tracks

Prelude
'As To Thee Our Saviour Came'
'Oh Stay! A Word! One Single Word!'
'David, Come On, Lend A Hand!'
'My Lord! The Mastersinger's Way'
'What's This That You've Done?'
'Be Well Assured Of My Good Favour'
'Now To A Trial, As Summoned Hither'
'The Feast Of John, Midsummer Day'
'(Just As I Thought!)'
'By Silent Hearth, One Winter's Day'
'To Make Your Footsteps Safe And Sure'
'''Now Begin'' So Cried The Sun With The Land!'
'Then Have You Finished?'
'Stay, Masters! Why So Much Haste?'
Prelude
'Midsummer Day! Midsummer Day!'
'We'll See If Master Sachs Is There'
'A Pretty Secret, That!'
'The Elder's Scent, How Tender'
'Good Evening, Master!'
'He's Here Now!'
'What! Sachs! He Too?'
'Jerum! Jerum! Hal-la-hal-lo-he! O-ho!'
'''I See Now Dawning Daylight'''
'The Devil Take Your Song, Accursed Rogue!'
Prelude
'Here, Master, Here!'
'Fools! Fools! Ev'rywhere Fools'
'My Friend, Good Morning!'
'My Friend, In Joyful Days Of Youth'
'''Warm In The Sunlight, At Dawning Of Day'''
Interlude
'A Trial Song By Sachs! Is It True?'
'It Was Here, The Paper!'
'Here's Eva! I Had Wondered Where She Was!'
'''Lured From Their Dances, The Stars Glided Down'''
'The Life Of A Cobbler's Nothing But Woe!'
'O Sachs! My Friend! So Kind Thou Art!'
'A Child Has Been Created'
'Radiant As The Dawning That Enchants My Sight'
'Now, Walther Come! You Must Be Brave!'
'Saint Crispin, Saint Crispin!'
'You Dance? Look Out If The Masters See You!'
Entrance Of The Mastersingers - '''Silentium! Silentium!''
'Awake! The Dawn Of Day Draws Near!'
'Words Light To You'
'''Bathing In Sunlight At Dawning Of Day'''
'The Song, In Truth, Is Not By Me'
'''Warm In The Sunlight, At Dawning Of Day'''
'The Witness Has Been Duly Tried'
'Do Not Disdain Our Masters Thus'

notes

4 disc set in "fatboy" double jewel box case and with a separate 160pp libretto book (notes in English, German, French and Italian; performance photographs; and full English text) and housed in a cardboard slipcase.

Recorded live at Sadler's Wells: 10 February 1968

total time: 292:46

credits

Administrator [Operas Administrator] – Sue Shortridge
Baritone Vocals [Sixtus Beckmesser, Town Clerk] – Derek Hammond-Stroud
Bass Vocals [Hans Foltz, Coppersmith] – Eric Stannard
Bass Vocals [Hans Schwarz, Stocking Weaver] – Gerwyn Morgan
Bass Vocals [Hermann Ortel, Soapmaker] – James Singleton (3)
Bass Vocals [Nightwatchman] – Stafford Dean
Bass Vocals [Veit Pogner, Goldsmith] – Noel Mangin
Bass-Baritone Vocals [Hans Sachs, Cobbler] – Norman Bailey
Booklet Editor – Kara Reed
Chorus – Sadler's Wells Opera Chorus,
Composed By, Libretto By – Richard Wagner
Conductor – Reginald Goodall
Conductor [Assistant Conductor] – Leonard Hancock (2)
Design, Typography [Typesetting] – Cassidy Rayne Creative
Executive-Producer – Ralph Couzens
Mezzo-soprano Vocals [Magdalene, Eva's Nurse] – Ann Robson
Orchestra – Sadler's Wells Opera Orchestra,
Photography By [Front Cover, Reginald Goodall] – Arena Pal, Clive Barda
Photography By [Production Photographs] – Reg Wilson
Remastered By – Jonathan Cooper, Peter Reynolds,
Research [Picture Research] – Helen Anderson (5)
Soprano Vocals [Eva, Pogner's Daughter] – Margaret Curphey
Tenor Vocals [Augustin Moser, Tailor] – Dino Pardi
Tenor Vocals [Balthasar Zorn, Pewterer] – John Brecknock
Tenor Vocals [David, Sach's Apprentice] – Gregory Dempsey
Tenor Vocals [Ulrich Eisslinger, Grocer] – David Morton-Gray
Tenor Vocals [Walther von Stolzing, A Young Knight From Franconia] – Alberto Remedios
Translated By [English Translation, Revised By] – Gordon Kember, Norman Feasey
Translated By [English Translation] – Frederick Jameson

companies

Phonographic Copyright (p) – BBC
Copyright (c) – Chandos Records Ltd
Record Company – Chandos Records Ltd
Recorded At – Sadler's Wells Theatre

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