Richard Hickox, London Symphony Orchestra - Vaughan Williams: A Cotswold Romance, Death of Tintagiles (1998)
Richard Hickox, London Symphony Orchestra - Vaughan Williams: A Cotswold Romance, Death of Tintagiles (1998)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 239 Mb | Total time: 54:34 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN9646 | Recorded: 1997
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 239 Mb | Total time: 54:34 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN9646 | Recorded: 1997
Vaughan Williams composed his ‘ballad-opera’ Hugh the Drover, from which A Cotswold Romance is adapted, between 1910 and 1914. In his own words, he had an idea for an opera written ‘to real English words, with a certain amount of real English music’. The finished product, set in the Cotswold Village of Northleach during the Napoleonic wars, certainly does contain a host of identifiable English elements: the bringing-in of May, the bustling fair, and the prize-fight, for instance. Accommodating his publishers’ request for a version of the music which was more appropriate for concert performance, Vaughan Williams came up with the cantata A Cotswold Romance for tenor and soprano soloists with mixed-voice chorus and orchestra. The writing has the open, fresh, and vital quality that coloured many of Vaughan Williams’s works composed before the First World War.
In contrast, Death of Tintagiles, the incidental music for Maurice Maeterlinck’s play of the same name, is powerfully atmospheric and possesses a strong elegiac quality throughout. In five acts, the play concerns the tragic fate of a young child, Tintagiles, at the hands of his suspicious and jealous grandmother. Vaughan Williams perfectly captures the sense of foreboding and gloom in the play. In its simplicity and overall atmosphere the music recalls both Holst and Sibelius, while in the tender moments there are hints of A London Symphony, too.
BBC Music Magazine wrote of this disc: ‘Richard Hickox directs a vivid performance [of A Cotswold Romance] with splendid support from his assembled forces… Although not major works, these are notable additions to the catalogue, and the performances could hardly be better *****’.
Performer:
Rosa Mannion (soprano - Mary)
Thomas Randle (tenor - Hugh)
Matthew Brook (baritone)
London Philharmonic Choir
London Symphony Orchestra
Richard Hickox, conductor
Tracklist:
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
A Cotswold Romance
01. I. The Men of Cotsall (Chorus)
02. II. Sweet Little Linnet (Hugh)
03. III. Hugh's Song of the Road (Hugh, Chorus)
04. IV. Love at First Sight (Hugh, Mary, Chorus)
05. V. The Best Man in England (Baritone, Chorus)
06. VI. Alone and Friendless (Hugh)
07. VII. The Fight and the Sequel (Baritone, Mary, Hugh, Chorus)
08. VIII. Hugh in the Stocks (Hugh)
09. IX. Mary Escapes (Mary, Chorus)
10. X. Freedom at last (Hugh, Mary, Chorus)
Death of Tintagiles
11. Prelude: Largo - Andantino - Adagio
12. No. 1, Lento
13. No. 2, Allegro
14. No. 3, Lento - Andante tranquillo - Lento
15. No. 4, Moderato
16. No. 4½, Allegro
17. No. 5, Lento
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Richard Hickox, London Symphony Orchestra - Vaughan Williams: A Cotswold Romance, Death of Tintagiles (1998)
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