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Carl Maria von Weber- Hillevi Martinpelto, Jonas Kaufmann, Steve Davislim, Monteverdi Choir, Orchestre RĂ©volutionnaire Et Romantique, John Eliot Gardiner
Oberon
| Label | Decca Music Group Limited ‎– 478 3488 |
| Format | 2 x CD, Album, Stereo |
| Barcode | 0028947834885 |
| Country | Europe |
| Released | 2012 |
| Genre | Classical |
| Style | Romantic, Opera |
| Oberon | ||
| 1-1 | Overture | 8:48 |
| 1-2 | [Act One] In A Garden Full Of Beautiful Flowers In Glorious Bloom (Narrator) | 0:15 |
| 1-3 | [Act One] No.1 Introduction: Light As Fairy Foot Can Fall (Elves) | 3:23 |
| 1-4 | [Act One] Watching Over Oberon, His Sleeping Master, Puck Dismisses The Sprites And Elves (Narrator) | 0:42 |
| 1-5 | [Act One] No.2 Aria: Fatal Vow! (Oberon) | 2:18 |
| 1-6 | [Act One] Puck, Searching High And Low... (Narrator) | 1:18 |
| 1-7 | [Act One] No.3 Vision: O, Why Art Thou Sleeping, Sir Huon The Brave? (Reiza) | 1:32 |
| 1-8 | [Act One] The Vision Is Gone. Oberon Wakes Huon (Narrator) | 0:42 |
| 1-9 | [Act One] No.4 Ensemble: Honour And Joy To The True And The Brave! ... (Elves And Genii, Huon, Oberon, Sherasmin) | 6:27 |
| 1-10 | [Act One] Huon Is Sure That His Vision Of The Princess Reiza Was No Delusion (Narrator) | 0:47 |
| 1-11 | [Act One] No.5 Aria: From Boyhood Trained (Huon) | 6:07 |
| 1-12 | [Act One] So Knight And Squire Take Ship from France (Narrator) | 0:39 |
| 1-13 | [Act One] No.6 Finale: Haste, Gallant Knight ... (Reiza, Fatima, The Harem Guard, Female Slaves) | 10:19 |
| 1-14 | [Act Two] No.7 Chorus: Glory To The Caliph, To Haroun The Just! (The Caliph's Retinue) | 1:27 |
| 1-15 | [Act Two] It Is The Wedding Day Of Princess Reiza And Prince Babakhan (Narrator) | 0:31 |
| 1-16 | [Act Two] No. 8 [Dance Of The Bayaderes] | 0:34 |
| 1-17 | [Act Two] Reiza Whispers Anxiously To Her Maid ... (Narrator) | 1:15 |
| 1-18 | [Act Two] No.8a [Melodrama]: Summoned By The Horn, Oberon Is Suddenly In Their Midst (Narrator) | 1:38 |
| 1-19 | [Act Two] While Huon And Reiza Get Ready To Leave ... (Narrator) | 0:24 |
| 1-20 | [Act Two] No.9 Ariette: A Lonely Arab Maid, The Desert's Simple Child (Fatima) | 2:51 |
| 1-21 | [Act Two] All Is Now Set Fair For Both Couples To Sail From Ascalon Back To France (Narrator) | 0:08 |
| 1-22 | [Act Two] No.10 Quartet: Over The Dark Blue Waters, Over The Wide Wide Sea (Huon, Sherasmin, Reiza, Fatima) | 3:00 |
| 1-23 | [Act Two] But The Lovers' Troubles Are Only About To Begin (Narrator) | 0:09 |
| 1-24 | [Act Two] No.11 Solo And Chorus: Spirits Of Air, And Earth And Sea (Puck, Spirits) [Storm Music] | 5:43 |
| 2-1 | [Act Two] On A Barren Island, Huon And Reiza Have Been Shipwrecked During The Great Storm (Narrator) | 0:24 |
| 2-2 | [Act Two] No.12 Preghiera: Ruler Of This Awful Hour, Spare, O Spare Yon Tender Flow'r! (Huon) | 2:59 |
| 2-3 | [Act Two] Huon Has Lost The Magic Horn Which Could Have Brought Them Relief (Narrator) | 0:15 |
| 2-4 | [Act Two] No.13 Scena And Aria: Ocean! Thou Mighty Monster (Reiza) | 8:39 |
| 2-5 | [Act Two] What Reiza Has Seen Approaching Are Not Rescuers But Corsairs! (Narrator) | 0:22 |
| 2-6 | [Act Two] No.13a Symphony: “Alas! Poor Mortal!” | 0:52 |
| 2-7 | [Act Two] Oberon Orders Puck To Erect A Pavilion Made Of Flowers To Shield Huon (Narrator) | 0:27 |
| 2-8 | [Act Two] No.14 Finale: And Hark, The Mermaids... (Narrator) O! 'tis Pleasant To Float On The Sea (First Mermaid, Second Mermaid, Puck, Oberon, Mermaids, Fairies And Water Nymphs) | 8:53 |
| 2-9 | [Act Three] Rescued By Corsairs, Fatima And Sherasmin Are Alive And Well In Tunis (Narrator) | 0:19 |
| 2-10 | [Act Three] No.15 Song: O Araby, Dear Araby, My Own, My Native Land! (Fatima) | 3:20 |
| 2-11 | [Act Three] Sherasmin Is Entranced By His Arab Girl (Narrator) | 0:12 |
| 2-12 | [Act Three] No.16 Duet: On The Banks Of Sweet Garonne ... (Sherasmin, Fatima) | 5:21 |
| 2-13 | [Act Three] Puck Has Magicked Huon To Tunis And Pronounces A Spell (Narrator) | 1:00 |
| 2-14 | [Act Three] No.17 Terzettino: And Must I Then Dissemble? (Huon, Sherasmin, Fatima) | 3:00 |
| 2-15 | [Act Three] But There Is No Response By Oberon To Their Eloquent Prayers (Narrator) | 0:15 |
| 2-16 | [Act Three] No.18 Cavatina: Mourn Thou, Poor Heart, For The Joys That Are Dead! (Reiza) | 5:02 |
| 2-17 | [Act Three] Almanzor Is Bewitched By Reiza's Beauty And Moved By Her Sorrow (Narrator) | 0:53 |
| 2-18 | [Act Three] No.19 Rondo: I Revel In Hope And Joy Again (Huon) | 3:18 |
| 2-19 | [Act Three] Suddenly The Curtains Part, But It Is Not Reiza Who Greets Huon (Narrator) | 0:52 |
| 2-20 | [Act Three] No.20 Chorus And Ballet: For Thee Hath Beauty Decked Her Bower! (Dancing Slave Girls, Huon) | 4:15 |
| 2-21 | [Act Three] Huon Tries To Break Free, But Roshana And Her Women Cling To Him (Narrator) | 0:57 |
| 2-22 | [Act Three] No.21 Finale: Almanzor Is Rooted To The Spot (Narrator) Hark! What Notes Are Swelling? ... (Slaves, Reiza, Fatima, Huon, Sherasmin, Oberon) | 5:16 |
| 2-23 | [Act Three] Huon, With True Heroism, Has Fulfilled The Terms Of His Reprieve (Narrator) | 0:29 |
| 2-24 | [Act Three] Marcia Maestoso – Behold! (Charlemagne's Court) | 4:27 |
Art Direction, Cover [Cover Design] – Mark Millington
Baritone Vocals [Sherasmin] – William Dazeley
Booklet Editor – Sue Baxter
Chorus – Monteverdi Choir
Conductor, Arranged By [Narrative By] – John Eliot Gardiner
Coordinator – Joanne Baines
Edited By [Recording Editor] – Holger Busse
Edited By [Recording Editor] – Sebastian Stein
Engineer [Balance Engineer] – Jean-Marie Geijsen
Engineer [Recording Assistant] – Andrew Shore
Engineer [Recording Engineer] – Everett Porter
Engineer [Recording Engineer] – Mario Nozza
Executive-Producer – Clive Bennett
Mezzo-soprano Vocals [Fatima] – Marina Comparato
Mezzo-soprano Vocals [Puck] – Frances Bourne
Narrator – Roger Allam
Orchestra – Orchestre Révolutionnaire Et Romantique
Recording Supervisor [Recording Producer] – Isabella De Sabata
Soprano Vocals [First Mermaid] – Katharine Fuge
Soprano Vocals [Reiza] – Hillevi Martinpelto
Soprano Vocals [Second Mermaid] – Charlotte Mobbs
Tenor Vocals [Huon] – Jonas Kaufmann
Tenor Vocals [Oberon] – Steve Davislim
Baritone Vocals [Sherasmin] – William Dazeley
Booklet Editor – Sue Baxter
Chorus – Monteverdi Choir
Conductor, Arranged By [Narrative By] – John Eliot Gardiner
Coordinator – Joanne Baines
Edited By [Recording Editor] – Holger Busse
Edited By [Recording Editor] – Sebastian Stein
Engineer [Balance Engineer] – Jean-Marie Geijsen
Engineer [Recording Assistant] – Andrew Shore
Engineer [Recording Engineer] – Everett Porter
Engineer [Recording Engineer] – Mario Nozza
Executive-Producer – Clive Bennett
Mezzo-soprano Vocals [Fatima] – Marina Comparato
Mezzo-soprano Vocals [Puck] – Frances Bourne
Narrator – Roger Allam
Orchestra – Orchestre Révolutionnaire Et Romantique
Recording Supervisor [Recording Producer] – Isabella De Sabata
Soprano Vocals [First Mermaid] – Katharine Fuge
Soprano Vocals [Reiza] – Hillevi Martinpelto
Soprano Vocals [Second Mermaid] – Charlotte Mobbs
Tenor Vocals [Huon] – Jonas Kaufmann
Tenor Vocals [Oberon] – Steve Davislim
Recording: The Colosseum, Watford, 15-19 March 2002.
Total timing 122:44.
Sung in English
℗ 2005 Decca Music Group Limited
© 2012 Decca Music Group Limited
Made in the EU
Total timing 122:44.
Sung in English
℗ 2005 Decca Music Group Limited
© 2012 Decca Music Group Limited
Made in the EU
Barcode – 028947834885
SPARS Code – DDD
Rights Society – BIEM/SABAM
SPARS Code – DDD
Rights Society – BIEM/SABAM