Serenade from The Fair Maid of Perth (Bizet) Richard Lewis: make music part of your life series

Serenade from The Fair Maid of Perth (Bizet) Richard Lewis

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This extract comes from a live 1949 performance released on BEULAH (12PD23) compact disc.Available in all good record stores or direct from Beulah at
http://www.eavb.co.uk/lp/12pd23.html
You can also download tracks from iTunes. Use the link above and select iTunes.

The strong cast reflects the best of British singers of the day. It includes: * Gwen Catley * Lorely Dyer * Richard Lewis * Trefor Jones * Norman Walker * Owen Brannigan
John Quinn writes for Classical Music on the Web: There is some surface noise from the acetates but overall the sound quality is good. The notes include a comment made by Philip Hope-Wallace when the broadcast was repeated in 1979 to mark the centenary of Beecham‘s birth. He wrote: “the beguiling melodies are exactly the sort of light music which Beecham could give a delicacy and vitality all its own. It is a lovely recording which does not sound its age of nearly 30 years ago.” Twenty-two years further on those comments remain entirely apt. …
…admirers of Bizet should snap up this issue while they can. The same applies to devotees of Beecham, the more so since this is a ‘live’ performance caught on the wing and a splendid example of his art in music to which he was so well suited.
Two disc set 134 minutes.

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Angela GHEORGHIU – Habanera -Bizet’s Carmen (Music Video)

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Angela GHEORGHIU – Habanera – Carmen (Music Video)

Music Video: Romanian soprano Angela Gheorghiu sings the Habanera, from Bizet’s opera ‘Carmen’ (2002)

This video was filmed to promote the complete recording of the opera “Carmen” (EMI Classics)
http://www.emiclassics.com/releasedet.

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  Angela Gheorghiu/Choeur ‘Les Elements‘/Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse/Michel Plasson

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MAKE MUSIC PART OF YOUR LIFE SERIES: Georges Bizet – Petite suite d’orchestre. Jeux d’enfants

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Georges Bizet – Petite suite d’orchestre. Jeux d’enfants

La Folle Journée de Varsovie 2013, Szalone Dni Muzyki w Warszawie,
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Iwona Borcuch – conductor

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Make Music Part of your Life Series: Georges Bizet Carmen PART 1 of 20 (Prelude + Sur la Place)

I have now completely uploaded my favourite opera!
Georges Bizet‘s Carmen (4 Acts) (Part 1 of 20) (Prelude + Sur la Place)

          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqflI0… (next part)

Composer: Georges Bizet 
Libretto: Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy

CARMEN: Maria Ewing (Soprano)
DON JOSE: Luis Lima (Tenor)
ESCAMILLO: Gino Quilico (Baritone)
MICAELA: Leontina Vaduva (Soprano)
ZUNIGA: Roderick Earle (Bass-Baritone)
MORALES: Christopher Booth-Jones (Baritone)
FRASQUITA: Judith Howarth (Soprano)
MERCEDES: Jean Rigby (Mezzo-Soprano)
LILLAS PASTIA: Daniel Pageon (Spoken role)
DANCAIRE: Burno Caproni (Bass-Baritone)
REMENDADO: Francis Egerton (Tenor)

Flamenco dancer: Juan Ortega
Stage Director: Nuria Espert
Conductor: Zubin Mehta
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Covent Garden 1991

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George Bizet – Petite Suite d’Orchestre ” Jeux d’enfants”, Op. 22 – Iasi Philharmonic, Valentin Doni Conductor

George Bizet – Petite Suite d’Orchestre ” Jeux d’enfants”, Op. 22

Iasi Philharmonic, Valentin Doni Conductor
09.11.2012.

Nr.1 – Mareche ( Trompete et Tambour ) 
Nr.2 – Berceuse ( La poupee ) – 02:35
Nr.3 – Impromptu ( La toupie ) – 06:04
Nr.4 – Dou ( Petit Mari, petite femme ) – 07:15
Nr.5 – Galop ( Le bal ) – 11:03

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George Bizet’s Carmen Premieres in Paris (1875)

Though it is today one of the most popular operas ever written,Carmen was initially met with such scathing reviews that the opera house had to give away tickets to get people to see it. Shortly after its disastrous premier, its author, Bizet, died of a heart attack and the director of the struggling opera house resigned. Later that year, however, Carmen opened in Vienna to great acclaim. Why did critics initially hate Bizet’s story of a soldier’s doomed love for a wild Gypsy girl? More… Discuss

Angela Gheorghiu sings the Habanera (L’amour est un oiseaux rebelle) from Bizet’s opera ‘Carmen’
(Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands Silver Jubilee Concert in Amsterdam, April 29th, 2005) 

S’il lui convient de refuser.

Rien n’y fait, menace ou prière.
L’un parle bien, l’autre se tait.
Et c’est l’autre que je préfère.
Il n’a rien dit mais il me plait.

L’amour! L’amour! L’amour! L’amour!

L’amour est enfant de Bohême,
Il n’a jamais jamais connu de loi.
Si tu ne m’aimes pas, je t’aime.
Si je t’aime, prends garde à toi!

Si tu ne m’aimes pas, si tou ne m’aimes pas, je t’aime,
Mais si je t’aime, si je t’aime, prends garde à toi!

L’oiseau que tu croyais surprendre
Battit d’aile et s’envola.
L’amour est loin, tu peux l’attendre.
Tu ne l’attends pas, il est là.

Tout a tour de toi, vite vite,
Il vient, s’en va, puis il revient.
Tu crois le tenir, il t’evite.
Tu crois l’eviter, il te tient.

L’amour! L’amour! L’amour! L’amour!

L’amour est enfant de Bohême,
Il n’a jamais jamais connu de loi.
Si tu ne m’aimes pas, je t’aime.
Si je t’aime, prends garde à toi!

Si tu ne m’aimes pas, si tu ne m’aimes pas, je t’aime,
Mais si je t’aime, si je t’aime, prends garde à toi!

English Translation of Habanera

Love is a rebellious bird
that nobody can tame,
and you call him quite in vain
if it suits him not to come.

Nothing helps, neither threat nor prayer.
One man talks well, the other’s mum;
it’s the other one that I prefer.
He’s silent but I like his looks.

Love! Love! Love! Love!

Love is a gypsy’s child,
it has never, ever, known a law;
love me not, then I love you;
if I love you, you’d best beware! etc.

The bird you thought you had caught
beat its wings and flew away …
love stays away, you wait and wait;
when least expected, there it is!

All around you, swift, so swift,
it comes, it goes, and then returns …
you think you hold it fast, it flees
you think you’re free, it holds you fast.

Love! Love! Love! Love!

Love is a gypsy’s child,
it has never, ever, known a law;
love me not, then I love you;
if I love you, you’d best beware!