Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin

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CD available From: 12 March 2001

Opera - Eugene Onegin

Peter Il'yich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)

Eugene Onegin

142:20

Opera in three acts

Text by the composer and Konstantin Shilovsky after Alexander Pushkin's verse novel Eugene Onegin

English translation by David Lloyd-Jones

COMPACT DISC ONE

Act I

Introduction

2:39

Scene 1

No. 1 Duet and Quartet

'Oh, did you hear the lovesick shepherd boy'

5:08

Tatyana, Olga, Madame Larina, Nurse

No 2 Chorus and Dance of the Peasants

'My legs ache and can no longer run'

2:39

Leader (John Hudson), Peasants, Madame Larina

'In a cottage by the water'

2:05

Peasants

No. 3 Scene and Aria

'Oh, how I love to hear the people singing'

0:58

Tatyana, Olga

'I'm not the sort to sit in silence'

2:35

Olga

No. 4 Scene

'Come here, my darling Olga!'

3:10

Madame Larina, Nurse, Tatyana, Peasants, Olga

No. 5 Scene and Quartet

'Mesdames, I hope that you'll excuse me'

1:48

Lensky, Onegin, Madame Larina

'Now tell me, which of them's Tatyana?'

1:42

Onegin, Lensky, Tatyana, Olga

No. 6 Scene and Arioso

'How perfect, how wonderful'

2:14

Lensky, Olga, Onegin, Tatyana

'How I love you, I adore you, Olga'

3:16

Lensky, Olga

No. 7 Closing Scene

'Ah, here you are!'

2:40

Madame Larina, Nurse, Lensky, Onegin

Scene 2

No. 8 Introduction and Scene

Introduction

1:38

'There! No more talk tonight'

1:19

'I can't sleep, Nanny'

0:49

'Well, let me think now'

4:55

Nurse, Tatyana

No. 9 Letter Scene

'To write is foolishness, I know it'

2:52

' ''I had to write'' '

3:03

'No, there could never be another'

1:52

'For you were always there beside me'

0:50

' ''Are you an angel'' '

2:20

' ''No, come what may'' '

2:14

Tatyana

No. 10 Scene and Duet

'Ah, night is over!'

2:30

'Oh, Nanny, may I ask a favour?'

0:25

'Then make your grandson go in secret'

3:08

Tatyana, Nurse

Scene 3

No. 11 Chorus of Girls

'Dear companions, come this way'

3:07

Girls

No. 12 Scene and Aria

'Onegin! Here! To see me!'

2:23

'You wrote a letter'

1:47

Tatyana, Onegin

'Were I the sort who had intended'

3:14

Onegin

'But try to practise self-control'

1:02

Onegin, Girls

70:30

COMPACT DISC TWO

Act II

Scene 1

No. 13 Entr'acte, Waltz and Chorus

Entr'acte and Waltz

2:38

'This is superb!'

1:45

Guests

'Certainly! But why aren't you dancing?'

1:03

Captain, Guests

'So that's their verdict!'

2:19

Onegin, Lensky, Guests

No. 14 Scene and Triquet's Couplets

'How can I have deserved to be so taunted by you?'

2:22

Lensky, Olga, Onegin

'By chance I 'ave with me a song'

0:44

' ''A cette fête conviée'' '

2:39

Triquet, Guests

No. 15 Mazurka and Scene

'Messieurs! Mesdames!'

1:13

Captain

Mazurka

'Why aren't you dancing, Lensky?'

3:14

Onegin, Lensky, Guests, Madame Larina

No. 16 Finale

'Here in your house!'

2:50

Lensky, Onegin, Tatyana, Olga, Madame Larina, Guests

'Your challenge I accept'

1:52

Onegin, Lensky, Guests, Olga

Scene 2

No. 17 Introduction, Scene and Aria

Introduction

1:59

'What's happened? Where can your opponent be?'

1:14

Zaretsky, Lensky

'How far, how far away you seem now'

6:22

Lensky

No. 18 Duel Scene

'Ah, here they are!'

1:55

'We fight to satisfy our honour'

4:02

Zaretsky, Onegin, Lensky

Act III

Scene One

No. 19 Polonaise

4:19

No. 20 Scene and Aria

'Here, too, I'm bored!'

2:25

Onegin

Ecossaise

1:50

'The Princess Gremina!'

2:15

Guests, Onegin, Tatyana, Gremin

No. 20a Aria

'The gift of love is rightly treasured'

5:41

Gremin

No. 21 Scene and Arioso

'And now, you must be introduced to her'

1:21

Gremin, Tatyana, Onegin

'Is this the very same Tatyana'

2:22

Onegin

Scene 2

No. 22 Final Scene

Introduction

1:39

'Why, why did he return and write this letter?'

2:15

Tatyana, Onegin

'Onegin, I was then far younger'

2:15

Tatyana

'Ah, Tatyana!'

3:15

'Onegin, as a man of honour'

2:07

'Onegin! Leave me, I entreat you'

1:40

Onegin, Tatyana

71:50

Thomas Hampson baritone - Eugene Onegin

Kiri Te Kanawa soprano - Tatyana

Neil Rosenshein tenor - Lensky

John Connell bass - Prince Gremin

Richard van Allan bass - A Captain/Zaretsky

Nicolai Gedda tenor - Monsieur Triquet

Linda Finnie mezzo-soprano - Madame Larina

Elizabeth Bainbridge mezzo-soprano - Filippyevna

Patricia Bardon mezzo-soprano - Olga

Chorus of Welsh National Opera

Orchestra of Welsh National Opera

Sir Charles Mackerras

Recorded in:

Brangwyn Hall, Swansea

29 June-6 July 1992

Producer(s)

John Fraser

Sound Engineer(s)

Mark Vigars

Mark Rogers (Assistant)

Format: Digital CD 16Bit 44.1Khz
Originally recorded in: 24 Bit Remaster

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