The Mikado Highlights
Cast Recording


Musical | Date de sortie: 18/05/1999 | Type: CD
 

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# Track Artiste/Compositeur Duration
1.If You Want To Know Who We AreMen Chorus3:06
2.A Wandering Minstrel IBonaventura Bottone, Men Chorus4:13
3.Our Great MikadoMark Richardson, Men Chorus3:12
4.Young Man DespairRichard Van Allan, Bonaventura Bottone, Mark Richardson2:37
5.Behold The Lord High ExecutionerMen Chorus2:37
6.I've Got A Little ListEric Idle, Men Chorus2:49
7.Comes A Train Of Little LadiesLadies Chorus2:13
8.Three Little MaidsLesley Garrett, Susan Bullock, Jean Rigby1:27
9.So Please You SirLesley Garrett, Susan Bullock, Jean Rigby, Richard Van Allan, Mark Richardson, Ladies Chorus1:52
10.Were You Not To Ko-Ko PlightedLesley Garrett, Bonaventura Bottone2:15
11.The Threatened Cloud Has Passed Away (Finale Act One)Felicity Palmer, Leslie Garrett, Bonaventura Bottone, Richard Van Allen, Company13:05
12.Braid the Raven HairJean Rigby, Ladies Chorus3:24
13.The Sun Whose RaysLesley Garrett2:55
14.Here's A How-De-DoLesley Garrett, Bonaventura Bottone, Eric Idle1:17
15.A More Humane MikadoRichard Angas, Company -4:21
16.The Flowers That Bloom In The SpringLesley Garrett, Eric Idle, Bonaventura Bottone, Richard Van Allan1:36
17.Alone, And Yet AliveFelicity Palmer3:14
18.On A Tree By A River (Tit Willow)Eric Idle, Felicity Palmer2:52
19.There Is The Beauty In The Bellow Of The BlastFelicity Palmer, Eric Idle2:14
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We can only thank Mike Leigh and his 1999 film Topsy-Turvy for generating renewed interest in the work of Gilbert & Sullivan, who produced a string of wildly popular operettas in the late 19th century. Of these, The Mikado may be the most cherished (along with H.M.S. Pinafore). As Leigh brilliantly showed, composer Sullivan wanted to abandon the partnership and focus on more serious music when lyricist Gilbert came up with the idea to write a piece set in Japan. So much for serious intentions: the team delivered a breathless, extremely funny whirlwind of hijinks and harebrained situations set in the kind of Japan that exists only in the imagination of Victorian operetta composers. This 1986 English National Opera production provocatively transposed the action to 1920s England and starred Monty Python's Eric Idle as Ko-Ko. Even more daringly, some of the lyrics were tinkered with, so that Ko-Ko's 'I've Got a Little List' was rewritten to use contemporary references--and drew outraged reactions from G&S purists. Not a definitive recording, but a good choice for those who already have a complete Mikado in their collections.


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