The Bohemian Girl

Album by Michael William Balfe & Nova Thomas & Patrick Power & Jonathan Summers & RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra & Richard Bonynge

The Bohemian Girl is an opera by Irish composer Michael William Balfe, first performed in 1843. The opera was written in the light operatic tradition of the mid-19th century, with lyrical melodies and orchestral textures that drew on folk material, and it established Balfe's reputation within Victorian opera.
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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    The Bohemian Girl: Overture
    9:01
  2. 2.
    The Bohemian Girl: Act I. "Up with the banner" (Chorus)
    2:40
  3. 3.
    The Bohemian Girl: Act I. "A soldier's life" (Count)
    4:37
  4. 4.
    The Bohemian Girl: Act I. "'Tis sad to leave our fatherland" (Thaddeus)
    4:39
  5. 5.
    The Bohemian Girl: Act I. "In the gipsy's life you read" (Gipsies)
    2:48
  6. 6.
    The Bohemian Girl: Act I. "Comrade, your hand" (Devilshoof)
    5:23
  7. 7.
    The Bohemian Girl: Act I. "Is no succour near the hand?" (Florestein)
    1:29
  8. 8.
    The Bohemian Girl: Act I. "What means this alarm?" (Thaddeus)
    2:20
  9. 9.
    The Bohemian Girl: Act I. Waltz
    2:50
  10. 10.
    The Bohemian Girl: Act I. "Down with the daring slave" (Chorus)
    3:12
  11. 11.
    The Bohemian Girl: Act I. Galop
    1:26
  12. 12.
    The Bohemian Girl: Act I. "What sounds break on the ear?" (Chorus)
    5:06
  13. 13.
    The Bohemian Girl: Act II. "Silence, silence! The lady moon" (Gipsies)
    7:21
  14. 14.
    The Bohemian Girl: Act II. "I dream I dwelt in marble halls" (Arline)
    5:04
  15. 15.
    The Bohemian Girl: Act II. "The wound upon thine arm" (Thaddeus)
    5:46
  16. 16.
    The Bohemian Girl: Act II. "What is the spell hath yet effaced" (Arline)
    4:34
  17. 17.
    The Bohemian Girl: Act II. "Listen, while I relate the hope of a Gipsy's fate" (Arline)
    3:41
  18. 18.
    The Bohemian Girl: Act II. "In the gipsy's life you read" (Gipsies)
    1:11

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    The Bohemian Girl: Act II. "'Tis gone - the past was all a dream" (Queen)
    4:50
  2. 3.
    The Bohemian Girl: Act II. "This is thy deed" (Queen)
    3:25
  3. 4.
    The Bohemian Girl: Act II. "In the gipsies' life" / "Come with the gypsy bride" (Chorus, Arline)
    3:41
  4. 5.
    The Bohemian Girl: Act II. "Life itself is at the best" (Chorus)
    5:23
  5. 6.
    The Bohemian Girl: Act II. "My dear uncle, it delights me to see you" (Florestein)
    4:03
  6. 7.
    The Bohemian Girl: Act II. "Whate'er the scenes" / "The heart bow'd down" (Count)
    9:34
  7. 8.
    The Bohemian Girl: Act II. "Hold! hold!" (Count)
    8:04
  8. 9.
    The Bohemian Girl: Act III. Introduction / "The past appears to me but a dream" (Arline)
    5:57
  9. 10.
    The Bohemian Girl: Act III. "When other lips and other hearts" (Thaddeus)
    4:09
  10. 11.
    The Bohemian Girl: Act III. "Through the world wilt fly, love" (Thaddeus)
    3:13
  11. 12.
    The Bohemian Girl: Act III. "Welcome the present" (Chorus)
    3:44
  12. 13.
    The Bohemian Girl: Act III. "Though every hope be fled" (Thaddeus)
    5:39
  13. 14.
    The Bohemian Girl: Act III. "See at your feet a suppliant one" (Arline)
    3:39
  14. 15.
    The Bohemian Girl: Act III. "When the fair land of Poland" (Thaddeus)
    5:01
  15. 16.
    The Bohemian Girl: Act III. "Let not the soul for sorrows grieve" (Arline, Thaddeus, Count)
    3:20
  16. 17.
    The Bohemian Girl: Act III. "Oh! what full delight" (Arline, Chorus)
    3:18

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