Gilbert and Sullivan 1989-11-05 CD BBC Concert Orchestra Soundboard

116:33 minutestracklist:Act I 31:08 minutes=====01 1 ) Overture 3:5002 2 ) Search throughout the panorama 2:3103 3 ) Dialogue: See you no sign of Gama? 2:2304 4 ) Now hearken to my strict command 1:2705 5 ) Today we meet 2:5006 6 ) Dialogue: Well father 1:2207 7 ) From the distant panorama 1:0708 8 ) We are warriors three 2:1909 9 ) If you give me your attention 2:1210 10) Dialogue: So this is Castle Hildebrand? 4:1511 11) P'raps if you Address the Lady 2:0012 12) Expressive glances 3:0513 13) For a month to dwell in a dungeon cell 1:38Act II 30:24 minutes======14 1 ) Towards the empyrean heights 3:2615 2 ) Dialogue: Attention, ladies, while I read to you 0:5616 3 ) Mighty maiden with a mission 1:3817 4 ) Minerva! oh, hear me! 2:4918 5 ) Dialogue: Women of Adamant 3:3619 6 ) And thus to Empyrean Heights 0:4020 7 ) I should command here 0:3321 8 ) Come, mighty Must 2:5022 9 ) Gently, gently 4:1523 10) Dialogue: So that’s the Princess Ida’s castle! 0:58 24 11) I am a maiden, cold and stately 2:2425 12) Dialogue: But who comes here? 2:3526 13) The world is but a broken toy 2:5927 14) Dialogue: I’faith, the plunge is taken, gentlemen! 1:5928 15) A lady fair, of lineage high 2:2429 16) Dialogue: Oh, Lady Psyche! 1:0330 17) The woman of the wisest wit 1:5331 18) Dialogue: Melissa! 1:5032 19) Now wouldn't you like to rule the roast 2:3733 20) Dialogue: Saved for a time, at least! 0:32 [with brief dropout]34 21) Merrily ring the luncheon bell 1:3535 22) Dialogue: You say you know the court of Hildebrand? 2:0036 23) Would you know the kind of maid? 2:1437 24) Dialogue: Infamous creature, get you hence away! 0:3838 25) Oh, joy! our chief is saved 1:0739 26) Whom thou hast chained must wear his chain 2:4240 27) Walls and fences scaling 1:1241 28) Some years ago, no doubt you know 1:4342 39) We may remark, though nothing can dismay us > 30) To yield at once to such a foe with shame were rife 4:48 *Act III 25:16 minutes=======43 1 ) Death to the invader 2:4844 2 ) Dialogue: I like your spirit, girls! We have to meet 3:1245 3 ) I built upon a rock 3:3146 4 ) Dialogue: Madam, your father and your brothers claim 1:4747 5 ) Whene'er I spoke 1:5348 6 ) Dialogue: My poor old father! How he must have suffered! 0:1849 7 ) When anger spreads his wing 1:0550 8 ) This helmet, I suppose 2:1751 9 ) Dialogue: Hilarion! Cyril! Florian! dressed as women! 1:5052 10) This is our duty plain 0:4853 11) Dialogue: Hold! stay your hands! 3:2654 12) With joy abiding 2:16Performers==========King Hildebrand: Raimund HerincxHilarion: Philip LangridgeCyril: Neil JenkinsFlorian: Michael WakehamKing Gama: Derek Hammond-StroudArac: Forbes RobinsonGuron: Leslie FysonScynthius: Paul HudsonPrincess Ida: Valerie MastersonLady Blanche: Anne CollinsLady Psyche: Della JonesMelissa: Janet CosterSacharissa: Jennifer AdamsChloe: Joyce MandreThe BBC SingersThe BBC Concert Orchestraconductor: Sir Charles Mackerras