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1 Leoncavallo's Pagliacci Canio's Aria 'Go on stage...' - 'Put on your costume' 2 Ponchielli's La Gioconda Enzo's Aria 'Heaven and sea!' 3 Verdi's Aida Radames' Recitative & Aria 'I pray that I be chosen' - 'Goddess Aida' 4 Verdi's Il trovatore Aria & Cabaletta 'When holy church has blessed...' with Sharon Sweet, soprano, Marc Le Brocq, tenor & Geoffrey Mitchell Choir 5 Verdi's Attila Trio of Odabella, Foresto & Ezio 'Foresto, my soul belongs to you' with Janice Watson, soprano & Alan Opie, baritone 6 (Donizetti's) Salvi's The Duke of Alba Marcello's Recitative & Aria 'Here, unobserved in this chapel' 7 Giordano's Andrea Chenier Chenier's Aria 'One day, gazing at the splendour of Heav'n's blue distance' 8 Chenier's Improvviso 'Just like a day in May time' 9 Verdi's Otello Otello & Iago's Duet 'Ah! Would that God had given him...' with Alan Opie, baritone 10 Otello's Death 11 Puccini's Tosca Cavaradossi's Recitative & Aria 'Give me my palette!' - 'How strange a thing is beauty' with Andrew Shore, baritone 12 Verdi's The Girl of the Golden West Johnson's Aria 'Let her believe that I have gained my freedom' 13 Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana Turiddu's Drinking Song 'My friends, don't go away' with Diana Montague, mezzo-soprano & Geoffrey Mitchell Choir 14 Finale 'Mamma, mamma, this wine...' with Nelly Miricioiu, soprano, Diana Montague, mezzo-soprano, Elizabeth Bainbridge, contralto & Geoffrey Mitchell Choir
Bonus tracks
15 Rossini's Armida Trio of Ronaldo, Carlo & Ubaldo 'I lost the will to action' with tenors Bruce Ford & Barry Banks (PMF Scholar) 16 Puccini's La bohème Rodolfo's Aria 'Your tiny hand is frozen'
London Philharmonic Orchestra - tracks 1, 2, 4-10 & 12-15; Philharmonia Orchestra - tracks 3, 11 & 16 David Parry - conductor
Recorded in Blackheath Halls, London 7-10 August 1997 - Track 1, 3-7 March 2003 - Tracks 2, 5-10, 12 &15, 23-28 April 2001 - Track 3, 16-20 December 1999 - Track 4, 25-27 & 29-30 August 1995 - Track 11, 3-5 August 1997 - Tracks 13 & 14, 3-7 September 1997 - Track 16 Producer - Brian Couzens, Sound engineers - Jonathan Cooper - tracks 2, 5-10, 12 & 15; Ralph Couzens - tracks 3, 4, 11 & 16; Ben Connellan - tracks 1, 13 & 14 |