Gilbert & Sullivan: The Yeomen of the Guard Arthur Sullivan & W.S. Gilbert; Sylvia McNair, Jean Rigby, Kurt Streit, Thomas Allen, Bryn Terfel, Academy & Chorus of St. Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner

Release: 1998 Europe, Language: English, Status: Official
Format: CD + CD, Tracks: 40, Length: 1:55:13, Barcode: 028946250822
Release type: Album

Contents

CD #1
1 Overture 4:49
2 Act I: No. 1 Introduction: “When maiden loves” 3:09
3 Act I: No. 1 Introduction: “Mistress Meryl!” 1:07
4 Act I: No. 2 Double Chorus: “Tower warders under orders” 3:48
5 Act I: No. 2 Double Chorus: “A good day to you” 0:55
6 Act I: No. 3 Song With Chorus: “When our gallant Norman foes” 4:12
7 Act I: No. 3 Song With Chorus: “Father! Has no reprieve arrived” 1:32
8 Act I: No. 4 Trio: “Atlas! I waver to and fro” 2:34
9 Act I: No. 4 Trio: “Nay, lass, be of good cheer” 0:48
10 Act I: No. 4 Trio: “Nay, pretty pne” / Act I: No. 5 Ballad: “Is life a boon?” 2:10
11 Act I: No. 5 Ballad: “And now, Sir Richard” 1:17
12 Act I: No. 6 Chorus: “Here’s a man of jollity” 1:34
13 Act I: No. 7 Duet: “I have a song to sing, oh!” 3:20
14 Act I: No. 7 Duet: “Well sung and well danced!” 1:25
15 Act I: No. 8 Trio: “How say you, maiden” 2:32
16 Act I: No. 8 Trio: “And so, good fellow” / Act I: No. 9 Recitative and Song: “I’ve jive and joke” 1:59
17 Act I: No. 9 Recitative and Song: “But I trust you are very careful” 0:52
18 Act I: No. 10 Recitative and Song: “’Tis done! I am a bride!” 3:59
19 Act I: No. 10 Recitative and Song: “’Tis an odd freak” 1:53
20 Act I: No. 10 Recitative and Song: “Oh, how I would love thee!” / Act I: No. 11 Song: “Were I thy bride” 2:07
21 Act I: No. 11 Song: “The deed is, so far, safely accomplished” 0:32
22 Act I: No. 12 Finale: “Oh, Sergeant Meryll” / Recitative: “Ye Tower Warders” / Recitative: “Leonard Meryll!” / Recitative: “Forebear, my friends” / Couplets: “Didst thou not” / Recitative: “Leonard!” / Trio: “To thy fraternal care” / Chorus: “The prisoner comes” / “My lord! My lord!” / Trio: “As escort for the prisoner” / Trio: “Astounding news!” 17:25
CD #2
1 Act II: No. 1 Chorus and Solo: “Night has spread her pall once more” 4:12
2 Act II: No. 1 Chorus and Solo: “The merry jests of Hugh Ambrose” 1:40
3 Act II: No. 2 Song: “Oh! A private buffoon” 2:23
4 Act II: No. 2 Song: “And so thou wouldst be a jester, eh?” 1:05
5 Act II: No. 3 Duet: “Hereupon we’re both agreed” 1:44
6 Act II: No. 3 Duet: “Two days gone” 0:29
7 Act II: No. 4 Ballad: “Free from his fetters grim” 2:32
8 Act II: No. 4 Ballad: “Well, Sergeant Meryll” 1:58
9 Act II: No. 5 Quartet: “Strange adventure!” 2:48
10 Act II: No. 5 Quartet: “So my mysterious bride” 2:39
11 Act II: No. 6 Scene: “Hark! What was that, sir?” / Recitative: “Who fired that shot!” / Duet and Chorus: “Like a ghost his vigil keeping…” / Recitative: “The river must be dragged” 3:29
12 Act II: No. 6 Scene: “Nay, sweetheart, be comforted” 1:07
13 Act II: No. 7 Trio: “A man who would woo a fair maid” 3:45
14 Act II: No. 7 Trio: “Now listen to me” 1:33
15 Act II: No. 8 Quartet: “When a wooer goes a-wooing” 3:02
16 Act II: No. 8 Quartet: “Before I pretend to be a sister to anybody again” 4:07
17 Act II: No. 9 Duet: “Rapture, rapture!” 1:29
18 Act II: No. 10 Finale: “Comes the pretty young bride” / Trio: “’Tis said that joy” / Trio: “Hold, pretty one!” 10:56

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