‎Verdi: La Traviata by Sir Charles Mackerras — 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, Della Jones, Sir Charles Mackerras, Denis Dowling, Geoffrey Pogson, John Brecknock, English National Opera Chorus, Georffrey Pogson, Valerie Masterson, Dennis Dowling

4:52

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

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

3:01

What's that? (Alfredo, Violetta)

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

2:18

I saw a vision ethereal (Alfredo, Violetta)

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

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)

English National Opera Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras, Valerie Masterson

1:04

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

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

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

3:35

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

Sir Charles Mackerras, John Brecknock, English National Opera Orchestra

1:53

My life was too impetuous (Alfredo, Annina)

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

2:02

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

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

0:45

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

John Brecknock, Sir Charles Mackerras, English National Opera Orchestra

1:37

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

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

3:45

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

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

1:41

Do you realise I adore him (Violetta, Germont)

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

2:15

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

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

2:51

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

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

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

3:43

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

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

1:45

What's that? Nothing (Alfredo, Violetta)

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

2:17

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

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

2:17

in Provence, your native land (Germont)

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

4:03

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

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

0:46

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

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

1:56

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

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

1:04

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

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

2:50

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

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

2:40

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

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

4:08

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

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

2:29

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

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

1:31

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

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

1:49

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

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

4:14

Prelude II

English National Opera Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras

3:41

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

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

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

2:52

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

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

0:50

Dear Madam - (Annina, Violetta, Alfredo)

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

1:45

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

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

4:11

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

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

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

1:38

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

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

0:51

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

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

3:08

Giuseppe Verdi

Composer
Sir Charles Mackerras

Conductor
Della Jones

Mezzo-Soprano
English National Opera Chorus

Choir
Valerie Masterson

Soprano

John Fraser

Producer
Victor Morris

Assistant
Stuart Eltham

Engineer
Zoe Dominic

Photography
Andrew March

Photography