The composer Arthur Sullivan and the dramatist W. S. Gilbert joined forces in 1871, and over the next 25 years produced a series of 14 comic operas. Sullivan's tuneful and memorable melodies and Gilbert's amusing words and dialogue - which frequently made fun of British national characteristics and institutions such as the Royal Navy - are as fresh and amusing today as they were over a hundred years ago. Songs vary immensely in style, and apart from the clearly comical include others, such as 'T...

• Three Little Maids from School (from ‘The Mikado’)
• The Sun, Whose Rays (from ‘The Mikado’)
• The Flowers that Bloom in the Spring (from ‘The Mikado’)
• Take a Pair of Sparkling Eyes (from ‘The Gondoliers’)
• Dance a Cachucha (from ‘The Gondoliers’)
• When Maiden Loves (from ‘The Yeomen of the Guard’)
• Little Buttercup (from ‘H.M.S. Pinafore’)
• Poor Wand’ring One (from ‘The Pirates of Penzance’)
• The Policeman’s Song (from ‘The Pirates of Penzance’)
• Happy Young Heart (from ‘The Sorcerer’...