CANDIDE
CANDIDE
BERNSTEIN / HADLEY / ANDERSON / BERNSTEIN / LSO
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Condition: New, UPC: 0440073420532, Publication Date: 07/29/2014, Type: DIGITAL VIDEO DISC, Style: CLASSICAL/ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC,
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Opening Credits/Entrance Of The Artists
The Composer: "Surprise. My Dear Friends, I Hear You Thinking: 'Here Comes The Old Professor To Lecture Us Again.'"
Overture
Westphalia Chorale (Chorus)
Pangloss: "And It Is In Westphalia That Our Story Opens, At Schloss Thunder-Ten-Tronck"
Life Is Happiness Indeed (Candide, Maximilian, Cungonde, Paquette)
Pangloss: "All The Young People Were Happy..."
["Life Is Absolute Perfection"]
Pangloss: "But If They Were Happy, It Was Because They Were Taught To Be Happy."
The Best Of All Possible Worlds (Pangloss, Candide, Cunegonde, Maximilian, Paquette)
Pangloss: "Conclusion?" - Universal Good (Cunegonde, Paquette, Candide, Maximilian)
Maximilian: "At This Point..."
Oh, Happy We (Candide, Cunegonde)
Maximilian: "Ach, But Candide Underestimates Our Family's Outrage At His Daring To Embrace My Sister."
It Must Be So (Candide's Meditation) (Candide)
Maximilian: "Discovered At Dawn Asleep In A Field, Candide Is Press-Ganged Into A Foreign Army"
Westphalia (Chorus)
Battle Music (Instrumental)
Candide's Lament (Candide)
Maximilian: "Entirely Alone In The World And Starving, Candide Is Befriended By A Kindly Anabaptist
Dear Boy (Pangloss, Chorus)
Maximilian: "The Kindly Anabaptist Takes Them Both Aboard A Ship Bound For Lisbon."
Auto-Da-Fé (What A Day) (Chorus, Bear-Keeper, Cosmetic Merchant, Doctor, Junkman, Alchemist, Pangloss, Candide, Inquisitors)
Maximilian: "Pangloss Is Hanged, Candide Flogged. The Latter Reflects On The Grand Theory Of Optimism."
Candide Begins His Travels (Instrumental) - It Must Be Me (Candide's Second Meditation) (Candide)
Old Lady: "But Meanwhile In Paris..." - The Paris Waltz (Instrumental)
Glitter And Be Gay (Cunegonde)
Pangloss: "Meanwhile, Candide, Having Arrived In Paris..."
You Were Dead, You Know (Candide, Cunegonde)
Pangloss: "This Affecting Reunion Is Interrupted By An Old Lady."
I Am Easily Assimilated (Old Lady's Tango) (Old Lady, Chorus)
Maximilian: "What, You Might Ask, Can Follow That?"
Quartet Finale (Candide, Cunegonde, Old Lady, Captain, Chorus)
Entrance Of The Artists
Universal Good (Chorus)
The Composer: "Right And Good... Everything That Is, Is Right And Good." Forgive Me For Being The Old Professor Again."
Pangloss: "Our Travelers Have Arrived In Buenos Aires."
My Love (Governor's Serenade) (Governor, Cunegonde)
Pangloss: "So... That's Settled."
We Are Women (Polka) (Cunegonde, Old Lady)
Pangloss: "Meanwhile, Candide And A Faithful Half-Caste, Cacambo..."
The Pilgrims' Procession / Alleluia (Maximilian, Paquette, Candide, Chorus)
Pangloss: "Another Credulity-Stretching Coincidence..."
Quiet (Old Lady, Cunegonde, Governor)
Pangloss: "Up-Country Again, Candide And Cacambo Are Lost And Starving In The Jungle."
Introduction To Eldorado (Instrumental)
Maximilian: "Candide Is Welcomed..."
The Ballad Of Eldorado (Candide, Chorus)
Maximilian: "Golden Lamb After Golden Ram Plunges To Its Death Amid The Dizzying Precipices, Until Only Three Golden Sheep Remain."
Words, Words, Words (Martin's Laughing Song) (Martin)
Maximilian: "To Complicate Matters, A Certain Vanderdendur, A Local Dutch Villain, Espies The Golden Sheep."
Bon Voyage (Chorus, Vanderdendur)
Maximilian: "Predictably, The Ship Sinks."
The King's Barcarolle (Charles Edward, Candide, Hermann Augustus, Pangloss, Sultan Achmet, Tsar Ivan, Stanislaus)
Maximilian: "And What Do You Know, The Galley Does Arrive In Venice."
Money, Money, Money (Venice Gambling Scene) (Croupier, Ferone, Chorus)
Pangloss: "Maximilian, Miraculously Restored To Life - Don't Ask Me How - Is Now Prefect Of Police, Corrupt And Running The Joint."
What's The Use (Old Lady, Ragotski, Maximilian, Crook, Chorus)
Pangloss: "Gentle Reader, Gentle Listener, Gentle Viewer, Be Not Dismayed, The End Is In Sight."
The Venice Gavotte (Croupier, Pangloss, Old Lady, Candide, Cunegonde)
Nothing More Than This (Candide)
Pangloss: "For Many Days After Candide Did Not Speak."
Universal Good (Life Is Neither) (Chorus)
Candide: "Cunegonde, We Ae Not What We Were, Nor Do We Wish To Be."
Make Our Garden Grow (Finale) (Candide, Cunegonde, Old Lady, Paquette, Governor, Maximilian, Pangloss, Chorus)
End Credits
Afterword: The Conductor: "May I Bother You With One More Word?"

notes

Videotaped at the Barbican Centre, London, 13 December 1989

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Adapted By (Text) – Hugh Wheeler
Chorus – London Symphony Chorus
Chorus Master – Simon Joly
Conductor – Leonard Bernstein
Conductor [Assistant] – Justin Brown (2)
Executive Producer – Harry J. Kraut*
Film Director [Video] – Humphrey Burton
Lyrics By – Dorothy Parker, John La Touche, Leonard Bernstein, Lillian Hellman, Richard Wilbur, Stephen Sondheim
Music By – Leonard Bernstein
Orchestra – London Symphony Orchestra,
Orchestrated By – Hershy Kay, Leonard Bernstein
Orchestrated By [Additional] – John Mauceri
Photography – Susesch Bayat
Vocals [Alchemist, Inquisitor, Sultan Achmet, Crook] – John Treleaven
Vocals [Bear Keeper, Inquisitor, Tsar Ivan] – Clive Bayley
Vocals [Candide] – Jerry Hadley
Vocals [Cosmetic Merchant, Unquisitor, Prince Charles Edward] – Neil Jenkins
Vocals [Cunegonde] – June Anderson
Vocals [Doctor, Inquisitor, King Stanislaus] – Lindsay Benson
Vocals [Dr. Pangloss, Martin] – Adolph Green
Vocals [Governor, Vanderdendur, Ragotski] – Nicolai Gedda
Vocals [Junkman, Inquisitor, King Hermann Augustus] – Richard Suart
Vocals [Maximilian, Captain] – Kurt Ollmann
Vocals [Old Lady] – Christa Ludwig
Vocals [Paquette] – Della Jones

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Filmed At – Barbican Centre
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Deutsche Grammophon GmbH
Copyright (c) – Deutsche Grammophon GmbH
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