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Special offer. Puccini: Madam Butterfly

Cheryl Barker (Butterfly), Jean Rigby (Suzuki), Paul Charles Clarke (Pinkerton), Gregory Yurisich (Sharpless), Stuart Kale (Goro), D'Arcy Bleiker (Yamadori), Clive Bayley (The Bonze)

Philharmonia Orchestra, Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, Yves Abel

Puccini: Madam Butterfly
A clear recommendation for those wanting Butterfly in English; even those who don't will find Abel's handling of the score absorbing from first to last

Gramophone Magazine

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Special offer. Puccini: Madam Butterfly

Cheryl Barker (Butterfly), Jean Rigby (Suzuki), Paul Charles Clarke (Pinkerton), Gregory Yurisich (Sharpless), Stuart Kale (Goro), D'Arcy Bleiker (Yamadori), Clive Bayley (The Bonze)

Philharmonia Orchestra, Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, Yves Abel

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A clear recommendation for those wanting Butterfly in English; even those who don't will find Abel's handling of the score absorbing from first to last

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Contents and tracklist

Puccini: Madama Butterfly (Madam Butterfly) (sung in English)
Work length2:16:51
Act I: Introduction
Track length1:06
Act I: So the walls and the ceiling … (Pinkerton, Goro)
Track length2:06
Act I: I think Your Honour's smiling (Suzuki, Pinkerton, Goro)
Track length2:17
Act I: It can't be much further now! (Sharpless, Goro, Pinkerton)
Track length1:19
Act I: The whole world over (Pinkerton, Sharpless)
Track length2:22
Act I: Fate can't crush him (Pinkerton, Sharpless)
Track length1:13
Act I: Is the bride very pretty? (Sharpless, Goro, Pinkerton)
Track length1:05
Act I: True love or fancy (Pinkerton, Sharpless)
Track length3:22
Act I: See them! They're climbing the summit of the hill! (Goro, Butterfly's Girl Friends, Butterfly, Sharpless)
Track length3:29
Act I: We are honoured (Butterfly, Girl Friends, Pinkerton, Sharpless, Goro)
Track length3:34
Act I: The Imperial Commissioner (Goro, Pinkerton, Relations and Friends, Butterfly, Yakuside)
Track length1:48
Act I: Oh, indeed, my friend, you're lucky! (Sharpless, Butterfly)
Track length1:16
Act I: Come, my beloved (Pinkerton, Butterfly, Goro)
Track length3:25
Act I: My fate I have to follow (Butterfly)
Track length1:17
Act I: Silence! Silence! (Goro, Commissioner, Girl Friends, Butterfly)
Track length1:52
Act I: Congratulations (Commissioner, Pinkerton, Sharpless, Registrar, Relatives, the Bonze, Goro)
Track length4:32
Act I: Dearest, my dearest, weep no more (Pinkerton, Butterfly, Suzuki)
Track length2:06
Act I: Evening is falling … (Pinkerton, Butterfly, Suzuki)
Track length3:30
Act I: Child, from whose eyes the witchery is shining (Pinkerton, Butterfly)
Track length3:52
Act I: Ah, love me a little (Butterfly, Pinkerton)
Track length7:33
Act II Part 1: Izaghi Izanami (Suzuki, Butterfly)
Track length6:47
Act II Part 1: One fine day (Butterfly)
Track length4:37
Act II Part 1: Come, let's enter (Goro, Sharpless, Butterfly)
Track length4:23
Act II Part 1: Yamadori, and has your unrequitted love not yet released you? (Butterfly, Yamadori, Sharpless, Goro)
Track length4:52
Act II Part 1: Now, at last! (Sharpless, Butterfly)
Track length3:01
Act II Part 1: Just two things I could do (Butterfly, Sharpless)
Track length2:07
Act II Part 1: This child! This child, then! (Butterfly, Sharpless)
Track length1:49
Act II Part 1: Do you know, my darling (Butterfly)
Track length3:23
Act II Part 1: I must be going (Sharpless, Butterfly, Suzuki)
Track length1:42
Act II Part 1: Ah! Ah! (Goro, Suzuki, Butterfly)
Track length1:51
Act II Part 1: Look, it's a man-of-war! (Suzuki, Butterfly)
Track length2:33
Act II Part 1: Flower duet: Shake the cherry tree (Butterfly, Suzuki)
Track length9:55
Act II Part 1: Humming Chorus
Track length2:59
Act II Part 2: Prelude
Track length4:29
Act II Part 2: Daybreak over Nagasaki
Track length2:52
Act II Part 2: It's morning (Suzuki, Butterfly)
Track length2:00
Act II Part 2: Who is it? … (Suzuki, Pinkerton, Sharples)
Track length2:42
Act II Part 2: I know for such misfortune there is no consolation (Sharpless, Suzuki, Pinkerton)
Track length3:58
Act II Part 2: Farewell, oh happy home! (Pinkerton, Sharpless)
Track length1:51
Act II Part 2: Then will you tell her? (Kate, Suzuki)
Track length1:19
Act II Part 2: Suzuki, where are you? (Butterfly, Suzuki)
Track length1:46
Act II Part 2: You, Suzuki, you're always so faithful (Butterfly, Suzuki)
Track length1:13
Act II Part 2: Viper! I want you to answer (Butterfly, Suzuki, Sharpless, Kate)
Track length3:39
Act II Part 2: Your little fluttering heart is beating (Suzuki, Butterfly)
Track length2:54
Act II Part 2: Death with honour is better than life with dishonour (Butterfly)
Track length5:05

Awards and reviews

A clear recommendation for those wanting Butterfly in English; even those who don't will find Abel's handling of the score absorbing from first to last

2010 edition

With Cheryl Barker a warm, fresh heroine, bringing out the girlish shyness at the beginning, and singing with radiant tone, this set of Butterfly in English...fills an important gap...Barker is helped by the expressive conducting of Yves Abel which consistently brings out the beauty of Puccini's orchestration
2 out of 4 stars/3 out of 4 stars
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