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Arthur Sullivan, Isidore Godfrey, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
Gilbert & Sullivan:The Mikado; The Yeomen of the Guard
Genre: Classical

Track Listings (22) - Disc #1
1. The Mikado, Act I: Ov
2. The Mikado, Act I: If You Want To Know Who We Are
3. The Mikado, Act I: Gentlemen, I Pray You Tell Me
4. The Mikado, Act I: A Wandering Minstrel I
5. The Mikado, Act I: Our Great Mikado
6. The Mikado, Act I: Young Man, Despair
7. The Mikado, Act I: And I Have Journeyed For A Month
8. The Mikado, Act I: Behold The Lord High Executioner
9. The Mikado, Act I: Taken From The County Jail
10. The Mikado, Act I: As Some Day It Might Happen
11. The Mikado, Act I: Come A Train Of Little Ladies
12. The Mikado, Act I: Three Little Maids From School
13. The Mikado, Act I: So Please You, Sir
14. The Mikado, Act I: Were You Not To Ko-Ko Plighted
15. The Mikado, Act I: I Am So Proud
16. The Mikado, Act I: With Stern Aspect
17. The Mikado, Act I: The Threatened Cloud Has Passed Away
18. The Mikado, Act I: As In A Month You've Got Die
19. The Mikado, Act I: Your Revels May Cease
20. The Mikado, Act I: Oh Fool That Fleest My Hallowed Joy
21. The Mikado, Act I: The Hour Of Gladness
22. The Mikado, Act I: Ye Torrents Roar
Track Listings (30) - Disc #2
1. The Mikado, Act II: Braid The Raven Hair
2. The Mikado, Act II: Sit With Downcast Eye
3. The Mikado, Act II: The Sun Whose Rays
4. The Mikado, Act II: Brightly Dawns Our Wedding Day
5. The Mikado, Act II: Here's A How-De-Do
6. The Mikado, Act II: Miya Sama Miya Sama
7. The Mikado, Act II: From Every Kind Of Man
8. The Mikado, Act II: A More Humane Mikado
9. The Mikado, Act II: The Criminal Cried
10. The Mikado, Act II: See How The Fates
11. The Mikado, Act II: The Flowers That Bloom In The Spring
12. The Mikado, Act II: Alone And Yet Alive
13. The Mikado, Act II: Hearts Do No Break
14. The Mikado, Act II: On A Tree By The River
15. The Mikado, Act II: There Is Beauty In The Bellow Of The Blast
16. The Mikado, Act II: For He's Gone And Married Yum-Yum
17. The Yeomen Of The Guard, Act II: Intro
18. The Yeomen Of The Guard, Act II: Night Has Spread Her Pall Once More
19. The Yeomen Of The Guard, Act II: Warders Are Ye
20. The Yeomen Of The Guard, Act II: Oh! A Private Buffoon
21. The Yeomen Of The Guard, Act II: Hereupon We're Both Agreed
22. The Yeomen Of The Guard, Act II: Free From His Fetters Grim
23. The Yeomen Of The Guard, Act II: Strange Adventure!
24. The Yeomen Of The Guard, Act II: Hark! What Was That, Sir?
25. The Yeomen Of The Guard, Act II: Like A Ghost His Vigil Keeping
26. The Yeomen Of The Guard, Act II: A Man Who Would Woo A Fair Maid
27. The Yeomen Of The Guard, Act II: When A Wooer Goes A Wooing
28. The Yeomen Of The Guard, Act II: Comes The Pretty Young Bride
29. The Yeomen Of The Guard, Act II: 'Tis Said Joy In Full Perfection
30. The Yeomen Of The Guard, Act II: All Thought Of Leonard Meryll Set Aside
Track Listings (25) - Disc #3
1. The Yeomen Of The Guard, Act I: Ov
2. The Yeomen Of The Guard, Act I: When Maiden Loves
3. The Yeomen Of The Guard, Act I: Tower Warders, Under Orders
4. The Yeomen Of The Guard, Act I: This The Autumn Of Our Life
5. The Yeomen Of The Guard, Act I: When Our Gallant Norman Foes
6. The Yeomen Of The Guard, Act I: Alas I Waver To And Fro
7. The Yeomen Of The Guard, Act I: Is Life A Boon?
8. The Yeomen Of The Guard, Act I: Here's A Man Of Jollity
9. The Yeomen Of The Guard, Act I: I Have A Song To Sing, O!
10. The Yeomen Of The Guard, Act I: How Say You Maiden Will You Wed
11. The Yeomen Of The Guard, Act I: I've Jibe And Joke
12. The Yeomen Of The Guard, Act I: 'Tis Done! I Am A Bride!
13. The Yeomen Of The Guard, Act I: Were I Thy Bride
14. The Yeomen Of The Guard, Act I: Oh, Sergeant Meryll, Is It True?
15. The Yeomen Of The Guard, Act I: Ye Tower Warders
16. The Yeomen Of The Guard, Act I: Leonard Meryll
17. The Yeomen Of The Guard, Act I: Forbear My Friends
18. The Yeomen Of The Guard, Act I: Didst Thou Not, Oh, Leonard Meryll?
19. The Yeomen Of The Guard, Act I: Aye, Hug Him Girl
20. The Yeomen Of The Guard, Act I: To Thy Fraternal Care
21. The Yeomen Of The Guard, Act I: The Prisoner Comes To Meet His Doom
22. The Yeomen Of The Guard, Act I: Oh, Mercy, Thou Whose Smile Has Shone
23. The Yeomen Of The Guard, Act I: My Lord! I Know Not How To Tell
24. The Yeomen Of The Guard, Act I: As Escort For The Prisoner
25. The Yeomen Of The Guard, Act I: All Frenzied With Despair

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CD Details

All Artists: Arthur Sullivan, Isidore Godfrey, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, Alan Styler, Ann Drummond-Grant, Darrell Fancourt, Deidree Thurlow, Donald Harris, Ella Halman, Geoffrey Sanders, Joan Gillingham, Joyce Wright, Leonard Osborn, Margaret Mitchell, Martyn Green, Muriel Harding, Neville Griffiths, Radley Flynn, Richard Watson
Title: Gilbert & Sullivan:The Mikado; The Yeomen of the Guard
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Pearl
Original Release Date: 1/1/1950
Re-Release Date: 3/27/2001
Album Type: Box set, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
Genre: Classical
Style: Opera & Classical Vocal
Number of Discs: 3
SwapaCD Credits: 3
UPC: 727031013426

CD Reviews

The Best Mikado -- Really

Aronne | 12/15/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This recording is, unlike Amazon's link to the CD Format version suggests, not the 1950 Martyn Green recording with Isidore Godfrey conducting. This is the Godfrey's 1957 D'Oyly Carte recording in all its splendor -- well, not ALL its splendor, as this MP3 download comes only in acceptable Mono, whereas the original recording was made in full-fledged Stereo.

The cast is wonderful in every way:

The Mikado - Donald Adams (his first recording in a major role, and a very fine one)

Nanki-Poo - Thomas Round (a excellent tenor who incidentally just celebrated his 70th wedding anniversary)

Ko-Ko - Peter Pratt (Martyn Green's forgotten, underrated successor)

Pooh-Bah - Kenneth Sandford (much fresher than in his 1973 traversal of the same role)

Pish-Tush - Alan Styler (I love Alan Styler's voice; it's unique in the best sense)

Go-To - Owen Grundy

Yum-Yum - Jean Hindmarsh (lovely voice and quite comfortable in "The sun whose rays")

Pitti-Sing - Beryl Dixon (a characterful singer at her best here, even though she never played P-S on stage)

Peep-Bo - Jennifer Toye

Katisha - Ann Drummond-Grant (plays a very human Katisha, one of her few recordings in a role she played on stage)

"Peter Pratt as Ko-Ko?" You may say, "But I want John Reed!" Go ahead, buy the dreadful 1973 recording if you really want to (Gilbert & Sullivan: The Mikado). But for a fraction of the cost, this recording is available as a much more pleasant recollection of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Companies abilities. Peter Pratt won't have the universal appeal that John Reed had in the patter roles, but I rather like his Ko-Ko. Godfrey gives him the quickest tempo I've heard for the List Song, and it works very well.

Donald Adams is an excellent Mikado -- a pity there is a transfer error in the second verse of his song. Thomas Round is amazing-wonderful-perfect as Nanki-Poo. His contribution to "Were you not to Ko-Ko plighted" is the best I've heard (and I own five complete Mikados, and have heard three others through my library). He is matched well by Jean Hindmarsh's Yum-Yum.

The only annoyance comes from the mono recording quality, which crackles at climaxes (particularly the end of Act 1) and just sounds dated. But what a performance! Unless you're willing to sniff out the expensive Sounds on CD release, this is probably the best transfer you're going to get for some time. It is worth noting that Decca put out a highlights disc of this recording in the original Stereo: Gilbert & Sullivan: Mikado (highlights) [Australia] (a pity it only lasts for 49 minutes including the 8-minute overture!).

Point is, this recording is an amazing deal -- what are you waiting for?"

D'Oyly Carte, $1.97 --

Stuart Thiel | Chicago | 07/04/2010

(4 out of 5 stars)

"-- how can you possibly go wrong? I don't know the technical stuff like the previous reviewer, but in terms of wonderful, wonderful songs per penny it's gotta be the best deal on the web."