Gilbert & Sullivan: The Mikado (Complete Opera)
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GILBERT and SULLIVAN
Gilbert & Sullivan: The Mikado (Complete Opera)
Richard Suart, Donald Adams, Marie Mclaughlin, Anthony Rolfe Johnson / Welsh National Opera, Charles Mackerras
[ Telarc Records / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 7 July 2000
1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1851-1900) - 'The full and immediate sound is a credit to Telarc's American engineers. MacKerras is electrically sharp at brisk speeds, sounding totally idiomatic and giving this most popular of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas an irresistible at high voltage.'
- Rosette (highest rating) Penguin Stereo Guide
Tracks:
1. Chorus of Nobles (If you want to know who we are)
2. Song and Chorus - Nanki-Poo (A wandering mistrel I )
3. Song - Pish-Tush and Chorus (Our great Mikado, virtuous man)
4. Song - Pooh-Bah with Nanki-Poo and Pish-Tush (Young man, despair, likewise go to)
5. Recitative - Nanki-Poo and Pooh-Bah (And have I journeyed for a month)
6. Chorus with Solo - Ko-Ko (Behold the Lord High Executioner)
7. Song - Ko-Ko with Chorus of Nobles (As some day it may happen) "List Song"
8. Chorus of Schoolgirls (Comes a train of little ladies)
9. Trio - Yum-Yum, Peep-Bo and Pitti-Sing with Chorus of Schoolgirls (Three little maids from school are we)
10. Quartet - Yum-Yum, Peep-Bo, Pitti-Sing and Pooh-Bah, with Chorus of Schoolgirls (So please you, sire, we much regret)
11. Duet - Yum-Yum and Nanki-Poo (Were you not to Ko-Ko plighted)
12. Trio - Pooh-Bah, Ko-Ko and Pish-Tush (I am so proud)
13. Finale, Act One (With aspect stern and gloomy stride)
Act Two - Ko-Ko-s Garden
14. Solo - Pitti-Sing and Chorus of Schoolgirls (Braid the raven hair)
15. Song - Yum-Yum (The sun, whose rays are all ablaze)
16. Madrigal - Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sing, Nanki-Poo and Pish-Tush (Brightly dawns our wedding day)
17. Trio - Yum-Yum, Nanki-Poo and Ko-Ko (Here's a how-de-do! If I marry you!)
18. Entrance of Mikado and Katisha (Miya sama, miya sama)
19. Song - Mikado and Chorus (A more humane Mikado never did in Japan exist)
20. Trio and Chorus - Ko-Ko, Pitti-Sing, Pooh-Bah and Chorus (The criminal cried as he dropped him down)
21. Quintet - Pitti-Sing, Katisha, Ko-Ko, Pooh-Bah and Mikado (See how the Fates their gifts allot)
22. Duet - Nanki-Poo and Ko-Ko with Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sing and Pooh-Bah (The flowers that bloom in the spring)
23. Recitative and Song - Katisha (Alone, and yet alive)
24. Song - Ko-Ko (On a tree by a river, a little torn-tit sang, "Willow, tit-willow")
25. Duet - Katisha and Ko-Ko ((There is beauty in the bellow of the blast)
26. Finale, Act Two (For he's gone and married Yum-Yum)
