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Sir John in Love (1928)

Libretto: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Stanford Robinson, Philharmonia Orchestra, Sadler's Wells Chorus, Heddle Nash (Tenor), Parry Jones (Baritone), Gerald Davies (Tenor), Andrew Gold (Tenor), Dennis Dowling (Baritone), Roderick Jones (Baritone), John William Kentish (Tenor), Denis Catlin (Baritone), Forbes Robinson (Bass), April Cantelo (Soprano), Laelia Finneberg (Soprano), Marion Lowe (Mezzo Soprano), James Johnston (Tenor), Francis Loring (Baritone), Ronald Lewis (Bass), Pamela Bowden (Alto), Owen Brannigan (Baritone), John Cameron (Bass)
1956 - 1956, London, BBC Studio
32 Tracks, 2:06:27

  • Act I

    • 1. Prelude – "What-hoa!" (Shallow, Sir Hugh Evans)
      04:30
    • 2. "Sir Hugh, persuade me not" (Shallow)
      02:10
    • 3. "Ahem" (Anne Page)
      01:33
    • 4. "This is my father's choice" (Anne Page)
      02:37
    • 5. "Do but look on her eyes" (Fenton)
      02:47
    • 6. "I see I cannot get thy father's love" (Fenton)
      03:07
    • 7. "Vere is dat knave Rugby?" (Caius)
      04:27
    • 8. "Master Fenton" (Mrs. Quickly)
      01:44
    • 9. "How now, mine Host of the Garter" (Bardolph, Nym, Pistol)
      02:57
    • 10. "I spy entertainment in her" (Sir John Falstaff)
      03:44
    • 11. "Wilt thou revenge?" (Nym, Pistol)
      02:42
    • 12. "Love my wife? I will be patient" (Ford)
      03:22

  • Act II

    • 1. Prelude – "Thine own true knight" (Mrs. Page)
      06:21
    • 2. "Sigh no more, ladies" (Mrs. Quickly, Page, Ford)
      02:42
    • 3. "Bardolph, Bardolph, I say!" (Sir John Falstaff)
      05:41
    • 4. "Go thy ways" (Sir John Falstaff)
      05:30
    • 5. "Sir, my name is Brook" (Ford)
      05:24
    • 6. "Ha, is this a vision?" (Ford)
      03:15

  • Act III

    • 1. Prelude – "Yet hear me speak" (Fenton, Chorus)
      04:00
    • 2. "Let him woo for himself" (Anne Page, Chorus)
      06:48
    • 3. "As we sat down in Papylon" (Sir Hugh Evans)
      04:36
    • 4. "Peace, I say!" (Host)
      03:04
    • 5. "What, John! What, Robert!" (Mrs. Ford)
      02:01
    • 6. "Alas my love, you do me wrong" (Mrs. Ford, Chorus)
      04:46
    • 7. "Ah! How now, where bear you this" (Ford, Chorus)
      03:57

  • Act IV

    • 1. "Pardon me, wife" (Ford)
      03:52
    • 2. "There is an old tale goes" (Mrs. Page, Chorus)
      05:19
    • 3. Entr'acte
      02:36
    • 4. "The Windsor bell hath struck twelve" (Sir John Falstaff, Chorus)
      05:15
    • 5. "I think the devil will not have me damned" (Sir John Falstaff, Chorus)
      05:04
    • 6. "Nay, do not fly" (Page)
      03:14
    • 7. "This is strange, who hath the right Anne?" (Ford, Chorus)
      07:22