‎Verdi: La Traviata by English National Opera Orchestra — Apple Music Classical

Prelude

Sir Charles Mackerras, English National Opera Orchestra

4:03

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

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

4:52

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

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

3:01

What's that? (Alfredo, Violetta)

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

2:18

I saw a vision ethereal (Alfredo, Violetta)

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

3:10

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

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

1:18

We present ourselves before you (Chorus)

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

1:42

I wonder! I wonder! (Violetta)

Sir Charles Mackerras, English National Opera Orchestra, Valerie Masterson

1:04

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

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

2:47

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

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

0:56

Give me freedom to be happy (Violetta, Alfredo)

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

3:35

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

John Brecknock, English National Opera Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras

1:53

My life was too impetuous (Alfredo, Annina)

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

2:02

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

English National Opera Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras, Shelagh Squires, 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)

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

3:45

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

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

1:41

Do you realise I adore him (Violetta, Germont)

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

2:15

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

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

2:51

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

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

4:22

Then command me! (Violetta, Germont)

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

1:20

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

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

3:43

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

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

1:45

What's that? Nothing (Alfredo, Violetta)

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

2:17

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

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

2:17

in Provence, your native land (Germont)

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

4:03

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

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

0:46

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

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

1:56

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

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

1:04

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

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

2:50

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

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

2:40

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

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

4:08

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

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

2:29

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

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

1:31

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

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

1:49

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

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

4:14

Prelude II

Sir Charles Mackerras, English National Opera Orchestra

3:41

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

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

5:04

You have kept your promise… (Violetta)

English National Opera Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras, Valerie Masterson

1:49

Forever I must leave thee… (Violetta)

English National Opera Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras, 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)

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

1:45

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

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

4:11

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

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

1:21

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

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

2:18

Ah, Violetta! (Germont, Violetta, Alfredo)

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

1:38

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

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

0:51

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

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

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
Andrew March

Photography
Zoe Dominic

Photography