Marilyn Horne with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Henry Lewis • Massenet’s La Navarraise

The original LP boxset ARL1 1114 (1975) STEREO/ARD1 1114 QUADRAPHONIC

Jules Massenet (1842–1912)

La Navarraise (ca. 1893)
Libretto: Jules Claretie (1840–1913) & Henri Cain (1857–1937)

Sung in French

Act I

1. Prelude
2. L’assaut à couté cher, messieurs!
3. Capitaine, je vois que vous appartenez
4. Je ne pensais qu’à toi
5. Araquil! – Mon père!
6. Depuis deux ans je l’aime!
7. Ah! Mariez donc son coeur avec mon coeur!
8. Etes-vous de la compagnie?
9. Morts! Les vieux compagnons
10. Crénelons les maisons donnant sur la campagne
11. O bien aimée
12. Anita, la Navarraise?
13. J’ai trois maisons dans Madrid
14. Nocturne

Act II

15. Alerte! Alerte!
16. Mon argent, mes deux mille douros!
17. Voici ma dot!
18. Blessée, mourant, j’espère!
19. Mourir! – Mourir par moi!
20. Mon fils! – Père!
21. Merci, la bonne vierge

Marilyn Horne mezzo-soprano (Anita)
Plácido Domingo tenor (Araquil)
Sherrill Milnes baritone (Garrido)
Nicola Zaccaria bass (Remigio)
Gabriel Bacquier baritone (Bustamente)
Ryland Davies tenor (Ramon)
Leslie Fyson bass (A soldier)
Soldiers, villagers
The Ambrosian Opera Chorus directed by John McCarthy [10, 12–13, 15]
London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Henry Lewis

Recorded: Walthamstow Town Hall, London, 4–9 June 1975
Recording engineer/Quadraphonic remix engineer: Anthony Salvatore
Producer: Richard Mohr

Bonus works

Gaetano Donizetti (1797–1848)

22. Chacun le sait, chacun le dit, from La fille du régiment (1838–40)

Hector Berlioz (1803–1869)

23. D’amour l’ardente flamme, from La damnation de Faust (1845–46)

Ambroise Thomas (1811–1896)

24. Mad Scene, from Hamlet (1859–66 rev 1867–68)

Georges Bizet (1838–1875)

25. Ô Dieu Brahma! from Les pêcheurs de perles (1862)
with John Mitchinson (tenor)

Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791–1864)

26. Robert, toi que j’aime, from Robert le diable (1827–31)
with Neil Jenkins (tenor)

Charles Gounod (1818–1893)

27. Ah, je veux vivre dans le rêve, from Roméo et Juliette (1867)

Anna Moffo soprano
The Ambrosian Opera Chorus directed by John McCarthy [22, 24–25]
New Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Peter Maag
Recorded: Walthamstow Town Hall, London, 14–19 July 1974
Recording engineer/Quadraphonic remix engineer: Anthony Salvatore
Producer: Thomas Z Shepard

Bonus works from Heroines from Great French Operas

The original LP ARL1 0844 (1975) STEREO/ARD1 0844 QUADRAPHONIC

Remastered from the original analogue tapes by Michael J Dutton

Multichannel/Stereo
All tracks available in stereo and multichannel
SACD
This Hybrid CD can be played on any standard CD player

CDLX 7427