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    W.S. Gilbert

    W.S. Gilbert

    3582 songs
    Total 137 albums
    The Pirates of Penzance (Or, the Slave of Duty) (Broadway Cast Album) Album Cover

    The Pirates of Penzance (Or, the Slave of Duty) (Broadway Cast Album)

    1981
    TitleListen
    Disc 1
    Pour, O Pour the Pirate Sherry3:13
    When Frederic Was a Little Lad7:33
    Oh, Better Far to Live and Die5:54
    Oh, False One, You Have Deceived Me!3:40
    Climbing Over Rocky Mountain4:07
    Stop, Ladies, Pray!1:33
    Oh, Is There Not One Maiden Breast5:31
    Poor Wandering One3:56
    What Ought We to Do?0:53
    How Beautifully Blue the Sky2:09
    Stay, We Must Not Lose Our Senses1:27
    Hold, Monsters!0:53
    I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General5:55
    Oh, Men of Dark and Dismal Fate9:21
    Disc 2
    Oh, Dry the Glistening Tear5:18
    Then Frederic0:44
    When the Foeman Bares His Steel4:44
    Now for the Pirates' Lair!1:22
    When You Had Left Our Pirate Fold5:33
    My Eyes Are Fully Open3:24
    Away, Away! My Heart's on Fire1:29
    All Is Prepared1:24
    Stay, Frederic, Stay!5:48
    Sorry Her Lot2:03
    No, I Am Brave2:52
    When a Felon's Not Engaged in His Employment2:17
    A Rollicking Band of Pirates We1:07
    With Cat-Like Tread, Upon Our Prey We Steal3:22
    Hush, Hush! Not a Word1:29
    Sighing Softly to the River2:46
    Finale10:16

    The Mikado: Highlights From the English National Opera Production

    1986
    TitleListen
    If You Want to Know Who We Are3:05
    A Wandering Minstrel, I4:13
    Our Great Mikado3:12
    Young Man, Despair2:37
    Behold the Lord, High Executioner!2:36
    I've Got a Little List2:49
    Three Little Maids1:27
    Braid the Raven Hair3:24
    The Sun, Whose Rays2:55
    The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring1:38
    On a Tree by a River ("Tit Willow")2:52
    There Is Beauty in the Bellow of the Blast2:13
    The Mikado (1973 D’Oyly Carte cast) Album Cover

    The Mikado (1973 D’Oyly Carte cast)

    TitleListen
    Disc 1
    The Mikado: Overture7:38
    The Mikado: Act I. “If you want to know who we are”2:27
    The Mikado: Act I. “Gentlemen, I pray you tell me”0:41
    A Wand'ring Minstrel I4:31
    The Mikado: Act I. “Our great Mikado, virtuous man”3:08
    The Mikado: Act I. “Young man, despair”2:47
    The Mikado: Act I. “And have I journey’d for a month”0:52
    The Mikado: Act I. “Behold the Lord High Executioner!”2:34
    The Mikado: Act I. “As someday it may happen that a victim must be found”2:19
    The Mikado: Act I. “Comes a train of little ladies”2:15
    The Mikado: Act I. “Three little maids from school are we”1:25
    The Mikado: Act I. “So please you, Sir, we much regret”2:00
    The Mikado: Act I. “Were you not to Ko-Ko plighted”2:31
    The Mikado: Act I. “I am so proud, If I allowed”3:15
    The Mikado: Act I. “With aspect stern and gloomy stride”2:24
    The Mikado: Act I. “The threatn’d cloud has pass’d away”3:05
    The Mikado: Act I. “Your revels cease! Assist me, all of you!”0:53
    The Mikado: Act I. “Oh fool, that flee-est My hallow’d joys!”2:34
    The Mikado: Act I. “For he’s going to marry Yum-Yum”1:02
    The Mikado: Act I. “The hour of gladness is dead and gone”2:22
    The Mikado: Act I. “Ye torrents roar! Ye tempests howl!”2:39
    Disc 2
    The Mikado: Act II. “Braid the raven hair, Weave the supple tresses”3:38
    The Mikado: Act II. “The sun whose rays are all ablaze”3:05
    The Mikado: Act II. “Brightly dawns our wedding day”3:42
    Here's a How-De-Do!1:23
    The Mikado: Act II. “Miya sama, miya sama, o n'mma no maye ni”1:15
    The Mikado: Act II. “From ev’ry kind of man Obedience I expect”1:47
    The Mikado: Act II. “A more humane Mikado never did in Japan exist”4:32
    The Criminal Cried as He Dropp'd Him Down3:31
    The Mikado: Act II. “See how the fates their gifts allot”2:10
    The Mikado: Act II. “The flowers that bloom in the spring, tra la”1:36
    The Mikado: Act II. “Alone and yet alive”0:45
    The Mikado: Act II. “Hearts do not break! They sting and ache”1:52
    The Mikado: Act II. “On a tree by a river a little tom tit”2:22
    There is Beauty in the Bellow of the Blast2:13
    The Mikado: Act II. Fanfare0:12
    The Mikado: Act II. “For he’s gone and married Yum-Yum”2:09
    The Pirates of Penzance (1989 D’Oyly Carte cast) Album Cover

    The Pirates of Penzance (1989 D’Oyly Carte cast)

    1990
    TitleListen
    Disc 1
    Overture7:29
    Pour, O Pour the Pirate Sherry1:09
    When Fred’ric Was a Little Lad2:35
    Oh, Better Far to Live and Die2:31
    Oh! False One, You Have Deceiv’d Me3:09
    Climbing Over Rocky Mountain3:38
    Stop, Ladies, Pray!1:28
    Oh, Is There Not One Maiden Breast4:04
    Poor Wand’ring One!2:46
    What Ought We to Do?0:40
    How Beautifully Blue the Sky1:55
    Stay, We Must Not Lose Our Senses1:24
    Hold, Monsters!0:51
    I Am the Very Model2:56
    Finale Act One8:14
    Disc 2
    Introduction / Oh! Dry the Glist'ning Tear3:05
    Then, Frederic, Let Your Escort Lion-Hearted0:20
    When the Foeman Bares His Steel4:27
    Now for the Pirates' Lair!1:26
    When You Had Left Our Pirate Fold3:42
    Away, Away, My Heart's on Fire!1:27
    All Is Prepared1:12
    Stay, Fred'ric, Stay!5:01
    No, I'll be Brave!2:45
    When a Felon's Not Engaged in His Employment2:18
    A Rollicking Band of Pirates We0:54
    With Cat-Like Tread2:28
    Hush, Hush! Not a Word1:30
    Sighing Softly to the River2:51
    Now What is This? / Finale Act Two7:09

    The Gondoliers (1960 D’Oyly Carte cast)

    1989
    TitleListen
    Disc 1
    The Gondoliers: Overture6:46
    The Gondoliers: Act I. “List and learn”3:33
    The Gondoliers: Act I. “Good morrow, pretty maids”1:19
    The Gondoliers: Act I. “For the merriest fellows are we”1:42
    The Gondoliers: Act I. “See, see at last they come to make their choice”0:34
    The Gondoliers: Act I. “Buon’ giorno, signorine!”2:34
    The Gondoliers: Act I. “We’re called gondolieri, but that’s a vagary”2:08
    The Gondoliers: Act I. “And now to choose our brides!”1:03
    The Gondoliers: Act I. “Are you peeping?”1:44
    The Gondoliers: Act I. “Thank you gallant gondolieri”2:27
    The Gondoliers: Act I. “From the sunny Spanish shore”7:53
    The Gondoliers: Act I. “In enterprise of martial kind”1:32
    The Gondoliers: Act I. “O rapture, when alone together”4:36
    The Gondoliers: Act I. “There was a time, a time for ever gone”5:08
    The Gondoliers: Act I. “I stole the Prince”3:30
    The Gondoliers: Act I. “But, bless my heart, consider my position!”0:57
    The Gondoliers: Act I. “Try we life-long we can never”2:07
    The Gondoliers: Act I. “Bride-groom and bride!”0:40
    The Gondoliers: Act I. “When a merry maiden marries”8:00
    The Gondoliers: Act I. “Kind sir, you cannot have the heart, our lives to part”3:07
    The Gondoliers: Act I. “Do not give way to this uncalled-for grief”0:47
    The Gondoliers: Act I. “Then one of us will be a queen”2:28
    Disc 2
    The Gondoliers: Act I. “Now pray, what is the cause of this remarkable hilarity”0:33
    The Gondoliers: Act I. “Replying, we sing as one individual”0:54
    The Gondoliers: Act I. “For ev’ryone who feels inclined”2:10
    The Gondoliers: Act I. “Come let’s away – our island crown awaits me”0:54
    The Gondoliers: Act I. “Now, Marco dear, my wishes hear”3:30
    The Gondoliers: Act I. “Then away they go to an island fair”2:18
    The Gondoliers: Act II. “Of happiness the very pith”4:01
    The Gondoliers: Act II. “Rising early in the morning”3:35
    The Gondoliers: Act II. “Take a pair of sparkling eyes”3:11
    The Gondoliers: Act II. “Here we are, at the risk of our lives”1:30
    The Gondoliers: Act II. “After sailing to this land”2:43
    The Gondoliers: Act II. “Dance a cachucha, fandango, bolero”3:53
    The Gondoliers: Act II. “There lived a king, as I’ve been told”6:42
    The Gondoliers: Act II. “In a contemplative fashion and a tranquil frame of mind”2:16
    The Gondoliers: Act II. “With ducal pomp and ducal pride”0:55
    The Gondoliers: Act II. “This polite attention”2:33
    The Gondoliers: Act II. “On the day when I was wedded”3:55
    The Gondoliers: Act II. “To help unhappy commonors”0:22
    The Gondoliers: Act II. “Small titles and orders for mayors and recorders”6:14
    The Gondoliers: Act II. “I am a courtier grave and serious”4:47
    The Gondoliers: Act II. “Here is a case unprecedented!”1:14
    The Gondoliers: Act II. “Now let the loyal lieges gather round”1:05
    The Gondoliers: Act II. “Speak woman speak, we’re all attention!”0:23
    The Gondoliers: Act II. “The royal prince was by the king entrusted”0:49
    The Gondoliers: Act II. “Luiz! Casilda!”1:44
    The Gondoliers: Act II. “One more, gondolieri”1:38

    Gilbert & Sullivan Overtures

    TitleListen
    The Mikado: Overture7:08
    Iolanthe: Overture7:04
    HMS Pinafore: Overture4:17
    The Pirates of Penzance: Overture7:12
    Ruddigore: Overture7:50
    The Gondoliers: Overture5:46
    The Yeomen of the Guard: Overture5:09
    Di Ballo Overture13:27

    The Mikado (1926 D’Oyly Carte cast) / The Sorcerer (1933 D’Oyly Carte cast)

    1998
    TitleListen
    Disc 1
    The Mikado: Overture7:35
    The Mikado: Act I. “If you want to know who we are”2:16
    The Mikado: Act I. “Gentlemen… A wand’ring minstrel I”4:50
    The Mikado: Act I. “Our great Mikado”2:34
    The Mikado: Act I. “Young man despair”2:38
    The Mikado: Act I. “And have I journeyed”0:54
    The Mikado: Act I. “Behold the Lord High Executioner… Taken from the county jail”2:16
    The Mikado: Act I. “As some day it may happen”2:16
    The Mikado: Act I. “Comes a train… Three little maids”3:39
    The Mikado: Act I. “So please you, Sir”1:54
    The Mikado: Act I. “Were you not to Ko-Ko plighted”2:17
    The Mikado: Act I. “I am so proud”2:44
    The Mikado: Act I. “With aspect stern”2:07
    The Mikado: Act I. “The threatened cloud”2:26
    The Mikado: Act I. “Your revels cease… Oh fool that fleeth”3:37
    The Mikado: Act I. “The hour of gladness”4:32
    Disc 2
    The Mikado: Act II. “Braid the raven hair”3:10
    The Mikado: Act II. “The sun whose rays”2:42
    The Mikado: Act II. “Brightly dawns our wedding day”1:36
    The Mikado: Act II. “Here’s a how-de-do”3:15
    The Mikado: Act II. “Mi-ya Sa-ma… From every kind of man”2:59
    The Mikado: Act II. “A more humane Mikado”3:56
    The Mikado: Act II. “The criminal cried”3:31
    The Mikado: Act II. “See how the fates”2:18
    The Mikado: Act II. “The flowers that bloom in the spring”1:27
    The Mikado: Act II. “Alone, and yet alive… Hearts do not break”2:16
    The Mikado: Act II. “On a tree by a river”2:17
    The Mikado: Act II. “There is beauty in the bellow of the blast”1:56
    The Mikado: Act II. “For he's gone and married”2:10
    The Sorcerer: Act I. “Ring forth, ye bells”1:35
    The Sorcerer: Act I. “Constance, my daughter”2:02
    The Sorcerer: Act I. “The air is charged… Time was when love”3:29
    The Sorcerer: Act I. “My kindly friends… Oh, happy young heart!”2:57
    The Sorcerer: Act I. “Welcome, joy!”3:27
    The Sorcerer: Act I. “All is prepar'd… With heart and voice”2:29
    The Sorcerer: Act I. “My name is John Wellington Wells”2:12
    The Sorcerer: Act I. “Sprites of earth and air”3:27
    The Sorcerer: Act I. “Be happy all… Eat, drink and be gay!”3:27
    The Sorcerer: Act II. “Thou hast the pow’r… Is it not love”2:42
    The Sorcerer: Act II. “I rejoice that it's decided”3:23
    The Sorcerer: Act II. “Oh, I have wrought much evil”3:27
    The Sorcerer: Act II. “Oh joyous boon!”2:03
    The Sorcerer: Act II. “Come to my mansion… Now to the banquet we press”1:20
    The Mikado Album Cover

    The Mikado

    1992
    TitleListen
    The Mikado: Act I. “If you want to know who we are” (Chorus of Nobles)3:01
    The Mikado: Act I. “A wandering minstrel I” (Nanki-Poo, Chorus)4:20
    The Mikado: Act I. “Our great Mikado, virtuous man” (Pish-Tush, Chorus)2:58
    The Mikado: Act I. “Young man, despair, likewise go to” (Pooh-Bah, Nanki-Poo, Pish-Tush)2:43
    The Mikado: Act I. “And have I journeyed for a month” (Pooh-Bah, Nanki-Poo)0:49
    The Mikado: Act I. “Behold the Lord High Executioner!” (Ko-Ko, Chorus)2:39
    The Mikado: Act I. “As some day it may happen” (Ko-Ko, Chorus of Nobles)2:00
    The Mikado: Act I. “Comes a train of little ladies” (Chorus of Schoolgirls)2:12
    The Mikado: Act I. “Three little maids from school are we” (Yum-Yum, Peep-Bo, Pitti-Sing, Chorus of Schoolgirls)1:32
    The Mikado: Act I. “So please you, sir, we much regret” (Yum-Yum, Peep-Bo, Pitti-Sing, Pooh-Bah, Chorus of Schoolgirls)1:55
    The Mikado: Act I. “Were you not to Ko-Ko plighted” (Yum-Yum, Nanki-Poo)2:27
    The Mikado: Act I. “I am so proud” (Pooh-Bah, Ko-Ko, Pish-Tush)3:00
    The Mikado: Act II. “With aspect stern and gloomy stride” (All)14:24
    The Mikado: Act II. “Braid the raven hair” (Pitti-Sing, Chorus of Schoolgirls)3:25
    The Mikado: Act II. “The sun, whose rays are all ablaze” (Yum-Yum)3:10
    The Mikado: Act II. “Brightly dawns our wedding day” (Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sing, Nanki-Poo, Pish-Tush)3:58
    The Mikado: Act II. “Here’s a how-de-do! If I marry you” (Yum-Yum, Nanki-Poo, Ko-Ko)1:13
    The Mikado: Act II. “Miya sama, miya sama” (Chorus, Mikado, Katisha)2:46
    The Mikado: Act II. “A more humane Mikado never did in Japan exist” (Mikado, Chorus)4:05
    The Mikado: Act II. “The criminal cried as he dropped him down” (Ko-ko, Pitti-Sing, Pooh-Bah, Chorus)3:24
    The Mikado: Act II. “See how the Fates their gifts allot” (Pitti-Sing, Katisha, Ko-Ko, Pooh-Bah, Mikado)2:03
    The Mikado: Act II. “The flowers that bloom in the spring” (Nanki-Poo, Ko-Ko, Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sing, Pooh-Bah)1:36
    The Mikado: Act II. “Alone, and yet alive” (Katisha)2:56
    The Mikado: Act II. “On a tree by a river, a little tom-tit sang, ‘Willow, tit-willow’” (Ko-Ko)2:30
    The Mikado: Act II. “There is beauty in the bellow of the blast” (Katisha, Ko-Ko)2:00
    The Mikado: Act II. “For he’s gone and married Yum-Yum” (All)1:53
    H. M. S. Pinafore Album Cover

    H. M. S. Pinafore

    1994
    TitleListen
    Overture4:08
    We Sail the Ocean Blue2:02
    I'm Called Little Buttercup2:11
    But Tell Me Who's the Youth0:27
    The Nightingale2:24
    A Maiden Fair to See2:14
    My Gallant Crew2:09
    Sir, You Are Sad!1:23
    Sorry Her Lot3:30
    Over the Bright Blue Sea0:44
    Sir Joseph's Barge Is Seen1:59
    Now Give Three Cheers1:22
    When I Was a Lad2:38
    For I Hold That on the Seas0:37
    A British Tar2:14
    Refrain, Audacious Tar3:17
    Can I Survive This Overbearing?9:08
    Entr'acte1:06
    Fair Moon, to Thee I Sing2:26
    Things Are Seldom What They Seem2:54
    The Hours Creep on Apace4:41
    Never Mind the Why and Wherefore2:28
    Kind Captain, I've Important Information2:04
    Carefully on Tiptoe Stealing7:22
    Farewell, My Own!2:32
    A Many Years Ago2:29
    O Joy, Oh Rapture Unforseen!3:01
    Patience Album Cover

    Patience

    2003
    TitleListen
    Disc 1
    Overture5:34
    Twenty love-sick maidens we6:23
    Still brooding on their mad infatuation1:00
    I cannot tell what this love may be3:40
    Twenty love-sick maidens we0:41
    The soldiers of our Queen0:51
    If you want a receipt for that popular mystery4:31
    In a doleful train two and two we walk all day9:11
    Twenty love-sick maidens we0:32
    When I first put this uniform on1:26
    Am I alone and unobserved?1:39
    If You’re Anxious For To Shine7:49
    Long years ago - fourteen, maybe2:30
    Prithee, pretty maiden - prithee6:19
    Though to marry you0:42
    Let the merry cymbals sound1:48
    Now tell us, we pray you0:55
    Heart broken at my Patience’s barbarity1:10
    Stay, we implore you, before our hopes are blighted0:26
    Your maidens hearts, ah, do steel1:52
    Disc 2
    Come, Walk Up, and Purchase With Avidity0:30
    We’ve Been Thrown Over, We’re Aware0:27
    And Are You Going a Ticket to Buy?1:21
    Hold! Stay Your Hand!1:59
    True Love Must Single-Hearted Be1:28
    I Hear the Soft Note of the Echoing Voice2:30
    But Who Is This, Whose God-Like Grace1:40
    List Reginald, Whilst I Confess a Love1:29
    On Such Eyes as Maidens Cherish2:02
    Sad Is a Woman’s Lot Who, Year by Year1:53
    Silvered Is the Raven Hair2:49
    Turn, Oh Turn in This Direction4:47
    A Magnet Hung in a Hardware Shop6:15
    Love Is a Plaintive Song4:20
    So Go to Him and Say to Him1:56
    It’s Clear That the Mediaeval5:09
    If Saphir I Choose to Marry6:31
    When I Go Out of the Door2:55
    I’m a Waterloo House Young Man2:28
    After Much Debate Internal, I on Lady Jane Decide1:14