‎Verdi: La Traviata by Sir Charles Mackerras — Apple Music Classical

Prelude

English National Opera Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras

4:03

What a time to arrive at a party! (Chorus, Violetta, Flora, Marquis, Gaston, Alfredo, Baron)

English National Opera Chorus, Denis Dowling, English National Opera Orchestra, Della Jones, Sir Charles Mackerras, Geoffrey Pogson, John Brecknock, Georffrey Pogson, Valerie Masterson, Dennis Dowling

4:52

Be happy, be happy and raise your glass with me (Alfredo, Violetta, Chorus)

English National Opera Orchestra, English National Opera Chorus, Sir Charles Mackerras, Valerie Masterson, John Brecknock

3:01

What's that? (Alfredo, Violetta)

English National Opera Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras, John Brecknock, Valerie Masterson

2:18

I saw a vision ethereal (Alfredo, Violetta)

Valerie Masterson, English National Opera Orchestra, John Brecknock, Sir Charles Mackerras

3:10

Ha, ha! What are you doing? (Gaston, Violetta, Alfredo)

Sir Charles Mackerras, Geoffrey Pogson, English National Opera Orchestra, Valerie Masterson, John Brecknock, Georffrey Pogson

1:18

We present ourselves before you (Chorus)

Sir Charles Mackerras, English National Opera Chorus, English National Opera Orchestra

1:42

I wonder! I wonder! (Violetta)

English National Opera Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras, Valerie Masterson

1:04

Is he the one I dream about? (Violetta, Alfredo)

Sir Charles Mackerras, English National Opera Orchestra, John Brecknock, Valerie Masterson

2:47

It can't be! It can't be! (Violetta, Alfredo)

English National Opera Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras, John Brecknock, Valerie Masterson

0:56

Give me freedom to be happy (Violetta, Alfredo)

English National Opera Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras, John Brecknock, Valerie Masterson

3:35

I'm never happy if she is not beside me (Alfredo)

Sir Charles Mackerras, English National Opera Orchestra, John Brecknock

1:53

My life was too impetuous (Alfredo, Annina)

Shelagh Squires, Sir Charles Mackerras, English National Opera Orchestra, John Brecknock

2:02

Annina, where have you been? (Alfredo, Annina)

Sir Charles Mackerras, Shelagh Squires, English National Opera Orchestra, John Brecknock

0:45

I hate myself! I'm so ashamed! (Alfredo)

Sir Charles Mackerras, English National Opera Orchestra, John Brecknock

1:37

Alfredo? He has just set out for Paris (Violetta, Annina, Joseph, Germont)

Sir Charles Mackerras, Christian Du Plessis, English National Opera Orchestra, Shelagh Squires, Edward Byles, Valerie Masterson

3:45

I have a daughter sent from Heav'n (Germont, Violetta)

Sir Charles Mackerras, English National Opera Orchestra, Valerie Masterson, Christian Du Plessis, Christian Johannes Du Plessis

1:41

Do you realise I adore him (Violetta, Germont)

English National Opera Orchestra, Christian Du Plessis, Sir Charles Mackerras, Valerie Masterson

2:15

A day will come when making love… (Violetta, Germont)

English National Opera Orchestra, Christian Du Plessis, Valerie Masterson, Sir Charles Mackerras, Christian Johannes Du Plessis

2:51

Ah! Comfort your daughter so pure and lovely (Violetta, Germont)

English National Opera Orchestra, Christian Du Plessis, Sir Charles Mackerras, Valerie Masterson

4:22

Then command me! (Violetta, Germont)

Christian Du Plessis, English National Opera Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras, Valerie Masterson

1:20

I'll die! But you must promise me. (Violetta, Germont)

English National Opera Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras, Christian Du Plessis, Valerie Masterson

3:43

God give me strength to bear it! (Violetta, Annina)

Shelagh Squires, Sir Charles Mackerras, English National Opera Orchestra, Valerie Masterson

1:45

What's that? Nothing (Alfredo, Violetta)

Valerie Masterson, English National Opera Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras, John Brecknock

2:17

Ah, she is mine forever (Alfredo, Joseph, A Passer-by, Germont)

John Kitchiner, English National Opera Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras, Edward Byles, Christian Du Plessis, John Brecknock

2:17

in Provence, your native land (Germont)

English National Opera Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras, Christian Du Plessis, Christian Johannes Du Plessis

4:03

Won't you answer your father, Alfredo? (Germont, Alfredo)

Christian Du Plessis, Sir Charles Mackerras, English National Opera Orchestra, John Brecknock, Christian Johannes Du Plessis

0:46

No., no, I cannot preach at you (Germont, Alfredo)

Sir Charles Mackerras, English National Opera Orchestra, Christian Du Plessis, John Brecknock, Christian Johannes Du Plessis

1:56

The surprise is a band of dancing gipsies (Flora, Marquis, Doctor, Chorus)

Della Jones, English National Opera Orchestra, Denis Dowling, English National Opera Chorus, Roderick Earle, Sir Charles Mackerras

1:04

We're gipsy fortune tellers (Gipsies, Flora, Marquis, Chorus)

Della Jones, Sir Charles Mackerras, English National Opera Orchestra, Denis Dowling, English National Opera Chorus

2:50

We are heroes, in Spain they adore us (Gaston, Matadors, Chorus)

English National Opera Chorus, English National Opera Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras, Geoffrey Pogson, Georffrey Pogson

2:40

Alfredo! You! (Chorus, Alfredo, Flora, Violetta, Baron, Gaston, Servant)

English National Opera Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras, English National Opera Chorus, John Gibbs, Geoffrey Pogson, Della Jones, John Brecknock, Valerie Masterson, Georffrey Pogson

4:08

I have asked him here to meet me (Violetta, Alfredo, Chorus)

English National Opera Chorus, English National Opera Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras, John Brecknock, Valerie Masterson

2:29

All that she had she spent on me (Alfredo, Chorus)

English National Opera Chorus, English National Opera Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras, John Brecknock

1:31

Disgraceful conduct! How I despise you! (Germont, Alfredo, Baron, Chorus)

John Gibbs, English National Opera Orchestra, English National Opera Chorus, Christian Du Plessis, Sir Charles Mackerras, John Brecknock, Christian Johannes Du Plessis

1:49

Alfredo, Alfredo, you hate and scorn me (Violetta, Alfredo, Germont, Baron, Chorus)

John Gibbs, English National Opera Orchestra, English National Opera Chorus, Christian Du Plessis, Sir Charles Mackerras, John Brecknock, Valerie Masterson, Christian Johannes Du Plessis

4:14

Prelude II

English National Opera Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras

3:41

Annina? Did you call me? (Violetta, Annina, Doctor)

Shelagh Squires, English National Opera Orchestra, Roderick Earle, Sir Charles Mackerras, Valerie Masterson

5:04

You have kept your promise… (Violetta)

Sir Charles Mackerras, English National Opera Orchestra, Valerie Masterson

1:49

Forever I must leave thee… (Violetta)

Sir Charles Mackerras, English National Opera Orchestra, Valerie Masterson, English National Opera Chorus

2:52

Hail to the carnival's four-footed master! (Chorus of Revellers)

English National Opera Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras, English National Opera Chorus

0:50

Dear Madam - (Annina, Violetta, Alfredo)

Sir Charles Mackerras, Valerie Masterson, Shelagh Squires, English National Opera Orchestra, John Brecknock

1:45

Come, bid farewell to Paris forever (Alfredo, Violetta)

Valerie Masterson, English National Opera Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras, John Brecknock

4:11

Ah, no more, Alfredo, let's go to church now (Violetta, Alfredo)

English National Opera Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras, John Brecknock, Valerie Masterson

1:21

But if my loved one cannot revive me (Violetta, Alfredo)

Sir Charles Mackerras, English National Opera Orchestra, John Brecknock, Valerie Masterson

2:18

Ah, Violetta! (Germont, Violetta, Alfredo)

Sir Charles Mackerras, Christian Du Plessis, Valerie Masterson, English National Opera Orchestra, John Brecknock, Christian Johannes Du Plessis

1:38

Listen! I have a picture here (Violetta, Alfredo, Germont)

English National Opera Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras, Christian Du Plessis, John Brecknock, Valerie Masterson

0:51

I see a pure and lovely girl (Violetta, Germont, Doctor, Annina, Alfredo)

Christian Du Plessis, Roderick Earle, English National Opera Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras, John Brecknock, Shelagh Squires, Christian Johannes Du Plessis, Valerie Masterson

3:08

Giuseppe Verdi

Composer
Sir Charles Mackerras

Conductor
English National Opera Chorus

Choir
Della Jones

Mezzo-Soprano
Valerie Masterson

Soprano

Victor Morris

Assistant
John Fraser

Producer
Stuart Eltham

Engineer
Zoe Dominic

Photography
Andrew March

Photography