Barber: Vanessa

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Vanessa, Op. 32 (more info)
Performed by: Detroit Symphony Orchestra BBC Symphony Orchestra
Composed by: Gian Carlo Menotti Samuel Barber
Conducted by: Leonard Slatkin Neeme Jarvi Gil Rose
Simon Birchall, bass
Christine Brewer, soprano
Catherine Wyn-Rogers, contralto
William Burden, tenor
Stephen Charlesworth, bass
Ellen Chickering, soprano
Andrea Matthews, soprano
Marion Dry, contralto
Ray Bauwens, tenor
Richard Conrad, tenor
Philip Lima, baritone
Neal Davies, baritone
Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano


1.   Introduction - 1:26
2.   Act I Scene 1: Potage creme aux perles (Erika) - 2:07
3.   Act I Scene 1: No, I cannot understand why… (Vanessa) - 5:46
4.   Act I Scene 1: Must the winter come so soon? (Erika) - 2:33
5.   Act I Scene 1: Listen!… they are here (Erika) - 1:40
6.   Act I Scene 1: Do not utter a word, Anatol (Vanessa) - 4:56
7.   Act I Scene 1: Yes, I believe I shall love you (Anatol) - 2:04
8.   Act I Scene 1: Who are you? (Erika) - 5:59
9.   Act I Scene 2: And then? (Baroness) - 4:31
10.   Act I Scene 2: No, you are not as good a skater… (Vanessa) - 3:13
11.   Act I Scene 2: Under the willow tree (Doctor) - 4:01
12.   Act I Scene 2: Erika, I am so happy (Vanessa) - 4:01
13.   Act I Scene 2: Did you hear her? (Erika) - 1:35
14.   Act I Scene 2: Help, help! Save me from their talk (Anatol) - 2:54
15.   Act I Scene 2: Outside this house the world has changed (Anatol) - 3:12
16.   Act I Scene 2: Hurry now! (Vanessa) - 2:19
17.   Act I Scene 2: In Morning light let us rejoice (Chorus) - 4:37

Vanessa, Op. 32 (more info)
Performed by: Detroit Symphony Orchestra BBC Symphony Orchestra
Composed by: Gian Carlo Menotti Samuel Barber
Conducted by: Leonard Slatkin Neeme Jarvi Gil Rose
Simon Birchall, bass
Christine Brewer, soprano
Catherine Wyn-Rogers, contralto
William Burden, tenor
Stephen Charlesworth, bass
Ellen Chickering, soprano
Andrea Matthews, soprano
Marion Dry, contralto
Ray Bauwens, tenor
Richard Conrad, tenor
Philip Lima, baritone
Neal Davies, baritone
Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano


1.   Act II: The Count and Countess d'Albany (Major-domo) - 3:17
2.   Act II: I should never have been a doctor (Doctor) - 3:35
3.   Act II: Here you are! (Vanessa) - 1:35
4.   Act II: At last I've found you (Anatol) - 1:38
5.   Act II: Love has a bitter core, Vanessa (Anatol) - 4:41
6.   Act II: Nothing to worry about (Doctor) - 6:26
7.   Act III Scene 1: Why did no one warn me? (Vanessa) - 5:05
8.   Act III Scene 1: Why must the greatest sorrows come (Vanessa) - 2:26
9.   Act III Scene 1: There, look! (Doctor) - 3:06
10.   Act III Scene 1: On the path to the lake (Anatol) - 3:00
11.   Act III Scene 1: Anatol, tell me the truth! (Vanessa) - 2:40
12.   Act III Scene 1: Grandmother! (Erika) - 2:31
13.   Act III: Intermezzo - 4:39
14.   Act III Scene 2: By the time we arrive in Paris (Anatol) - 1:09
15.   Act III Scene 2: For every love there is a last farewell (Doctor) - 2:23
16.   Act III Scene 2: And you, my friend (Vanessa) - 2:50
17.   Act III Scene 2: Erika, before I leave, you must tell me (Vanessa) - 4:22
18.   Act III Scene 2: To leave, to break, to find, to keep (Vanessa) - 4:00
19.   Act III Scene 2: Goodbye, be happy, Aunt Vanessa (Erika) - 2:57
20.   Act III Scene 2: No, I must never say that name again (Erika) - 3:38

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