Gilbert & Sullivan: The Grand Duke - 2 CDs by The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company

As before you we defile

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

Your loyalty our... At the outset I may mention

Kenneth Sandford, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Royston Nash

Yes, Ludwig and his Julia are mated!

Kenneth Sandford, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Royston Nash

Take care of him - he's much too good to live!

Jane Metcalfe, Kenneth Sandford, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Royston Nash

Now Julia, come, consider it from this dainty point of

Julia Goss, Kenneth Sandford, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Royston Nash

Your Highness, there's a party at the door

Lyndsie Holland, Kenneth Sandford, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Royston Nash

Now away to the wedding we go

Lyndsie Holland, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Royston Nash

So ends my dream...Broken ev'ry promise plighted

Julia Goss, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Royston Nash

If the light of love's lingering ember

Julia Goss, Meston Reid, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Royston Nash

Come, bumpers-aye, ever-so-many

Lyndsie Holland, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Royston Nash

Why, who is this approaching?

Kenneth Sandford, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Royston Nash

The Prince of Monte-Carlo

James Conroy-Ward, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Royston Nash

His Highness we know not

Kenneth Sandford, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Royston Nash

We're rigged out in magnificent array

John Ayldon, Barbara Lilley, James Conroy-Ward, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Royston Nash

Dance

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Royston Nash

Take my advice - when deep in debt

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

Hurrah! Now away to the wedding

John Ayldon, James Conroy-Ward, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Royston Nash

Well, you're a pretty kind of fellow

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

Happy couples, lightly treading

Michael Rayner, Kenneth Sandford, Jane Metcalfe, Meston Reid, Julia Goss, John Reed, Barbara Lilley, Lyndsie Holland, John Ayldon, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Royston Nash

Overture di Ballo

Philharmonia Orchestra & Sir Charles Mackerras

1. Allegro moderato alla Marcia

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Royston Nash

2. Allegretto grazioso

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Royston Nash