Six Recordings of The Mikado
A Comparison of Timings
By Riley Pritchett
| Movement | ||||||
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Overture |
8:27 |
8:00 |
[1] 4:53 |
7:28 |
7:03 |
Omitted |
|
ACT I | ||||||
|
No. 1 "If you want to know who we are" |
2:39 |
[2] 2:56 |
2:15 |
2:26 |
2:13 |
2:16 |
|
"Gentlemen, I pray you tell me" |
0:45 |
0:41 |
0:41 |
0:43 |
0:44 | |
|
No. 2 "A wand'ring minstrel I" |
4:14 |
4:31 |
4:22 |
4:30 |
3:50 |
4:18 |
|
No. 3 "Our great Mikado, virtuous man" |
3:08 |
2:53 |
2:45 |
3:07 |
2:44 |
2:54 |
|
No. 4 "Young man, despair, likewise go to" |
2:40 |
2:57 |
2:35 |
2:46 |
2:21 |
2:43 |
|
No. 4a "And have I journey'd for a month" |
0:50 |
1:00 |
0:43 |
0:51 |
0:47 |
0:48 |
|
No. 5 "Behold the Lord High Executioner!" |
2:54 |
2:23 |
2:31 |
2:34 |
2:39 |
2:37 |
|
No. 5a "As some day it may happen" |
2:25 |
1:59 |
2:09 |
2:19 |
2:29 |
[3] 1:58 |
|
No. 6 "Comes a train of little ladies" |
2:11 |
2:15 |
2:26 |
2:14 |
2:08 |
2:11 |
|
No. 7 "Three little maids from school are we" |
1:31 |
1:27 |
1:24 |
1:24 |
1:29 |
1:29 |
|
No. 8 "So please you sir, we much regret" |
2:02 |
1:58 |
1:48 |
1:59 |
1:51 |
1:52 |
|
No. 9 "Were you not to Ko-Ko plighted" |
2:29 |
2:30 |
2:27 |
2:30 |
[4] 4:05 |
2:24 |
|
No. 10 "I am so proud" |
2:58 |
2:53 |
2:52 |
3:13 |
2:53 |
2:57 |
|
No. 11 Finale, Act I "With aspect stern" |
14:58 |
14:23 |
13:16 |
14:59 |
13:04 |
[5] 14:16 |
| ACT II | ||||||
|
No. 1 "Braid the raven hair" |
3:20 |
3:29 |
3:55 |
3:37 |
3:06 |
3:22 |
|
No. 2 "The sun, whose rays are all ablaze" |
2:59 |
2:38 |
2:35 |
3:04 |
2:43 |
3:07 |
|
No. 3 "Brightly dawns our wedding day" |
4:16 |
4:02 |
3:29 |
3:42 |
3:12 |
3:54 |
|
No. 4 "Here's a how-de-do!" |
1:19 |
1:13 |
1:10 |
1:21 |
1:17 |
1:12 |
|
No. 5 "Miya sama, miya sama" |
2:45 |
3:01 |
3:00 |
3:00 |
[6] 3:58 |
2:45 |
|
No. 6 "A more humane Mikado" |
4:14 |
4:24 |
4:02 |
4:30 |
4:04 |
4:02 |
|
No. 7 "The criminal cried as he dropped him down" |
3:14 |
3:24 |
3:29 |
3:30 |
3:21 |
3:21 |
|
No. 8 "See how the fates their gifts allot" |
2:03 |
2:23 |
1:46 |
2:10 |
1:40 |
2:00 |
|
No. 9 "The flowers that bloom in the spring" |
1:50 |
1:23 |
1:39 |
1:35 |
1:30 |
1:34 |
|
No. 10 "Alone, and yet alive" |
0:49 |
0:49 |
0:42 |
0:45 |
0:47 |
0:47 |
|
"Hearts do not break" |
2:00 |
1:58 |
1:55 |
1:52 |
1:53 |
2:06 |
|
No. 11 "On a tree by a river" |
3:04 |
2:17 |
2:20 |
2:22 |
3:00 |
2:28 |
|
No. 12 "There is beauty in the bellow of the blast" |
2:12 |
2:09 |
2:02 |
2:12 |
1:53 |
1:58 |
|
Fanfare |
Omitted |
0:11 |
Omitted |
0:11 |
Omitted |
Omitted |
|
No. 13 Finale, Act II "For he's gone and married Yum-Yum" |
2:03 |
1:56 |
1:52 |
2:05 |
1:52 |
1:47 |
Notes:
