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POULENC: Carmelites (The) (Dialogues des Carmelites) (Sung in English)

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Label: Chandos

Series: Opera in English

Genre: Opera

Period: 20th Century

Catalogue No: CHAN3134-35

Barcode: 095115313428

Release Date: 01/2006

POULENC: Carmelites (The) (Dialogues des Carmelites) (Sung in English)

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Disc 1

Poulenc, Francis
Bernanos, Georges - Lyricist

Dialogues des Carmelites (Sung in English)

Wedd, Peter (tenor)
Holland, Ashley (baritone)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Daniel, Paul (Conductor)
Wyn-Davies, Catrin (soprano)
Coward, Gary (baritone)
Palmer, Felicity (mezzo-soprano)
Tynan, Sarah (soprano)
Barstow, Josephine (soprano)
Berger, William (baritone)
Boylan, Orla (soprano)
English National Opera Chorus (Choir)
Davies, Ryland (tenor)
Gibbons, Anne-Marie (mezzo-soprano)
Herman, Natalie (soprano)
Edwards, James (tenor)
Wood, Roland (baritone)
Powell, Jane (mezzo-soprano)
Stafford-Allen, Toby (baritone)
Stephenson, David (baritone)

1

Act I Scene 1: Where is Blanche? (Chevalier de la Force, Marquis de la Force)

07:23

Wedd, Peter (tenor)
Holland, Ashley (baritone)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Daniel, Paul (Conductor)

2

Act I Scene 1: Blanche, your poor brother was so very impatient for your return (Marquis, Blanche de la Force, Chevalier)

03:31

Holland, Ashley (baritone)
Wyn-Davies, Catrin (soprano)
Wedd, Peter (tenor)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Daniel, Paul (Conductor)

3

Act I Scene 1: Her poor imagination always flies from one (Marquis, Chevalier, Blanche, Thierry)

01:43

Holland, Ashley (baritone)
Wedd, Peter (tenor)
Wyn-Davies, Catrin (soprano)
Coward, Gary (baritone)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Daniel, Paul (Conductor)

4

Act I Scene 1: Dear father, there is no incident so small of unimportant (Blanche, Marquis)

04:05

Wyn-Davies, Catrin (soprano)
Holland, Ashley (baritone)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Daniel, Paul (Conductor)

5

Act I Scene 2: Prelude

01:42

English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Daniel, Paul (Conductor)

6

Act I Scene 2: Do not believe this comfortable chair (Madame de Croissy, Blanche)

03:08

Palmer, Felicity (mezzo-soprano)
Wyn-Davies, Catrin (soprano)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Daniel, Paul (Conductor)

7

Act I Scene 2: What has driven you here? (Prioress, Blanche)

01:31

Palmer, Felicity (mezzo-soprano)
Wyn-Davies, Catrin (soprano)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Daniel, Paul (Conductor)

8

Act I Scene 2: My daughter, the outside world often questions (Prioress, Blanche)

05:36

Palmer, Felicity (mezzo-soprano)
Wyn-Davies, Catrin (soprano)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Daniel, Paul (Conductor)

9

Act I Scene 3: Prelude

02:37

English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Daniel, Paul (Conductor)

10

Act I Scene 3: Oh no, not more beans! (Constance, Blanche)

07:09

Tynan, Sarah (soprano)
Wyn-Davies, Catrin (soprano)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Daniel, Paul (Conductor)

11

Act I Scene 4: Prelude

02:11

English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Daniel, Paul (Conductor)

12

Act I Scene 4: Would you be so kind as to raise my pillow? (Prioress, Mother Marie of the Incarnation)

08:22

Palmer, Felicity (mezzo-soprano)
Barstow, Josephine (soprano)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Daniel, Paul (Conductor)

13

Act I Scene 4: You may get up, my child (Prioress, Blanche, Monsieur Javelinot)

05:09

Palmer, Felicity (mezzo-soprano)
Wyn-Davies, Catrin (soprano)
Berger, William (baritone)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Daniel, Paul (Conductor)

14

Act I Scene 4: Monsieur Javelinot, you must know it's customary in all our Houses (Prioress, Mother Marie)

03:42

Palmer, Felicity (mezzo-soprano)
Barstow, Josephine (soprano)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Daniel, Paul (Conductor)

15

Act I Scene 4: Please inform your sisters they will have no chance to see the Reverend (Mother Marie, Prioress)

03:08

Barstow, Josephine (soprano)
Palmer, Felicity (mezzo-soprano)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Daniel, Paul (Conductor)

16

Act II Scene 1: Qui Lazarum resuscitasti a monumento foetidum (Constance, Blanche)

02:20

Tynan, Sarah (soprano)
Wyn-Davies, Catrin (soprano)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Daniel, Paul (Conductor)

17

Act II Scene 1: What are you doing? (Mother Marie, Blanche)

02:52

Barstow, Josephine (soprano)
Wyn-Davies, Catrin (soprano)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Daniel, Paul (Conductor)

18

Act II Scene 1: Interlude: Dear Sister, I'm afraid that our cross is just a bit too big (Constance, Blanche)

03:55

Tynan, Sarah (soprano)
Wyn-Davies, Catrin (soprano)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Daniel, Paul (Conductor)

19

Act II Scene 2: My dear daughters, I don't need to remind you (Madame Lidoine, Mother Marie)

05:41

Boylan, Orla (soprano)
Barstow, Josephine (soprano)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Daniel, Paul (Conductor)

20

Act II Scene 2: Ave Maria (Mother Marie, Carmelites, Prioress)

01:45

Barstow, Josephine (soprano)
Boylan, Orla (soprano)
English National Opera Chorus (Choir)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Daniel, Paul (Conductor)

21

Act II Scene 2: Interlude: What is going on? (Prioress, Constance, Mother Marie)

02:09

Boylan, Orla (soprano)
Tynan, Sarah (soprano)
Barstow, Josephine (soprano)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Daniel, Paul (Conductor)

Disc 2

1

Act II Scene 3: Prelude

01:45

English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Daniel, Paul (Conductor)

2

Act II Scene 3: Blanche, why do you behave like this? (Chevalier, Blanche)

07:22

Wedd, Peter (tenor)
Wyn-Davies, Catrin (soprano)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Daniel, Paul (Conductor)

3

Act II Scene 3: Compose yourself, Sister Blanche (Mother Marie, Blanche)

01:50

Barstow, Josephine (soprano)
Wyn-Davies, Catrin (soprano)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Daniel, Paul (Conductor)

4

Act II Scene 4: My faithful daughters, I know that some among you already have heard (Chaplain, Carmelites)

03:28

Davies, Ryland (tenor)
English National Opera Chorus (Choir)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Daniel, Paul (Conductor)

5

Act II Scene 4: But what will become of you? (Blanche, Chaplain, Sister Mathilde, Constance, Mother Marie, Prioress)

02:51

Wyn-Davies, Catrin (soprano)
Davies, Ryland (tenor)
Gibbons, Anne-Marie (mezzo-soprano)
Tynan, Sarah (soprano)
Barstow, Josephine (soprano)
Boylan, Orla (soprano)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Daniel, Paul (Conductor)

6

Act II Scene 4: Someone is ringing the bell! (Constance, Sister Mathilde, Crowd, Chaplain, Carmelites)

01:09

Tynan, Sarah (soprano)
Gibbons, Anne-Marie (mezzo-soprano)
Davies, Ryland (tenor)
English National Opera Chorus (Choir)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Daniel, Paul (Conductor)

7

Act II Scene 4: Open the door, open the door now! (Voice from the Crowd, Mother Marie, First Commissioner, Second Commissioner)

04:09

Herman, Natalie (soprano)
Barstow, Josephine (soprano)
Edwards, James (tenor)
Wood, Roland (baritone)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Daniel, Paul (Conductor)

8

Act II Scene 4: My sisters, our Reverend Mother is coming (Mother Jeanne, Blanche, Crowd)

01:54

Powell, Jane (mezzo-soprano)
Wyn-Davies, Catrin (soprano)
English National Opera Chorus (Choir)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Daniel, Paul (Conductor)

9

Act III Scene 1: Father, speak to them (Mother Marie, Chaplain, Mother Jeane, Sister Mathilde)

04:22

Barstow, Josephine (soprano)
Davies, Ryland (tenor)
Powell, Jane (mezzo-soprano)
Gibbons, Anne-Marie (mezzo-soprano)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Daniel, Paul (Conductor)

10

Act III Scene 1: There is only one vote against (Mother Marie, Sister Mathilde, Constance, Chaplain)

03:13

Barstow, Josephine (soprano)
Gibbons, Anne-Marie (mezzo-soprano)
Tynan, Sarah (soprano)
Davies, Ryland (tenor)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Daniel, Paul (Conductor)

11

Act III Scene 1: Interlude: Fellow citizens, we congratulate you all (Officer)

02:22

Stafford-Allen, Toby (baritone)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Daniel, Paul (Conductor)

12

Act III Scene 1: Interlude: Sister Gerald, we have to warn the priest as soon as possible (Prioress, Mother Marie)

01:46

Boylan, Orla (soprano)
Barstow, Josephine (soprano)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Daniel, Paul (Conductor)

13

Act III Scene 2: Prelude

01:53

English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Daniel, Paul (Conductor)

14

Act III Scene 2: It's you! (Blanche, Mother Marie, A Woman's Voice)

05:31

Wyn-Davies, Catrin (soprano)
Barstow, Josephine (soprano)
Herman, Natalie (soprano)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Daniel, Paul (Conductor)

15

Act III Scene 3: My daughters, we have almost come to the end of our first night in prison (Prioress, Mother Jeanne)

04:09

Boylan, Orla (soprano)
Powell, Jane (mezzo-soprano)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Daniel, Paul (Conductor)

16

Act III Scene 3: And what of Sister Blanche? (Constance, Prioress, Sister Mathilde)

00:36

Tynan, Sarah (soprano)
Boylan, Orla (soprano)
Gibbons, Anne-Marie (mezzo-soprano)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Daniel, Paul (Conductor)

17

Act III Scene 3: The Tribunal of the Revolution declares that the former sisters of the Order of Carmel (Gaoler)

02:27

Stephenson, David (baritone)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Daniel, Paul (Conductor)

18

Act III Scene 3: My daughters, I wanted to save you (Prioress)

02:07

Boylan, Orla (soprano)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Daniel, Paul (Conductor)

19

Act III Scene 3: Interlude: It is done. The have been condemned (Chaplain, Mother Marie)

01:56

Davies, Ryland (tenor)
Barstow, Josephine (soprano)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Daniel, Paul (Conductor)

20

Act III Scene 4: Prelude

02:41

English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Daniel, Paul (Conductor)

21

Act III Scene 4: Salve Regina, Mater misericordiae (Prioress, Mother Jeanne, Sister Mathilde, Constance, Carmelites, Blanche)

06:45

Boylan, Orla (soprano)
Powell, Jane (mezzo-soprano)
Gibbons, Anne-Marie (mezzo-soprano)
Tynan, Sarah (soprano)
Wyn-Davies, Catrin (soprano)
English National Opera Chorus (Choir)
English National Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Daniel, Paul (Conductor)

Total Playing Time: 02:23:55