The Mikado

by Arthur Sullivan

The Mikado cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1958
  • Label: His Master's Voice
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 1:29:27
  • Community rating: 3.91/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Capturing the enduring wit and melodic brilliance of the Gilbert and Sullivan masterpiece, this recording stands as a benchmark of the traditional D'Oyly Carte style. The crisp diction and buoyant orchestrations perfectly preserve the satirical edge and theatrical pacing of the seminal Victorian comic opera.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, operatic, vocal, theatrical, choral, ensemble

Tracklist

  1. The Mikado: Overture (7:33)
  2. The Mikado / Act 1: 1. If you want to know who we are (2:27)
  3. The Mikado / Act 1: 2. Gentlemen, I pray you tell me maiden... (0:41)
  4. The Mikado / Act 1: 3. A wand'ring minstrel I (4:30)
  5. The Mikado / Act 1: 4. Our great Mikado, virtuous man (3:08)
  6. The Mikado / Act 1: 5. Young man, despair (2:46)
  7. The Mikado / Act 1: 6. And I have journey'd for a month (0:51)
  8. The Mikado / Act 1: 7. Behold the Lord High Executioner (2:34)
  9. The Mikado / Act 1: 8. As someday it may happen that a victim... (2:19)
  10. The Mikado / Act 1: 9. Comes a train of little ladies (2:14)
  11. The Mikado / Act 1: 10. Three little maids from school are we (1:25)
  12. The Mikado / Act 1: 11. So Please You, Sir, We Much Regret (1:59)
  13. The Mikado / Act 1: 12. Were you not to Ko-Ko plighted (2:30)
  14. The Mikado / Act 1: 13. I am so proud, If I allowed (3:14)
  15. The Mikado / Act 1: 14. With aspect stern and gloomy stride (2:23)
  16. The Mikado / Act 1: 15. The threaten'd cloud has pass'd away (3:04)
  17. The Mikado / Act 1: 16. Your revels cease! Assist me, all of you! (0:52)
  18. The Mikado / Act 1: 17. Oh fool, that flee-est My hallow'd joys! (2:33)
  19. The Mikado / Act 1: 18. For he's going to marry Yum-Yum (1:01)
  20. The Mikado / Act 1: 19. The hour of gladness is dead and gone (2:22)
  21. The Mikado / Act 1: 20. Ye torrents roar! Ye tempests howl! (2:38)
  22. The Mikado / Act 2: 21. Braid the raven hair, Weave the supple tresses (3:37)
  23. The Mikado / Act 2: 22. The sun whose rays are all ablaze (3:04)
  24. The Mikado / Act 2: 23. Brightly dawns our wedding day (3:42)
  25. The Mikado / Act 2: 24. Here's a how-de-do! (1:22)
  26. The Mikado / Act 2: 25. Miya sama, miya sama, o n'mma no maye ni (1:14)
  27. The Mikado / Act 2: 26. From ev'ry kind of man Obedience I expect (1:46)
  28. The Mikado / Act 2: 27. A more humane Mikado never did in Japan exist (4:31)
  29. The Mikado / Act 2: 28. The criminal cried as he dropp'd him down (3:31)
  30. The Mikado / Act 2: 29. See how the fates their gifts allot (2:10)
  31. The Mikado / Act 2: 30. The flowers that bloom in the spring, tra-la (1:36)
  32. The Mikado / Act 2: 31. Alone and yet alive (0:44)
  33. The Mikado / Act 2: 32. Hearts do not break! They sting and ache (1:52)
  34. The Mikado / Act 2: 33. On a tree by a river a little tom tit (2:22)
  35. The Mikado / Act 2: 34. There is beauty in the bellow of the blast (2:13)
  36. The Mikado / Act 2: 35. Fanfare (0:11)
  37. The Mikado / Act 2: 36. For he's gone and married Yum-Yum (2:08)

Credits

  • William Gilbert - Primary Artist
  • Sir Arthur Sullivan - Primary Artist
  • Isidore Godfrey - Conductor
  • D'Oyly Carte Opera Company - Ensemble
  • City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra - Orchestra
  • George Cook - Performer [Go-To]
  • Christene Palmer - Performer [Katisha]
  • John Reed - Performer [Ko-Ko]
  • Philip Potter - Performer [Nanki-Poo]
  • Pauline Wales - Performer [Peep-Bo]
  • Thomas Lawlor - Performer [Pish-Tush]
  • Peggy Ann Jones - Performer [Pitti-Sing]
  • Kenneth Sandford - Performer [Poo-Bah]
  • Donald Adams - Performer [The Mikado of Japan]
  • Val茅rie Masterson - Performer [Yum-Yum]

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