The Mikado (1957 D’Oyly Carte cast)

~ Release by Gilbert & Sullivan (see all versions of this release, 1 available)

Tracklist

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CD 1
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1The Mikado: Overture
recording of:
The Mikado: Overture
composer:
Arthur Sullivan (composer)
part of:
The Mikado
8:01
2The Mikado: Act I. “If you want to know who we are”2:57
3The Mikado: Act I. “A wand’ring minstrel I”4:31
4The Mikado: Act I. “Our great Mikado, virtuous man”2:53
5The Mikado: Act I. “Young man, despair, likewise go to”2:57
6The Mikado: Act I. “And have I journey’d for a month”1:00
7The Mikado: Act I. “Behold the Lord High Executioner!”0:53
8The Mikado: Act I. “Taken from a county jail”1:32
9The Mikado: Act I. “As some day it may happen”
recording of:
The Mikado: Act I, no. 5a “As someday it may happen” (Ko-Ko and Men) (I’ve got a little list)
lyricist:
W.S. Gilbert (librettist)
composer:
Arthur Sullivan (composer)
part of:
The Mikado: Act I
2:00
10The Mikado: Act I. “Comes a train of little ladies”2:15
11The Mikado: Act I. “Three little maids from school are we”1:28
12The Mikado: Act I. “So please you, Sir, we much regret”1:58
13The Mikado: Act I. “Were you not to Ko-Ko plighted”2:31
14The Mikado: Act I. “I am so proud, If I allowed”2:54
15The Mikado: Act I. “With aspect stern and gloomy stride”1:05
16The Mikado: Act I. “To ask you what you mean to do”
1:13
17The Mikado: Act I. “The threatened cloud has passed away”1:28
18The Mikado: Act I. “As in a month you’ve got to die”1:20
19The Mikado: Act I. “Your revels cease!”0:55
20The Mikado: Act I. “Oh fool, that fleest”2:00
21The Mikado: Act I. “Away, nor prosecute your quest”0:20
22The Mikado: Act I. “For he’s going to marry Yum-Yum”0:54
23The Mikado: Act I. “The hour of gladness is dead and gone”1:09
24The Mikado: Act I. “Oh, faithless one”1:24
25The Mikado: Act I. “Ye torrents roar! Ye tempests howl!”2:40
CD 2
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1The Mikado: Act II. “Braid the raven hair”3:29
2The Mikado: Act II. “The sun, whose rays are all ablaze”2:39
3The Mikado: Act II. “Brightly dawns our wedding day”4:03
4The Mikado: Act II. “Here’s a how-de-do”1:14
5The Mikado: Act II. “Mi-ya-sa-ma, mi-ya-sa-ma”1:07
6The Mikado: Act II. “From every kind of man”1:55
7The Mikado: Act II. “A more humane Mikado never did in Japan exist”4:26
8The Mikado: Act II. “The criminal cried as he dropped him down”3:24
9The Mikado: Act II. “See how the Fates their gifts allot”2:24
10The Mikado: Act II. “The flowers that bloom in the spring”1:23
11The Mikado: Act II. “Alone, and yet alive”0:49
12The Mikado: Act II. “Hearts do not break!”1:58
13The Mikado: Act II. “On a tree by a river a little tom-tit”
recording of:
The Mikado: Act II, no. 22, “On a Tree by a River” (Ko-Ko) (willow, tit-willow)
lyricist:
W.S. Gilbert (librettist)
composer:
Arthur Sullivan (composer)
part of:
The Mikado: Act II
2:17
14The Mikado: Act II. “There is beauty in the bellow of the blast”2:10
15The Mikado: Act II. Fanfare
0:12
16The Mikado: Act II. “For he’s gone and married Yum-Yum”1:57