Tracks: 1. 'The Mikado': Behold! The Lord High Executioner - Carl Davis
2. 'The Mikado': Overture - Carl Davis
3. 'The Mikado': Three Little Maids From School Are We - Dorothy Atkinson/Shirley Henderson/Cathy Sara
4. 'Princess Ida': Overture - Carl Davis
5. 'Princess Ida': If You Give Me Your Attention - Martin Savage
6. 'The Grand Duke': Paris Galop - Carl Davis
7. 'The Mikado': Mi-Ya Sa-Ma/A More Humane Mikado - Louise Gold/Timothy Spall
8. 'The Sorcerer': But Soft.../Why, Where Be Oi? - Shirley Henderson/Kevin McKidd/Martin Savage
9. 'The Yeomen Of The Guard': Alone - Carl Davis
10. 'The Mikado': The Criminal Cried As He Dropped Him Down - Dorothy Atkinson/Vincent Franklin/Martin Savage
11. 'The Yeomen Of The Guard': Overture - Carl Davis
12. 'The Mikado': A Wand'ring Minstrel I - Kevin McKidd/Michael Simkins
13. 'The Mikado': The Sun Whose Rays Are All Ablaze - Shirley Henderson
14. End Titles ('The Pirates Of Penzance'/'The Grand Duke') - Carl Davis
15. 'The Sorcerer': Incantation - Shirley Henderson/Kevin McKidd/Martin Savage
16. 'The Gondoliers': The Fitting - Ian Balmain
17. The Lost Chord - Eleanor David/John Constable/Shelagh Sutherland
18. 'The Mikado': The Mikado: Finale, Act Two - Dorothy Atkinson/Vincent Franklin/Louise Gold/Shirley Henderson/Kevin McKidd/Cathy Sara...
19. 'The Long Day Closes': Resolutions - Carl Davis
Posted 2007-08-05 20:52:47: Amazon.com Editoral Review: 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
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