RICHARD STRAUSS (1864-1949)

Suite from Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Op. 60

35:11

1

1

Overture

4:01

2

2

Minuet

1:37

3

3

The Fencing Master

1:44

4

4

Entry and Dance of the Tailors

5:13

5

5

Lully's Minuet

2:28

6

6

Courante

2:28

7

7

Entry of Cleonte (after Lully)

4:20

8

8

Intermezzo

3:10

9

9

The Dinner

10:08

Bradley Creswick solo violin

David Watkin cello

Catriona Beveridge piano

Ariadne on Naxos

117:43

Opera in a prologue and one act

Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal

English translation by Christopher Cowell

Prologue

10

Orchestral Introduction

2:23

11

'My good Major-Domo'

3:13

Music Master, Major-Domo

12

'This dressing room is given to mam'zelle Zerbinetta'

5:41

Footman, Officer, Composer, Tenor, Wigmaker, Zerbinetta, Prima Donna, Music Master, Dancing Master

13

'I can show them the secrets of the universe'

3:09

Composer, Music Master

14

'Fellow actors, dearest of friends'

3:08

Zerbinetta, Composer, Music Master, Prima Donna, Dancing Master

15

'The company's rising from table'

4:36

Footman, Music Master, Major-Domo, Prima Donna, Dancing Master, Tenor, Zerbinetta, Composer

16

'I'm staggered – how unexpected!'

4:22

Music Master, Composer, Dancing Master, Tenor, Prima Donna, Zerbinetta

17

'She takes him for the God of Death'

4:29

Composer, Zerbinetta

18

'A moment means nothing'

4:06

Zerbinetta, Composer

19

'The stage awaits you'

4:36

Music Master, Prima Donna, Composer

The Opera

20

Overture

3:37

21

'Sleeping?'

3:50

Naiad, Dryad, Echo

22

'Ah!'

2:51

Ariadne, Echo, Harlequin, Zerbinetta, Truffaldino

23

'A golden time was Theseus-Ariadne'

6:42

Ariadne, Naiad, Dryad, Echo, Harlequin, Zerbinetta, Scaramuccio, Truffaldino

24

'Loving, hating, hoping, fearing'

2:05

Harlequin, Echo, Zerbinetta

25

'There is a land, a world untainted'

5:43

Ariadne

26

'The lady, we are sad to see'

4:38

Brighella, Scaramuccio, Harlequin, Truffaldino, Zerbinetta

27

'Your gracious Royal Highness'

3:17

28

'The moment I think I'm true to one lover'

6:56

Zerbinetta

29

'Quite a sermon, but a waste of effort'

1:27

Harlequin, Zerbinetta, Brighella, Scaramuccio, Truffaldino

30

'To console a stubborn woman'

6:17

Brighella, Scaramuccio, Harlequin, Truffaldino, Zerbinetta

31

'A shining marvel, a youthful God!'

4:22

Dryad, Naiad, Echo

32

'Circe, Circe can you still hear me?'

4:57

Bacchus, Ariadne, Naiad, Dryad, Echo

33

'Theseus!'

4:27

Ariadne, Bacchus

34

'Me? Can you be sure?'

9:10

Bacchus, Ariadne

35

'Shall we not pass over?'

7:22

Ariadne, Bacchus, Naiad, Dryad, Echo, Zerbinetta

PROLOGUE

Stephen Fry spoken - Major-Domo

Christine Brewer soprano - The Prima Donna (later Ariadne)

Robert Dean Smith tenor - The Tenor (later Bacchus)

Alice Coote mezzo-soprano - Composer

Alan Opie baritone - Music Master

Paul Keohone bass - A Wigmaker

Dean Robinson bass - A Footman

Declan McCusker tenor - An Officer

COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE PLAYERS

Gillian Keith soprano - Zerbinetta

Roderick Williams baritone - Harlequin

John Graham-Hall tenor - Scaramuccio

Matthew Rose bass - Truffaldino

Wynne Evans tenor - Brighella

OPERA SERIA

Christine Brewer soprano - Ariadne

Robert Dean Smith tenor - Bacchus

Anita Watson soprano - Naiad

Pamela Helen Stephen mezzo-soprano - Dryad

Gail Pearson soprano - Echo

John Graham-Hall tenor - Dancing Master

Bradley Creswick guest leader

Catriona Beveridge piano

Gareth Hancock assistant conductor

Richard Armstrong