Gilbert & Sullivan - The Mikado / WNO ? Mackerras
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Edition: Music CDCD Release Date: 1992-02-11
Music Label: Telarc
Soundtracks:
- Act 1. 1. Chorus of Nobles. If you want to know who we are
- Act 1. 2. Song and Chorus. A wandering minstrel I
- Act 1. 3. Song. Our great Mikado, virtuous man
- Act 1. 4. Song. Young man, despair, likewise go to
- Act 1. 4a. Recitative. And have I journeyed for a month
- Act 1. 5. Chorus with Solo. Behold the Lord High Executioner
- Act 1. 5a. Song. As some day it may happen (List Song)
- Act 1. 6. Chorus of Schoolgirls. Comes a train of little ladies
- Act 1. 7. Trio. Three little maids from school are we
- Act 1. 8. Quartet. So please you, sir, we much regret
- Act 1. 9. Duet. Were you not to Ko-Ko plighted
- Act 1. 10. Trio. I am so proud
- Act 1. 11. Finale, Act 1. With aspect stern and gloomy stride
- Act 2. 1. Solo. Braid the raven hair
- Act 2. 2. Song. The sun, whose rays are all ablaze
- Act 2. 3. Madrigal. Brightly dawns our wedding day
- Act 2. 4. Trio. Here's a how-de-do! If I marry you
- Act 2. 5. Entrance of Mikado and Katisha. Miya sama, miya sama
- Act 2. 6. Song. A more humane Mikado never did in Japan exist
- Act 2. 7. Trio and Chorus. The criminal cried as he dropped him down
- Act 2. 8. Quintet. See how the Fates their gifts allot
- Act 2. 9. Duet. The flowers that bloom in the spring
- Act 2. 10. Recitative and Song. Alone, and yet alive
- Act 2. 11. Song. On a tree by a river, a little tom-tit sang, "Willow, tit-willow"
- Act 2. 12. Duet. There is a beauty in the bellow of the blast
- Act 2. 13. Finale, Act 2. For he's gone and married Yum-Yum
Music reviews of Gilbert & Sullivan - The Mikado / WNO ? Mackerras
Music Review: A superb Mikado!!
Rating: 5 Stars
I had occasion to pull this recording out and pop it into my car CD player, yesterday. I had forgotten how simply superb this is. The only negatives are some musical cuts, mentioned elsewhere, except that no one mentions that an entire number is missing from the second act. The singing is terrific, stylish and you can understand every word. Some of these performances are better than any others on record (the Pish Tush and possibly the Pooh Bah, although I hate to think anyone could outdo Kenneth Sanford in the role). But it is the conducting that drives this recording. The tempos are spirited, the transitions seemless. The orchestra plays superbly, with lots of little instrumental solos sounding better than I have ever heard (the bassoon run in Three Little Maids). This recording is great because of the brilliant conducting of Charles Mackerras. It is really too bad the funding dried up. What I wouldn't give to hear a MacKerras Iolanthe or Gondeliers.
Description of Gilbert & Sullivan - The Mikado / WNO ? Mackerras
Regarded by G & S fans as the best of the all the operettas, The Mikado is given a sizzling performance by Sir Charles Mackerras, who--by leaving off the overture (which isn't by Sullivan anyway)-- manages to squeeze the piece onto one CD. He also shortens the "list" song since Gilbert's original features a prominent use of the "N" word, which, not withstanding the fact that he's making fun of people who performed in black-face in the 19th century, isn't worth the trouble it would cause by leaving it in. The singers are real singers; that is, they treat the music with respect and make it sound great. Of course, it is. --David HurwitzSullivan, Arthur CDs
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