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CHAN 3017
Multiple Set of 2 CDs
Donizetti: Mary Stuart
Running Time: 136:05
Release Date: April 1999
Originally recorded in April 1982
Composer
Gaetano Donizetti
Gaetano Donizetti
Solo mezzo-soprano - Mary Stuart
Dame Janet Baker
Dame Janet Baker
Soprano Voice soprano - Queen Elizabeth I
Rosalind Plowright
Rosalind Plowright
Solo tenor - Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
David Rendall
David Rendall
Baritone Voice baritone - Sir William Cecil
Alan Opie
Alan Opie
Bass Voice bass - George Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury
Sir John Tomlinson
Sir John Tomlinson
Solo soprano - Hannah Kennedy
Angela Bostock
Angela Bostock
Orchestra
English National Opera Orchestra
English National Opera Orchestra
Conductor
Sir Charles Mackerras
Sir Charles Mackerras
Venue
Live from the London Coliseum
Live from the London Coliseum
Producer
John Fraser
John Fraser
Engineer
Stuart Eltham
Stuart Eltham
Engineer
Michael Sheady
Michael Sheady
Genre:
Vocal & Song
Opera in English
Vocal & Song
Opera in English
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Opera - Mary Stuart
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Mary Stuart
136:06
Libretto by Giuseppe Bardari after Schiller
English Translation by Tom Hammond
COMPACT DISC ONE
1.
Prelude
1:36
Act I
2.
'Let us wait here'
2:35
Chorus, Voice
3.
'Yes, but the French Prince is seeking . . .'
1:13
Elizabeth
4.
'If fortune one day should send to me . . .'
3:16
5.
'In this moment of rejoicing'
1:49
Talbot, Chorus, Elizabeth, Cecil
6.
'May the light of wisdom and justice'
4:24
Elizabeth, Chorus, Cecil
7.
'But, where is the Earl of Leicester?'
2:11
Elizabeth, Cecil, Leicester
8.
'Did you not ask to see me, earlier today?'
2:15
Leicester, Talbot
9.
'I remember these lovely features'
3:37
10.
'If she dare trust in me'
1:47
11.
'Do I disturb you?'
2:09
Elizabeth, Leicester
12.
'How affecting . . .' 'Is she relenting?'
1:47
13.
'When I first looked upon her face'
4:36
14.
'My arrogant rival has long sought to rob me'
2:15
Act II
15.
'Why run so fast, my lady?'
3:00
Hannah, Mary
16.
'You murmuring breezes . . .'
3:45
Mary
17.
'What tumult! Those voices!'
0:56
Mary, Chorus, Hannah
18.
'In the peace of my gloomy seclusion'
3:36
Mary, Hannah, Ladies
19.
'Ah! May this joy not deceive me'
1:47
Mary, Leicester
20.
'Long by the world forsaken'
4:34
21.
'All too well I surely know her!'
3:37
'Ah! Though my spirit never faltered'
22.
'What place is this then?'
2:24
Elizabeth, Leicester, Cecil, Talbot, Mary
23.
'Report has not failed me'
2:38
Elizabeth, Mary, Talbot, Hannah, Leicester, Cecil
24.
'Bid her welcome!'
0:41
Leicester, Elizabeth, Talbot, Mary
25.
'Dead to justice, throne and kingdom'
7:18
Mary, Cecil, Elizabeth, Leicester, Talbot
26.
'Go, prepare yourself for sentence'
2:03
Elizabeth, Cecil, Mary, Hannah, Leicester, Talbot, Chorus
71:47
COMPACT DISC TWO
Act III
Scene 1
1.
'Still pensive? Still delaying?'
4:00
Cecil, Elizabeth
2.
'While she's living I'm still in danger'
3:40
3.
'Your Highness!' 'You do but speed her execution'
4:51
Leicester, Elizabeth, Cecil
4.
'You have conspired a sister's death'
3:44
Scene 2
5.
'Elizabeth will continue to mock and insult me'
4:53
Mary, Cecil
6.
'Oh faithful Talbot!'
5:05
Mary, Talbot
7.
'Once all the radiant joys of youth'
4:18
8.
'There still remains another charge'
0:58
9.
'No, I never turned from my Saviour'
1:25
10.
'Go leave this world of grief behind'
3:03
Scene 3
11.
'You saw them?'
6:28
Chorus
12.
'Hannah!' 'Do not disturb her'
4:42
Chorus, Hannah, Mary
13.
'Oh, deign to hear our prayer, merciful Saviour!'
4:04
14.
'The signal'
1:27
All, Cecil, Mary
15.
'Death hovers near me, so take my pardon'
4:03
Mary, Hannah, Talbot, Chorus, Cecil
16.
'Leicester approaches'
2:21
Talbot, Mary, Leicester, Cecil
17.
'Though you once made a vow to protect me'
5:14
Mary, Leicester, Talbot, Hannah, Chorus, Cecil
64:19
Solo: Dame Janet Baker mezzo-soprano - Mary Stuart
Solo: David Rendall tenor - Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
Solo: Angela Bostock soprano - Hannah Kennedy
Choral: English National Opera Chorus
Orchestra: English National Opera Orchestra
Conductor: Sir Charles Mackerras
1, 10, 14 & 22 April 1982
