The Very Best Of Gilbert & Sullivan

The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company & Arthur Sullivan

52 SONGS • 2 HOURS AND 21 MINUTES • JAN 01 1998

21

Sullivan: Patience / Act 1: If you're anxious for to shine in the high aesthetic..

John Reed, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, The New Symphony Orchestra Of London, Isidore Godfrey & Arthur Sullivan

02:31

22

Sullivan: Patience / Act 2: So go to him and say to him, with compliment ironical

Gillian Knight, John Reed, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, The New Symphony Orchestra Of London, Isidore Godfrey & Arthur Sullivan

01:58

23

Sullivan: The Yeomen of the Guard: When our gallant Norman foes

Gillian Knight, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Malcolm Sargent & Arthur Sullivan

04:54

24

Sullivan: The Yeomen of the Guard: I have a song to sing, oh!

Elizabeth Harwood, John Reed, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Malcolm Sargent & Arthur Sullivan

03:21

25

Sullivan: "When maiden loves"

Ann Hood, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Malcolm Sargent & Arthur Sullivan

03:33

26

Sullivan: "Tower warders under orders"

Thomas Lawlor, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Malcolm Sargent & Arthur Sullivan

03:56

27

Sullivan: With cat-like tread

George Cook, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Isidore Godfrey & Arthur Sullivan

02:47

28

Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance: Poor wand'ring one!

Valerie Masterson, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Isidore Godfrey & Arthur Sullivan

02:57

29

Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance or The Slave of Duty / Act 1: I am the very model of a modern Major-General

John Reed, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Isidore Godfrey & Arthur Sullivan

02:58

30

Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance: When the foeman bares his steel

Valerie Masterson, Jean Allister, Owen Brannigan, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Isidore Godfrey & Arthur Sullivan

04:51

31

Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance: When a felon's not engaged in his employment

Owen Brannigan, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Isidore Godfrey & Arthur Sullivan

02:32

32

Sullivan: I know a youth who loves a little maid

Jean Hindmarsh, John Reed, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Isidore Godfrey & Arthur Sullivan

03:28

33

Sullivan: 20. When the night wind howls

Donald Adams, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Isidore Godfrey & Arthur Sullivan

02:32

34

Sullivan: 23. My eyes are fully open to my awful situation

Jean Allister, John Reed, Kenneth Sandford, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Isidore Godfrey & Arthur Sullivan

01:37

35

Sullivan: Iolanthe: Loudly let the trumpet bray

The D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, The Band Of The Grenadier Guards, The New Symphony Orchestra Of London, Isidore Godfrey & Arthur Sullivan

05:52

36

Sullivan: Iolanthe or The Peer and The Peri / Act 2: Love unrequited

John Reed, The New Symphony Orchestra Of London, Isidore Godfrey & Arthur Sullivan

03:34

37

Sullivan: Iolanthe or The Peer and The Peri / Act 2: If you go in you're sure to win

John Reed, Donald Adams, Thomas Round, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, The New Symphony Orchestra Of London, Isidore Godfrey & Arthur Sullivan

02:21

38

Sullivan: When all night long a chap remains

Kenneth Sandford, The New Symphony Orchestra Of London, Isidore Godfrey & Arthur Sullivan

04:33

39

Sullivan: Said I to myself, said I

John Reed, The New Symphony Orchestra Of London, Isidore Godfrey & Arthur Sullivan

01:54

40

Sullivan: Iolanthe or The Peer and The Peri / Act 2: When Britain really ruled the waves

Donald Adams, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, The New Symphony Orchestra Of London, Isidore Godfrey & Arthur Sullivan

03:07

41

Sullivan: The Gondoliers: We're called gondolieri, but that's a vagary

Thomas Round, Alan Styler, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, The New Symphony Orchestra Of London, Isidore Godfrey & Arthur Sullivan

02:11

42

Sullivan: The Gondoliers: In enterprise of martial kind

Jennifer Toye, Gillian Knight, Jeffrey Skitch, John Reed, The New Symphony Orchestra Of London, Isidore Godfrey & Arthur Sullivan

01:34

43

Sullivan: The Gondoliers: Take a pair of sparkling eyes

Thomas Round, The New Symphony Orchestra Of London, Isidore Godfrey & Arthur Sullivan

03:13

44

Sullivan: The Gondoliers or The King of Barataria - Act Two: Dance a cachucha, fandango, bolero

Thomas Round, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, The New Symphony Orchestra Of London, Isidore Godfrey & Arthur Sullivan

01:49

45

Sullivan: The Gondoliers / Act One: From the Sunny Spanish Shore

John Reed, Gillian Knight, Jennifer Toye, Jeffrey Skitch, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, The New Symphony Orchestra Of London, Isidore Godfrey & Arthur Sullivan

01:45

46

Sullivan: The Gondoliers / Act One: I Stole the Prince

Kenneth Sandford, Jennifer Toye, Gillian Knight, Jeffrey Skitch, John Reed, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, The New Symphony Orchestra Of London, Isidore Godfrey & Arthur Sullivan

02:28

47

Sullivan: Then one of us will be a Queen

Mary Sansom, Joyce Wright, Thomas Round, Alan Styler, The New Symphony Orchestra Of London, Isidore Godfrey & Arthur Sullivan

02:22

48

Sullivan: If you give me your attention

John Reed, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Malcolm Sargent & Arthur Sullivan

02:16

49

Sullivan: The woman of the wisest wit

Ann Hood, Valerie Masterson, Philip Potter, David Palmer, Jeffrey Skitch, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Malcolm Sargent & Arthur Sullivan

02:32

50

Sullivan: I built upon a rock

Elizabeth Harwood, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Malcolm Sargent & Arthur Sullivan

03:30

51

Sullivan: Whene'er I spoke sarcastic joke

John Reed, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Malcolm Sargent & Arthur Sullivan

02:02

52

Sullivan: This helmet I suppose

George Cook, Donald Adams, Anthony Raffell, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Malcolm Sargent & Arthur Sullivan

02:17

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