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Topsy-Turvy - The Music of Gilbert & Sullivan: From the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0074646183427
Format: Soundtrack
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Sony
Release Date: December 07, 1999
Sales Rank: 43667
Studio: Sony



Disc 1:
  1. Behold! The Lord High Executioner
  2. Overture
  3. Three Little Maids From School Are We
  4. Overture
  5. If You Give Me Your Attention
  6. Paris Galop (from 'The Grand Duke')
  7. Mi-Ya Sa-Ma and A More Humane Mikado
  8. But Soft ... / Why, Where Be Oi?
  9. Alone (after music from 'The Yeomen of the Guard')
  10. The Criminal Cried As He Dropped Him Down
  11. Overture
  12. A Wand'ring Minstrel I
  13. The Sun Whose Rays Are All Ablaze
  14. End Titles (after music from 'The Pirates of Penzance' and 'The Grand Duke')
  15. Incantation
  16. The Fitting (after music from 'The Gondoliers')
  17. The Lost Chord - Gilbert, William Sc
  18. The Mikado: Finale, Act Two
  19. Resolutions (after music from 'The Long Day Closes')
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Editorial Review:

Amazon.com:
The producers of Mike Leigh's vibrant Topsy-Turvy took many big studio meetings seeking financing for their film. Word has it all went swimmingly until time for the pitch came--there are apparently no two words as unsettling to Hollywood film execs as 'Gilbert & Sullivan.' But the studio system's loss turned out to be the indie film's--and our--gain. Leigh's film brought the composers' late-19th-century mounting of their breakthrough The Mikado to an all-too-familiar life, filled with as many neuroses, foibles, and fragile egos as any modern Broadway musical. The film's score, an inviting pastiche adapted from Mikado (and other G&S staples) by veteran Carl Davis, may upset purists with its time-conscious liberties. But then, it might just win over a receptive yet unexposed new audience for whom this music may seem strangely familiar, as well it should: this is where modern musical theater began. --Jerry McCulley



Customer Reviews
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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - 19th Century Sainthood
The society may have been insufferable, but the theaters were grand. The 19th century wasn't much ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Here's a How-De-Do!
It's brilliant, really! I am a self-confessed Gilbert and Sullivan fanatic, and so the release of ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Topsy-Turvy is TOPS!!!
This is Gilbert and Sullivan like you will never hear again! These performances are so fresh and alive ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Superb
This is a fantastic cd, one that I have listened to many many times without growing tired of it. The particularly ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Better than many a G&S non-sountrack
I was compelled to get this after seeing the overlong, flawed, but nonetheless all-around amazing 'Topsy Turvy'. (Seriously ... Read More

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