Verdi: Falstaff

Andrew Shore (Falstaff), Yvonne Kenny (Alice Ford), Ashley Holland (Ford), Susan Gritton (Nannetta), Barry Banks (Fenton), Stuart Kale (Dr Caius), Rebecca de Pont Davies (Mistress Quickly), Alice Coote (Meg Page), Clive Bayley (Pistol), Richard Roberts (Bardolph)

English National Opera Chorus,...

A strong cast, with every role vividly portrayed; Paul Daniel conducts confidently and enthusiastically.

BBC Music Magazine, June 2005

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A strong cast, with every role vividly portrayed; Paul Daniel conducts confidently and enthusiastically.

BBC Music Magazine, June 2005

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Label: Chandos
Series: Opera in English
Catalogue number: CHAN3079
Length: 2 hours 5 minutes
Genre:
- Opera

Contents and tracklist

Verdi: Falstaff, Act I Scene 1

Work length16:56

Paul Daniel, English National Opera, Andrew Shore, Stuart Kale, Richard Roberts, Clive Bayley, English National Opera Chorus

Falstaff! (Dr Caius, Falstaff, Bardolph, Pistol)

Track length5:08

Your bill, sir (Landlord, Falstaff, Bardolph, Pistol)

Track length3:11

Are you acquainted with a merchant whose name is Ford? (Falstaff, Bardolph, Pistol)

Track length2:50

So now, convey these scorching letters (Falstaff, Pistol, Bardolph)

Track length1:06

Your honour? Vermin! (Falstaff)

Track length4:41

Verdi: Falstaff, Act I Scene 2

Work length15:53

Paul Daniel, English National Opera, Alice Coote, Yvonne Kenny, Rebecca de Pont Davies, Susan Gritton, Stuart Kale, Richard Roberts, Barry Banks, Clive Bayley, Ashley Holland

Dear Alice! (Meg, Alice, Quickly, Nannetta)

Track length1:16

Heavenly Alice, let me love you … (Meg, Alice, Quickly, Nannetta)

Track length2:35

Monster! (Quickly, Meg, Nannetta, Alice, Dr Caius, Bardolph, Fenton, Pistol, Ford)

Track length1:33

Again please (Ford, Pistol, Dr Caius, Bardolph, Fenton, Nannetta, Alice, Meg, Quickly)

Track length1:31

Pst, pst, Nannetta (Fenton, Nannetta)

Track length1:44

Falstaff has dared to mock me! (Alice, Meg, Nannetta, Quickly)

Track length1:31

Back to the jousting … (Fenton, Nannetta)

Track length2:27

You'll gather from his boasting (Bardolph, Ford, Pistol, Dr Caius, Fenton)

Track length1:37

Enough of this chattering (Alice, Nannetta, Quickly, Meg)

Track length1:39

Verdi: Falstaff, Act II Scene 1

Work length25:12

Paul Daniel, English National Opera, Andrew Shore, Richard Roberts, Clive Bayley, Rebecca de Pont Davies, Ashley Holland

We're converted, we've reverted (Bardolph, Pistol, Falstaff)

Track length1:07

Sir, your servant! (Quickly, Falstaff)

Track length2:28

I've another commission to bring your worship (Quickly, Falstaff)

Track length2:27

Alice is mine! (Falstaff)

Track length1:20

Sir John, outside there is a certain Master Brook (Bardolph, Falstaff)

Track length0:39

Good sir, may God be with you! (Ford, Falstaff, Bardolph, Pistol)

Track length3:06

In Windsor there's a lady (Ford, Falstaff)

Track length3:32

This cruel beauty has a reputation (Ford, Falstaff)

Track length3:39

I'm dreaming! Or is this true? (Ford)

Track length5:05

How do I look? I'm ready (Falstaff, Ford)

Track length1:49

Verdi: Falstaff, Act II Scene 2

Work length20:04

Paul Daniel, English National Opera, Rebecca de Pont Davies, Yvonne Kenny, Alice Coote, Susan Gritton, Andrew Shore, Ashley Holland, Richard Roberts, Barry Banks, Clive Bayley, Stuart Kale

I think we should propose a bill (Alice, Quickly, Meg)

Track length0:40

I hurry down the river to the Garter (Quickly)

Track length1:07

It's really very simple (Quickly, Meg, Alice)

Track length2:14

Witty young women of Windsor … (Nannetta, Meg, Alice, Quickly)

Track length1:50

At last I've caught you (Falstaff, Alice)

Track length3:49

When I was page to the noble Duke of York (Falstaff, Alice, Quickly)

Track length0:59

Mistress Alice, it's Mistress Meg (Quickly, Falstaff, Alice, Meg)

Track length0:59

He jumped the hedge, and he trampled the hydrangea (Quickly, Ford, Falstaff, Bardolph, Pistol, Alice, Meg)

Track length1:41

Come here! (Nannetta, Fenton)

Track length0:49

I'll kill him! I'll slaughter him! (Dr Caius, Ford, Pistol, Bardolph, Nannetta, Fenton)

Track length0:49

When I catch you … (Ford, Dr Caius, Quickly, Meg, Bardolph, Pistol, Fenton, Nannetta, Chorus, Alice)

Track length3:15

It's not him! (Dr Caius, Alice, Meg, Quickly, Bardolph, Ford, Pistol, Chorus, Nannetta, Fenton)

Track length1:52

Verdi: Falstaff, Act III Scene 1

Work length17:03

Paul Daniel, English National Opera, Andrew Shore, Ashley Holland, Rebecca de Pont Davies, Yvonne Kenny, Alice Coote, Stuart Kale, Barry Banks, Susan Gritton

Hey! Landlord! (Falstaff)

Track length6:35

Sir, your servant! (Quickly, Falstaff, Alice, Ford, Nannetta, Meg, Dr Caius)

Track length3:18

Just as the chimes of midnight are resounding (Quickly, Ford, Alice, Nannetta, Meg, Fenton)

Track length4:59

Don't forget the lanterns (Alice, Ford, Dr Caius, Meg, Quickly, Nannetta)

Track length2:11

Verdi: Falstaff, Act III Scene 2

Work length29:59

Paul Daniel, English National Opera, Barry Banks, Susan Gritton, Rebecca de Pont Davies, Yvonne Kenny, Alice Coote, Andrew Shore, English National Opera Chorus, Richard Roberts, Clive Bayley, Ashley Holland, Stuart Kale

Introduction

Track length1:15

From lover's lips a happy song (Fenton, Nannetta)

Track length2:34

Master Fenton, put on this friar's habit (Alice, Fenton, Nannetta, Quickly, Meg)

Track length0:55

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven chimes (Falstaff)

Track length3:12

I hear a nimble footstep (Falstaff, Alice, Meg)

Track length1:13

Woon-nymphs, elfins, naiads, leprechauns and sirens (Nannetta, Falstaff, Alice, Chorus)

Track length1:55

Upon a fragrant breath of night (Nannetta, Chorus)

Track length4:24

Who goes there? (Falstaff, Bardolph, Pistol, Ford, Quickly, Alice, Nannetta, Meg, Chorus)

Track length0:57

Pinch him and burn him (Alice, Meg, Quickly, Falstaff, Chorus)

Track length0:56

Buffoon! (Dr Caius, Ford, Bardolph, Pistol, Alice, Quickly, Meg, Chorus)

Track length2:07

Nose incandescent! Nozzle rubescent! (Falstaff, Quickly, Ford, Meg, Alice)

Track length2:53

So the commonest rabble have collected (Falstaff, Ford, Chorus)

Track length1:21

Now the bride is approaching with her bridegroom (Ford, Falstaff, Alice, Chorus)

Track length1:11

Ha, ha! (Falstaff, Pistol, Dr Caius, Ford, Alice, Bardolph, Fenton, Nannetta, Chorus)

Track length1:54

Life is a burst of laughter (Falstaff, All)

Track length3:12

Awards and reviews

June 2005

A strong cast, with every role vividly portrayed; Paul Daniel conducts confidently and enthusiastically.

2010 edition

The role of Falstaff is a speciality of Andrew Shore, and he delivers a vivid portrait, at once comic and weighty...Yet above all, it is the taut and firmly paced conducting of Paul Daniel and the playing of the orchestra, superbly recorded, which make this set competitive with the finest versions in Italian.

Paul Daniel's vivid presentation of the orchestral score… is as subtly coloured and powerfully dramatic as one could wish.

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