Opera - Il Trovatore (The Troubadour)


Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)

Il Trovatore 134:56
Opera in four acts
Text by Salvatore Cammarano, from the drama El trovador by Antonio Garcia Gutiérrez
English Translation by Tom Hammond

COMPACT DISC ONE
Part I
Scene 1
1 'Wake up, there, wake up, there!' 3:06
Ferrando, Servants and Soldiers
2 'Heav'n had giv'n my old master' 7:45
Ferrando, Servants and Soldiers

Scene 2
3 'Come, wait no longer' 2:13
Inez and Leonora
4 'The stars shone in the heav'ns above' 4:58
Leonora and Inez
5 'No words can tell the measure' 1:42
Leonora and Inez
6 'How still the night is' 2:08
Count di Luna
7 'The Troubadour! The madman!' - 2:23
'Though naught on earth is left me'
Count di Luna, Manrico and Leonora
8 'Who's speaking?' 1:37
Leonora, Count di Luna and Manrico
9 'Jealous fury and slighted passion' 2:34
Count di Luna, Leonora and Manrico

Part II
Scene 1
10 'See how the shadowy clouds are flying' ('Anvil Chorus') 2:42
Gipsies
11 'Fierce flames are raging' 5:57
Azucena, Gipsies and Manrico
12 'They brought her, fettered and pow'rless' 7:59
Azucena and Manrico
13 'As we struggled he stumbled before me' 4:37
Manrico, Azucena and a Messenger
14 'You are still too weak to venture' 2:19
Azucena and Manrico

Scene 2
15 'All is deserted' 1:54
Count di Luna and Ferrando
16 'In the stars that shine above me' 4:19
Count di Luna and Ferrando
17 'The hour has come, no more delay' 3:03
Ferrando, Retainers and Count di Luna
18 'Here in this world of sorrow' 5:07
Nuns, Count di Luna, Ferrando, Retainers, Leonora and Inez
19 'Oh, can it be, can I believe' 4:46
Leonora, Count di Luna, Manrico, Inez, Ferrando, Nuns, Retainers, Ruiz and Followers
71:23

COMPACT DISC TWO
Part III
Scene 1
1 'Though today we take our leisure' ('Soldiers' Chorus') 4:34
Soldiers and Ferrando
2 'She's in my rival's arms!' 2:29
Count di Luna, Ferrando, Guards and Azucena
3 'Though my life was poor and lowly' 3:12
Azucena, Ferrando, Count di Luna and Guards
4 'Ah! Release me from these cruel bonds' 2:09
Azucena, Count di Luna, Ferrando and Guards

Scene 2
5 'But what mean all these sounds of war around us?' 2:14
Leonora and Manrico
6 'When holy church has blessed our love' 5:06
Manrico, Leonora and Ruiz
7 'That fierce inferno, her cruel sentence' 3:17
Manrico, Leonora, Ruiz and Soldiers

Part IV
Scene 1
8 'We're there now' 3:00
Ruiz and Leonora
9 'Breeze of night, go seek him' 4:06
Leonora
10 'Lord, have mercy upon a soul departing' ('Miserere') 5:13
Chorus, Leonora and Manrico
11 'You will see that my devotion' 2:10
Leonora
12 'Now hear me!' 1:54
Count di Luna and Leonora
13 'See all these bitter tears of mine' 3:25
Leonora and Count di Luna
14 'The man shall live' - 2:22
'He lives! I cannot speak for joy'
Count di Luna and Leonora

Scene 2
15 'Mother, not sleeping?' 5:26
Manrico and Azucena
16 'Yes, let me sleep for my limbss are weary . . .' 4:46
Azucena, Manrico and Leonora
17 'You will not say?' 3:01
Manrico, Leonora and Azucena
18 'Now leave me!' 4:58
Manrico, Leonora, Count di Luna and Azucena
63:33
Alan Opie baritone - Count di Luna
Clive Bayley bass - Ferrando
Sharon Sweet soprano - Doña Leonora
Helen Williams soprano - Inez
Anne Mason mezzo-soprano - Azucena
Dennis O'Neill tenor - Manrico (The Troubadour)
Mark Le Brocq tenor - Ruiz
Geoffrey Mitchell Choir
London Philharmonic Orchestra
David Parry
Recorded in:
Blackheath Halls, London
16-20 December 1999
Producer(s)
Brian Couzens
Sound Engineer(s)
Ralph Couzens
Richard Smoker (Assistant)
Format: DDD
Bit Rate: 24 Bit