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JANACEK: Cunning Little Vixen (The) (Sung in English)

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Label: Chandos

Series: Opera in English

Genre: Opera

Period: 20th Century

Catalogue No: CHAN3101-02

Barcode: 095115310120

Release Date: 09/2003

JANACEK: Cunning Little Vixen (The) (Sung in English)

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Disc 1

Janáček, Leoš

The Cunning Little Vixen (Sung in English)

Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden (Orchestra)
Rattle, Simon (Conductor)
Allen, Thomas (baritone)
Lawrence, Piers (boy soprano)
Tear, Robert (tenor)
Wallder, Stephen (boy soprano)
Nash, Shelley (voice)
Bainbridge, Rebecca (voice)
Knight, Gillian (mezzo-soprano)
Watson, Lillian (soprano)
Shelby, Karen (mezzo-soprano)
King, Mary (soprano)
Groves, Glenys (voice)
Howell, Gwynne (baritone)
Dobson, John (tenor)
Montague, Diana (mezzo-soprano)
Purcell, Pat (voice)
Folwell, Nicholas (voice)
Bainbridge, Elizabeth (mezzo-soprano)

1

Act I: How Sharp-Ears was caught: Prelude

03:15

Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden (Orchestra)
Rattle, Simon (Conductor)

2

Act I: How Sharp-Ears was caught: Going to be a storm soon (Forester)

01:32

Rattle, Simon (Conductor)
Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden (Orchestra)
Allen, Thomas (baritone)

3

Act I: How Sharp-Ears was caught: Come on, old lady, and let's get the show started (Cricket, Caterpillar, Mosquito, Frog)

01:50

Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden (Orchestra)
Lawrence, Piers (boy soprano)
Tear, Robert (tenor)
Rattle, Simon (Conductor)
Wallder, Stephen (boy soprano)
Nash, Shelley (voice)

4

Act I: How Sharp-Ears was caught: Mummy! Mummy! What is that? (Vixen Cub, Forester)

01:40

Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden (Orchestra)
Bainbridge, Rebecca (voice)
Allen, Thomas (baritone)
Rattle, Simon (Conductor)

5

Act I: How Sharp-Ears was caught: Pantomime

03:23

Rattle, Simon (Conductor)
Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden (Orchestra)

6

Act I: Sharp-Ears at the Forester's lakeside farmyard: Interlude

02:00

Rattle, Simon (Conductor)
Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden (Orchestra)

7

Act I: Sharp-Ears at the Forester's lakeside farmyard: Look at how big she's grown! (Forester, Forester's Wife, Vixen, Dog)

01:24

Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden (Orchestra)
Knight, Gillian (mezzo-soprano)
Allen, Thomas (baritone)
Watson, Lillian (soprano)
Rattle, Simon (Conductor)
Shelby, Karen (mezzo-soprano)

8

Act I: Sharp-Ears at the Forester's lakeside farmyard: I'm just the same too (Vixen)

01:11

Watson, Lillian (soprano)
Rattle, Simon (Conductor)
Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden (Orchestra)

9

Act I: Sharp-Ears at the Forester's lakeside farmyard: Look what we've got down 'ere (Pepik, Frantik, Vixen, Forester's Wife, Forester)

01:01

Rattle, Simon (Conductor)
Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden (Orchestra)

10

Act I: Sharp-Ears at the Forester's lakeside farmyard: Interlude (beginning) (Vixen), "Ou, ou!"

02:14

Watson, Lillian (soprano)
Rattle, Simon (Conductor)
Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden (Orchestra)

11

Act I: Sharp-Ears at the Forester's lakeside farmyard: Interlude (conclusion)

02:12

Rattle, Simon (Conductor)
Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden (Orchestra)

12

Act I: Sharp-Ears as politician: You should take a lesson from me! (Dog, Rooster, Hens, Chief Hen)

00:58

King, Mary (soprano)
Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden (Orchestra)
Shelby, Karen (mezzo-soprano)
Rattle, Simon (Conductor)
Groves, Glenys (voice)

13

Act I: Sharp-Ears as politician: Sisters! Comrades! (Vixen, Hens, Rooster)

02:09

Rattle, Simon (Conductor)
Watson, Lillian (soprano)
King, Mary (soprano)
Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden (Orchestra)

14

Act I: Sharp-Ears as politician: Come on then, don't be frightened (Chief Hen, Forester's Wife, Vixen, Forester)

01:39

Watson, Lillian (soprano)
Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden (Orchestra)
Groves, Glenys (voice)
Allen, Thomas (baritone)
Rattle, Simon (Conductor)
Knight, Gillian (mezzo-soprano)

15

Act II: Sharp-Ears expropriates a home: Prelude

00:58

Rattle, Simon (Conductor)
Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden (Orchestra)

16

Act II: Sharp-Ears expropriates a home: Ah! - Who's that out there screaming? (Vixen, Badger, Forest creatures)

01:52

Howell, Gwynne (baritone)
Watson, Lillian (soprano)
Rattle, Simon (Conductor)
Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden (Orchestra)

17

Act II: Sharp-Ears expropriates a home: Interlude

01:19

Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden (Orchestra)
Rattle, Simon (Conductor)

18

Act II: Sharp-Ears expropriates a home: In my view parish things have got to be better! (Priest, Forester)

00:43

Howell, Gwynne (baritone)
Rattle, Simon (Conductor)
Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden (Orchestra)
Allen, Thomas (baritone)

19

Act II: Sharp-Ears expropriates a home: Once long since, long ago (Forester, Schoolmaster, Priest, Pasek)

03:13

Allen, Thomas (baritone)
Howell, Gwynne (baritone)
Tear, Robert (tenor)
Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden (Orchestra)
Rattle, Simon (Conductor)
Dobson, John (tenor)

20

Act II: Sharp-Ears expropriates a home: Home now? (Forester, Pasek)

01:23

Allen, Thomas (baritone)
Rattle, Simon (Conductor)
Dobson, John (tenor)
Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden (Orchestra)

21

Act II: Sharp-Ears expropriates a home: Interlude

01:00

Rattle, Simon (Conductor)
Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden (Orchestra)

22

Act II: Sharp-Ears expropriates a home: Something is wrong with my equilibrium (Schoolmaster)

01:49

Tear, Robert (tenor)
Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden (Orchestra)
Rattle, Simon (Conductor)

23

Act II: Sharp-Ears expropriates a home: Staccato! Flageoletti! (Schoolmaster)

01:26

Tear, Robert (tenor)
Rattle, Simon (Conductor)
Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden (Orchestra)

24

Act II: Sharp-Ears expropriates a home: So remember to be a good man! (Priest)

02:09

Howell, Gwynne (baritone)
Rattle, Simon (Conductor)
Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden (Orchestra)

25

Act II: Sharp-Ears expropriates a home: Memnestho aner agathos einai (Priest, Forester, Schoolmaster)

01:11

Howell, Gwynne (baritone)
Tear, Robert (tenor)
Allen, Thomas (baritone)
Rattle, Simon (Conductor)
Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden (Orchestra)

26

Act II: Sharp-Ears's courtship; Sharp-Ears's love and marriage: Interlude

01:06

Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden (Orchestra)
Rattle, Simon (Conductor)

27

Act II: Sharp-Ears's courtship; Sharp-Ears's love and marriage: O my God! He's so handsome! (Vixen, Fox)

01:39

Montague, Diana (mezzo-soprano)
Watson, Lillian (soprano)
Rattle, Simon (Conductor)
Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden (Orchestra)

28

Act II: Sharp-Ears's courtship; Sharp-Ears's love and marriage: One dark night (Vixen)

03:15

Watson, Lillian (soprano)
Rattle, Simon (Conductor)
Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden (Orchestra)

29

Act II: Sharp-Ears's courtship; Sharp-Ears's love and marriage: Fox Goldenstripe (Fox, Vixen)

01:18

Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden (Orchestra)
Montague, Diana (mezzo-soprano)
Watson, Lillian (soprano)
Rattle, Simon (Conductor)

30

Act II: Sharp-Ears's courtship; Sharp-Ears's love and marriage: Can it be that I am lovely? (Vixen, Fox)

03:57

Montague, Diana (mezzo-soprano)
Watson, Lillian (soprano)
Rattle, Simon (Conductor)
Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden (Orchestra)

31

Act II: Sharp-Ears's courtship; Sharp-Ears's love and marriage: Let me go! I am afraid of you! (Vixen, Fox)

03:54

Montague, Diana (mezzo-soprano)
Watson, Lillian (soprano)
Rattle, Simon (Conductor)
Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden (Orchestra)

32

Act II: Sharp-Ears's courtship; Sharp-Ears's love and marriage: If you had only seen what I saw just now (Owl, Jay, Vixen, Fox)

00:53

Montague, Diana (mezzo-soprano)
Knight, Gillian (mezzo-soprano)
Watson, Lillian (soprano)
King, Mary (soprano)
Rattle, Simon (Conductor)
Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden (Orchestra)

33

Act II: Sharp-Ears's courtship; Sharp-Ears's love and marriage: That's how it is! (Fox, Vixen, Woodpecker, Forest creatures)

02:30

Purcell, Pat (voice)
Montague, Diana (mezzo-soprano)
Watson, Lillian (soprano)
Rattle, Simon (Conductor)
Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden (Orchestra)

Disc 2

1

Act III: Sharp-Ears outwits Harasta from Lisen; Sharp-Ears's death: Prelude

02:02

Rattle, Simon (Conductor)
Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden (Orchestra)

2

Act III: Sharp-Ears outwits Harasta from Lisen; Sharp-Ears's death: In the month of May (Harasta)

01:39

Rattle, Simon (Conductor)
Folwell, Nicholas (voice)
Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden (Orchestra)

3

Act III: Sharp-Ears outwits Harasta from Lisen; Sharp-Ears's death: Hey there, Harasta, how's it going? (Forester, Harasta)

03:50

Allen, Thomas (baritone)
Rattle, Simon (Conductor)
Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden (Orchestra)
Folwell, Nicholas (voice)

4

Act III: Sharp-Ears outwits Harasta from Lisen; Sharp-Ears's death: Little foxes running fast (Fox Cubs, Vixen, Fox)

01:52

Montague, Diana (mezzo-soprano)
Watson, Lillian (soprano)
Rattle, Simon (Conductor)
Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden (Orchestra)

5

Act III: Sharp-Ears outwits Harasta from Lisen; Sharp-Ears's death: How many children do we have? (Fox, Vixen, Harasta)

02:59

Watson, Lillian (soprano)
Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden (Orchestra)
Purcell, Pat (voice)
Montague, Diana (mezzo-soprano)
Rattle, Simon (Conductor)

6

Act III: Sharp-Ears outwits Harasta from Lisen; Sharp-Ears's death: Put it down fast! Harasta, Harasta! (Harasta, Vixen)

03:44

Watson, Lillian (soprano)
Rattle, Simon (Conductor)
Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden (Orchestra)
Purcell, Pat (voice)

7

Act III: Sharp-Ears outwits Harasta from Lisen; Sharp-Ears's death: Interlude

02:29

Rattle, Simon (Conductor)
Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden (Orchestra)

8

Act III: Sharp-Ears outwits Harasta from Lisen; Sharp-Ears's death: Where is old man Pasek? (Forester, Innkeeper's Wife, Schoolmaster)

02:18

Allen, Thomas (baritone)
Tear, Robert (tenor)
Rattle, Simon (Conductor)
Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden (Orchestra)
Bainbridge, Elizabeth (mezzo-soprano)

9

Act III: Sharp-Ears outwits Harasta from Lisen; Sharp-Ears's death: Well I'm damned! (Forester, Innkeeper's Wife, Schoolmaster)

04:08

Tear, Robert (tenor)
Bainbridge, Elizabeth (mezzo-soprano)
Allen, Thomas (baritone)
Rattle, Simon (Conductor)
Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden (Orchestra)

10

Act III: The young Sharp-Ears is the spitting image of her mother: Interlude

01:04

Rattle, Simon (Conductor)
Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden (Orchestra)

11

Act III: The young Sharp-Ears is the spitting image of her mother: Spring is here at last (Forester)

03:01

Allen, Thomas (baritone)
Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden (Orchestra)
Rattle, Simon (Conductor)

12

Act III: The young Sharp-Ears is the spitting image of her mother: When evening arrives, I welcome the rays (Forester)

02:44

Rattle, Simon (Conductor)
Allen, Thomas (baritone)
Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden (Orchestra)

13

Act III: The young Sharp-Ears is the spitting image of her mother: Hey! But I can't see the Vixen there! (Forester)

00:55

Allen, Thomas (baritone)
Rattle, Simon (Conductor)
Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden (Orchestra)

14

Act III: The young Sharp-Ears is the spitting image of her mother: Tha-that wasn't me (Frog)

01:18

Rattle, Simon (Conductor)
Lawrence, Piers (boy soprano)
Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden (Orchestra)

Total Playing Time: 01:36:06