| Other author/creator | Finnie, Linda, performer. |
| Other author/creator | Daymond, Karl, 1965- performer. |
| Other author/creator | Dawson, Lynne, performer. |
| Other author/creator | Attrot, Ingrid, performer. |
| Other author/creator | Stephen, Pamela Helen, performer. |
| Other author/creator | Dukes, Philip, performer. |
| Other author/creator | Hickox, Richard, 1948-2008, conductor. |
| Other author/creator | Synge, J. M. (John Millington), 1871-1909. Riders to the sea. |
| Included Work | Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958. Riders to the sea. |
| Included Work | Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958. Household music. |
| Included Work | Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958. Flos campi. |
| Other author/creator | Northern Sinfonia. Chorus, performer. |
| Other author/creator | Northern Sinfonia, performer. |
| Uniform title | Works. Selections |
| Variant title |
Household music |
| Variant title |
Flos campi |
| Contents |
Riders to the sea (41:43). Nora: Where is she? (5:51) -- Maurya: Isn't it turf enough you have (1:37) -- Bartley: Where is the bit of new rope, Cathleen (4:21) -- Maurya: He's gone now, God spare us (3:11) -- Cathleen: Wait, Nora, maybe she'd turn back quickly (4:07) -- Cathleen: You didn't give him his bit of bread? (3:00) -- Maurya: I went down to the spring well (3:10) -- Maurya: Bartley will be lost now (5:18) -- Maurya: They are all gone now (6:10) -- Maurya: And may he have mercy on my soul (4:59) -- Household music (17:07). Crug-Y-Bar: fantasia (4:46) -- St. Denio: scherzo (3:16) -- Aberystwyth: variations (8:56) -- Flos campi (19:33). Sicut Lilium inter spinas, sic anima mea inter filias...fulcite me floribus, stipate me malis, quia amore langueo = As the lily among thorns, so is my long among the daughters...stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples, for I am sick with love (2:37) -- Iam enim hiems transit, imber abiit, et recessit, Flores apparuerunt in terra nostra, Tempus putationis advenit, Vox turturis audita est in terra nostra = For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone, the flowers appear on the earth, the time of the singing of birds is to come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land (2:49) -- Quaesivi quem diligit anima mea, quaesivi illum, et non inveni..."Adjuro vos filiae Jerusalem, si inveneritis dilectum meum, ut nuntietis ei quia amore langueo"..."Quo abiit dilectus tuus, O pulcherrima mulierium? Quo declinavit dilectus tuus? et quaeremus eum tecum" = I sought him whom my soul loveth, but I found him not..."I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him that I am sick with love"..."Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? Whither is thy beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with thee" (3:22) -- En lectulum Salomonis sexaginta fortes ambiunt...omnes tenentes gladios, et ad bella doctissimi = Behold the bed which is Solomon's, three score valiant men are about it...they all hold swords, being expert in war (1:49) -- Revertere, revertere Sulamitis! Reverte, revertere ut intueamur te. Quam pulchri sunt gressus tui in calceamentis, filia principis = Return, return, O Shulamite, Return, return that we may look upon thee...how beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O Prince's daughter (3:02) -- Pone me ut signaculum super cor tuum = Set me as a seal upon thine heart (5:53). |
| General note | The 1st work an opera in 1 act, based on play by J.M. Synge; 2nd comprises 3 preludes based on Welsh hymn tunes, originally for string quartet, or alternative instruments, and optional horn, here performed by string orchestra and horn; 3rd work a suite for viola, wordless mixed chorus and small orchestra. |
| General note | Editions recorded: Oxford University Press. |
| General note | Durations: 41:43; 17:07; 19:33. |
| General note | Compact disc. |
| General note | Program notes by Simon Mundy, in English with German and French translations, and libretto of the 1st work (30 pages : portraits) inserted in container. |
| Performer |
Linda Finnie (Maurya), Karl Daymond (Bartley), Lynne Dawson (Cathleen), Ingrid Attrot (Nora), Pamela Helen Stephen (A woman) (in the 1st work) ; Philip Dukes, viola (3rd work) ; Sinfonia Chorus (3rd work) ; Northern Sinfonia ; Richard Hickox, conductor. |
| Date/time/place of a event note | Recorded March 23-24, 1995, at St. Nicholas' Hospital, Gosforth. |
| Language | Opera sung in English. |
| Genre/form | Chamber music. |
| LCCN | 99592394 |
| UPC |
095115939222 |
| Publisher number | CHAN 9392 Chandos |