MOZART, W.A.: Cosi fan tutte (Sung in English)

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Cosi fan tutte, K. 588 (Sung in English) (more info)
Composed by: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Toby Spence, tenor
Janice Watson, soprano
Lesley Garrett, soprano
Diana Montague, mezzo-soprano
Christopher Maltmann, baritone
Thomas Allen, contralto


1.   Overture - 4:05
2.   Act I: Trio: Suspect Dorabella? (Ferrando, Guglielmo, Don Alfonso) - 1:53
3.   Act I: Recitative: Swords or pistols? (Ferrando, Guglielmo, Don Alfonso) - 0:50
4.   Act I: Trio: Woman's faith is like a phoenix (Don Alfonso, Ferrando, Guglielmo) - 1:09
5.   Act I: Recitative: A poetical fiction! (Ferrando, Guglielmo, Don Alfonso) - 1:19
6.   Act I: Trio: I shall hire a band of players (Ferrando, Guglielmo, Don Alfonso) - 2:21
7.   Act I: Duet: This portrait alone is the face of Adonis (Fiordiligi, Dorabella) - 4:18
8.   Act I: Recitative: I can't think what's the matter (Fiordiligi, Dorabella) - 0:44
9.   Act I: Recitative: Here they are (Fiordiligi, Dorabella, Don Alfonso) - 0:22
10.   Act I: Aria: Let me try. My courage fails (Don Alfonso) - 0:38
11.   Act I: Recitative: Tell us, for pity's sake (Fiordiligi, Don Alfonso, Dorabella) - 1:00
12.   Act I: Quintet: Courage fails me! For no evasion (Guglielmo, Ferrando, Don Alfonso, Fiordiligi, Dorabella) - 4:07
13.   Act I: Recitative: It's a comedy, charming! (Don Alfonso, Ferrando, Fiordiligi, Dorabella) - 0:33
14.   Act I: Oh, the soldier's life for me! (Chorus) - 1:30
15.   Act I: Recitative: My friends, the time is flying (Don Alfonso, Fiordiligi, Dorabella, Ferrando, Guglielmo) - 0:34
16.   Act I: Quintet: You'll write long letters often (Fiordiligi, Dorabella, Ferrando, Guglielmo, Don Alfonso, Chorus) - 2:32
17.   Act I: Recitative: Are they gone? (Dorabella, Don Alfonso, Fiordiligi) - 0:35
18.   Act I: Trio: O wind gently blowing (Fiordiligi, Dorabella, Don Alfonso) - 2:43
19.   Act I: Recitative: So far all's going splendidly (Don Alfonso) - 1:05
20.   Act I: Recitative: A hell of an existence (Despina) - 0:58
21.   Act I: Recitative: My ladies, here is your chocolate and biscuits (Despina, Fiordiligi, Dorabella) - 1:24
22.   Act I: Aria: Cease not, remorseless love (Dorabella) - 1:46
23.   Act I: Recitative: Signora Dorabella, Signora Fiordiligi (Despina, Dorabella, Fiordiligi) - 1:36
24.   Act I: Aria: In lovers and in soldiers (Despina) - 2:36
25.   Act I: Recitative: What a silence! (Don Alfonso, Despina) - 2:21
26.   Act I: Sextet: I've the honour to present you (Don Alfonso, Ferrando, Guglielmo, Despina, Fiordiligi, Dorabella) - 4:18
27.   Act I: Recitative: What an outcry! (Don Alfonso, Dorabella, Fiordiligi, Ferrando, Guglielmo) - 3:38
28.   Act I: Aria: Like a fortress in ocean founded (Fiordiligi) - 4:28
29.   Act I: Recitative: Stay, I implore you! (Ferrando, Guglielmo, Don Alfonso, Dorabella, Fiordiligi) - 0:43
30.   Act I: Aria: O vision so charming (Guglielmo) - 1:42
31.   Act I: Trio: You seem delighted! (Don Alfonso, Ferrando, Guglielmo) - 0:53
32.   Act I: Recitative: When you've quite finished laughing (Don Alfonso, Guglielmo, Ferrando) - 0:52
33.   Act I: Aria: Her eye so alluring (Ferrando) - 4:50

Cosi fan tutte, K. 588 (Sung in English) (more info)
Composed by: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Toby Spence, tenor
Janice Watson, soprano
Lesley Garrett, soprano
Diana Montague, mezzo-soprano
Christopher Maltmann, baritone
Thomas Allen, contralto


1.   Act I: Finale: Why has fate my life enshrouded (Fiordiligi, Dorabella) - 2:53
2.   Act I: Finale: To die is all I long for (Ferrando, Guglielmo, Don Alfonso, Fiordiligi, Dorabella, Despina) - 4:55
3.   Act I: Finale: Now ladies, calm yourselves (Don Alfonso, Ferrando, Guglielmo, Despina, Fiordiligi, Dorabella) - 8:50
4.   Act II: Recitative: Well, I declare, you are a funny pair of ladies (Despina, Fiordiligi, Dorabella) - 2:26
5.   Act II: Aria: At fifteen a girl already must be truly wise (Despina) - 3:28
6.   Act II: Recitative: Well, sister! What do you think? (Fiordiligi, Dorabella) - 1:34
7.   Act II: Duet: I prefer the gentle dark one (Dorabella, Fiordiligi) - 2:53
8.   Act II: Recitative: Come at one to the garden (Don Alfonso, Dorabella) - 0:22
9.   Act II: Duet and Chorus: Gentle zephyr, softly sighing (Ferrando, Guglielmo, Chorus) - 3:03
10.   Act II: Recitative: What is this masquerading? (Fiordiligi, Dorabella, Despina, Ferrando, Guglielmo, Don Alfonso) - 0:51
11.   Act II: Quartet: Now give me your hand (Don Alfonso, Ferrando, Guglielmo, Despina) - 2:34
12.   Act II: Recitative: Isn't the weather lovely! (Fiordiligi, Ferrando, Dorabella, Guglielmo) - 2:14
13.   Act II: Duet: This heart that I give you (Guglielmo, Dorabella) - 4:16
14.   Act II: Recitative: Cruel one, would you leave me? (Ferrando, Fiordiligi) - 1:30
15.   Act II: Recitative: He's leaving. Listen! … (Fiordiligi) - 1:34
16.   Act II: Rondo: Ah, my love, I pray forgive me (Fiordiligi) - 7:30

Cosi fan tutte, K. 588 (Sung in English) (more info)
Composed by: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Toby Spence, tenor
Janice Watson, soprano
Lesley Garrett, soprano
Diana Montague, mezzo-soprano
Christopher Maltmann, baritone
Thomas Allen, contralto


1.   Act II: We've done it! (Ferrando, Guglielmo) - 3:26
2.   Act II: Aria: Ladies have such variations (Guglielmo) - 3:12
3.   Act II: Recitative: Ah! My brain is distracted! (Ferrando) - 1:29
4.   Act II: Cavatina: Her treason is poison (Ferrando) - 2:02
5.   Act II: Recitative: Now at least you are acting as a sane woman should (Despina, Dorabella, Fiordiligi) - 1:30
6.   Act II: Aria: Young love is unrelenting (Dorabella) - 2:55
7.   Act II: Recitative: All the world is conspiring (Fiordiligi, Guglielmo, Despina, Don Alfonso) - 2:10
8.   Act II: Duet: All too slowly the hours are fleeting (Fiordiligi, Ferrando) - 5:11
9.   Act II: Recitative: That's enough for me! (Guglielmo, Don Alfonso, Ferrando) - 1:40
10.   Act II: Aria: Man accuses the woman (Don Alfonso, Ferrando, Guglielmo) - 0:59
11.   Act II: Recitative: Well, gentlemen, you've won them (Despina, Ferrando, Guglielmo, Don Alfonso) - 0:44
12.   Act II: Finale: Come, my friends, no more delaying (Despina, Chorus, Don Alfonso) - 1:47
13.   Act II: Finale: May the love, that has united then (Chorus, Ferrando, Guglielmo, Fiordiligi, Dorabella) - 4:03
14.   Act II: Finale: Happy lovers! Fate conniving (Don Alfonso, Fiordiligi, Dorabella, Ferrando, Guglielmo, Despina, Chorus) - 3:29
15.   Act II: Finale: Joy once more now our sorrow replaces (Ferrando, Guglielmo, Don Alfonso, Fiordiligi, Dorabella, Despina) - 8:11
16.   Act II: Finale: Happy is the man who calmly takes life strictly as he finds it (Fiordiligi, Dorabella, Despina, Ferrando, Guglielmo, Don Alfonso) - 1:42

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