Ralph Vaughan Williams - Sir John in Love (Chandos Audio CD)

Opera - Sir John in Love

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)


Sir John in Love 136:39
An opera in four acts
The libretto based on Shakespeare's 'The Merry Wives of Windsor'
COMPACT DISC ONE
Act I
1 Orchestral introduction - 6:48
Shallow, Sir Hugh Evans: 'What hoa, what hoa!'
2 Anne Page: 'Ahem' 1:46
3 Anne Page: 'This is my father's choice' 8:03
4 Page: 'How now, what does Master Fenton here?' 1:02
5 Dr Caius: 'Vere is dat knave Rugby?' 6:52
6 Episode 2:22
7 Bardolph, Nym, Pistol: 'How now, mine Host of the Garter' 2:49
8 Sir John Falstaff: 'I spy entertainment in her . . .' 3:37
9 Pistol: 'Wilt thou revenge . . .?' 2:20
10 Ford: 'Love my wife? I will be patient' 3:33

Act II
11 Orchestral introduction - 6:25
Scene 1
Mrs Page: ' ''Thine own true knight'' '
12 Mrs Qucikly: 'Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more' 3:00

Scene 2
13 Sir John Falstaff: 'Bardolph! Bardolph, I say!' 5:28
14 Sir John Falstaff: 'Go thy ways, go thy ways, old Jack!' 5:10
15 Ford: 'Sir, my name is Brook' 5:31
16 Ford: 'Ha, is this a vision?' 3:12
68:05

COMPACT DISC TWO
Act III
Scene 1: Interlude
1 Orchestral introduction - 5:41
Fenton: 'Yet hear me speak'
2 Chorus of Young Women: 'Fair and fair and twice so fair' 2:40
3 Anne Page: 'But listen, good mine Host' 2:25

Scene 2
4 Orchestral introduction - 3:49
Sir Hugh Evans: ' ''When as we sat in Papylon'' '
5 Peter Simple: 'Yonder he's coming' 2:29
6 Page: 'Come, Master Ford' 1:46

7 Orchestral introduction - 2:23
Scene 3
Mrs Ford: 'What, John! What, Robert!'
8 Mrs Ford: 'Alas, my love, you do me wrong' 2:48
9 Mrs Quickly: 'Mistress Ford!' 2:07
10 Ford, Chorus of Men: 'Ah!' 4:23

Act IV
11 Orchestral introduction - 3:35
Scene 1
Ford: 'Pardon me, wife'
12 Mrs Page: 'There is an old tale that goes Herne the hunter' 6:37
13 (Interlude) 2:03

Scene 2
14 Orchestral introduction - 1:58
15 Sir John Falstaff: 'The Windsor bell hath struck twelve' 2:47
16 Mrs Ford: 'Ah' - 3:29
Sir John Falstaff: 'Who comes here?'
17 Mrs Qucikly: 'But till 'tis one o'clock' 0:57
18 Dance of the Fairies 1:57
19 Sir Hugh Evans: 'But stay! I smell a man of middle earth' 2:09
20 Page: 'Nay, do not fly' 4:24
21 Mrs Page: 'My heart misgives me' 2:58
22 Sir John Falstaff: 'Stand not amazed' 5:04
68:34

Characters (in order of appearance)
Adrian Thompson tenor (solo parts) - Shallow
Stephan Loges baritone (ensemble parts) - Shallow
Stephen Varcoe bass - Sir Hugh Evans
Daniel Norman tenor - Slender
Henry Moss baritone - Peter Simple
Roderick Williams baritone - Page
Donald Maxwell baritone - Sir John Falstaff
John Bowen tenor - Bardolph
Richard Lloyd-Morgan bass - Nym
Brian Bannatyne-Scott baritone - Pistol
Susan Gritton soprano - Anne Page
Laura Claycomb soprano - Mrs Page
Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano - Mrs Ford
Mark Padmore tenor- Fenton
Adrian Thompson tenor - Dr Caius
Mark Richardson bass - Rugby
Anne-Marie Owens mezzo-soprano - Mrs Quickly
Stephan Loges baritone - The Host of the 'Garter Inn'
Matthew Best bass - Ford
Sinfonia Chorus
Northern Sinfonia
Richard Hickox
Recorded in:
Jubilee Hall, Newcastle
7-10 December 2000
Producer(s)
Brian Couzens
Sound Engineer(s)
Ralph Couzens
Christopher Brooke (Assistant)
James Atkins (Assistant)
Format: DDD
Bit Rate: 24 Bit / 96K