SMETANA: Bartered Bride (The) (Sung in English)

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Bartered Bride (The) (Sung in English) (more info)
Performed by: Philharmonia Orchestra
Composed by: Bedrich Smetana
Conducted by: Charles MacKerras
Geoffrey Moses, bass
Paul Charles Clarke, tenor
Louis Hill, vocals
Kit Hesketh-Harvey, vocals
Susan Gritton, soprano
Diana Montague, mezzo-soprano
Neal Davies, baritone
Yvonne Howard, mezzo-soprano
Timothy Robinson, tenor
Mechislav Shchavinsky,
Peter Rose, bass
Ravi Shar, vocals
Robin Leggate, tenor


1.   Overture - 6:28
2.   Act I Scene 1: Time at last for celebration (Chorus) - 4:36
3.   Act I Scene 1: Why do you look so downcast (Jenik, Marenka, Chorus) - 3:27
4.   Act I Scene 2: Jenik, what will happen if Mother's right? (Marenka, Jenik) - 1:18
5.   Act I Scene 2: Promise me that you would never (Marenka) - 3:34
6.   Act I Scene 2: Is it so unfair to want to know (Marenka, Jenik) - 0:53
7.   Act I Scene 2: Such a mother is a blessing (Jenik, Marenka) - 2:25
8.   Act I Scene 2: Faithful love I vow to you (Marenka, Jenik) - 3:44
9.   Act I Scene 3: Every detail has been sorted (Kecal, Krusina, Ludmila) - 5:05
10.   Act I Scene 3: Hold it! Are we not forgetting (Krusina, Kecal, Ludmila) - 0:59
11.   Act I Scene 3: Well, as I told you, he's kind and he's gentle (Kecal, Ludmila, Krusina) - 3:58
12.   Act I Scene 4: Look! She's coming! (Kecal, Ludmila, Krusina, Marenka) - 4:52
13.   Act I Scene 4: Fine then, say what you will (Marenka, Krusina, Ludmila, Kecal) - 1:54
14.   Act I Scene 5: Introduction: Polka - Take your partners for the polka (Chorus) - 4:33
15.   Act II Scene 1: So charge the glasses, lads (Chorus, Jenik, Kecal) - 5:05
16.   Act II Scene 1: Furiant - 2:18
17.   Act II Scene 2: Ma …Ma …My mamma said (Vasek) - 2:19
18.   Act II Scene 3: Don't say you're the boy (Marenka, Vasek) - 1:29
19.   Act II Scene 3: I know there's a girl for you (Marenka, Vasek) - 6:02

Bartered Bride (The) (Sung in English) (more info)
Performed by: Philharmonia Orchestra
Composed by: Bedrich Smetana
Conducted by: Charles MacKerras
Geoffrey Moses, bass
Paul Charles Clarke, tenor
Louis Hill, vocals
Kit Hesketh-Harvey, vocals
Susan Gritton, soprano
Diana Montague, mezzo-soprano
Neal Davies, baritone
Yvonne Howard, mezzo-soprano
Timothy Robinson, tenor
Mechislav Shchavinsky,
Peter Rose, bass
Ravi Shar, vocals
Robin Leggate, tenor


1.   Act II Scene 4: I have plenty of others (Kecal, Jenik) - 0:48
2.   Act II Scene 4: Just a word or two, my friend (Kecal, Jenik, Chorus) - 2:40
3.   Act II Scene 4: Time and time again I encounter men (Kecal, Jenik) - 3:33
4.   Act II Scene 4: Think what it's worth, lad (Kecal, Jenik) - 2:04
5.   Act II Scene 4: You'll go home to Moravia? (Kecal, Jenik) - 3:34
6.   Act II Scene 5: Ah, my friend! Once you learn (Kecal) - 3:50
7.   Act II Scene 6: Come now everyone, gather round (Kecal, Chorus, Jenik, Krusina) - 4:16
8.   Act III Scene 1: I'm near now to despairing (Vasek) - 4:01
9.   Act III Scene 2: Roll up! Roll up ladies and gentlemen! (Ringmaster) - 2:45
10.   Act III Scene 2: Ballet - 6:02
11.   Act III Scene 2: Oh, it looks so lovely! (Vasek, Esmeralda, Indian, Ringmaster) - 4:53
12.   Act III Scene 2: Mother doesn't matter, Mother wouldn't care! (Esmeralda, Ringmaster) - 1:44
13.   Act III Scene 3: Oh, I don't understand it! (Vasek, Hasek, Kecal, Micha) - 0:57
14.   Act III Scene 3: What? Dare he? Would he? You do what? (Hata, Micha, Kecal, Vasek) - 2:44
15.   Act III Scene 4: No! I don't believe you! (Marenka, Krusina, Kecal, Ludmila, Hata, Micha) - 4:58
16.   Act III Scene 5: Oh, Vasek! Don't run away! (Kecal, Vasek, Ludmila, Hata, Krusina, Micha) - 1:14
17.   Act III Scene 5: Think it over, Marenka, think it through (Ludmila, Hata, Krusina, Kecal, Micha, Marenka) - 3:18
18.   Act III Scene 6: Oh, but the pain! The burning pain! (Marenka) - 1:49
19.   Act III Scene 6: We dreamed upon a moonlit night (Marenka) - 4:33
20.   Act III Scene 7: Marenka mine, Marenka mine! (Jenik, Marenka) - 4:31
21.   Act III Scene 8: So then, young man (Kecal, Marenka, Jenik) - 1:19
22.   Act III Scene 8: Be calm, oh my love (Jenik, Marenka, Kecal) - 3:37
23.   Act III Scene 9: Tell us, Marenka, it's all up to you (Chorus, Marenka, Jenik) - 1:11
24.   Act III Scene 9: It's Jenik! What's he doing here? (Hata, Micha, Jenik, Kecal, Marenka, Ludmila, Krusina) - 3:40
25.   Act III Scene 10: Everybody get out of the way! (2 boys, Vasek, Hata, Krusina, Ludmila, Micha, Marenka, Jenik, Chorus) - 3:08

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