Act one. If you want to know who we are (3:01) -- A wandering minstrel (4:20) -- Our great Mikado, virtuous man (2:57) -- Young man, despair, likewise to go (2:43) -- And I have journeyed for a month (0:49) -- Behold the Lord High Executioner (2:39) -- As some day it may happen (2:00) -- Comes a little train of ladies (2:12) -- Three little maids from school are we (1:32) -- So please you, sir, we much regret (1:55) -- Were you not to Ko-Ko plighted (2:26) -- I am so proud (3:00) -- With aspect stern and gloomy stride (14:22) -- Act two. Braid the raven hair (3:25) -- The sun, whose rays are all ablaze (3:10) -- Brightly dawns our wedding day (3:58) -- Here's a how-de-do! If I marry you (1:14) -- Miya sama, miya sama (2:46) -- A more humane Mikado never did in Japan exist (4:04) -- The criminal cried as he dropped him down (3:24) -- See how the Fates their gifts allot (2:03) -- The flowers that bloom in the spring (1:36) -- Alone, and yet alive (2:55) -- On a tree by a river, a little tom-tit sang, "Willow, tit-willow" (2:29) -- There is beauty in the bellow of the blast (2:00) -- For he's gone and married Yum-Yum (1:52).
Note
Operetta in two acts.
Libretto by William S. Gilbert.
Recording does not include overture and most spoken dialogue.
Language (note)
Sung in English.
Author
Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900, composer.
Title
The Mikado / Gilbert & Sullivan.
Publisher
Cleveland, Ohio : Telarc, [1992]
Copyright date
℗1992
Playing time
011910
Type of content
performed music
Type of medium
computer
Type of carrier
online resource
Digital file characteristics
audio file
Performer
Marie McLaughlin, Janice Watson, sopranos ; Felicity Palmer, Anne Howells, mezzo-sopranos ; Anthony Rolfe Johnson, baritone [i.e. tenor] ; Nicholas Folwell, Richard Stuart, baritones ; Donald Adams, bass ; Richard Van Allan, bass-baritone ; Orchestra and Chorus of the Welsh National Opera ; Sir Charles Mackerras, conductor.
Event
Recorded 1991 September 2-4 Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, Wales.