‎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)

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

4:52

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

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

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)

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

3:10

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

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

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, Sir Charles Mackerras, 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)

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

2:02

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

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

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)

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

3:45

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

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

1:41

Do you realise I adore him (Violetta, Germont)

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

2:15

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

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

2:51

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

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

4:22

Then command me! (Violetta, Germont)

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

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

1:45

What's that? Nothing (Alfredo, Violetta)

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

2:17

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

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

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)

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

0:46

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

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

1:56

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

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

1:04

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

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

2:50

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

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

2:40

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

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

4:08

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

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

2:29

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

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

1:31

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

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

1:49

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

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

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

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

1:45

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

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

4:11

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

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

1:21

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

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

2:18

Ah, Violetta! (Germont, Violetta, Alfredo)

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

1:38

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

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

0:51

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

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

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