Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Overture - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royston Nash
2. 1. If you want to know who we are - The D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royston Nash
3. 2. Gentlemen, I pray you tell me maiden... - Colin Wright, John Broad, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royston Nash
4. A wand'ring minstrel I - Colin Wright, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royston Nash
5. 4. Our great Mikado, virtuous man - Michael Rayner, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royston Nash
6. 5. Young man, despair - Colin Wright, Kenneth Sandford, Michael Rayner, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royston Nash
7. 6. And I have journey'd for a month - Colin Wright, Kenneth Sandford, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royston Nash
8. 7. Behold the Lord High Executioner - John Reed, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royston Nash
9. As someday it may happen that a victim... - John Reed, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royston Nash
10. 9. Comes a train of little ladies - The D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royston Nash
11. Three little maids from school are we - Valerie Masterson, Pauline Wales, Peggy Ann Jones, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royston Nash
12. 11. So please you, Sir, we much regret - Valerie Masterson, Pauline Wales, Peggy Ann Jones, Kenneth Sandford, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royston Nash
13. 12. Were you not to Ko-Ko plighted - Valerie Masterson, Colin Wright, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royston Nash
14. 13. I am so proud, If I allowed - John Reed, Kenneth Sandford, Michael Rayner, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royston Nash
15. 14. With aspect stern and gloomy stride - Kenneth Sandford, John Reed, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royston Nash
16. 15. The threaten'd cloud has pass'd away - Valerie Masterson, Pauline Wales, Peggy Ann Jones, Colin Wright, Kenneth Sandford, Michael Rayner, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royston Nash
17. 16. Your revels cease! Assist me, all of you! - Lyndsie Holland, Colin Wright, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royston Nash
18. 17. Oh fool, that flee-est My hallow'd joys! - Peggy Ann Jones, Lyndsie Holland, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royston Nash
19. 18. For he's going to marry Yum-Yum - Peggy Ann Jones, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royston Nash
20. 19. The hour of gladness is dead and gone - Valerie Masterson, Lyndsie Holland, Colin Wright, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royston Nash
21. 20. Ye torrents roar! Ye tempests howl! - Valerie Masterson, Lyndsie Holland, Colin Wright, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royston Nash

Disc 2:

1. 21. Braid the raven hair, Weave the supple tresses - Peggy Ann Jones, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royston Nash
2. 22. The sun whose rays are all ablaze - Valerie Masterson, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royston Nash
3. 23. Brightly dawns our wedding day - Valerie Masterson, Peggy Ann Jones, Colin Wright, Michael Rayner, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royston Nash
4. 24. Here's a how-de-do! - Valerie Masterson, Colin Wright, John Reed, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royston Nash
5. 25. Miya sama, miya sama, o n'mma no maye ni - The D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royston Nash
6. 26. From ev'ry kind of man Obedience I expect - Lyndsie Holland, John Ayldon, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royston Nash
7. 27. A more humane Mikado never did in Japan exist - John Ayldon, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royston Nash
8. 28. The criminal cried as he dropp'd him down - Peggy Ann Jones, John Reed, Kenneth Sandford, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royston Nash
9. 29. See how the fates their gifts allot - Peggy Ann Jones, Lyndsie Holland, John Reed, Kenneth Sandford, John Ayldon, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royston Nash
10. The flowers that bloom in the spring, tra la - Valerie Masterson, Peggy Ann Jones, Colin Wright, John Reed, Kenneth Sandford, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royston Nash
11. 31. Alone and yet alive - Lyndsie Holland, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royston Nash
12. 32. Hearts do not break! They sting and ache - Lyndsie Holland, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royston Nash
13. On a tree by a river a little tom tit - John Reed, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royston Nash
14. 34. There is beauty in the bellow of the blast - Lyndsie Holland, John Reed, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royston Nash
15. 35. Fanfare - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royston Nash
16. 36. For he's gone and married Yum-Yum - Valerie Masterson, Pauline Wales, Peggy Ann Jones, Colin Wright, John Reed, Kenneth Sandford, Michael Rayner, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royston Nash

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #37343 in Music
• Released on: 2003-03-24
• Number of discs: 2
• Formats: Box set, Original recording reissued
• Dimensions: .24 pounds
• Running time: 90 minutes

Customer Reviews

An almost swansong!
This recording from 1973 was made to celebrate 21 years of John Reed in the company. Musically it is conducted with flair and some enlightening passages. Roysten Nash produces subtle elements of Sullivan's score. The principals without exception are all past their prime and cannot match the later Telemarc version. To find the best Mikado, try and find the 1957 recording with Donald adams, Thomas Round, Jean Hindmarsh and Peter Pratt, it can be found!! brilliantly refurbished onto CD. That is and was D'Oyly Carte at their best. There is also the 1957 Pirates available! Happy hunting.

Modified Rapture
A late D'Oyly Carte recording. Lacklustre. Even John Reed sounds past it (he's still alive - what mst he sound like now?). Avoid this and buy the single-disc Mackerras version, even though it is no longer cheaper than this two-disc version. Only buy this one if you can't stand to miss the ovwerture, the third verse of the "Little List" song and a repeat in the Act I finale.

It's got Valerie Masterston in great audio sound
Having sought hard over the years, there's no one recording that fully satisfies. The 1962 film on DVD has the fabulous Philip Potter and Valerie, and the best Katisha, but MONO. This has Valerie and John Reed, but Clive Revill's singing of Ko-Ko on the Sadler's Wells is the best for me. So I used audio editing to splice Clive into this Roysten version, for Ko-Ko's solo bits in most of the songs he's in! Dove-tailed beautifully, pitch-wise. But this Roysten version has a fabulous Poo-Bah as well, in Kenneth Sandford, so all in all, for one version, this is it. (As I recall, the old World Record Club release from Tring, which seems out of release presently, was pretty darn good.)