	I Know A Youth Who Loves A Little Maid
Act Two
25-12	There Grew A Little Flower
Act One
25-13	The Battle's Roar Is Over
25-14	In Sailing O'er Life's Ocean Wide
The Yeomen of the Guard
Act Two
25-15	Hereupon We're Both Agreed
Act One
25-16	I've Jibe And Joke
Act Two
25-17	When A Wooer Goes A-Wooing
25-18	A Man Who Would Woo A Fair Maid

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