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CHAN 3036
Multiple Set of 2 CDs
Verdi: Il Trovatore (The Troubadour)
Running Time: 134:31
Release Date: August 2000
Originally recorded in December 1999
Composer (1813-1901)
Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Verdi
Baritone Voice baritone - Count di Luna
Alan Opie
Alan Opie
Solo bass - Ferrando
Clive Bayley
Clive Bayley
Solo soprano - Doña Leonora
Sharon Sweet
Sharon Sweet
Solo soprano - Inez
Helen Williams
Helen Williams
Solo mezzo-soprano - Azucena
Anne Mason
Anne Mason
Solo tenor - Manrico (The Troubadour)
Dennis O'Neill
Dennis O'Neill
Tenor Voice tenor - Ruiz
Mark Le Brocq
Mark Le Brocq
Choral
Geoffrey Mitchell Choir
Geoffrey Mitchell Choir
Orchestra
London Philharmonic Orchestra
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor
David Parry
David Parry
Venue
Blackheath Halls, London
Blackheath Halls, London
Producer
Brian Couzens
Brian Couzens
Engineer
Ralph Couzens
Ralph Couzens
Engineer (Assistant)
Richard Smoker
Richard Smoker
Genre:
Vocal & Song
Opera in English
Vocal & Song
Opera in English
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Opera - Il Trovatore (The Troubadour)
GIUSEPPE VERDI
(1813-1901)Il Trovatore
134:56
Opera in four acts
Text by Salvatore Cammarano, from the drama El trovador by Antonio Garcia Gutiérrez
English Translation by Tom Hammond
COMPACT DISC ONE
Part I
Scene 1
1.
'Wake up, there, wake up, there!'
3:06
Ferrando, Servants and Soldiers
2.
'Heav'n had giv'n my old master'
7:45
Ferrando, Servants and Soldiers
Scene 2
3.
'Come, wait no longer'
2:13
Inez and Leonora
4.
'The stars shone in the heav'ns above'
4:58
Leonora and Inez
5.
'No words can tell the measure'
1:42
Leonora and Inez
6.
'How still the night is'
2:08
Count di Luna
7.
'The Troubadour! The madman!' -
2:23
'Though naught on earth is left me'
Count di Luna, Manrico and Leonora
8.
'Who's speaking?'
1:37
Leonora, Count di Luna and Manrico
9.
'Jealous fury and slighted passion'
2:34
Count di Luna, Leonora and Manrico
Part II
Scene 1
10.
'See how the shadowy clouds are flying' ('Anvil Chorus')
2:42
Gipsies
11.
'Fierce flames are raging'
5:57
Azucena, Gipsies and Manrico
12.
'They brought her, fettered and pow'rless'
7:59
Azucena and Manrico
13.
'As we struggled he stumbled before me'
4:37
Manrico, Azucena and a Messenger
14.
'You are still too weak to venture'
2:19
Azucena and Manrico
Scene 2
15.
'All is deserted'
1:54
Count di Luna and Ferrando
16.
'In the stars that shine above me'
4:19
Count di Luna and Ferrando
17.
'The hour has come, no more delay'
3:03
Ferrando, Retainers and Count di Luna
18.
'Here in this world of sorrow'
5:07
Nuns, Count di Luna, Ferrando, Retainers, Leonora and Inez
19.
'Oh, can it be, can I believe'
4:46
Leonora, Count di Luna, Manrico, Inez, Ferrando, Nuns, Retainers, Ruiz and Followers
71:23
COMPACT DISC TWO
Part III
Scene 1
1.
'Though today we take our leisure' ('Soldiers' Chorus')
4:34
Soldiers and Ferrando
2.
'She's in my rival's arms!'
2:29
Count di Luna, Ferrando, Guards and Azucena
3.
'Though my life was poor and lowly'
3:12
Azucena, Ferrando, Count di Luna and Guards
4.
'Ah! Release me from these cruel bonds'
2:09
Azucena, Count di Luna, Ferrando and Guards
Scene 2
5.
'But what mean all these sounds of war around us?'
2:14
Leonora and Manrico
6.
'When holy church has blessed our love'
5:06
Manrico, Leonora and Ruiz
7.
'That fierce inferno, her cruel sentence'
3:17
Manrico, Leonora, Ruiz and Soldiers
Part IV
Scene 1
8.
'We're there now'
3:00
Ruiz and Leonora
9.
'Breeze of night, go seek him'
4:06
Leonora
10.
'Lord, have mercy upon a soul departing' ('Miserere')
5:13
Chorus, Leonora and Manrico
11.
'You will see that my devotion'
2:10
Leonora
12.
'Now hear me!'
1:54
Count di Luna and Leonora
13.
'See all these bitter tears of mine'
3:25
Leonora and Count di Luna
14.
'The man shall live' -
2:22
'He lives! I cannot speak for joy'
Count di Luna and Leonora
Scene 2
15.
'Mother, not sleeping?'
5:26
Manrico and Azucena
16.
'Yes, let me sleep for my limbss are weary . . .'
4:46
Azucena, Manrico and Leonora
17.
'You will not say?'
3:01
Manrico, Leonora and Azucena
18.
'Now leave me!'
4:58
Manrico, Leonora, Count di Luna and Azucena
63:33
Solo: Clive Bayley bass - Ferrando
Solo: Sharon Sweet soprano - Doña Leonora
Solo: Helen Williams soprano - Inez
Solo: Anne Mason mezzo-soprano - Azucena
Solo: Dennis O'Neill tenor - Manrico (The Troubadour)
Choral: Geoffrey Mitchell Choir
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: David Parry
16-20 December 1999
