‎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)

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

4:52

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

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

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)

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

3:10

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

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

Sir Charles Mackerras, English National Opera Orchestra, Valerie Masterson

1:04

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

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

2:47

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

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

0:56

Give me freedom to be happy (Violetta, Alfredo)

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

3:35

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

John Brecknock, Sir Charles Mackerras, English National Opera Orchestra

1:53

My life was too impetuous (Alfredo, Annina)

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

2:02

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

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

0:45

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

English National Opera Orchestra, John Brecknock, Sir Charles Mackerras

1:37

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

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

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

2:15

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

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

2:51

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

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

4:22

Then command me! (Violetta, Germont)

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

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

1:45

What's that? Nothing (Alfredo, Violetta)

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

2:17

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

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

2:17

in Provence, your native land (Germont)

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

4:03

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

English National Opera Orchestra, John Brecknock, 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)

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

1:04

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

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

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)

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

4:08

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

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

2:29

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

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

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)

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

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

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

2:52

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

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

0:50

Dear Madam - (Annina, Violetta, Alfredo)

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

1:45

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

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

4:11

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

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

1:21

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

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

2:18

Ah, Violetta! (Germont, Violetta, Alfredo)

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

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

John Fraser

Producer
Victor Morris

Assistant
Stuart Eltham

Engineer
Zoe Dominic

Photography
Andrew March

Photography