The Very Best Of Gilbert & Sullivan by D'Oyly Carte Opera Company

Sullivan: The Mikado / Act 1: 10. Three little maids from school are we

Valerie Masterson, Pauline Wales, Peggy Ann Jones, D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Royston Nash

Sullivan: The Mikado / Act 1: 3. A wand'ring minstrel I

Colin Wright, D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Royston Nash

Sullivan: The Mikado / Act 2: 33. On a tree by a river a little tom tit

John Reed, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Royston Nash

Sullivan: The Mikado / Act 1: 7. Behold the Lord High Executioner

John Reed, D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Royston Nash

Sullivan: The Mikado / Act 1: 8. As someday it may happen that a victim...

John Reed, D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Royston Nash

Sullivan: The Mikado / Act 2: 22. The sun whose rays are all ablaze

Valerie Masterson, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Royston Nash

Sullivan: The Mikado / Act 2: 24. Here's a how-de-do!

Valerie Masterson, Colin Wright, John Reed, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Royston Nash

Sullivan: The Mikado / Act 2: 30. 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

Sullivan: The Mikado / Act 2: 34. There is beauty in the bellow of the blast

Lyndsie Holland, John Reed, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Royston Nash

Sullivan: The Mikado / Act 2: 36. For he's gone and married Yum-Yum

Valerie Masterson, Pauline Wales, Peggy Ann Jones, Colin Wright, John Reed, Kenneth Sandford, Michael Rayner, D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Royston Nash

Sullivan: H.M.S. Pinafore / Act 1: I Am The Monarch Of The Sea (When I Was A Lad) (Snippet)

Joyce Wright, John Reed, Jeffrey Skitch, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, New Symphony Orchestra of London & Isidore Godfrey

Sullivan: H.M.S. Pinafore / Act 1: I'm Called Little Buttercup

Gillian Knight, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, New Symphony Orchestra of London & Isidore Godfrey

Sullivan: H.M.S. Pinafore / Act 2: Never Mind The Why And Wherefore

Jeffrey Skitch, Jean Hindmarsh, John Reed, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, New Symphony Orchestra of London & Isidore Godfrey

Sullivan: H.M.S. Pinafore / Act 1: We Shall Sail The Ocean Blue

D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, New Symphony Orchestra of London & Isidore Godfrey

Sullivan: H.M.S. Pinafore / Act 1: My gallant crew...I am the Captain of the Pinafore

D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, Jeffrey Skitch, D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, New Symphony Orchestra of London & Isidore Godfrey

Sullivan: H.M.S. Pinafore / Act 2: A joy! Oh rapture unforseen

D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, Joyce Wright, Thomas Round, Donald Adams, Jeffrey Skitch, Gillian Knight, D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, New Symphony Orchestra of London & Isidore Godfrey

Sullivan: Trial by Jury: When I good friends was called to the Bar

John Reed, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Sullivan: The Sorcerer / Act 1: My name is John Wellington Wells

John Reed, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Isidore Godfrey

Sullivan: Patience / Act 1: The soldiers of our Queen

D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, New Symphony Orchestra of London & Isidore Godfrey

Sullivan: Patience / Act 1: Am I alone and unobserved?

John Reed, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, New Symphony Orchestra of London & Isidore Godfrey

Sullivan: Patience / Act 1: If you're anxious for to shine in the high aesthetic..

John Reed, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, New Symphony Orchestra of London & Isidore Godfrey

Sullivan: Patience / Act 2: So go to him and say to him, with compliment ironical

Gillian Knight, John Reed, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, New Symphony Orchestra of London & Isidore Godfrey

Sullivan: The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: No. 3, When Our Gallant Norman Foes

Gillian Knight, D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Sir Malcolm Sargent

Sullivan: The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: No. 7, I Have a Song to Sing, Oh!

Elizabeth Harwood, John Reed, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Sir Malcolm Sargent

Sullivan: The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: No. 1, When Maiden Loves

Ann Hood, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Sir Malcolm Sargent

Sullivan: The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: No. 2, Tower Warders Under Orders

Thomas Lawlor, D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Sir Malcolm Sargent

Sullivan: With cat-like tread

George Cook, D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Isidore Godfrey

Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance: Poor wand'ring one!

Valerie Masterson, D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Isidore Godfrey

Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance or The Slave of Duty / Act 1: I am the very model of a modern Major-General

John Reed, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Isidore Godfrey

Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance: When the foeman bares his steel

Valerie Masterson, Jean Allister, Owen Brannigan, D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Isidore Godfrey

Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance: When a felon's not engaged in his employment

Owen Brannigan, D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Isidore Godfrey

Sullivan: I know a youth who loves a little maid

Jean Hindmarsh, John Reed, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden & Isidore Godfrey

Sullivan: 20. When the night wind howls

Donald Adams, D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden & Isidore Godfrey

Sullivan: 23. My eyes are fully open to my awful situation

Jean Allister, John Reed, Kenneth Sandford, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden & Isidore Godfrey

Sullivan: Iolanthe: Loudly let the trumpet bray

D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, The Band of the Grenadier Guards, New Symphony Orchestra of London & Isidore Godfrey

Sullivan: Iolanthe or The Peer and The Peri / Act 2: Love unrequited

John Reed, New Symphony Orchestra of London & Isidore Godfrey

Sullivan: Iolanthe or The Peer and The Peri / Act 2: If you go in you're sure to win

John Reed, Donald Adams, Thomas Round, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, New Symphony Orchestra of London & Isidore Godfrey

Sullivan: When all night long a chap remains

Kenneth Sandford, New Symphony Orchestra of London & Isidore Godfrey

Sullivan: Said I to myself, said I

John Reed, New Symphony Orchestra of London & Isidore Godfrey

Sullivan: Iolanthe or The Peer and The Peri / Act 2: When Britain really ruled the waves

Donald Adams, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, New Symphony Orchestra of London & Isidore Godfrey

Sullivan: The Gondoliers: We're called gondolieri, but that's a vagary

Thomas Round, Alan Styler, D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, New Symphony Orchestra of London & Isidore Godfrey

Sullivan: The Gondoliers: In enterprise of martial kind

Jennifer Toye, Gillian Knight, Jeffrey Skitch, John Reed, New Symphony Orchestra of London & Isidore Godfrey

Sullivan: The Gondoliers: Take a pair of sparkling eyes

Thomas Round, New Symphony Orchestra of London & Isidore Godfrey

Sullivan: The Gondoliers or The King of Barataria - Act Two: Dance a cachucha, fandango, bolero

Thomas Round, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, New Symphony Orchestra of London & Isidore Godfrey

Sullivan: The Gondoliers / Act One: From the Sunny Spanish Shore

John Reed, Gillian Knight, Jennifer Toye, Jeffrey Skitch, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, New Symphony Orchestra of London & Isidore Godfrey

Sullivan: The Gondoliers / Act One: I Stole the Prince

Kenneth Sandford, Jennifer Toye, Gillian Knight, Jeffrey Skitch, John Reed, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, New Symphony Orchestra of London & Isidore Godfrey

Sullivan: Then one of us will be a Queen

Mary Sansom, Joyce Wright, Thomas Round, Alan Styler, New Symphony Orchestra of London & Isidore Godfrey

Sullivan: Princess Ida, Act I: No. 5, If You Give Me Your Attention

John Reed, D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Sir Malcolm Sargent

Sullivan: Princess Ida, Act II: No. 14, The Woman of the Wisest Wit

Ann Hood, Valerie Masterson, Philip Potter, David Palmer, Jeffrey Skitch, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Sir Malcolm Sargent

Sullivan: Princess Ida, Act III: No. 21, I Built Upon a Rock

Elizabeth Harwood, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Sir Malcolm Sargent