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Sir John in Love (1928)

Libretto: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Richard Hickox, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Chorus of Royal Northern Sinfonia, Adrian Thompson (Tenor), Stephan Loges (Baritone), Stephen Varcoe (Bass), Daniel Norman (Tenor), Henry Moss (Baritone), Roderick Williams (Baritone), Donald Maxwell (Baritone), John Bowen (Tenor), Richard Lloyd Morgan (Bass), Brian Bannatyne-Scott (Baritone), Susan Gritton (Soprano), Laura Claycomb (Soprano), Dame Sarah Connolly (Mezzo Soprano), Mark Padmore (Tenor), Mark Richardson (Bass), Anne-Marie Owens (Mezzo Soprano), Matthew Best (Bass)
2000 - 2000, Newcastle, Jubilee Hall
38 Tracks, 2:16:35

  • Act I

    • 1. Orchestral Introduction – "What hoa, what hoa!" (Shallow, Sir Hugh Evans, Slender, Shallow, Page, Sir John Falstaff, Bardolph, Pistol, Nym, Peter Simple, Anne Page)
      06:47
    • 2. "Ahem" (Anne Page, Slender)
      01:47
    • 3. "This is my father's choice" (Anne Page, Fenton, Page)
      08:02
    • 4. "How now, what does Master Fenton here?" (Page, Fenton, Anne Page)
      01:01
    • 5. "Vere is dat knave Rugby?" (Dr Caius, Rugby, Peter Simple, Mrs Quickly, Fenton)
      06:52
    • 6. Episode "Say dainty dames shall we go play" (Chorus, Nym, Bardolph, Pistol)
      02:22
    • 7. "How now, mine Host of the Garter" (Bardolph, Nym, Pistol, Host, Sir John Falstaff)
      02:49
    • 8. "I spy entertainment in her" (Sir John Falstaff, Pistol, Nym, Bardolph, Host)
      03:37
    • 9. "Wilt thou revenge" (Pistol, Nym, Ford)
      02:21
    • 10. "Love my wife? I will be patient" (Ford, Mrs Ford, Mrs Page)
      03:39

  • Act II

    • 1. Orchestral Introduction – "Thine own true knight" (Mrs Page, Mrs Ford, Mrs Quickly)
      06:24
    • 2. "Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more" (Mrs Quickly, Mrs Page, Mrs Ford)
      03:01
    • 3. "Bardolph! Bardolph, I say!" (Sir John Falstaff, Bardolph, Mrs Quickly)
      05:27
    • 4. "Go thy ways, go thy ways, old Jack!" (Sir John Falstaff, Bardolph, Ford)
      05:09
    • 5. "Sir, my name is Brook" (Ford, Sir John Falstaff)
      05:32
    • 6. "Ha, is this a vision?" (Ford, Dr Caius, Bardolph, Slender, Shallow, Page)
      03:11

  • Act III

    • 1. Interlude. Orchestral Introduction – "Yet hear me speak" (Fenton, Host, Chorus, Anne Page)
      05:41
    • 2. Interlude "Fair and fair and twice so fair" (Chorus, Fenton, Anne Page, Host)
      02:40
    • 3. Interlude "But listen, good mine Host" (Anne Page, Chorus, Host, Fenton)
      02:25
    • 4. Orchestral Introduction – "When as we sat in Papylon" (Sir Hugh Evans, Peter Simple)
      03:48
    • 5. "Yonder he's coming" (Peter Simple, Sir Hugh Evans, Shallow, Page, Slender, Host, Dr Caius, Rugby)
      02:29
    • 6. "Come, Master Ford" (Page, Ford, Sir Hugh Evans, Host, Rugby, Peter Simple, Shallow, Dr Caius, Slender)
      01:45
    • 7. Orchestral Introduction – "What, John! What, Robert!" (Mrs Ford, Mrs Page, John, Robert, Mrs Quickly)
      02:23
    • 8. "Alas, my love, you do me wrong" (Mrs Ford, Sir John Falstaff)
      02:47
    • 9. "Mistress Ford!" (Mrs Quickly, Sir John Falstaff, Mrs Ford, Mrs Page, Chorus)
      02:08
    • 10. "Ah!" (Ford, Chorus, Robert, Mrs Ford, Page, Mrs Page, Sir Hugh Evans, Dr Caius, Slender, Shallow, Host, Bardolph, Nym, Pistol, Peter Simple, Rogby)
      04:30

  • Act IV

    • 1. Orchestral Introduction – "Pardon me, wife" (Ford, Mrs Ford, Page, Sir Hugh Evans, Mrs Page)
      03:35
    • 2. "There is an old tale that goes Herne the hunter" (Mrs Page, Page, Ford, Mrs Ford, Sir Hugh Evans, Chorus, Dr Caius, Slender)
      06:37
    • 3. Interlude
      02:03
    • 4. Orchestral Introduction
      01:57
    • 5. "The Windsor bell hath struck twelve" (Sir John Falstaff)
      02:48
    • 6. "Ah - Who comes here?" (Mrs Ford, Sir John Falstaff, Mrs Page, Chorus, Anne Page)
      03:29
    • 7. "But till 'tis one o'clock" (Mrs Qucikly, Chorus, Anne Page)
      00:57
    • 8. Dance of the Fairies
      01:57
    • 9. "But stay! I smell a man of middle earth" (Sir Hugh Evans, Sir John Falstaff, Bardolph, Nym, Host, Pistol, Chorus, Mrs Quickly)
      02:10
    • 10. "Nay, do not fly" (Page, Mrs Page, Ford, Mrs Ford, Host, Nym, Bardolph, Pistol, Mrs Quickly, Sir Hugh Evans, Sir John Falstaff, Shallow, Slender, Peter Simple, Dr Caius)
      04:23
    • 11. "My heart misgives me" (Mrs Page, Chorus, Fenton, Page, Anne Page)
      02:58
    • 12. "Stand not amazed" (Sir John Falstaff, Ford, Mrs Page, Mrs Ford, Page, Mrs Quickly, Pistol, Anne Page, Fenton, Sir Hugh Evans, Host, Bardolph, Nym, Chorus, Fenton)
      05:04