Tring SYM073

This recording of substantial highlights was first issued in 1962 or so and has been frequently re-issued over the years. The selections are listed below. Several of the Act II numbers are given out of order. ("Here we are at the risk of our lives" and "Dance a cachucha" should follow "Take a pair of sparkling eyes.")

Mel Moratti observed that the "Opening Chorus" is really "We're called gondolieri," and several of the endings of songs are truncated. Mel added, "Listening to the CD again without knowing who the singers were I made a mental note that the Don Alhambra and the Gianetta and Tessa roles were excellently sung. It was then surprising to see that included in those roles were William Dickie and Elizabeth Harwood. No wonder."

Contents are as follows:

• Opening Chorus
• "From the sunny spanish shore"
• "In enterprise of martial kind"
• "O Rapture, when alone together"
• "I stole the Prince"
• "When a merry maiden marries"
• Finale, Act I (excerpts)
• "Here we are at the risk of our lives"
• "Rising early in the morning"
• "Take a pair of sparkling eyes"
• "There lived a King"
• "In a contemplative fashion"
• "On the day when I was wedded"
• "To help unhappy commoners"
• "I am a courtier"
• "Dance a cachucha"

Allegro ACS 8134