‎Gilbert & Sullivan: The Yeomen of the Guard by Sylvia McNair

Overture

Neville Marriner, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

4:49

"When maiden loves"

Jean Rigby, Neville Marriner, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

3:09

"Mistress Meryll!"

Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Jean Rigby, Neville Marriner, Bryn Terfel

1:07

"Tower warders under orders"

Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chorus, Neville Marriner, Anthony Michaels-Moore

3:48

"A good day to you!"

Jean Rigby, Neville Marriner, Anthony Michaels-Moore, Anne Collins, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

0:55

"When our gallant Norman foes"

Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chorus, Neville Marriner, Anne Collins

4:12

"Father! Has no reprieve arrived"

Jean Rigby, Neville Marriner, Stafford Dean, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Neil Mackie

1:32

"Alas! I waver to and fro"

Jean Rigby, Neville Marriner, Stafford Dean, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Neil Mackie

2:34

"Nay, lass, be of good cheer"

Jean Rigby, Neville Marriner, Robert Lloyd, Kurt Streit, Stafford Dean, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

0:48

"Nay, pretty one" - "Is life a boon?"

Neville Marriner, Kurt Streit, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

2:10

"And now, Sir Richard"

Kurt Streit, Neville Marriner, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Robert Lloyd

1:17

"Here's a man of jollity"

Sir Thomas Allen, Neville Marriner, Sylvia McNair, Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chorus

1:34

"I have a song to sing"

Sir Thomas Allen, Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chorus, Sylvia McNair

3:20

"Well sung and well danced!"

Neville Marriner, Sylvia McNair, Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chorus, Sir Thomas Allen, Robert Lloyd, Neil Mackie, Anthony Michaels-Moore

1:25

"How say you, maiden"

Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Sir Thomas Allen, Neville Marriner, Robert Lloyd, Sylvia McNair

2:32

"And so, good fellow" - "I've jibe and joke"

Sir Thomas Allen, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner, Robert Lloyd

1:59

"But I trust you are very careful"

Neville Marriner, Robert Lloyd, Sir Thomas Allen, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

0:52

"'Tis done! I am a bride!"

Neville Marriner, Sylvia McNair, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

3:59

"'Tis an odd freak"

Jean Rigby, Neville Marriner, Bryn Terfel, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

1:53

"Oh, how I would love thee!" - "Where I thy bride"

Neville Marriner, Sylvia McNair, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

2:07

"The deed is, so far, safely accompished"

Stafford Dean, Kurt Streit, Neville Marriner, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

0:32

"Oh, Sergeant Meryll" - "Ye Tower Warders" - "Leonard Meryll!" - "Forbear, my friends" - "Didst thou not" - "Leonard!" - "As escort for the prisoner"

Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chorus, Sylvia McNair, Anne Collins, Anthony Michaels-Moore, Bryn Terfel, Sir Thomas Allen, Robert Lloyd, Kurt Streit, Jean Rigby, Neville Marriner, Stafford Dean, Neil Mackie

17:25

"Night has spread her pall once more"

Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chorus, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner, Anne Collins

4:12

"The merry jests of Hugh Ambrose"

Neville Marriner, Sir Thomas Allen, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Bryn Terfel

1:40

"Oh! a private buffoon"

Neville Marriner, Sir Thomas Allen, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

2:23

"And so thou wouldst be a jester, eh?"

Neville Marriner, Bryn Terfel, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Sir Thomas Allen

1:05

"Hereupon we're both agreed"

Sir Thomas Allen, Neville Marriner, Bryn Terfel, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

1:44

"Two days gone"

Kurt Streit, Neville Marriner, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

0:29

"Free from his fetters grim"

Kurt Streit, Neville Marriner, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

2:32

"Well, Sergeant Meryll"

Kurt Streit, Neville Marriner, Anne Collins, Stafford Dean, Judith Howarth, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

1:58

"Strange adventure!"

Stafford Dean, Anne Collins, Neville Marriner, Kurt Streit, Judith Howarth, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

2:48

"So my mysterious bride"

Neville Marriner, Kurt Streit, Sylvia McNair, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

2:39

"Hark! What was that, sir?" - "Who fired that shot?" "Like a ghost his vigil keeping." - "The river must be dragged"

Robert Lloyd, Jean Rigby, Kurt Streit, Bryn Terfel, Neville Marriner, Sir Thomas Allen, Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chorus, Sylvia McNair, Stafford Dean

3:29

"Nay, sweetheart, be comforted"

Kurt Streit, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Sylvia McNair, Sir Thomas Allen, Jean Rigby, Neville Marriner

1:07

"A man who would woo a faie maid"

Kurt Streit, Jean Rigby, Neville Marriner, Sylvia McNair, Sir Thomas Allen, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

3:45

"Now listen to me"

Kurt Streit, Sir Thomas Allen, Jean Rigby, Neville Marriner, Sylvia McNair, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

1:33

"When a wooer goes a-wooing"

Kurt Streit, Sir Thomas Allen, Sylvia McNair, Jean Rigby, Neville Marriner, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

3:02

"Before I pretend to be a sister to anybody again"

Anne Collins, Stafford Dean, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Neil Mackie, Neville Marriner, Bryn Terfel, Jean Rigby

4:07

"Rapture, rapture!"

Stafford Dean, Anne Collins, Neville Marriner, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

1:29

"Comes the pretty young bride" - "'Tis said to you" - "Hold, pretty one!"

Sir Thomas Allen, Anthony Michaels-Moore, Kurt Streit, Robert Lloyd, Judith Howarth, Jean Rigby, Neville Marriner, Stafford Dean, Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chorus, Sylvia McNair, Anne Collins, Bryn Terfel, Neil Mackie

10:55

Eve Edwards

Producer
Erik Smith

Producer
Erdo Groot

Recording Engineer

Gilbert & Sullivan: The Yeomen of the Guard

RECORD LABEL

Sir Arthur Sullivan

Sylvia McNair

Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

Sir Thomas Allen

Robert Lloyd

Production