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RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Riders to the Sea
41:45
Opera in one act based on the play by John Millington Synge (1871-1909)
1.
Nora: 'Where is she?' -
5:51
2.
Maurya: 'Isn't it turf enough you have for this
1:38
day and evening?' -
3.
Bartley: 'Where is the bit of new rope, Cathleen,
4:21
was bought in Connemara?' -
4.
Maurya: 'He's gone now, God spare us, and
3:12
we'll not see him again' -
5.
Cathleen: 'Wait, Nora, maybe she'd turn back quickly' -
4:07
6.
Cathleen: 'You didn't give him his bit of bread?' -
3:00
7.
Maurya: 'I went down to the spring well' -
3:10
8.
Maurya: 'Bartley will be lost now' -
5:18
9.
Maurya: 'They are all gone now' -
6:11
10.
Maurya: 'And may he have mercy on my soul…'
5:01
Solo:Karl Morgan Daymond baritone - Bartley
Solo:Lynne Dawson soprano - Cathleen
Solo:Ingrid Attrot soprano - Nora
Choral: Sinfonia Chorus
Household Music
17:01
Three Preludes on Welsh hymn tunes
11.
I
Crug-y-Bar: Fantasia. Andante sostenuto
4:49
12.
II
St. Denio: Scherzo. Allegro vivace
3:16
13.
III
Aberystwyth: Variations. Theme: Lento
8:57
Solo:Peter Francomb obligato horn
Flos Campi
19:36
Suite for Solo Viola, Small Chorus, and Small Orchestra
14.
1
Lento (senza misura). 'Sicut lilium inter spinas' -
2:39
15.
2
Andante con moto. 'Iam enim hiems transit' -
2:50
16.
3
Lento (senza misura) - Allegro moderato - Allargando.
3:23
'…quaesivi quem diligit anima mea' -
17.
4
Moderato alla marcia. 'En lectulum
1:50
Salomonis sexaginta fortes ambiunt…' -
18.
5
Andante quasi lento (Largamente). 'Revertere,
3:02
revertere Sulamitis'
19.
6
Moderato tranquillo. 'Pone me ut
6:02
signaculum super cor tuum'
Solo: Philip Dukes viola
Choral: Sinfonia Chorus
Total time: 78:45
Orchestra: Northern Sinfonia
Conductor: Richard Hickox
23-24 March 1995
About
As he proved with his recording of A London Symphony – Record of the Year, Gramophone Awards 2001 – Richard Hickox was a Vaughan Williams specialist. This reissue of an original 1995 recording features such lesser-known works from the composer as Household Music and Flos Campi.
Alternating between the passionate and the tortured, between long-breathed lyricism and moments of obvious pain, Flos Campi has never really found itself in the mainstream concert repertoire, maybe because of its title, misleadingly suggesting jolly music. Household Music has equally suffered from its title, rather an off-hand one for pieces that at their best show the composer’s brilliance as an arranger.
Riders to the Sea, however, is a masterpiece, seen as the finest as well as the most concentrated of Vaughan Williams’s works for the stage, conjuring up multiple layers of emotional response to the natural world, a losing battle with the sea, and the God which rules it, for the islanders in the North Atlantic.
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