Vanessa

Album by Samuel Barber & Susan Graham & Christine Brewer & William Burden & BBC Singers & BBC Symphony Orchestra & Leonard Slatkin

Vanessa is an opera by American composer Samuel Barber, premiered in 1958. The score combines late-Romantic lyricism with mid-20th-century harmonic language and orchestral colour, and the work represents a key example of Barber's large-scale dramatic writing within his output.

About

Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Vanessa, op. 32: Act I, Scene I. Introduction
    1:26
  2. 2.
    Vanessa, op. 32: Act I, Scene I. "Potage crème aux perles" (Erika)
    1:26
  3. 3.
    Vanessa, op. 32: Act I, Scene I. "No, I cannot understand why..." (Vanessa)
    5:46
  4. 4.
    Vanessa, op. 32: Act I, Scene I. "Must the winter come so soon?" (Erika)
    2:33
  5. 5.
    Vanessa, op. 32: Act I, Scene I. "Listen!... They are here" (Erika)
    1:40
  6. 6.
    Vanessa, op. 32: Act I, Scene I. "Do not utter a word, Anatol" (Vanessa)
    4:56
  7. 7.
    Vanessa, op. 32: Act I, Scene I. "Yes, I believe I shall love you" (Anatol)
    2:04
  8. 8.
    Vanessa, op. 32: Act I, Scene I. "Who are you?" (Erika)
    5:59
  9. 9.
    Vanessa, op. 32: Act I, Scene II. "And then?" (Baroness)
    4:31
  10. 10.
    Vanessa, op. 32: Act I, Scene II. "No, you are not as good a skater..." (Vanessa)
    3:13
  11. 11.
    Vanessa, op. 32: Act I, Scene II. "Under the willow tree..." (Doctor)
    2:51
  12. 12.
    Vanessa, op. 32: Act I, Scene II. "Erika, I am so happy" (Vanessa)
    4:01
  13. 13.
    Vanessa, op. 32: Act I, Scene II. "Did you hear her?" (Erika)
    1:35
  14. 14.
    Vanessa, op. 32: Act I, Scene II. "Help, help! Save me from their talk" (Anatol)
    2:54
  15. 15.
    Vanessa, op. 32: Act I, Scene II. "Outside this house the world has changed" (Anatol)
    3:12
  16. 16.
    Vanessa, op. 32: Act I, Scene II. "Hurry now!" (Vanessa)
    2:19
  17. 17.
    Vanessa, op. 32: Act I, Scene II. "In morning light let us rejoice" (Chorus)
    4:37

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Vanessa, op. 32: Act II "The Count and the Countess of d'Albanie" (Major-domo)
    3:17
  2. 3.
    Vanessa, op. 32: Act II "I should never have been a doctor" (Doctor)
    3:35
  3. 4.
    Vanessa, op. 32: Act II "Here you are!" (Vanessa)
    1:35
  4. 5.
    Vanessa, op. 32: Act II "At last I've found you" (Anatol)
    1:38
  5. 6.
    Vanessa, op. 32: Act II "Love has a bitter core, Vanessa" (Anatol)
    4:41
  6. 7.
    Vanessa, op. 32: Act II "Nothing to worry about" (Doctor)
    6:26
  7. 8.
    Vanessa, op. 32: Act III, Scene I. "Why did no-one warn me?" (Vanessa)
    5:05
  8. 9.
    Vanessa, op. 32: Act III, Scene I. "Why must the greatest sorrow..." (Vanessa)
    2:26
  9. 10.
    Vanessa, op. 32: Act III, Scene I. "There, look!" (Doctor)
    3:06
  10. 11.
    Vanessa, op. 32: Act III, Scene I. "On the path to the lake" (Anatol)
    3:00
  11. 12.
    Vanessa, op. 32: Act III, Scene I. "Anatol, tell me the truth!" (Vanessa)
    2:40
  12. 13.
    Vanessa, op. 32: Act III, Scene I. "Grandmother!" (Erika)
    2:31
  13. 14.
    Vanessa, op. 32: Act III, Intermezzo
    4:39
  14. 15.
    Vanessa, op. 32: Act III, Scene II. "By the time we arrive in Paris" (Anatol)
    1:09
  15. 16.
    Vanessa, op. 32: Act III, Scene II. "For every love there is a last farewell" (Doctor)
    2:23
  16. 17.
    Vanessa, op. 32: Act III, Scene II. "And you, my friend" (Vanessa)
    2:50
  17. 18.
    Vanessa, op. 32: Act III, Scene II. "Erika, before I leave, you must tell me" (Vanessa)
    4:22
  18. 19.
    Vanessa, op. 32: Act III, Scene II. "To leave, to break, to find, to keep" (Vanessa)
    4:00
  19. 20.
    Vanessa, op. 32: Act III, Scene II. "Goodbye, be happy, Aunt Vanessa" (Erika)
    2:57
  20. 21.
    Vanessa, op. 32: Act III, Scene II. "No, I must never say that name again" (Erika)
    3:38

Reviews

Similar Releases