Opera - Turandot

Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)


Turandot 118:39
Lyric drama in three acts
Libretto by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni, after Gozzi's dramatic fairy-tale

COMPACT DISC ONE
Act I
1 'People of proud Peking' 4:11
Mandarin, Crowd, Guards, Liù, Unknown Prince, Timur
2 'When all was lost' 1:21
Timur, Unknown Prince, Liù, Crowd
3 'Sharpen the axe!' 2:27
Crowd, Executioner's Assistant
4 'Is the moon never rising?' 4:45
Crowd
5 'How young to die!' 5:27
Crowd, Unknown Prince, White Priests of the Procession
6 'Son, are you mad?' 1:47
Timur, Unknown Prince, Liù, Prince of Persia, Crowd
7 'What do you want? Who are you?' 1:54
Ping, Pong, Pang, Unknown Prince
8 'Why so much noise?' 1:45
Turandot's Handmaidens, Ping, Pong, Pang, Unknown Prince, Timur
9 'Nights without a gleam of starlight . . .' 2:35
Pang, Pong, Ping, Voices of the Shadows, Unknown Prince, Timur
10 'I beg you, hear me' 2:29
Liù
11 'Don't cry for me, Liù' 2:07
Unknown Prince, Liù, Timur
12 'Ah! How can you ignore us?' 2:36
Timur, Liù, Ping, Pong, Pang, Unknown Prince, Crowd

Act II
Scene 1
13 'Hallo Pang! Hallo Pong!' 3:10
14 'I've a house in fair Honan' 4:11
Ping, Pong, Pang
15 'Do you remember when the Royal Prince of Samarkand came?' 5:17
Ping, Voices within, Pong, Pang

Scene 2
16 'With the three enigmas ready' 4:26
Crowd
17 'I am the pris'ner of a ghastly promise' 4:20
Emperor, Unknown Prince, Crowd
18 'People of proud Peking!' 1:50
Mandarin, Crowd
19 'Within this Palace a story lives forever' 2:38
Turandot, Crowd
20 'O Princess who in caravans of splendour' 3:24
Turandot, Unknown Prince, Crowd
21 'O stranger, now listen!' 7:54
Turandot, Unknown Prince, Sages, Emperor, Crowd, Liù
22 'Emp'ror and father! Son of Heaven!' 3:01
Turandot, Emperor, Crowd, Unknown Prince
23 'Three enigmas that you asked me' 4:18
Raimondo, Lucia
78:13

COMPACT DISC TWO
Act III
Scene 1
1 'The Princess Turandot commands' 3:18
Heralds, Distant Voices
2 'None shall sleep now!' 3:30
Unknown Prince, Women's Voices, Ping, Pong, Pang
3 'These girls should please you!' 4:07
Ping, Pong, Pang, Maidens, Unknown Prince, Crowd, Guards
4 'How pale you look, O stranger!' 3:18
Turandot, Unkown Prince, Liù, Crowd, Ping, Timur
5 'Yes, I love him so deeply!' 3:21
Liù, Turandot, Ping, Unknown Prince, Crowd
6 'You who with ice are shrouded' 2:58
Liù, Crowd, Unknown Prince
7 'Liù!. . . Liù!. . . Wake up!' 4:49
Timur, Ping, Crowd, Pong, Pang
8 'Deathly Princess, so heartless!' 3:24
Unknown Prince, Turandot
9 'What have you done?' 3:15
Turandot, Unknown Prince, Voices
10 'I never wept before' 4:47
Turandot, Unknown Prince

Scene 2
11 'Glory to our Emp'ror!' 3:32
Crowd, Turandot
40:26
Jane Eaglen soprano - Princess Turandot
Nicolai Gedda tenor - The Emperor Altoum
Clive Bayley bass - Timur
Dennis O'Neill tenor - Calaf
Mary Plazas soprano - Liù
Peter Sidhom baritone - Ping
Mark Le Brocq tenor - Pang/Prince of Persia
Peter Wedd tenor - Pong
Simon Bailey baritone - A Mandarin
Geoffrey Mitchell Choir
New London Children's Choir
Philharmonia Orchestra
David Parry
Recorded in:
Blackheath Halls, London
28 April- 3 May 2001
Producer(s)
Brian Couzens
Sound Engineer(s)
Ralph Couzens
Christopher Brooke (Assistant)
Format: DDD
Bit Rate: 24 Bit / 96K