| Description |
2 audio discs : digital, stereophonic ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Playing Time |
013000 |
| Note |
London: 425 190-2 (425 191-2--425 192-2) |
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Opera in 2 acts. |
| Performer |
John Ayldon, Colin Wright, John Reed, Valerie Masterson, Lyndsie Holland, other soloists ; D'Oyly Carte Opera Company ; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra ; Royston Nash, conductor. |
| Note |
Reissue of: London OSA 12103 (OS 26406--OS 26407) (1973). |
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Compact discs. |
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Analog recording. |
| Contents |
Overture -- If you want to know who we are -- Gentlemen, I pray you tell me -- A wand'ring minstrel I -- Our great Mikado, virtuous man -- Young man, despair -- And I have journey'd for a month -- Behold the Lord High Executioner! -- As someday it may happen that a victim must be found -- Comes a train of little ladies -- Three little maids from school are we -- So please you, Sir, we much regret -- Were you not to Ko-Ko plighted -- I am so proud, if I allowed --With aspect stern and gloomy stride -- The threaten'd cloud has pass'd away |
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Your revels cease! Assist me, all of you! -- Oh, fool, that flee- est my hallow'd joys! -- For he's going to marry Yum-Yum -- The hour of gladness is dead and gone -- Ye torrents roar! Ye tempests howls! -- Braid the raven hair, weave the supple tresses -- The sun whose rays are all ablaze -- Brightly dawns our wedding day -- Here's how-de-do! -- Miya sama, miya sama, o n'mma no maye ni -- From ev'ry kind of man obedience I expect -- A more humane Mikado never did in Japan exist -- The criminal cried as he dropp'd him down -- See how the fates their gifts allot -- The flowers that bloom in the spring, tra la |
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Alone and yet alive -- Hearts do not break! They sting and ache - - On a tree by a river a little tom tit -- There is bearty in the bellow of the blast -- Fanfare -- For he's gone and married Yum-Yum. |
| Note |
GMD: sound recording. |
| Subject |
Operas.
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| Added Author |
Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), 1836-1911.
Mikado.
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Ayldon, John.
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Wright, Colin (Tenor)
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Reed, John, 1909-1999.
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Masterson, Valerie.
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Holland, Lyndsie.
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Nash, Royston.
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D'Oyly Carte Opera Company.
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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
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| Music No. |
425 190-2 London |
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425 191-2 London |
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425 192-2 London |
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D215537 BMG Direct Marketing |
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