Wuthering Heights : opera in four acts and a prologue / Bernard Herrmann.

Author/creator Herrmann, Bernard conductor.
Format Audio (CD)
Publication InfoLondon : Unicorn-Kanchana, ℗1992.
Description3 audio discs (3 hr., 8 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Subjects
Operas.

Other author/creatorFletcher, Lucille, librettist.
Other author/creatorBeaton, Morag, performer.
Other author/creatorBowden, Pamela, performer.
Other author/creatorBainbridge, Elizabeth, performer.
Other author/creatorWard, Joseph, 1932-2019, performer.
Other author/creatorBell, Donald, 1934- performer.
Other author/creatorKitchiner, John, performer.
Other author/creatorKelly, David, 1923-1996, performer.
Other author/creatorRippon, Michael, performer.
Other author/creatorHerrmann, Bernard, 1911-1975 conductor.
Other author/creatorBrontë, Emily, 1818-1848. Wuthering Heights.
Other author/creatorElizabethan Singers, performer.
Other author/creatorPro Arte Orchestra, performer.
SeriesSouvenir series
Souvenir series. ^A351775
Contents Disc 1 (73:32). Prologue. Introduction (2:55) -- Lockwood: "Wuthering Heights!" (2:35) -- Lockwood: "Snow, everlasting snow" (1:36) -- Lockwood: "Catherine Earnshaw, her book" (4:16) -- Heathcliff: "Is anyone here?" (7:27) -- Act 1. Scene 1. Introduction (1:20) -- Cathy: "I have been wandering" (2:21) -- Heathcliff: "Look, Cathy" (8:15) -- Heathcliff: "On the moors, on the moors" (5:41) -- Hindley: "Ha! So this is what you do, is it?" (2:52) -- Joseph: "Be quiet, ye ill children" (2:47) -- Cathy: "Look, the moon" (3:04) -- Orchestral interlude (Nocturne) (3:46) -- Scene 2. Introduction (2:07) -- Nelly: "Joseph, enough of your Christmas music" (6:01) -- Heathcliff: "I am the only being" (3:34) -- The postillion call of the coach (5:49) -- Carolers: "It is now Christmas" (1:06).
Contents Disc 2 (75:11). Act 2. Introduction (4:07) -- Heathcliff: "Come, Cathy" (3:22) -- Edgar: "I'm not come too soon, am I?" (6:41) -- Hareton: "Nelly, Nelly, hide me" (5:00) -- Nelly: "Poor bairn. Poor barin" (2:27) -- Cathy: "Nelly, will you keep a secret for me?" (3:34) -- Cathy: "I have dreamt" (6:58) -- Joseph: "Isn't that Heathcliff?" (3:49) -- Act 3. Introduction (2:28) -- Edgar: "Now art thou, dear" (3:54) -- Nelly: "A person from Gimmerton" (1:42) -- Edgar: "Sit down, sir" (7:30) -- Isabel: "Love is like the wild rose-briar" (2:46) -- Cathy: "Heathcliff! I want to talk to you" (4:46) -- She goes to the window (5:05) -- Cathy: "There's a face in the window" (4:44) -- Isabel: "Love is like the wild rose-briar" (2:58).
Contents Disc 3 (47:10). Act 4. Prelude (3:57) -- Isabel: "Tell me, Nelly" (4:19) -- Slowly Hindley begins to awaken (2:41) -- Hindley picks up one of the bottles (2:47) -- Hindley: "Silence!" (6:39) -- Orchestral interlude (Meditation) (3:09) -- Cathy enters (13:46) -- Heathcliff: "May she wake in torment!" (3:56) -- Soprano voice (off stage): "Heathcliff, Heathcliff" (5:56).
General noteLibretto adapted from the novel of Emily Brontë by Lucille Fletcher.
General noteEdition recorded: Novello & Co.
General note"Originally issued in 1972 [i.e. 1967]"--Container.
General noteCompact discs.
General noteProgram and biographical notes, synopsis, and libretto (36 pages) in container.
Performer Morag Beaton, soprano ; Pamela Bowden, Elizabeth Bainbridge, mezzo-sopranos ; Joseph Ward, tenor ; Donald Bell, John Kitchiner, David Kelly, baritones ; Michael Rippon, bass ; other soloists ; Elizabethan Singers ; Pro Arte Orchestra ; Bernard Herrmann, conductor.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded May 11-25, 1966, at Barking Town Hall and Pye Recording Studio.
LCCN 93715319
UPC 053068205023
Publisher numberUKCD 2050 Unicorn-Kanchana
Publisher numberUKCD 2051 Unicorn-Kanchana
Publisher numberUKCD 2052 Unicorn-Kanchana
Publisher numberUKCD 2050/51/52 Unicorn-Kanchana (set)

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