Vaughan Williams: Sir John in Love

Cat. No. CHAN 9928(2)

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No. of discs: 2

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CD available From: 21 June 2001

Opera - Sir John in Love

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

Sir John in Love

136:39

An opera in four acts

The libretto based on Shakespeare's 'The Merry Wives of Windsor'

COMPACT DISC ONE

Act I

Orchestral introduction -

6:48

Shallow, Sir Hugh Evans: 'What hoa, what hoa!'

Anne Page: 'Ahem'

1:46

Anne Page: 'This is my father's choice'

8:03

Page: 'How now, what does Master Fenton here?'

1:02

Dr Caius: 'Vere is dat knave Rugby?'

6:52

Episode

2:22

Bardolph, Nym, Pistol: 'How now, mine Host of the Garter'

2:49

Sir John Falstaff: 'I spy entertainment in her . . .'

3:37

Pistol: 'Wilt thou revenge . . .?'

2:20

Ford: 'Love my wife? I will be patient'

3:33

Act II

Orchestral introduction -

6:25

Scene 1

Mrs Page: ' ''Thine own true knight'' '

Mrs Qucikly: 'Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more'

3:00

Scene 2

Sir John Falstaff: 'Bardolph! Bardolph, I say!'

5:28

Sir John Falstaff: 'Go thy ways, go thy ways, old Jack!'

5:10

Ford: 'Sir, my name is Brook'

5:31

Ford: 'Ha, is this a vision?'

3:12

68:05

COMPACT DISC TWO

Act III

Scene 1: Interlude

Orchestral introduction -

5:41

Fenton: 'Yet hear me speak'

Chorus of Young Women: 'Fair and fair and twice so fair'

2:40

Anne Page: 'But listen, good mine Host'

2:25

Scene 2

Orchestral introduction -

3:49

Sir Hugh Evans: ' ''When as we sat in Papylon'' '

Peter Simple: 'Yonder he's coming'

2:29

Page: 'Come, Master Ford'

1:46

Orchestral introduction -

2:23

Scene 3

Mrs Ford: 'What, John! What, Robert!'

Mrs Ford: 'Alas, my love, you do me wrong'

2:48

Mrs Quickly: 'Mistress Ford!'

2:07

Ford, Chorus of Men: 'Ah!'

4:23

Act IV

Orchestral introduction -

3:35

Scene 1

Ford: 'Pardon me, wife'

Mrs Page: 'There is an old tale that goes Herne the hunter'

6:37

(Interlude)

2:03

Scene 2

Orchestral introduction -

1:58

Sir John Falstaff: 'The Windsor bell hath struck twelve'

2:47

Mrs Ford: 'Ah' -

3:29

Sir John Falstaff: 'Who comes here?'

Mrs Qucikly: 'But till 'tis one o'clock'

0:57

Dance of the Fairies

1:57

Sir Hugh Evans: 'But stay! I smell a man of middle earth'

2:09

Page: 'Nay, do not fly'

4:24

Mrs Page: 'My heart misgives me'

2:58

Sir John Falstaff: 'Stand not amazed'

5:04

68:34

Characters (in order of appearance)

Adrian Thompson tenor (solo parts) - Shallow

Stephan Loges baritone (ensemble parts) - Shallow

Stephen Varcoe bass - Sir Hugh Evans

Daniel Norman tenor - Slender

Henry Moss baritone - Peter Simple

Roderick Williams baritone - Page

Donald Maxwell baritone - Sir John Falstaff

John Bowen tenor - Bardolph

Richard Lloyd-Morgan bass - Nym

Brian Bannatyne-Scott baritone - Pistol

Susan Gritton soprano - Anne Page

Laura Claycomb soprano - Mrs Page

Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano - Mrs Ford

Mark Padmore tenor- Fenton

Adrian Thompson tenor - Dr Caius

Mark Richardson bass - Rugby

Anne-Marie Owens mezzo-soprano - Mrs Quickly

Stephan Loges baritone - The Host of the 'Garter Inn'

Matthew Best bass - Ford

Sinfonia Chorus

Northern Sinfonia

Richard Hickox

Recorded in:

Jubilee Hall, Newcastle

7-10 December 2000

Producer(s)

Brian Couzens

Sound Engineer(s)

Ralph Couzens

Christopher Brooke (Assistant)

James Atkins (Assistant)

Format: Digital CD 16Bit 44.1Khz
Originally recorded in: 24Bit 96Khz

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