Gilbert and Sullivan Operetta Favourites (Classic FM: Full Works)

Sullivan: Overture The Mikado

Academy Of St. Martin In The Fields, Sir Neville Marriner

Sullivan: The Mikado - A wand'ring minstrel I

Colin Wright, The D'oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royston Nash

Sullivan: The Mikado - As someday it may happen that a victim...

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

Sullivan: The Mikado - Three little maids from school are we

Valerie Masterson, Pauline Wales, Peggy Ann Jones, The D'oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royston Nash

Sullivan: The Mikado - The flowers that bloom in the spring, tra-la

Valerie Masterson, Peggy Ann Jones, Colin Wright, John Reed, Kenneth Sandford, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royston Nash

Sullivan: The Mikado - On a tree by a river a little tom tit

John Reed, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royston Nash

Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance - Poor wand'ring one!

Valerie Masterson, The D'oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Isidore Godfrey

Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance - I am the very model of a modern Major-General

John Reed, The D'oyly Carte Opera Chorus, The D'oyly Carte Opera Company, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Isidore Godfrey

Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance - When the foeman bares his steel

Valerie Masterson, Jean Allister, Owen Brannigan, The D'oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Isidore Godfrey

Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance - When a felon's not engaged in his employment

Owen Brannigan, The D'oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Isidore Godfrey

Sullivan: H.M.S.Pinafore - Now give three cheers...When I was a lad

Joyce Wright, John Reed, Jeffrey Skitch, The D'oyly Carte Opera Company, The New Symphony Orchestra Of London, Isidore Godfrey

Sullivan: H.M.S.Pinafore - I'm called Little Buttercup

Gillian Knight, The D'oyly Carte Opera Company, The New Symphony Orchestra Of London, Isidore Godfrey

Sullivan: H.M.S.Pinafore - Never mind the why and wherefore

Jean Hindmarsh, John Reed, Jeffrey Skitch, The D'oyly Carte Opera Company, The New Symphony Orchestra Of London, Isidore Godfrey

Sullivan: The Gondoliers - We're called gondolieri, but that's a vagary

Thomas Round, Alan Styler, The D'oyly Carte Opera Chorus, The New Symphony Orchestra Of London, Isidore Godfrey

Sullivan: The Gondoliers - In enterprise of martial kind

Jennifer Toye, Gillian Knight, Jeffrey Skitch, John Reed, The New Symphony Orchestra Of London, Isidore Godfrey

Sullivan: The Gondoliers - Take a pair of sparkling eyes

Thomas Round, The New Symphony Orchestra Of London, Isidore Godfrey

Sullivan: The Gondoliers - Dance a cachucha, fandango, bolero

The D'oyly Carte Opera Chorus, The New Symphony Orchestra Of London, Isidore Godfrey

Sullivan: The Yeomen of the Guard - When our gallant Norman foes

Gillian Knight, The D'oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent

Sullivan: The Yeomen of the Guard - I have a song to sing, oh!

Elizabeth Harwood, John Reed, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent

Sullivan: Overture The Yeomen of the Guard

Academy Of St. Martin In The Fields, Sir Neville Marriner