Vaughan Williams: Riders to the Sea

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A one-act opera based on the play of the same name, Riders to the Sea is a straightforward tragedy that pits helpless humans against the remorseless sea of Galway Bay. Richard Hickox leads the... — Presto Music, June 2014 More…

Release Date: 31st Jul 2015
Catalogue No: CHAN10870X
Label: Chandos
Series: Classics, The Hickox Legacy
Length: 78 minutes

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Vaughan Williams: Riders to the Sea, Op. 1, Act I

Work length41:47

Ingrid Attrot, Pamela Helen Stephen, Lynne Dawson, Linda Finnie, Karl Daymond
Northern Sinfonia, Sinfonia Chorus
Richard Hickox

Where Is She?

Track length5:50

Isn't It Turf Enough You Have for This Day and Evening?

Track length1:37

Where Is the Bit of New Rope, Cathleen

Track length4:21

He's Gone Now, God Spare Us

Track length3:11

Wait, Nora, Maybe She'd Turn Back Quickly

Track length4:07

You Didn't Give Him His Bit of Bread?

Track length2:59

I Went Down to the Spring Well

Track length3:09

Bartley Will Be Lost Now

Track length5:18

They Are All Gone Now

Track length6:10

And May He Have Mercy on My Soul

Track length5:05

Vaughan Williams: Household Music

Work length17:13

Peter Francomb
Northern Sinfonia
Richard Hickox

No. 1, Crug-Y-Bar. Fantasia

Track length4:52

No. 2, St. Denio. Scherzo

Track length3:19

No. 3, Aberystwyt. Variations

Track length9:02

Vaughan Williams: Flos Campi

Work length19:34

Philip Dukes
Sinfonia Chorus, Northern Sinfonia
Richard Hickox

I. Sicut Lilium inter spinas

Track length2:38

II. Jam enim hiems transiit

Track length2:49

III. Quaesivi quem diligit anima mea

Track length3:22

IV. En lectulum Salomonis sexaginta fortes ambiunt...

Track length1:49

V. Revertere, revertere Sulamitis!

Track length3:02

VI. Pone me ut signaculum super cor tuum

Track length5:54

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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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June 2014

A one-act opera based on the play of the same name, Riders to the Sea is a straightforward tragedy that pits helpless humans against the remorseless sea of Galway Bay. Richard Hickox leads the Northern Sinfonia and Chorus; Ingrid Attrot is starkly compelling as Maurya, the central character who faces disaster and loss at the hands of the merciless waves.

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