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DONIZETTI: Mary Stuarda (Sung in English)

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Label: Chandos

Series: Opera in English

Genre: Opera

Period: Romantic

Catalogue No: CHAN3017-18

Barcode: 095115301722

Release Date: 04/1999

DONIZETTI: Mary Stuarda (Sung in English)

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Disc 1

Donizetti, Gaetano
Hammond, Tom - Lyricist
Bardari, Giuseppe - Lyricist

Maria Stuarda (Mary Stuart) (Sung in English)

English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)
English National Opera Chorus (Choir)
Plowright, Rosalind (soprano)
Tomlinson, John (bass)
Opie, Alan (baritone)
Rendall, David (tenor)
Bostock, Angela (soprano)
Baker, Janet (mezzo-soprano)

1

Prelude

01:36

English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)

2

Act I: Let us wait here (Voice, Chorus)

02:34

English National Opera Chorus (Choir)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)

3

Act I: Yes, but the French Prince is seeking … (Elizabeth)

01:12

Plowright, Rosalind (soprano)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)

4

Act I: If fortune one day should send to me … (Elizabeth)

03:15

Plowright, Rosalind (soprano)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)

5

Act I: In this moment of rejoicing (Talbot, Elizabeth, Cecil, Chorus)

01:49

Tomlinson, John (bass)
Plowright, Rosalind (soprano)
Opie, Alan (baritone)
English National Opera Chorus (Choir)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)

6

Act I: May the light of wisdom and justice (Elizabeth, Cecil, Chorus)

04:24

Plowright, Rosalind (soprano)
Opie, Alan (baritone)
English National Opera Chorus (Choir)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)

7

Act I: But, where is the Earl of Leicester? (Elizabeth, Cecil, Leicester)

02:11

Plowright, Rosalind (soprano)
Opie, Alan (baritone)
Rendall, David (tenor)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)

8

Act I: Did you not ask to see me, earlier today? (Leicester, Talbot)

02:15

Rendall, David (tenor)
Tomlinson, John (bass)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)

9

Act I: I remember these lovely features (Leicester, Talbot)

03:37

Rendall, David (tenor)
Tomlinson, John (bass)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)

10

Act I: If she dare trust in me (Leicester, Talbot)

01:47

Rendall, David (tenor)
Tomlinson, John (bass)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)

11

Act I: Do I disturb you? (Elizabeth, Leicester)

02:09

Plowright, Rosalind (soprano)
Rendall, David (tenor)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)

12

Act I: How affecting … Is she relenting? (Elizabeth, Leicester)

01:46

Plowright, Rosalind (soprano)
Rendall, David (tenor)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)

13

Act I: When I first looked upon her face (Elizabeth, Leicester)

04:36

Plowright, Rosalind (soprano)
Rendall, David (tenor)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)

14

Act I: My arrogant rival has long sought to rob me (Elizabeth, Leicester)

02:21

Plowright, Rosalind (soprano)
Rendall, David (tenor)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)

15

Act II: Why run so fast, my lady? (Hannah, Mary)

03:00

Bostock, Angela (soprano)
Baker, Janet (mezzo-soprano)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)

16

Act II: You murmuring breezes … (Mary)

03:45

Baker, Janet (mezzo-soprano)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)

17

Act II: What tumult! Those voices! (Mary, Hannah, Chorus)

00:55

Baker, Janet (mezzo-soprano)
Bostock, Angela (soprano)
English National Opera Chorus (Choir)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)

18

Act II: In the peace of my gloomy seclusion (Mary, Hannah, Ladies)

03:35

Baker, Janet (mezzo-soprano)
Bostock, Angela (soprano)
English National Opera Chorus (Choir)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)

19

Act II: Ah! May this joy not deceive me (Mary, Leicester)

01:46

Baker, Janet (mezzo-soprano)
Rendall, David (tenor)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)

20

Act II: Long by the world forsaken (Mary, Leicester)

04:34

Baker, Janet (mezzo-soprano)
Rendall, David (tenor)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)

21

Act II: All too well I surely know her! Ah! Though my spirit never faltered (Mary, Leicester)

03:27

Baker, Janet (mezzo-soprano)
Rendall, David (tenor)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)

22

Act II: What place is this then? (Elizabeth, Leicester, Cecil, Talbot, Mary)

02:24

Plowright, Rosalind (soprano)
Rendall, David (tenor)
Opie, Alan (baritone)
Tomlinson, John (bass)
Baker, Janet (mezzo-soprano)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)

23

Act II: Report has not failed me (Elizabeth, Mary, Talbot, Hannah, Leicester, Cecil)

02:38

Plowright, Rosalind (soprano)
Baker, Janet (mezzo-soprano)
Tomlinson, John (bass)
Bostock, Angela (soprano)
Rendall, David (tenor)
Opie, Alan (baritone)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)

24

Act II: Bid her welcome! (Leicester, Elizabeth, Talbot, Mary)

00:41

Rendall, David (tenor)
Plowright, Rosalind (soprano)
Tomlinson, John (bass)
Baker, Janet (mezzo-soprano)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)

25

Act II: Dead to justice, throne and kingdom (Mary, Cecil, Elizabeth, Leicester, Talbot)

07:18

Baker, Janet (mezzo-soprano)
Opie, Alan (baritone)
Plowright, Rosalind (soprano)
Rendall, David (tenor)
Tomlinson, John (bass)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)

26

Act II: Go, prepare yourself for sentence (Mary, Cecil, Elizabeth, Leicester, Talbot)

02:07

Baker, Janet (mezzo-soprano)
Opie, Alan (baritone)
Plowright, Rosalind (soprano)
Rendall, David (tenor)
Tomlinson, John (bass)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)

Disc 2

1

Act III Scene 1: Still pensive? Still delaying? (Cecil, Elizabeth)

04:01

Opie, Alan (baritone)
Plowright, Rosalind (soprano)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)

2

Act III Scene 1: While she's living I'm still in danger (Cecil, Elizabeth)

03:39

Opie, Alan (baritone)
Plowright, Rosalind (soprano)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)

3

Act III Scene 1: Your Highness! You do but speed her execution (Leicester, Elizabeth, Cecil)

04:51

Rendall, David (tenor)
Plowright, Rosalind (soprano)
Opie, Alan (baritone)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)

4

Act III Scene 1: You have conspired a sister's death (Leicester, Elizabeth, Cecil)

03:44

Rendall, David (tenor)
Plowright, Rosalind (soprano)
Opie, Alan (baritone)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)

5

Act III Scene 2: Elizabeth will continue to mock and insult me (Mary, Cecil)

04:52

Baker, Janet (mezzo-soprano)
Opie, Alan (baritone)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)

6

Act III Scene 2: Oh faithful Talbot! (Mary, Talbot)

05:04

Baker, Janet (mezzo-soprano)
Tomlinson, John (bass)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)

7

Act III Scene 2: Once all the radiant joys of youth (Mary, Talbot)

04:17

Baker, Janet (mezzo-soprano)
Tomlinson, John (bass)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)

8

Act III Scene 2: There still remains another charge (Mary, Talbot)

00:58

Baker, Janet (mezzo-soprano)
Tomlinson, John (bass)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)

9

Act III Scene 2: No, I never turned from my Saviour (Mary, Talbot)

01:25

Baker, Janet (mezzo-soprano)
Tomlinson, John (bass)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)

10

Act III Scene 2: Go leave this world of grief behind (Mary, Talbot)

03:04

Baker, Janet (mezzo-soprano)
Tomlinson, John (bass)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)

11

Act III Scene 3: You saw them? (Chorus)

06:30

English National Opera Chorus (Choir)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)

12

Act III Scene 3: Hannah! Do not disturb her (Hannah, Mary, Chorus)

04:41

Bostock, Angela (soprano)
Baker, Janet (mezzo-soprano)
English National Opera Chorus (Choir)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)

13

Act III Scene 3: Oh, deign to hear our prayer, merciful Saviour! (Hannah, Mary, Chorus)

04:03

Bostock, Angela (soprano)
Baker, Janet (mezzo-soprano)
English National Opera Chorus (Choir)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)

14

Act III Scene 3: The signal (All, Cecil, Mary)

01:27

Opie, Alan (baritone)
Baker, Janet (mezzo-soprano)
Tomlinson, John (bass)
Rendall, David (tenor)
Bostock, Angela (soprano)
Plowright, Rosalind (soprano)
English National Opera Chorus (Choir)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)

15

Act III Scene 3: Death hovers near me, so take my pardon (Mary, Hannah, Talbot, Cecil, Chorus)

04:02

Baker, Janet (mezzo-soprano)
Bostock, Angela (soprano)
Tomlinson, John (bass)
Opie, Alan (baritone)
English National Opera Chorus (Choir)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)

16

Act III Scene 3: Leicester approaches (Talbot, Mary, Leicester, Cecil)

02:20

Tomlinson, John (bass)
Baker, Janet (mezzo-soprano)
Rendall, David (tenor)
Opie, Alan (baritone)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)

17

Act III Scene 3: Though you once made a vow to protect me (Mary, Leicester, Talbot, Hannah, Chorus, Cecil)

05:17

Baker, Janet (mezzo-soprano)
Rendall, David (tenor)
Tomlinson, John (bass)
Bostock, Angela (soprano)
Opie, Alan (baritone)
English National Opera Chorus (Choir)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Mackerras, Charles (Conductor)

Total Playing Time: 02:15:57