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Offer,Vaughan Williams: Sir John in Love

Heddle Nash (Shallow), Parry Jones (Sir Hugh Evans), Gerald Davies (Slender), Andrew Gold (Peter Simple), Denis Dowling (Page), Roderick Jones (Sir John Falstaff), John Kentish (Bardolph), Denis Catlin (Nym), Forbes Robinson (Pistol), April Cantelo (Anne Page), Laelia Finneberg (Mrs Page), Marion...

Conducted with nonchalant skill by Stanford Robinson, the playing and singing are nearly flawless, with one singer after another happily showing how to rise to an opportunity while not hogging... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2016, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 8th Jan 2016
Catalogue No: REAM2122
Label: Lyrita
Series: Itter Broadcast Collection
Length: 2 hours 6 minutes

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Vaughan Williams: Sir John in Love, Act I

Work length35:33

$12.00

$15.60

Heddle Nash, James Johnston, Francis Loring, Parry Jones, Ronald Lewis, Marion Lowe, Laelia Finneberg, Gerald Davies, Andrew Gold, Denis Dowling, Pamela Bowden, Owen Brannigan, April Cantelo, Roderick Jones, John William Kentish, John Cameron, Forbes Robinson, Denis Catlin
Philharmonia Orchestra
Stanford Robinson

Prelude - What-hoa!

Track length4:30

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Sir Hugh, Persuade Me Not...

Track length2:09

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Ahem...

Track length1:32

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This Is My Father's Choice

Track length2:36

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Do but Look on Her Eyes

Track length2:47

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I See I Cannot Get Thy Father's Love

Track length3:06

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Vere Is Dat Knave Rugby?

Track length4:26

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Master Fenton

Track length1:43

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How Now, Mine Host of the Garter

Track length2:56

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I Spy Entertainment in Her

Track length3:44

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Wilt Thou Revenge?

Track length2:42

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Love My Wife? I Will Be Patient

Track length3:22

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Vaughan Williams: Sir John in Love, Act II

Work length28:48

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Laelia Finneberg, Roderick Jones, Marion Lowe, John William Kentish, Francis Loring, Owen Brannigan, Pamela Bowden, John Cameron, Gerald Davies, Heddle Nash, Denis Dowling
Philharmonia Orchestra
Stanford Robinson

Prelude - Thine Own True Knight

Track length6:20

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Sigh No More, Ladies

Track length2:41

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Bardolph, Bardolph, I Say!

Track length5:41

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Go Thy Ways

Track length5:29

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Sir, My Name Is Brook

Track length5:23

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Ha, Is This a Vision?

Track length3:14

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Vaughan Williams: Sir John in Love, Act III

Work length29:07

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$9.10

Marion Lowe, Parry Jones, Owen Brannigan, Laelia Finneberg, Andrew Gold, John Cameron, James Johnston, Roderick Jones, Heddle Nash, Denis Dowling, April Cantelo, Gerald Davies, Ronald Lewis, Pamela Bowden, Francis Loring, Forbes Robinson, John William Kentish, Denis Catlin
Sadler's Wells Opera Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra
Stanford Robinson

Prelude - Yet Hear Me Speak

Track length3:59

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Let Him Woo for Himself

Track length6:48

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As We Sat Down in Papylon

Track length4:35

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Peace, I Say!

Track length3:03

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What, John! What, Robert!

Track length2:01

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Alas My Love, You Do Me Wrong

Track length4:45

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Ah! How Now, Where Bear You This

Track length3:56

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Vaughan Williams: Sir John in Love, Act IV

Work length32:39

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$10.40

Denis Dowling, Laelia Finneberg, John Cameron, Marion Lowe, Owen Brannigan, Denis Catlin, John William Kentish, Forbes Robinson, Pamela Bowden, Parry Jones, Roderick Jones, Gerald Davies, Heddle Nash, Andrew Gold, Francis Loring, Philharmonia Orchestra an, John Cameron, Roderick Jones, April Cantelo, Marion Lowe, Pamela Bowden, Denis Dowling, James Johnston, Parry Jones, Andrew Gold, John William Kentish, Laelia Finneberg, Heddle Nash, Denis Catlin, Francis Loring, Owen Brannigan, Gerald Davies, Forbes Robinson
Philharmonia Orchestra, Sadler's Wells Opera Chorus
Stanford Robinson

Pardon Me, Wife

Track length3:51

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There Is an Old Tale Goes

Track length5:19

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Entr'acte

Track length2:36

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The Windsor Bell Hath Struck Twelve

Track length5:14

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I Think the Devil Will Not Have Me Damned

Track length5:04

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Nay, Do Not Fly

Track length3:13

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This Is Strange, Who Hath the Right Anne?

Track length7:22

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Of all the musical forms essayed by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-19 58), his operas have received the least recognition or respect. Yet he was incontestably a man of the theatre. The first professional staging was given by Sadler’s Wells Opera in April 1946. In July 1958, less than a month before he died, the composer attended a performance at the Sadler’s Wells Theatre. After this, it is thought not to have graced the professional stage in Britain again until 2 March 200 6 when English National Opera revived the work at the London Coliseum. In this 1956 BBC studio recording, Roderick Jones makes an ideal Falstaff, commanding and vulnerable in equal measure. His love-song in Act II, ‘O that joy so soon should waste’ is both droll and touching. At the end of play, this butt of ridicule is allowed to become a Master of Ceremonies, conferring his blessing on all and it is a measure of Jones’s multilayered portrayal that the transformation is effected with ease and dignity. This portrayal is the jewel in the crown of a reading in which a whole community of colourful characters comes to life.

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July 2016

Conducted with nonchalant skill by Stanford Robinson, the playing and singing are nearly flawless, with one singer after another happily showing how to rise to an opportunity while not hogging the show…the recorded sound is excellently true and mellow for the vintage – only a little recessed, and conveying a feast of vocal and orchestral detail.

Offer,Vaughan Williams: Sir John in Love

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