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Bizet - Carmen - Opera in four Acts - a concise version
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Walter Goehr
(Performers credited on label as:
Orchestra and Chorus of The Opera Classica Society of New York. William Stellar, conductor)

    1. Prelude Act 1 (without Coda)
    2. Habanera (abridged)
    3. Parle-moi de ma mère (abridged)
    4. Seguidilla (tenor is a bar behind in final section)
    5. Act 2. Chanson bohème
    6. Toreador Song (omits L'amour interchange at end)
    7. Flower Song
    8. Act 3. Smugglers' march
    9. Card Song and Trio
    10. Micaela's aria
    11. Act 3. Finale
    12. Intermezzo Act 4
    13. Act 4. Finale (abridged)

Cora Canne Meyer, Carmen
Leo Larsen, Don José
Corry van Bekkum, Micaëla
Gerard Holthaus, Escamillo
Rick van Veen, Frasquita
Betty de Jong, Mercédès

Mediafire link for Bizet - Carmen - concise version - Goehr

(This is a zip file – left click the link, download the file, then unzip when downloaded)

The Classics Club Rembrandt X64
(Originally issued by The Musical Masterpiece Society)
Matrices X64A1P, X64B1P
Recorded 1953-4
Reviewed in July 1954
Play at about 33.6rpm

This Classics Club reissue is slightly later than the original MMS issue.

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