Hyperion Boughton 2 CD Boughton: Immortal Hour

Alan G Melville (conductor), The Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, English Chamber Orchestra

CDD22040 (Originally issued on CDA66101/2)

Recording details: June 1983
All Saints, Tooting, United Kingdom
Produced by Martin Compton
Engineered by Tony Faulkner
Release date: October 1998
Total duration: 124 minutes 2 seconds

Track listing
The Immortal Hour (Boughton)
CD1 1 Act 1 Scene 1. No 01: Prelude 2:05
2 Act 1 Scene 1. No 02: By dim moon-glimmering coasts and sad sea wastes (Dalua) 1:30
3 Act 1 Scene 1. No 03: Though you have travelled from one darkness to another (Voices in the Wood) 2:40
4 Act 1 Scene 1. No 04: Ye know not who I am, sombre and ancient voices (Dalua) 1:24
5 Act 1 Scene 1. No 05: I have come hither, led by dreams and visions (Dalua) 1:49
6 Act 1 Scene 1. No 06: Hail, brother of the strong, immortal gods (Spirit Voice) 2:14
7 Act 1 Scene 1. No 07: I am old; more old, more ancient than the gods (Dalua) 1:17
8 Act 1 Scene 1. No 08: Brother and kin to all the twilit gods (Spirit Voice) 2:17
9 Act 1 Scene 1. No 09: [The sound of mocking laughter is heard from the wood] 1:27
10 Act 1 Scene 1. No 10: Laugh not, ye outcasts of the invisible world (Dalua) 2:57
11 Act 1 Scene 1. No 11: Fair is the moonlight (Etain) 3:31
12 Act 1 Scene 1. No 12: Hail, daughter of kings (Dalua) 1:36
13 Act 1 Scene 1. No 13: Have you forgot the delicate smiling land (Dalua) 0:51
14 Act 1 Scene 1. No 14: I have forgotton all (Etain) 3:33
15 Act 1 Scene 1. No 15: A king of men has wooed the Immortal Hour (Dalua) 3:26
16 Act 1 Scene 1. No 16: Led here by dreams (Dalua) 3:44
17 Act 1 Scene 1. No 17: I will go back to the country of the young (Etain) 0:39
18 Act 1 Scene 1. No 18: Sir, I am glad. I had not thought to see one here (Eochaidh) 2:50
19 Act 1 Scene 1. No 19: I have come to this lone wood (Dalua) 1:26
20 Act 1 Scene 1. No 20: Look, O king … I see a fountain (Dalua/Eochaidh) 2:42
21 Act 1 Scene 1. No 21: There is no backward way for such as I (Eochaidh) 2:50
22 Act 1 Scene 1. No 22: I have heard you calling, Dalua (Eochaidh) 1:59
23 Act 1 Scene 2. No 01: I've seen that man before who came tonight (Manus) 2:16
24 Act 1 Scene 2. No 02: Yes woman, yes, I know (Manus) 3:06
25 Act 1 Scene 2. No 03: But sometimes. Tell me: have you heard (Etain) 1:22
26 Act 1 Scene 2. No 04: Good folk, I give you greeting (Eochaidh) 1:38
27 Act 1 Scene 2. No 05: Good sir, you are most welcome (Manus) 3:19
28 Act 1 Scene 2. No 06: At last I know why dreams have led me hither (Eochaidh) 1:44
29 Act 1 Scene 2. No 07: And your name, fair lord? (Etain) 1:54
30 Act 1 Scene 2. No 08: Truly, I now know full well (Eochaidh) 2:28
31 Act 1 Scene 2. No 09: I, too, am lifted with the breath (Etain) 1:15
32 Act 1 Scene 2. No 10: Who laughed? (Eochaidh) 0:39
33 Act 1 Scene 2. No 11: Dear lord, sit here (Etain) 1:35
34 Act 1 Scene 2. No 12: How beautiful they are (Spirit Voices) 1:13
CD2 1 Act 2. No 01: By the voice in the corries (Druids) 4:02
2 Act 2. No 02: The bells of youth are ringing (Maidens) 1:32
3 Act 2. No 03: But this was in the old, far-off days (Warriors) 1:55
4 Act 2. No 04: Hail, Eochaidh, high king of Eiré, hail! (Bards/Maidens/Warriors) 1:54
5 Act 2. No 05: Green fire of joy, green fire of life 1:46
6 Act 2. No 06: Etain, speak, my queen (Eochaidh) 1:51
7 Act 2. No 07: No, no my queen (Eochaidh) 2:33
8 Act 2. No 08: I, too, have heard strange delicate music (Etain) 1:15
9 Act 2. No 09: The queen! (Warriors/Maidens/Druids) 3:04
10 Act 2. No 10: Hail, Eochaidh, King of Eiré! (Midir) 1:52
11 Act 2. No 11: I am a king's first son (Midir) 1:50
12 Act 2. No 12: Dagda, lord of thunder and silence (Druids) 0:42
13 Act 2. No 13: Fair lord, my thanks I give (Eochaidh) 1:27
14 Act 2. No 14: Have not great poets sung (Midir) 1:13
15 Act 2. No 15: In the days of the Great Fires (Midir) 3:09
16 Act 2. No 16: Hear us, OEngus, beautiful, terrible, sun-lord (Eochaidh) 1:03
17 Act 2. No 17: But now, fair lord, tell me the boon you crave (Eochaidh) 2:06
18 Act 2. No 18: I have seen all things pass and all things go (Old Bard) 2:25
19 Act 2. No 19: Welcome my queen (Eochaidh) 1:46
20 Act 2. No 20: This nameless lord (Eochaidh) 2:31
21 Act 2. No 21: How beautiful they are (Midir) 1:25
22 Act 2. No 22: I have heard, I have dreamed that song (Etain) 1:47
23 Act 2. No 23: I am a song in the land of the young (Midir) 3:12
24 Act 2. No 24: I am a small green leaf in a great wood (Etain) 2:15
25 Act 2. No 25: O do not leave me, star of my desire (Eochaidh) 0:40
26 Act 2. No 26: Hasten, lost love, found love! (Midir) 1:08
27 Act 2. No 27: In the land of youth there are pleasant places (Spirit Voices) 1:12
28 Act 2. No 28: They play with lances (Spirit Voices) 1:11