The Long LineThe Long Line

Michael William Balfe

The Bohemian Girl

Composed 1843

Movements

  1. Overture
  2. Act 1 no. 1 “Up with the banner, and down with the slave”
  3. Act 1 no. 2 “’tis sad to leave our fatherland”
  4. Act 1 no. 3 “In the gypsy’s life”
  5. Act 1 no. 4 “Is no succour near at hand?”
  6. Act 1 no. 5 “Down with the daring slave”
  7. Act 1 no. 6 “What sound breaks on the ear?”
  8. Act 1 no. 7 “Follow, follow”
  9. Act 2 no. 1 “Silence, silence!”
  10. Act 2 no. 2 “Wine, wine!”
  11. Act 2 no. 3 “I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls”
  12. Act 2 no. 4 “The secret of her birth”
  13. Act 2 no. 5 “Happy and light of heart are those”
  14. Act 2 no. 6 “’tis gone, the past was all a dream”
  15. Act 2 no. 7 “Come with the gipsy bride”
  16. Act 2 no. 8 “Life itself is, at the best”
  17. Act 2 no. 9 “To the hall!”
  18. Act 2 no. 10 “That grief may call its own”
  19. Act 2 no. 11 “Hold! Hold! We cannot give the life we take”
  20. Act 3 no. 1 “You’ll remember me”
  21. Act 3 no. 2 “Through all the world thou wilt fly, my love”
  22. Act 3 no. 3 “Welcome to the present”
  23. Act 3 no. 4 “Oh, what full delight”

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