Carmen Jones / Oscar Hammerstein II.

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Bizet, Georges, 1838-1875, composer.

Contributor:

Littau, Joseph, conductor.

Hammerstein, Oscar, II, 1895-1960, lyricist.

Alexander Street Press.

Standardized Title:

Carmen (Carmen Jones). Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Musicals--Excerpts.

Musicals.

Genre:

Sound recordings.

Excerpts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (54 minutes)

Place of Publication:

London, England : Decca Records, 2003.

System Details:

data file

Contents:

Prelude (1:59)

Opening scene : Introducing Lift 'em up and put 'em down (Changing of the guard) (2:28)

Dat's love (Habañera) (3:40)

You talk just like my Maw (4:16)

Dere's a café on de corner (Seguidilla) (4:23)

Beat out dat rhythm on a drum (Gypsy song) (4:06)

Stan' up and fight (Toreador song) (3:58)

Whizzin' away along de track (Quintet) (4:18)

Dis flower (Flower song) (4:06)

De cards don't lie (Card song) (4:22)

My Joe (Micaela's air) (4:22)

Dat's our man (3:29)

Finale (3:49)

Bonus track: Beat out dat rhythm on a drum (Kitty Carlisle with Russ Morgan and his Orchestra) (3:05). [Bonus track]. Carmen fantasy / Bizet, arr. Waxman (Isaac Stern, violin ; orchestra conducted by Franz Waxman) (7:35).

Participant:

Original cast recording: Muriel Smith, Carlotta Franzell, Luther Saxon, Glenn Bryant ; supporting soloists ; chorus conducted by Robert Shaw ; orchestra conducted by Joseph Littau.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed March 21, 2016).

Musical, based on the opera Carmen: music, Georges Bizet ; lyrics, Oscar Hammerstein II ; new orchestral arrangements by Robert Russell Bennett.

Recorded on Jan. 17, 18 & 20, 1944.

OCLC:

950016832

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.