tracks

Wake Up, There, Wake Up, There!
Heav'n Had Giv'n My Old Master
Come, Wait No Longer
The Stars Shone In The Heav'ns Above
No Words Can Tell The Measure
How Still The Night Is
The Troubadour! The Troubadour! - Though Naught On Earth Is Left Me
Who's Speaking?
Jealous Fury And Slighted Passion
See How The Shadowy Clouds Are Flying (Anvil Chorus)
Fierce Flames Are Raging
They Brought Her, Fettered And Pow'rless
As We Struggled He Stumbled Before Me
You Are Still Too Weak To Venture
All Is Deserted
In The Stars That Shine Above Me
The Hur Has Come, No More Delay
Here In This World Of Sorrow
Oh, Can It Be, Can I Believe
Though Today We Take Our Leisure
She's In My Rival's Arms
Though My Life Was Poor And Lowly
Ah! Release Me From Thsese Cruel Bonds
But What Mean All These Sounds Of War Around Us?
When Holy Church Has Blessed Our Love
That Fierce Inferno, Her Cruel Sentence
We're There Now
Breeze Of Night, Go Seek Him
Lord, Have Mercy Upon A Soul Departing (Miserere)
You Will See That My Devotion
Now Hear Me!
See All These Bitter Tears Of Mine
The Man Shall Live - He Lives! I Cannot Speak For Joy
Mother, Not Sleeping?
Yes, Let Me Sleep For MY Limbs Are Weary...
You Will Not Say?
Now Leave Me!

notes

Il Trovatore (The Troubadour)
Opera in four acts. Sung in English.
Premiere Recording in English.

Recording venue: Blackheath Halls, London; 16-20 December 1999.
24-bit Recordings.
Vincent Woodstock pipe organ supplied by Abinger Organ Hire.
Recording under the sposorship of the Peter Moores Foundation.

(P) 2000 Chandos Records Ltd.
(C) 2000 Chandos Records Ltd.
Printed in the EU.

Cardboard slipcase box contains a fat jewel case and a 140-page booklet in English, German, French & Italian.

credits

Administrator [Operas Administrator] – Sue Shortridge
Baritone Vocals [Count Di Luna, A young nobleman of Aragon] – Alan Opie
Bass Vocals [Ferrando, Captain of the Court's guard] – Clive Bayley
Booklet Editor – Finn S. Gundersen
Chorus [A Gipsy, A Messanger, Servants and Retainers of the Court, Followers of Manrico, Soldiers, Gipsies, Nuns, Guards] – Geoffrey Mitchell Choir,
Conductor – David Parry
Conductor [Assistant Conductor] – Gareth Hancock, Nicholas Kok
Design – David Cassidy (4)
Edited By – Rachel Smith (4)
Engineer [Assistant] – Richard Smoker
Engineer [Soind Englineer] – Ralph Couzens
Executive Producer – Peter Moores Foundation
Libretto By – Salvatore Cammarano
Libretto By [From The Dramma El Trovador By] – Antonio García Gutiérrez
Liner Notes – Alan Blyth, Nicholas Payne
Liner Notes [Translation] – Anne Steeb, Bernd Müller (2), Emanuela Guastella, Marie-Françoise de Meeûs, Nicole Valencia, Stephanie Wollny
Mezzo-soprano Vocals [Azucena, A Gipsy woman from Biscay] – Anne Mason (2)
Music Consultant [Coach for Azucena] – Ian Judge (2)
Music Consultant [Diction Coach] – Ludmilla Andrew
Music Consultant [Language Coach] – Charles Kilpatrick (2)
Orchestra – London Symphony Orchestra,
Photography By [Booklet, p. 135 (Alan Opie Photo)] – Robert Carpenter Turner,
Photography By [Booklet, p. 137 (Dennis O'Neill Photo)] – Clive Barda
Photography By [Booklet, p. 140] – Russell Duncan
Photography By [Booklet, p. 25] – Winnie Klotz
Photography By [Booklet, p. 68] – Monica Matthias
Photography By [Booklet, pp. 48, 49, 88, 89, 124, 125] – Richard H. Smith
Photography By [Front Cover, Photograph of Anne Mason / Booklet, p. 69] – Bill Rafferty
Photography By [Front Cover, Photograph of the 11th-century Castle Loarre in the Huesca province of the Spanish Pyrenees By] – John Ferro Sims
Producer [Recording Producer] – Brian Couzens
Soprano Vocals [Doña Leonora, Lady-in-waiting to the Princess of Aragon] – Sharon Sweet
Soprano Vocals [Ines, Confidante of Leonora] – Helen Williams (2)
Tenor Vocals [Manrico (The Troubadour), Supposed son of Azucena, A rebel under Prince Urgel] – Dennis O'Neill (3)
Tenor Vocals [Ruiz, A Soldier in Manrico's Service] – Marc Le Brocq,
Translated By [Engish Translation By] – Tom Hammond (3)
Typography [Booklet Typeset] – Dave Partridge

companies

Phonographic Copyright (p) – Chandos Records Ltd
Copyright (c) – Chandos Records Ltd
Recorded At – Blackheath Halls
Pressed By – Sony DADC

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