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Vaughan Williams
Opera Soundclips
including Stageworks,
Ballets, Pageants and Stage Spectacles.
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The Shepherds of the Delectable
Mountains |
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One Act. Libretto by
John Bunyan. Later incorporated into The Pilgrim's Progress.
City of London Sinfonia, Conductor Matthew Best, Corydon Singers,
Bryn Terfel (baritone).
©Hyperion
Left: John Bunyan |
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Sir John in Love |
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Four Acts. Libretto
adapted from Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor.
The Sinfonia Chorus, Northern Sinfonia, Conductor Richard Hickox,
Adrian Thompson, Stephen Loges, Stephen Varcoe, Daniel Norman,
Henry Moss, Roderick Williams, Donald Maxwell, John Bowen, Richard
Lloyd-Morgan, Brian Bannatyne-Scott, Susan Gritton, Laura Claycomb,
Sarah Connolly, Mark Padmore, Adrian Thompsion, Mark Richardson,
Anne-Marie Owens, Matthew Best.
©CHANDOS
Left: Falstaff by Robert Smirke (1752_1845) |
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Act I. 'Ahem' |
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Act I. 'Episode' |
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Act I. 'How now, mine Host
of the Garter
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Act II, Scene 2. 'Sigh no
more ladies, sigh no more' |
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Act III, Scene 1. Orchestral |
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Act III, Scene 1.' Fair and
fair and twice so fair' |
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Act IV, Scene I. 'Pardon
me, wife' |
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Act IV, Scene 2. 'Nay, do
not fly' |
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Act IV, Scene 2. 'Stand not
amazed' |
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The Poisoned Kiss |
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Three Acts. Libretto
by Evelyn Sharp and Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Stephen, Williams, Graham-Hall, Suart, Richardson, Davies, Gilchrist,
Watson, Adrian Partington Singers, BBC National Orchestra of
Wales. Conductor Richard Hickox.
©CHANDOS
Left: Evelyn Sharp in 1933. |
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Riders to the Sea |
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One Act. Play by J.
M. Synge set to music.
Northern Sinfonia, Conductor Richard Hickox.
©CHANDOS
Left: John Millington Synge |
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The Pilgrim's Progress |
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A Bunyan Sequence.
Incidental music for a BBC production.
Sir John Gielgud, Richard Pasco, Ursula Howells, Aidan Oliver,
Corydon Singers, The City of London Sinfonia, Conductor Matthew
Best.
©Hyperion
See Philharmonia page
Left: John Bunyan |
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Prologue |
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The Way |
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The Shepherd |
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The Palace
Beautiful |
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Apollyon |
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The Delecatable Mountains |
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Job - A Masque for Dancing |
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Founded on Blake's
Illustrations for the 'Book of Job'.
The London Philharmonic, David Nolan (violin), Conductor Vernon
Handley.
©EMI
Left: William Blake |
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Scene I: Introduction |
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Scene 1: Saraband of
the Sons of God |
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Scene IV: Job's
Dream |
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Scene VII:
Pavane Sons of the Morning |
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