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The Yeomen of the Guard

Libretto: William Schwenck Gilbert
Sir Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chorus, Jean Rigby (Mezzo Soprano), Bryn Terfel (Bass-baritone), Anthony Michaels-Moore (Baritone), Anne Collins (Alto), Stafford Dean (Bass), Neil Mackie (Tenor), Robert Lloyd (Bass), Kurt Streit (Tenor), Thomas Allen (Baritone), Sylvia McNair (Soprano), Judith Howarth (Soprano)
1992 - 1992, London, Smith Square London, St John's
40 Tracks, 1:55:13
    • Overture
      04:49

  • Act I

    • 1. "When maiden loves"
      03:09
    • 2. "Mistress Meryll!"
      01:07
    • 3. "Tower warders under orders"
      03:48
    • 4. "A good day to you!"
      00:55
    • 5. "When our gallant Norman foes"
      04:13
    • 6. "Father! Has no reprieve arrived"
      01:33
    • 7. "Alas! I waver to and fro"
      02:34
    • 8. "Nay, lass, be of good cheer"
      00:48
    • 9. "Nay, pretty one" - "Is life a boon?"
      02:11
    • 10. "And now, Sir Richard"
      01:17
    • 11. "Here's a man of jollity"
      01:34
    • 12. "I have a song to sing"
      03:21
    • 13. "Well sung and well danced!"
      01:25
    • 14. "How say you, maiden"
      02:33
    • 15. "And so, good fellow" - "I've jibe and joke"
      02:00
    • 16. "But I trust you are very careful"
      00:52
    • 17. "'Tis done! I am a bride!"
      04:00
    • 18. "'Tis an odd freak"
      01:54
    • 19. "Oh, how I would love thee!" - "Where I thy bride"
      02:08
    • 20. "The deed is, so far, safely accompished"
      00:33
    • 21. "Oh, Sergeant Meryll" - "Ye Tower Warders" - "Leonard Meryll!" - "Forbear, my friends" - "Didst thou not" - "Leonard!" - "As escort for the prisoner"
      17:25

  • Act II

    • 1. "Night has spread her pall once more"
      04:13
    • 2. "The merry jests of Hugh Ambrose"
      01:40
    • 3. "Oh! a private buffoon"
      02:23
    • 4. "And so thou wouldst be a jester, eh?"
      01:06
    • 5. "Hereupon we're both agreed"
      01:44
    • 6. "Two days gone"
      00:30
    • 7. "Free from his fetters grim"
      02:32
    • 8. "Well, Sergeant Meryll"
      01:58
    • 9. "Strange adventure!"
      02:48
    • 10. "So my mysterious bride"
      02:39
    • 11. "Hark! What was that, sir?" - "Who fired that shot?" "Like a ghost his vigil keeping..." - "The river must be dragged"
      03:29
    • 12. "Nay, sweetheart, be comforted"
      01:07
    • 13. "A man who would woo a fair maid"
      03:46
    • 14. "Now listen to me"
      01:33
    • 15. "When a wooer goes a-wooing"
      03:03
    • 16. "Before I pretend to be a sister to anybody again"
      04:08
    • 17. "Rapture, rapture!"
      01:29
    • 18. "Comes the pretty young bride" - "'Tis said to you" - "Hold, pretty one!"
      10:56