Leonard Bernstein - Jerry Hadley, June Anderson, Christa Ludwig, Adolph Green, Nicolai Gedda, Della Jones, Kurt Ollmann, London Symphony Orchestra & London Symphony Chorus, Leonard Bernstein - Candide - 2xLaserdisc, 12", PAL, thr + Box - Mint (M)

Format:                      2xLaserdisc, 12", PAL, thr + Box

Media Condition:     Mint (M)

Sleeve Condition:     Mint (M)

Country:                    UK  

Record Label:           Deutsche Grammophon Video

Catalog No:              072 423-1

Released:                  1991

Genre:                       Classical, Stage & Screen

Style:                          Opera, Musical, Contemporary

A1. Opening Credits 2:54
A2. The Composer: My Dear Friends I Hear You Thinking: "Here Comes The Old Professor To Lecture Us Again" 4:58
. Act One
A3. 1. Overture 4:39
A4. 1A. Westphalia Chorale 0:57
A5. Pangloss: And It Is In Westphalia That Our Story Opens, At Schloss Thunder-Ten-Tronck 1:12
A6. 2. Life Is Happiness Indeed 2:59
A7. Pangloss: "All The Young People Were Happy..." 0:30
A8. ("Life Is Absolute Perfection") 2:14
A9. Pangloss: "But If They Were Happy, It Was Because They Were Taught To Be Happy" 0:15
A10. 3. The Best Of All Possible Worlds 2:46
A11. 3A. Universal Good 0:47
A12. Dr. Pangloss: "Conclusion?" 0:47
A13. 4. Oh, Happy We 2:08
A14. Maximilian: "Ach, But Candide Underestimates Our Family's Outrage At His Daring To Embrace My Sister" 41:55
A15. 5. It Must Be So 2:04
A16. Maximilian: "Discovered At Dawn Asleep In A Field, Candide Is Press-Ganged Into A Foreign Army" 0:27
A17. 6. Westphalia 0:44
A18. 6A. Battle Music 0:56
A19. 7. Candide's Lament 5:45
A20. Maximilian: "Entirely Alone In The World And Starving, Candide Is Befriended By A Kindly Anabaptist" 1:11
A21. 8. Dear Boy 4:23
A22. Maximilian: " The Kindly Anabaptist Takes Them Both Aboard A Ship Bound For Lisbon" 1:18
A23. 9. Auto-Da-Fé (What A Day) 8:03
B1. 10. Candide Begins His Travels - 10A. It Must Be Me (Candide's Second Meditation) 3:10
B2. 11. The Paris Waltz 3:21
B3. 12. Glitter And Be Gay 7:01
B4. Pangloss: "Meanwhile, Candide, Having Arrived In Paris..." 0:28
B5. 13. You Were Dead, You Know 3:11
B6. Pangloss: "This Affecting Reunion Is Interrupted By An Old Lady" 3:11
B7. 14. I Am Easily Assimilated (Old Lady's Tango) 4:35
B8. Maximilian: "What, You Might Ask, Can Follow That?" 0:32
B9. 15. Quartet Finale 4:21
. Act Two
B10. Entrance Of The Artists 1:07
B11. 16. Universal Good 1:04
B12. The Composer: "Right And Good... Everything That Is, Is Right And Good. Forgive Me For Being The Old Professor Again" 5:00
B13. 17. My Love (Governor's Serenade) 2:29
B14. Dr. Pangloss: "So... That's Settled" 0:26
B15. 18. We Are Women (Polka) 3:35
B16. Dr. Pangloss: "Meanwhile, Candide And A Faithful Half-Castle, Cacambo..." 0:34
B17. 19. The Pilgrim's Procession / Alleluia 2:34
B18. Pangloss: "Another Credulity-Stretching Coincidence..." 1:08
B19. 20. Quiet 3:54
C1. Pangloss: "Up-Country Again, Candide And Cacambo Are Lost And Starving In The Jungle" 0:31
C2. 21. Introduction To Eldorado 22. The Ballaf Of Eldorado 5:37
C3. Maximilian: "Golden Lamb After Golden Ram Plunges To Its Death Amid The Dizzying Precipices, Until Only Threee Sheep Remain" 1:12
C4. 23. Words, Words, Words (Martin's Laughing Song) 3:13
C5. Maximilian: "To Complicate Matters, A Certain Vanderdendur, A Local Dutch Villain, Esples The Golden Sheep" 0:37
C6. 24. Bon Voyage 3:01
C7. Maximilian: "Predictably, the ship sinks" 0:44
C8. 25. The King's Barcarolle 3:51
C9. Maximilian: "And What Do You Know, The Galley Does Arrive In Venice" 0:27
C10. 26. Money, Money, Money (Venice Gambling Scene) 0:36
C11. Pangloss: "Maximilian, Miraculously Restored To Life - Don't Ask Me How - Is Now Prefect Of Police, Corrupt And Running The Joint" 0:30
C12. 27. What's The Use 5:13
C13. Pangloss: "Gentle Reader, Gentle Listener, Gentle Viewer, Be Not Dismayed, The End Is In Sight" 0:46
C14. 28. The Venice Gavotte 4:05
C15. 29. Nothing More Than This 3:32
C16. Pangloss: "For Many Days After Candide Did Not Speak" 0:49
C17. 30. Universal Good (Life Is Neither) 1:55
C18. Candide: "Cunegonde, We Are Not What We Were, Nor Do We Wish To Be " 0:35
C19. 31. Make Our Garden Grow (Finale) 7:58
C20. The Conductor: "May I Bother You With One More Word?" 1:58

Comments:
New old stock unpoened, still in shrink.
 

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Adapted from Voltaire and the book of Hugh Wheeler
Videotaped at the Barbican Centre, London, 13 December 1989
16 pages booklet with liner notes and synopsis in English, French, German and Italian

Recorded At Abbey Road Studios
Phonographic Copyright (p) Deutsche Grammophon GmbH