CDs with: Voltaire

Candide / Leonard Bernstein ; [based on the book by Voltaire ; lyrics by Richard Wilbur ; with additional lyrics by John La Touche ... et al. ; orchestrations by Leonard Bernstein and Hershy Kay].

Disc 1: Act I: Overture / Leonard Benrstein (4:30) -- Westphalia chorale / Leonard Bernstein -- John Wells (1:00) -- Life is happiness indeed / Leonard Bernstein -- Stephen Sondheim (2:59) -- The best of all possible worlds / Leonard Bernstein -- John La Touche (2:42) -- Universal good / Leonard Bernstein -- John Wells (0:55) -- Oh, happy we / Leonard Bernstein -- Richard Wilbur (2:04) -- It must be so / Leonard Bernstein -- Richard Wilbur (2:15) -- Westphalia / Leonard Bernstein -- John Wells (0:54) -- Battle music / Leonard Bernstein (0:55) -- Candide's lament / Leonard Bernstein -- John La Touche (6:21) -- Dear boy / Leonard Barnstein -- Richard Wilbur (4:20) -- Auto-da-fe (What a day) / Leonard Bernstein -- John La Touche -- Richard Wilbur (7:55) -- Candide begins his travels / Leonard Bernstein It must be me / Leonard Bernstein -- Richard Wilbur (3:11) -- The Paris waltz / Leonard Bernstein (3:18) -- Glitter and be gay / Leonard Bernstein -- Richard Wilbur (6:48) -- You were dead, you know / Leonard Bernstein -- John La Touche (3:01) -- I am easily assimilated (Old lady's tango) / Leonard Bernstein (4:13) -- Quartet finale / Leonard Bernstein -- Richard Wilbur (3:24). Disc 2: Act II: Universal good / Leonard Bernstein -- John Wells (1:07) -- My love (Governor's serenade) / Leonard Bernstein -- Richard Wilbur -- John La Touche (2:29) -- We are women (Polka) / Leonard Bernstein (3:34) -- The pilgrim's procession/Alleluia / Leonard Bernstein -- Richard Wilbur (2:41) -- Quiet / Leonard Bernstein -- Richard Wilbur (4:18) -- Introduction to Eldorado / Leonard Bernstein (1:17) -- The ballad of Eldorado / Leonard Bernstein -- Lillian Hellman (3:47) -- Words, words, words (Martin's laughing song) / Leonard Bernstein (3:11) -- Bon voyage / Leonard Bernstein -- Richard Wilbur (2:43) -- The kings' barcarolle / Leonard Bernstein -- Richard Wilbur (3:53) -- Money, money, money (Venice gambling scene) / Leonard Bernstein -- Richard Wilbur (0:44) -- What's the use / Leonard Bernstein -- Richard Wilbur (4:30) -- The Venice gavotte / Leonard Bernstein -- Richard Wilbur -- Dorothy Parker (4:26) -- Nothing more than this / Leonard Bernstein (4:03) -- Universal good (Life is neither) / Leonard Bernstein -- Lillian Hellman (2:23) -- Make our garden grow (Finale) / Leonard Bernstein -- Richard Wilbur (5:41).

CD 1511

Semiramide / Rossini ; [libretto, Gaetano Rossi].

CD1. Sinfonia ; Act I (start) (52:30) -- CD2. Act I (end) (42:11) -- CD3. Act 2 (73:34).

CD 2858