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    W.S. Gilbert

    3582 songs
    Total 137 albums

    The World of Gilbert & Sullivan

    1990
    TitleListen
    The Pirates of Penzance: I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General3:00
    The Pirates of Penzance: When a Foeman Bares His Steel4:56
    The Pirates of Penzance: Poor Wand’ring One3:02
    The Pirates of Penzance: When a Felon's Not Engaged in His Employment2:34
    Iolanthe: Loudly Let the Trumpet Bray5:52
    Iolanthe: If You Go in You’re Sure to Win2:25
    The Gondoliers: We’re Called Gondolieri2:13
    The Gondoliers: In Enterprise of Martial Kind1:38
    The Gondoliers: Take a Pair of Sparkling Eyes3:16
    The Gondoliers: Dance a Cachucha, Fandango, Bolero1:53
    HMS Pinafore: Now Give Three Cheers... I Am the Monarch of the Sea... When I Was a Lad4:49
    HMS Pinafore: I’m Called Little Buttercup1:48
    HMS Pinafore: Never Mind the Why and Wherefore2:46
    The Mikado: A Wand’ring Minstrel I4:36
    The Mikado: Three Little Maids From School Are We1:31
    The Mikado: As Some Day It May Happen2:24
    The Mikado: The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring1:40
    The Mikado: On a Tree by a River a Little Tom-Tit2:32
    The Yeomen of the Guard: When Our Gallant Norman Foes4:56
    The Yeomen of the Guard: I Have a Song to Sing, O!3:21
    The Pirates of Penzance Album Cover

    The Pirates of Penzance

    1993
    TitleListen
    The Pirates of Penzance: Act I. “Pour, oh pour the pirate sherry” (Chorus of Pirates, Samuel)1:32
    The Pirates of Penzance: Act I. “When Fred’ric was a little lad” (Ruth)2:37
    The Pirates of Penzance: Act I. “Oh, better far to live and die” (Pirate King, Chorus)2:18
    The Pirates of Penzance: Act I. “Oh! false one, you have deceived me” (Ruth, Frederic)2:54
    The Pirates of Penzance: Act I. “Climbing over rocky mountain” (Chorus of Girls)3:29
    The Pirates of Penzance: Act I. “Stop, ladies, pray!” (Edith, Kate, Frederic, Chorus of Girls)1:29
    The Pirates of Penzance: Act I. “Oh! Is there not one maiden breast” (Frederic, Chorus of Girls)4:20
    The Pirates of Penzance: Act I. “Poor wand’ring one” (Mabel, Chorus)2:40
    The Pirates of Penzance: Act I. “What ought we to do? Gentle sisters, say!” (Edith, Kate, Chorus of Girls)0:45
    The Pirates of Penzance: Act I. “How beautifully blue the sky” (Mabel, Frederic, Chorus of Girls)1:55
    The Pirates of Penzance: Act I. “Stay, we must not lose our senses” (Frederic, Chorus of Girls and Pirates)1:24
    The Pirates of Penzance: Act I. “Hold, monsters!” (Mabel, Major-General, Samuel, Chorus)0:55
    The Pirates of Penzance: Act I. “I am the very model of a modern Major-General” (Major-General, Chorus)2:52
    The Pirates of Penzance: Act I. “Oh! men of dark and dismal fate” (Mabel, Edith, Kate, Frederic, Samuel, Pirate King, Major-General, Ruth, Chorus)8:43
    The Pirates of Penzance: Act II. “Oh! Dry the glist’ning tear” (Mabel, Chorus)3:01
    The Pirates of Penzance: Act II. “Now, Frederic, let your escort lion-hearted” (Frederic, Major-General)0:19
    The Pirates of Penzance: Act II. “When the foeman bares his steel” (Mabel, Edith, Sergeant)4:37
    The Pirates of Penzance: Act II. “Now for the pirates’ lair!” (Ruth, Frederic, Pirate King)1:25
    The Pirates of Penzance: Act II. “When you had left our pirate fold” (Ruth, Frederic, Pirate King)3:38
    The Pirates of Penzance: Act II. “Away, away, my heart’s on fire!” (Ruth, Frederic, Pirate King)1:22
    The Pirates of Penzance: Act II. “All is prepared! Your gallant crew await you!” (Mabel, Frederic)1:24
    The Pirates of Penzance: Act II. “Stay, Frederic, stay!” (Mabel, Frederic)6:09
    The Pirates of Penzance: Act II. “No, I’ll be brave! Oh, family descent” (Mabel, Sergeant, Chorus of Police)1:24
    The Pirates of Penzance: Act II. “When a felon’s not engaged in his employment” (Sergeant, Chorus of Police)2:30
    The Pirates of Penzance: Act II. “A rollicking band of pirates we” (Sergeant, Chorus of Pirates and Police)0:50
    The Pirates of Penzance: Act II. “With cat-like tread” (Samuel, Chorus of Pirates)2:38
    The Pirates of Penzance: Act II. “Hush! Hush! Not a word” (Frederic, King, Major-General, Chorus of Police and Pirates)1:38
    The Pirates of Penzance: Act II. “Sighing softly to the river” (Major-General, Chorus of Pirates and Police)9:32
    The Very Best of Gilbert & Sullivan Album Cover

    The Very Best of Gilbert & Sullivan

    2005
    TitleListen
    The Mikado: If You Want to Know Who We Are / A Wandering Minstrel I7:08
    The Mikado: Three Little Maids From School1:28
    The Mikado: Here's a How-De-Do1:10
    The Mikado: The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring1:26
    The Mikado: Tit Willow2:15
    The Yeoman of the Guard: Is Life a Boon?2:10
    The Yeoman of the Guard: Were I Thy Bride1:45
    H.M.S. Pinafore: We Sail the Ocean Blue... I'm Called Little Buttercup4:03
    H.M.S. Pinafore: I Am the Captain of the Pinafore2:17
    H.M.S. Pinafore: When I Was a Lad2:37
    H.M.S. Pinafore: Never Mind the Why and Wherefore2:30
    H.M.S. Pinafore: He Is an Englishman1:40
    The Pirates of Penzance: Oh Is There Not One Maiden Breast... Poor Wandering One6:27
    The Pirates of Penzance: I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General2:53
    The Pirates of Penzance: When a Felon's Not Engaged in His Employment2:14
    The Pirates of Penzance: With Catlike Tread1:29
    Iolanthe: When Britain Really Ruled the Waves3:05
    Iolanthe: If You Go In2:12
    Trial by Jury: The Judge's Song3:06
    The Gondoliers: When a Merry Maiden Marries2:52
    The Gondoliers: Take a Pair of Sparkling Eyes2:57
    The Gondoliers: In a Contemporary Fashion1:57
    The Gondoliers: Once More Gondelieri1:28

    The Gondoliers

    TitleListen
    The Gondoliers: Opening Chorus2:41
    The Gondoliers: Act I. From the Sunny Spanish Shores / In Enterprise of a Martial Kind3:15
    The Gondoliers: Act I. O Rapture2:18
    The Gondoliers: Act I. I Stole the Prince2:39
    The Gondoliers: Act I. When I Marry1:43
    The Gondoliers: Act I. Finale. Kind Sir, You Cannot Have the Heart8:20
    The Gondoliers: Act II. Here We Are at the Risk of Our Lives / Rising Early in the Morning5:54
    The Gondoliers: Act II. Take a Pair of Sparkling Eyes2:07
    The Gondoliers: Act II. There Lived a King2:14
    The Gondoliers: Act II. In a Contemplative Fashion2:31
    The Gondoliers: Act II. On the Day When I Was Wedded2:32
    The Gondoliers: Act II. Small Titles and Orders2:16
    The Gondoliers: Act II. Gavotte1:59
    The Gondoliers: Act II. Dance of Cachucha1:37

    A Gilbert & Sullivan Gallery

    TitleListen
    Overture - The Yeoman of the Guard5:06
    Pour Oh Pour the Pirate Sherry - Pirates of Penzance1:31
    Poor Wand'ring One - Pirates of Penzance2:48
    When the Foreman Bares his Steel - Pirates of Penzance4:28
    I'm Called Little Buttercup - HMS Pinafore2:27
    I am the Monarch of the Sea - HMS Pinafore0:55
    When I was a Lad - HMS Pinafore2:33
    Fair Moon the Thee I Sing - HMS Pinafore2:10
    Never Mind the Why and Wherefore - HMS Pinafore2:23
    A Wand'ring Minstrel - The Mikado3:52
    As Someday it May Happen - The Mikado2:30
    Three Little Maids - The Mikado1:30
    The Sun Whose Rays are all Ablaze - The Mikado2:44
    The Flowers that Bloom in the Spring - The Mikado1:33
    None Shall Part Us - Iolanthe3:10
    When I went to the Bar - Iolanthe1:43
    If We're Weak Enough to Tarry - Iolanthe1:20
    If Somebody There Chanced to Be - Ruddigore3:12
    My Eyes are Fully Open - Ruddigore1:35
    There Grew a Little Flower - Ruddigore3:52
    When a Merry Maiden Marries - The Gondoliers3:24
    Rising Early One Morning - The Gondoliers3:27
    Dance a Cachucha - The Gondoliers1:49

    Pirates of Penzance

    TitleListen
    Pour, oh pour the Pirate Sherry1:27
    When Frederic Was a Little Lad2:31
    I Am a Pirate King2:30
    Oh, Is There Not One Maiden Breast / Poor Wand'ring One5:49
    What Ought We to Do / How Beautiful the Sky2:50
    Stay, We Must Not Lose Our Senses1:37
    Hold, Monsters! / Modern Major General3:48
    When a Forman Bears His Steel4:48
    When You Had Left Our Pirate Fold3:33
    Stay, Frederic, Stay5:33
    When a Felon's Not Engaged2:14
    With a Cat-Like Tread2:40
    Hush! Hush! / Sighing Softly to the River9:32

    Gilbert & Sullivan Highlights

    TitleListen
    The Gondoliers: Overture4:17
    The Gondoliers: Take a Pair of Sparkling Eyes3:10
    The Gondoliers: We're Called Gondolieri2:17
    The Gondoliers: In Enterprise of Martial Kind1:33
    The Gondoliers: I Am a Courtier Grave and Serious3:53
    The Gondoliers: Dance a Cachuca1:44
    The Mikado: A Wand'ring Minstrel I4:18
    The Mikado: Behold the Lord High Executioner2:30
    The Mikado: As Some Day It May Happen2:10
    The Mikado: Here's a How-De-Do1:16
    The Mikado: Were You Not to Ko-Ko Plighted2:33
    The Mikado: Tit Willow2:29
    The Mikado: The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring1:38
    The Mikado: For He's Gone and Married Yum-Yum1:50
    The Yeomen of the Guard: When a Wooer Goes A-Wooing3:10
    The Yeomen of the Guard: Is Life a Boon2:09
    The Yeomen of the Guard: I Have a Song to Sing3:35
    Trial by Jury: The Judge's Song2:56
    Trial by Jury: When First My Old, Old Love I Knew1:46
    Trial by Jury: Oh Gentlemen Listen, I Pray2:01
    Patience: Am I Alone and Unobserved?4:29
    Patience: Sing Hey to You, Good Day to You2:16
    Ruddigore: From the Briny Sea I Shipped D'Ye See4:05
    Ruddigore: The Battle's Roar Is Over2:53
    Ruddigore: In Sailing O'er Life's Ocean Wide1:52

    The D’Oyly Carte Opera Company Performs Gilbert & Sullivan: 56 Favourites

    TitleListen
    Hark the Hour of Ten Is Sounding1:26
    Judge's Song3:00
    We Sail the Ocean Blue ... Buttercup's Song4:13
    My Gallant Crew ... I Am the Captain of the Pinafore2:17
    When I Was a Lad2:59
    Never Mind the Why and Wherefore2:36
    He Is an Englishman1:37
    Pirate King's Song2:13
    Oh Is There Not One Maiden Breast? ... Poor Wandering One6:25
    How Beautifully Blue the Sky1:58
    I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General2:49
    When the Foeman Bears His Steel4:32
    When You Had Left Our Pirate Fold3:31
    Ah! Leave Me Not to Pine Alone3:00
    A Policeman's Lot Is Not a Happy One2:15
    With Catlike Tread2:35
    March and Entry of the Peers5:28
    The Law Is the True Embodiment2:41
    When I Went to the Bar1:50
    When All Night Long4:04
    When Britain Really Ruled the Waves3:02
    Oh Foolish Fay2:59
    Nightmare Song3:30
    If You Go In2:09
    Finale: Soon as We May2:01
    Vintage Favourites Album Cover

    Vintage Favourites

    2001
    TitleListen
    The Gondoliers: “For the Merriest Fellows We Are”1:42
    The Gondoliers: “We're Called Gondolieri”2:19
    The Gondoliers: “In Enterprise of Martial Kind”1:41
    The Gondoliers: “I Stole the Prince”2:32
    The Gondoliers: “When a Merry Maiden Marries”2:57
    The Gondoliers: “A Regular Royal Queen”3:06
    The Gondoliers: “Take a Pair of Sparkling Eyes”3:17
    The Gondoliers: “In a Contemplative Fashion”2:06
    The Mikado: “A Wandering Minstrel I”4:39
    The Mikado: “I've Got a Little List”2:10
    The Mikado: “Three Little Maids From School”1:35
    The Mikado: “The Sun Whose Rays”2:41
    The Mikado: “Here's a How-De-Do”1:15
    The Mikado: “A More Humane Mikado”4:14
    The Mikado: “The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring”1:29
    The Mikado: “Tit Willow”2:34
    The Mikado: “There Is Beauty in the Bellow of the Blast”2:10
    The Pirates of Penzance: “Pirate King's Song”2:28
    The Pirates of Penzance: “Poor Wand'Ring One”2:40
    The Pirates of Penzance: “I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General”2:49
    The Pirates of Penzance: “When the Foeman Bears His Steel”5:04
    The Pirates of Penzance: “A Policeman's Lot”2:14
    The Pirates of Penzance: “With Catlike Tread”2:44
    H.M.S. Pinafore: “I'm Called Little Buttercup”1:28
    H.M.S. Pinafore: “I Am the Captain of the Pinafore”2:21
    H.M.S. Pinafore: “When I Was a Lad”3:04
    The Yeomen of the Guard: “When Our Gallane Norman Foes”4:27
    The Yeomen of the Guard: “Is Life a Boon?”2:25
    The Yeomen of the Guard: “Hereupon We're Both Agreed”1:37
    Patience / Irish Symphony Album Cover

    Patience / Irish Symphony

    1987
    TitleListen
    Disc 1
    Patience: Overture5:39
    Patience. Act I. “Twenty lovesick maidens we” (Maidens, Angela, Ella)5:00
    Patience. Act I. “Still brooding on their mad infatuation” (Patience, Saphir, Angela, Maidens)1:08
    Patience. Act I. “I cannot tell what this love may be” (Patience, Maidens)2:54
    Patience. Act I. “The soldiers of our Queen” (Dragoons, Colonel Calverley)3:25
    Patience. Act I. “In a doleful train… Twenty lovesick maidens we” (Ella, Angela, Saphir, Maidens, Dragoons, Bunthorne)5:46
    When I Put This Uniform On1:28
    Patience. Act I. “Am I alone and unobserved?” (Bunthorne)4:36
    Patience. Act I. “Long years ago, fourteen maybe” (Patience, Angela)2:10
    Patience. Act I. “Prithee pretty maiden” (Grosvenor, Patience)2:33
    Patience. Act I. “Let the merry cymbals sound” (Maidens)2:14
    Patience. Act I. “Now tell us, we pray you” (Duke, Colonel, Major, Dragoons, Bunthorne, Maidens)2:31
    Patience. Act I. “Your maiden hearts” (Duke, Dragoons, Maidens)1:35
    Patience. Act I. “Come walk up and purchase with avidity” (Bunthorne, Maidens, Dragoons, Jane, Patience)4:32
    Patience. Act I. “True love must single-hearted be” (Patience, Bunthorne, Colonel, Major, Saphir, Angela)1:26
    Patience. Act I. “I hear the soft note… But who is this?” (All)5:41
    Disc 2
    Patience. Act II. “On such eyes as maidens cherish” (Maidens)1:27
    Patience. Act II. “Sad is that woman’s lot” (Jane)4:48
    Patience. Act II. “Turn, oh turn in this direction” (Maidens)1:29
    A Magnet Hung in a Hardware Shop2:30
    Patience. Act II. “Love is a plaintive song” (Patience)3:23
    So Go to Him and Say to Him2:25
    Patience. Act II. “It’s clear that medieval art alone retains its zest” (Duke, Major, Colonel)2:22
    Patience. Act II. “If Saphir I choose to marry” (Duke, Major, Saphir, Angela, Colonel)2:58
    Patience. Act II. “When I go out of door” (Bunthorne, Grosvenor)1:33
    Patience. Act II. “I’m a Waterloo House young man” (Grosvenor, Maidens)0:34
    Patience. Act II. “After much debate internal” (Duke, Bunthorne, All)1:24
    Symphony in E major “Irish”: I. Andante – Allegro, ma non troppo vivace11:34
    Symphony in E major “Irish”: II. Andante espressivo8:43
    Symphony in E major “Irish”: III. Allegretto (feat. oboe: Keith Wood)6:28
    Symphony in E major “Irish”: IV. Allegro vivace e con brio9:01
    Iolanthe Album Cover

    Iolanthe

    1987
    TitleListen
    Disc 1
    Iolanthe: Overture7:23
    Iolanthe: Act I. “Tripping hither, tripping thither” (Celia, Leila, Fairies)4:28
    Iolanthe: Act I. “Iolanthe!” (Queen of the Fairies, Iolanthe, Celia, Leila, Fairies)3:47
    Iolanthe: Act I. “Good morrow, good mother” (Stephon, Fairies)0:50
    Iolanthe: Act I. “Fare thee well, attractive stranger” (Queen, Fairies)1:14
    Iolanthe: Act I. “Good morrow, good lover” (Phyllis, Strephon)0:48
    Iolanthe: Act I. “None shall part us from each other” (Phyllis, Strephon)3:18
    Iolanthe: Act I. “Loudly let the trumpet bray!” (March of the Peers) (Peers)5:44
    Iolanthe: Act I. “The Law is the true embodiment” (Lord Chancellor, Peers)2:29
    Iolanthe: Act I. “My well-loved lord and guardian dear” (Phyllis, Peers)0:42
    Iolanthe: Act I. “Of all of the young ladies I know” (Tolloller, Mountararat, Phyllis, Peers)4:07
    Iolanthe: Act I. “Nay, tempt me not” (Phyllis)0:31
    Iolanthe: Act I. “Spurn not the nobly born” (Tolloller, Peers)2:16
    Iolanthe: Act I. “My Lords, it may not be” (Phyllis, Lord Chancellor, Strephon, Peers)0:48
    Iolanthe: Act I. “A shepherd I” (Strephon, Tolloller, Mountararat, Lord Chancellor, Peers)2:13
    Iolanthe: Act I. “When I went to the Bar as a very young man” (Lord Chancellor)1:58
    Iolanthe: Act I. “When darkly looms the day” (Strephon, Mountararat, Iolanthe, Tolloller, Phyllis, Peers)2:19
    Iolanthe: Act I. “Oh, shameless one, tremble!” (Phyllis, Strephon, Tolloller, Lord Chancellor, Peers)1:45
    Iolanthe: Act I. “In babyhood upon her lap I lay” (Strephon, Lord Chancellor, Mountararat, Phyllis, Peers)2:20
    Iolanthe: Act I. “For riches and rank I do not long” (Phyllis)1:40
    Iolanthe: Act I. “To you I give my heart” (Phyllis, Tolloller, Mountararat, Peers, Strephon)1:10
    Iolanthe: Act I. “Tripping hither, tripping thither” (Fairies)0:35
    Iolanthe: Act I. “The lady of my love” (Strephon, Queen, Lord Chancellor, Tolloller, Mountararat, Fairies, Peers)1:50
    Iolanthe: Act I. “Go away, madam” (Lord Chancellor, Queen, Phyllis, Fairies, Peers)1:38
    Iolanthe: Act I. “Oh, Chancellor unwary” (Queen, Lord Chancellor, Celia, Leila, Fairies, Peers)4:12
    Iolanthe: Act I. “With Strephon for your foe” (All)2:40
    Disc 2
    Iolanthe: Act II. “When all night long a chap remains” (Sentry Song) (Private Willis)4:18
    Iolanthe: Act II. “Strephon’s a member of Parliament” (Fairies, Peers)1:44
    When Britain Really Ruled the Waves3:00
    Iolanthe: Act II. “In vain to us you plead” (Leila, Celia, Fairies, Tolloller, Mountararat, Peers)1:51
    Iolanthe: Act II. “Oh, foolish fay” (Queen, Fairies)3:46
    Iolanthe: Act II. “Though p’r’aps I may incur your blame” (Phyllis, Tolloller, Mountararat, Willis)2:00
    Iolanthe: Act II. “Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest” (Lord Chancellor)0:48
    Iolanthe: Act II. “When you’re lying awake with a dismal headache” (Nightmare Song) (Lord Chancellor)3:00
    If You Go In2:33
    If We're Weak Enough to Tarry1:31
    Iolanthe: Act II. “My Lord, a suppliant at your feet I kneel” (Iolanthe)0:42
    Iolanthe: Act II. “He loves! If in the bygone years” (Iolanthe)2:07
    Iolanthe: Act II. “It may not be” (Lord Chancellor, Iolanthe, Queen, Fairies)3:32
    Iolanthe: Act II. “Soon as we may” (All)2:16
    Overture di ballo9:53