VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Ralph (1872-1958)
Corydon Orchestra - Matthew Best (Dir)
Hyperion dyad
2 CD
101:38
Oper
1999-01-01
Hugh the Drover or Love in the Stocks (Oper in 2 Akten) (Gesamtaufnahme) Vaughan Williams, Ralph Buy, buy, buy! Who'll buy? (Akt 1) Who'll buy my sweet primroses? Cold blows the wind on Cotsall Ballads! Buy my ballads, pretty ballads! As I was a-walking one morning in spring Bless me! What's this? Show me a richer man in all this town Clear the way. Clear the way. Clear the way for the hobby-horse They're gone!...My husband that's to be! Sweetheart, life must be full of care Alone? Alone I would be as the wind and as free Hey day! She will obey Sweet little linnet that longs to be free Horse hoofs, horse hoofs, thunder down the valleys Mary, Mary, come back, come back, come back I say! In the night-time I have seen you riding, riding Mary! Mary! Who'll fight? Who'll fight! A fight! Who's for a fight? Brave English lads, lovers of manly sport Down, down with John the butcher! Alone and friendless, on this foreign ground I am to die Are you ready? Go! Hugh the drover! Oh, the devil and Bonyparty Past four o'clock, and dawn is coming Gaily I go to die Hugh! My dear one! Rise up, my Mary; come away Dear sun, I crave a boon O I've been rambling all this night Here, queen uncrowned, in this most royal place The soldiers! Dropped from the ranks on a winter night Now you are mine! Halloo! Halloo! Mary and Hugh!
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Ralph (1872-1958)Corydon Orchestra - Matthew Best (Dir)Label : Hyperion dyad
Bonaventura Bottone (Tenor) - u.a. // This remark by Ralph Vaughan Williams to Bruce Richmond, editor of The Times Literary Supplement, in 1909 or 1910, was the beginning of Hugh the Drover. Richmond found Harold Child, a Times leader-writer, and some weeks later Vaughan Williams wrote him a long letter warning him that, "if our scheme ever comes to anything I see hardly any chance of an opera by an English composer ever being produced, at all events in our lifetime" ...
