Sullivan - The Golden Legend / J. Watson ? Rigby ? Wilde ? J. Black ? Corp

Sullivan - The Golden Legend / J. Watson ? Rigby ? Wilde ? J. Black ? Corp

Sullivan - The Golden Legend / J. Watson ? Rigby ? Wilde ? J. Black ? Corp
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Edition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2001-10-09
Music Label: Hyperion UK
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. The Golden Legend, cantata for chorus & orchestra: Prologue
  2. The Golden Legend, cantata for chorus & orchestra: Nocte surgentes
  3. The Golden Legend, cantata for chorus & orchestra: Scene 1.
  4. The Golden Legend, cantata for chorus & orchestra: Scene 1.: "I cannot sleep"
  5. The Golden Legend, cantata for chorus & orchestra: Scene 1.: "All haie, Prince Henry"
  6. The Golden Legend, cantata for chorus & orchestra: Scene 1.: "Behold it here"
  7. The Golden Legend, cantata for chorus & orchestra: Scene 1.: "Drink, drink, and thy soul shall sink"
  8. The Golden Legend, cantata for chorus & orchestra: Scene 2.
  9. The Golden Legend, cantata for chorus & orchestra: Scene 2.: "Slowly, slowly up the wall"
  10. The Golden Legend, cantata for chorus & orchestra: Scene 2.: Evening Hymn
  11. The Golden Legend, cantata for chorus & orchestra: Scene 2.: "Who was it said 'Amen'?"
  12. The Golden Legend, cantata for chorus & orchestra: Scene 2.: "I heard Him call"
  13. The Golden Legend, cantata for chorus & orchestra: Scene 2.: "My Redeemer and my Lord"
  14. The Golden Legend, cantata for chorus & orchestra: Scene 2.: "My life is little"
  15. The Golden Legend, cantata for chorus & orchestra: Scene 3.: "Onward and onward"
  16. The Golden Legend, cantata for chorus & orchestra: Scene 3.: "Here am I too"
  17. The Golden Legend, cantata for chorus & orchestra: Scene 3.: "It is the sea"
  18. The Golden Legend, cantata for chorus & orchestra: Scene 3.: "The night is calm and cloudless"
Music CD 2
  1. The Golden Legend, cantata for chorus & orchestra: Scene 4.: "My guests approach"
  2. The Golden Legend, cantata for chorus & orchestra: Scene 4.: Prince Henry enters
  3. The Golden Legend, cantata for chorus & orchestra: Scene 4.: "O pure in heart"
  4. The Golden Legend, cantata for chorus & orchestra: Scene 4.: "Weep not, my friends"
  5. The Golden Legend, cantata for chorus & orchestra: Scene 4.: "Come with me, this Way"
  6. The Golden Legend, cantata for chorus & orchestra: Scene 5.
  7. The Golden Legend, cantata for chorus & orchestra: Scene 5.: "Virgin, who lovest the poor"
  8. The Golden Legend, cantata for chorus & orchestra: Scene 6.
  9. The Golden Legend, cantata for chorus & orchestra: Scene 6.: "We are alone"
  10. The Golden Legend, cantata for chorus & orchestra: Scene 6.: "Dear Elise"
  11. The Golden Legend, cantata for chorus & orchestra: Chroral Epilogue.

Music reviews of Sullivan - The Golden Legend / J. Watson ? Rigby ? Wilde ? J. Black ? Corp

Music Review: A neglected cantata by Sir Arthur Sullivan.
Rating: 5 Stars

Digital recording processes, efficient marketing, and above all the work of conductor Ronald Corp in bringing back to life late nineteenth and early twentieth century music that has lain moribund and neglected, allow music lovers like me a first opportunity to hear Sir Arthur Sullivan's "The Golden Legend".

I have listened six times to this recording. Each time I find new details or effects in the music that reinforce my admiration for Sir Arthur Sullivan. A quick perusal of the Longfellow poem on which the work is based and a look at the synopsis provided with the recording have been enough to show that its Faust-like story would have been familiar, meaningful and fascinating enough to justify this work's enormous popularity in Sullivan's time. Nowadays, at least to me, it seems preposterous

Nevertheless the music repays close attention. Within the bounds of decorum that Sullivan always preserved in his music, there is a wonderful range of inventiveness, harmonic progression and melody. The forces include five soloists, chorus, orchestra and organ.

Timed to provide a satisfying evening's music making in the 1880s, the music runs for just over 90 minutes. Hyperion have marketed the two CD set for the price of one.

The recording venue was a church in south London that I used to attend many years ago. Rarely have I heard choral singing so well caught on record. The soloists have fresh young voices. If veteran record collectors have a hazy recollection of having sampled this work before, it might derive from a stunning recording of an excerpt called "The night is calm" made by the Australian soprano Florence Austral.

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