Pietro Mascagni: Opera - Cavalleria Rusticana (Chandos Audio CD)

Opera - Cavalleria Rusticana

Pietro Mascagni

Cavalleria Rusticana 79:31
Country Manners, (1890-Rome)
Melodrama in one act by G. Targioni-Tozzetti and G Menasci
English translation by Edmund Tracey
1 Prelude - 2:40
Siciliana
2 Turiddu 'O Lola with your skin white as the lily' - 1:56
3 Prelude (conclusion) - 3:30
4 Chorus 'Ah! Ah!' - 2:46
5 'Spring has returned' - 5:29
Scena and Alfio's Song
6 Santuzza 'Tell me, mamma Lucia' 5:06
7 Alfio 'Horses champing at the bit' 2:54
Scena and Prayer
8 Lucia 'Good for you mister Alfio' 0:33
Easter Hymn
9 Alfio 'I must be going!' 7:41
Romance and Scena
10 Santuzza 'You know your son, Turiddu' 6:34
Scena
11 Turiddu 'What do you want Santuzza' 3:52
Lola's Song
12 Lola 'Sweet flow'rs I bring you' 3:55
13 Santuzza 'No, no, Turiddu' 5:56
14 Santuzza 'Oh! So my prayer has been answered' 3:58
15 Alfio 'I'd like to thank you' 2:05
16 Intermezzo 3:59
Scena Chorus and Brindisi
17 Chorus 'The service is over this Easter' 2:52
18 Turiddu 'Neighbours, with a glass I meet you' 2:33
Finale
19 Alfio 'All the blessings of Easter!' 2:25
20 Turiddu 'Alfio, listen' 2:45
21 Turiddu 'The wine is making me talk nonsense' 6:00


Dennis O'Neill tenor - Turiddu
Nelly Miricioiu soprano - Santuzza
Phillip Joll baritone - Alfio
Diana Montague soprano - Lola
Elizabeth Bainbridge contralto - Lucia
Peter Kay Children`s Choir
Geoffrey Mitchell Choir

London Philharmonic Orchestra
David Parry

Recorded in:
Blackheath Halls, London
3-5 August 1997

Producer(s)
Brian Couzens

Sound Engineer(s)
Ben Connellan
Richard Smoker (Assistant)
Format: DDD
Bit Rate: 20 Bit