Album CA 2001 on Naxos Historical label
Classical and Soundtrack (Operetta)
CD [album] Playing Time -- 82:43 / CD 1 = 49:13 / CD 2 = 33:30 Recorded in 1950 cover: 'The Mikado' (from a private collection) Alternate title: The Mikado, Or The Town Of Titipu (CD front ; jewel case rear insert) Also (last but not least) credited: "Chorus of Schoolgirls, Nobles, Guards and Coolies" (members of The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company) more detail at Naxos < https://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.110176-77 > = = =
Gilbert & Sullivan , album by | |
D'Oyly Carte Opera Company , *1875 GB orchestra, album by | |
Isidore Godfrey , 1900-1977 GB conductor, album by | |
William Gilbert dr, GB libretto by | |
David Lennick , producer, archivist & restoration | |
Ella Hallman voice actor, katisha | |
Martyn Green voc, GB voice actor, ko-ko, lord high executioner | |
Leonard Osborn voc, 1937-1994 voice actor, nanki-poo, his son | |
Joyce Wright voc, *1922 GB voice actor, peep-bo | |
Alan Styler voc, GB voice actor, pish-tush, a noble lord | |
Joan Gillingham voc, voice actor, pitti-sing | |
Richard Watson , voice actor, pooh-bah, lord high everything else | |
Darrell Fancourt voc, 1886-1953 GB voice actor, the mikado of japan | |
Margaret Mitchell , voice actor, yum-yum | |
Various , chorus of girls, nobles, guards and coolies |
Graham Newton engineer, digital noise reduction |
Peter Dempsey liner notes |
No | Title | Artist | Composer | Duration | |
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1 | CD 1: Act I -- Courtyard Of Ko-Ko's Official Residence | Gilbert & Sullivan, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, The New Promenade Orchestra, Isidore Godfrey | |||
2 | Overture | Gilbert & Sullivan, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, The New Promenade Orchestra, Isidore Godfrey | 7:38 | ||
3 | If You Want To Know Who You Are (Chorus Of Nobles) | Gilbert & Sullivan, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, The New Promenade Orchestra, Isidore Godfrey | 2:19 | ||
4 | Recitative: Gentlemen, I Pray You (Nanki-Poo) | Gilbert & Sullivan, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, The New Promenade Orchestra, Isidore Godfrey | 0:42 | ||
5 | A Wand'ring Minstrel (Nanki-Poo And Chorus) | Gilbert & Sullivan, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, The New Promenade Orchestra, Isidore Godfrey | 4:29 | ||
6 | Our Great Mikado, Virtuous Man (Pish-Tush And Chorus) | Gilbert & Sullivan, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, The New Promenade Orchestra, Isidore Godfrey | 2:48 | ||
7 | Young Man, Despair (Pooh-Bah With Nanki-Poo And Pish-Tush) | Gilbert & Sullivan, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, The New Promenade Orchestra, Isidore Godfrey | 2:39 | ||
8 | Recitative: And Have I Journeyed For A Month (Nanki-Poo, Pooh-Bah) | Gilbert & Sullivan, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, The New Promenade Orchestra, Isidore Godfrey | 0:55 | ||
9 | Behold The Lord High Executioner / Taken From A County Jail (Chorus Of Nobles / Ko-Ko) | Gilbert & Sullivan, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, The New Promenade Orchestra, Isidore Godfrey | 2:13 | ||
10 | As Some Day It May Happen (Ko-Ko With Chorus Of Men) | Gilbert & Sullivan, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, The New Promenade Orchestra, Isidore Godfrey | 2:02 | ||
11 | Comes A Train Of Little Ladies (Chorus Of Girls) | Gilbert & Sullivan, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, The New Promenade Orchestra, Isidore Godfrey | 2:11 | ||
12 | Three Little Maids From School (Yum-Yum, Peep-Bo, And Pitti-Sing With Chorus Of Girls) | Gilbert & Sullivan, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, The New Promenade Orchestra, Isidore Godfrey | 1:28 | ||
13 | So Please You Sir, We Must Regret (Yum-Yum, Peep-Bo, Pitti-Sing And Pooh-Bah) | Gilbert & Sullivan, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, The New Promenade Orchestra, Isidore Godfrey | 1:52 | ||
14 | Were You Not To Ko-Ko Plighted (Yum-Yum And Nanki-Poo) | Gilbert & Sullivan, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, The New Promenade Orchestra, Isidore Godfrey | 2:23 | ||
15 | I Am So Proud (Pooh-Bah, Ko-Ko, Pish-Tush) | Gilbert & Sullivan, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, The New Promenade Orchestra, Isidore Godfrey | 2:43 | ||
16 | Finale, Act I (Chorus, Pooh-Bah, Pish-Tush, Yum-Yum, Peep-Bo, Pitti-Sing, Ko-Ko, Katisha, Ensemble) | Gilbert & Sullivan, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, The New Promenade Orchestra, Isidore Godfrey | 12:51 | ||
17 | CD 2: Act II -- Ko-Ko's Garden | Gilbert & Sullivan, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, The New Promenade Orchestra, Isidore Godfrey | |||
18 | Braid The Raven Hair (Pitti-Sing And Chorus Of Girls) | Gilbert & Sullivan, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, The New Promenade Orchestra, Isidore Godfrey | 3:20 | ||
19 | The Sun Whose Rays Are All Ablaze (Yum-Yum) | Gilbert & Sullivan, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, The New Promenade Orchestra, Isidore Godfrey | 2:33 | ||
20 | Brightly Dawns Our Wedding Day (Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sing, Nank-Poo, Pish-Tish) | Gilbert & Sullivan, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, The New Promenade Orchestra, Isidore Godfrey | 3:55 | ||
21 | Here's A How-De-Do! (Yum-Yum, Nanki-Poo, Ko-Ko) | Gilbert & Sullivan, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, The New Promenade Orchestra, Isidore Godfrey | 1:10 | ||
22 | Miya Sama (March Of The Mikado's Troops) (Chorus) | Gilbert & Sullivan, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, The New Promenade Orchestra, Isidore Godfrey | 1:06 | ||
23 | From Every Kind Of Man (Mikado And Katisha) | Gilbert & Sullivan, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, The New Promenade Orchestra, Isidore Godfrey | 1:49 | ||
24 | A More Humane Mikado / My Object All Sublime (Mikado And Chorus) | Gilbert & Sullivan, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, The New Promenade Orchestra, Isidore Godfrey | 4:08 | ||
25 | The Criminal Cried, As He Dropped Down (Ko-Ko, Pitti-Sing, Pooh-Bah, Chorus) | Gilbert & Sullivan, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, The New Promenade Orchestra, Isidore Godfrey | 3:16 | ||
26 | See How The Fates Their Gifts Allot (Mikado, Pitti-Sing, Katisha, Ko-Ko, And Pooh-Bah) | Gilbert & Sullivan, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, The New Promenade Orchestra, Isidore Godfrey | 2:09 | ||
27 | The Flowers That Bloom In The Spring (Nanki-Poo And Ko-Ko, With Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sing And Pooh-Bah) | Gilbert & Sullivan, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, The New Promenade Orchestra, Isidore Godfrey | 1:23 | ||
28 | Alone And Yet Alive / Hearts Do Not Break (Katisha) | Gilbert & Sullivan, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, The New Promenade Orchestra, Isidore Godfrey | 2:17 | ||
29 | On A Tree By A River (Ko-Ko) | Gilbert & Sullivan, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, The New Promenade Orchestra, Isidore Godfrey | 2:28 | ||
30 | There Is A Beauty In The Bellow Of The Blast (Katisha And Ko-Ko) | Gilbert & Sullivan, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, The New Promenade Orchestra, Isidore Godfrey | 2:02 | ||
31 | Finale, Act II (Entire Company) | Gilbert & Sullivan, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, The New Promenade Orchestra, Isidore Godfrey | 1:55 |
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