Smetana: The Bartered Bride (Sung in English)

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Prodana nevesta (The Bartered Bride) (more info)
Performed by: Prague National Opera Company Orchestra Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra London Symphony Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Composed by: Bedrich Smetana
Conducted by: Charles Mackerras Otakar Ostrcil Geoffrey Simon Barry Wordsworth Ivan Anguelov
Robin Leggate, tenor
Peter Rose, bass
Richard Tauber, tenor
Elisabeth Rethberg, soprano
Ada Nordenova, soprano
Vladimir Toms, baritone
Emil Pollert, baritone
Jaroslav Gleich, tenor
Paul Charles Clarke, tenor
Yvonne Howard, mezzo-soprano
Timothy Robinson, tenor
Yvette Bonner, soprano
Geoffrey Moses, bass
Kit Hesketh-Harvey, vocals
Louis Hill, vocals
Ravi Shar, vocals
Susan Gritton, soprano
Neal Davies, baritone
Jan Konstantin, baritone
Marie Pixova, soprano
Diana Montague, mezzo-soprano


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

Prodana nevesta (The Bartered Bride) (more info)
Performed by: Prague National Opera Company Orchestra Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra London Symphony Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Composed by: Bedrich Smetana
Conducted by: Charles Mackerras Otakar Ostrcil Geoffrey Simon Barry Wordsworth Ivan Anguelov
Robin Leggate, tenor
Peter Rose, bass
Richard Tauber, tenor
Elisabeth Rethberg, soprano
Ada Nordenova, soprano
Vladimir Toms, baritone
Emil Pollert, baritone
Jaroslav Gleich, tenor
Paul Charles Clarke, tenor
Yvonne Howard, mezzo-soprano
Timothy Robinson, tenor
Yvette Bonner, soprano
Geoffrey Moses, bass
Kit Hesketh-Harvey, vocals
Louis Hill, vocals
Ravi Shar, vocals
Susan Gritton, soprano
Neal Davies, baritone
Jan Konstantin, baritone
Marie Pixova, soprano
Diana Montague, mezzo-soprano


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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