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(2SACD) 藍納與洛威: (窈窕淑女)音樂劇
約翰.威爾森 指揮
倫敦小交響樂團
John Wilson comments: My Fair Lady is the quintessential American London musical. There is not a semiquaver or a semi-colon in the wrong place. Steven Wilkie, one of the fiddle players in my orchestra, describes it as The Marriage of Figaro of the twentieth century. And when I asked the great opera conductor Richard Bonynge what the finest post-World War Two operas are, he said, 'My Fair Lady, Oklahoma!... they're the great operas that will live on'. We have recorded every note, including underscoring, plus all the music written but cut before opening, with the instrumentation exactly as it was on opening night. Also, thanks to recent research, we have the restored original orchestrations. The reason I want to record everything the composer, lyricist, book-writer, and orchestrator did is that I believe it is a piece of significance by people who were masters of their art and craft. This was not written in an afternoon; it was chiselled away for months. They were ruthless in excising anything they felt would not make the grade. We have a duty to set down as closely as we can their final thoughts on what they created.
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Act I
1. 1Overture*3:14
Scene 1. Outside Covent Garden, after the Opera
2. 1 AOpening Scene* with Eliza and Higgins 1:22
3. 2 Higgins: 'Why Can't the English?'*† with Eliza, Pickering, and a Cockney Bystander 2:38
4. 3 Eliza: 'Wouldn't It Be Loverly?'* with Cockney Male Quartet and Solo Tenor 4:54
Scene 2. Tenement Section, Tottenham Court Road
5. Doolittle: 'Come on, Eliza, slip your old Dad half a crown to go home on' – with Eliza and Harry 0:27
6. 4 Doolittle: 'With a Little Bit of Luck'* with Jamie, Harry, Angry Woman, and Angry Man 3:07
7. 4 A Change of Scene ('With a Little Bit of Luck') 0:21
Scene 3. Professor Higgins's Study
8. Higgins: 'In six months – in three if she has a good ear and a quick tongue' – with Pickering 0:54
9. 5 Higgins: 'I'm an Ordinary Man'* 4:16
10. 5 A Change of Scene ('I'm an Ordinary Man') † 0:23
Scene 4. Tenement Section, Tottenham Court Road
11. Mrs Hopkins: 'How'd ya like that?' – with Bartender and Doolittle 1:23
12. 6 Doolittle: 'With a Little Bit of Luck' (Reprise)‡ with Jamie, Harry, and SATB Chorus 1:38
13. 6 A Change of Scene ('With a Little Bit of Luck') 0:20
Scene 5. Professor Higgins's Study
14. Higgins: 'Say your vowels' – with Eliza and Pickering 0:56
15. 7 Eliza: 'Just You Wait'* with Higgins 4:02
16. 8 Servants' Sextet: 'The Servants' Chorus'* with Higgins, Eliza, and Pickering 0:54
17. 9 Eliza, Higgins, and Pickering: 'The Rain in Spain'* with Mrs Pearce 2:26
18. 10 Eliza: 'I Could Have Danced All Night'* with Two Maids and Mrs Pearce 3:45
19. 10 AChange of Scene. Race Track Fanfare 0:06
Scene 6. Outside Ascot
20. Mrs Higgins: 'Colonel Pickering, I don't understand' with Pickering and Charles 2:01
Scene 7. Ascot
21. 11 SATB Chorus: Ascot Gavotte*† 3:25
22. 12 SATB Chorus: End of Gavotte and Blackout Music* with Pickering, Mrs Higgins, Freddy, and Eliza 0:54
Scene 8. Outside Higgins's House, Wimpole Street
23. Freddy: 'Officer, I know this is Wimpole Street' – with Policeman and Flower Girl 0:08
24. 13 Freddy: 'On the Street Where You Live'*† with Flower Girl and Mrs Pearce 3:47
Scene 9. Professor Higgins's Study
25. 14 Eliza's Entrance† with Pickering, Eliza, and Higgins 1:23
26. 15 Introduction to Promenade* 0:53
Scene 10. Outside the Ballroom of the Transylvanian Embassy
27. 16 Promenade* with Footman, Pickering, and Mrs Higgins 1:35
Scene 11. The Ballroom of the Transylvanian Embassy
28. 17 Embassy Waltz* 3:14
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1. 18 Entr'acte*3:25
Act II: 43:52
Scene 1. Professor Higgins's Study
2. 19 Pickering, Higgins, and Servants' Sextet: 'You Did It'* with Mrs Pearce and Footman 5:39
3. 20 Eliza: 'Just You Wait' (Reprise)*† 0:45
Scene 2. Outside Higgins's House, Wimpole Street
4. 20A Freddy: 'On the Street Where You Live' (Reprise)† with Eliza 1:39
5. 20B Eliza: 'Show Me'* with Freddy 2:18
Scene 3. Covent Garden, The Flower Market
6. 21 Cockney Male Quartet and Eliza: 'The Flower Market'* 3:29
7. 22 Doolittle: 'Get Me to the Church on Time'† with Jamie, Harry, and SATB Chorus 6:26
8. 23 Change of Scene ('Get Me to the Church on Time')† 0:29
Scene 4. The Upstairs Hall, Higgins's House
9. Pickering: 'Now, see here, my good man' – 0:09
10. Higgins: 'A Hymn to Him'† with Pickering and Mrs Pearce 4:36
11. Change of Scene ('A Hymn to Him')* 0:20
Scene 5. The Garden of Mrs Higgins's House
12. Higgins: 'Well, Eliza, you've had a bit of your own back' – with Eliza 2:03
13. 25 Eliza: 'Without You'* with Higgins and Mrs Higgins 3:27
Scene 6. Outside Higgins's House, Wimpole Street
14. 26 Higgins: 'I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face' – 6:42
Scene 7. Professor Higgins's Study
Higgins: 'I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face' (continued)* with Eliza
15. 27 Music for Curtain Calls† 1:19
16. 28 Exit Music*† 4:24
Appendices
Original End, Act I: 24:03
17. Higgins: 'Come to the Ball'* 3:39
18. Dressing Eliza Ballet* 4:16
19. Eliza: 'Say a Prayer for Me Tonight'‡ 1:40
20. Bridge after 'Say a Prayer for Me Tonight'* 2:05
21. Ballroom Introduction† – Embassy Waltz (Original Version)* 3:28
Original Version of Freddy's Song, Act I
22. End of Ascot* 0:06
23. Freddy: 'On the Street Where You Live'† with Mrs Pearce 4:28
Utility Cues
24. Why Can't the English?† 1:08
25. Get Me to the Church on Time† 1:59
26. Why Can't a Woman?* 0:29 |
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