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

4:52

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

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

3:01

What's that? (Alfredo, Violetta)

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

2:18

I saw a vision ethereal (Alfredo, Violetta)

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

3:10

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

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

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, English National Opera Orchestra, John Brecknock

1:53

My life was too impetuous (Alfredo, Annina)

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

2:02

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

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

0:45

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

English National Opera Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras, John Brecknock

1:37

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

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

3:45

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

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

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

3:43

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

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

1:45

What's that? Nothing (Alfredo, Violetta)

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

2:17

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

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

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, Sir Charles Mackerras, Christian Du Plessis, John Brecknock, 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)

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

1:04

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

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

2:50

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

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

2:40

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

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

1:31

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

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

1:49

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

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

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

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 Chorus, English National Opera Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras

0:50

Dear Madam - (Annina, Violetta, Alfredo)

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

1:45

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

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

2:18

Ah, Violetta! (Germont, Violetta, Alfredo)

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

1:38

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

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

0:51

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

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

Photography
Andrew March

Photography