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The London Chorus, New London Orchestra, Ronald Corp - Sullivan: The Golden Legend (2001)

The London Chorus, New London Orchestra, Ronald Corp - Sullivan: The Golden Legend (2001)
  • Title: Sullivan: The Golden Legend
  • Year Of Release: 2001
  • Label: Hyperion
  • Genre: Classical
  • Quality: flac lossless (tracks) +Booklet
  • Total Time: 01:34:48
  • Total Size: 346 mb
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Tracklist

CD1
01. The Golden Legend: Prologue No. 1. Hasten! Hasten! O Ye Spirits! (Lucifer/Voices/Bells)
02. The Golden Legend: Prologue No. 2. Nocte surgentes (Bells)
03. The Golden Legend, Scene 1: No. 1, Introduction
04. The Golden Legend, Scene 1: No. 2, I Cannot Sleep! My Fevered Brain (Prince Henry)
05. The Golden Legend, Scene 1: No. 3, All Hail, Prince Henry! (Lucifer/Prince Henry)
06. The Golden Legend, Scene 1: No. 4, Behold It Here! (Lucifer/Prince Henry/Angels)
07. The Golden Legend, Scene 1: No. 5, Drink, Drink, and Thy Soul Shall Sink Down into the Deep Abyss (Lucifer/Prince Henry/Angels)
08. The Golden Legend, Scene 2: No. 1, Introduction
09. The Golden Legend, Scene 2: No. 2, Slowly, Slowly Up the Wall (Ursula)
10. The Golden Legend, Scene 2: No. 3, Evening Hymn "O Gladsome Light" (Villagers/Prince Henry)
11. The Golden Legend, Scene 2: No. 4, Who Was It Said "Amen"? (Ursula/Elsie)
12. The Golden Legend, Scene 2: No. 5, I Heard Him Call. When Christ Ascended (Elsie/Ursula)
13. The Golden Legend, Scene 2: No. 6, My Redeemer and My Lord (Elsie)
14. The Golden Legend, Scene 2: No. 7, My Life Is Little (Elsie/Angels/Prince Henry)
15. The Golden Legend, Scene 3: No. 1, Onward and Onward the Highway Runs to the Distant City (Elsie/Prince Henry/Pilgrims)
16. The Golden Legend, Scene 3: No. 2, Here Am I, Too, in the Pious Band (Lucifer/Pilgrims/Elsie)
17. The Golden Legend, Scene 3: No. 3, It Is the Sea (Prince Henry)
18. The Golden Legend, Scene 3: No. 4, The Night Is Calm and Cloudless (Elsie/Attendants)

CD2
01. The Golden Legend, Scene 4: No. 1, My Guests Approach! There Is in the Air (Lucifer)
02. The Golden Legend, Scene 4: No. 2, Can You Direct Us to Friar Angelo? (Prince Henry/Lucifer/Elsie)
03. The Golden Legend, Scene 4: No. 3, O Pure in Heart! From Thy Sweet Dust Shall Grow Lilies (Attendants)
04. The Golden Legend, Scene 4: No. 4, Weep Not, My Friends! Rather Rejoice with Me (Elsie/Prince Henry)
05. The Golden Legend, Scene 4: No. 5, Come with Me, This Way (Lucifer/Prince Henry/Attendants/Elsie)
06. The Golden Legend, Scene 5: No. 1, Who Is It Coming Under the Trees? (Ursula/Forester)
07. The Golden Legend, Scene 5: No. 2, Virgin, Who Lovest the Poor and Lowly (Ursula)
08. The Golden Legend, Scene 6: No. 1, Introduction
09. The Golden Legend, Scene 6: No. 2, We Are Alone; the Wedding Guests (Prince Henry/Elsie)
10. The Golden Legend, Scene 6: No. 3, Dear Elsie, Many Years Ago (Prince Henry/Elsie)
11. The Golden Legend, Scene 6: No. 4, In Life's Delight, in Death's Dismay (Prince Henry/Elsie)
12. The Golden Legend, Scene 6: No. 5, Choral Epilogue. God Sent His Messenger, the Rain

During the Victorian era The Golden Legend was second only to Handel's Messiah in popularity and is regarded by Sullivan experts as his finest concert work. Never before recorded in its entirety, Hyperion and Ronald Corp, with support from the Sir Arthur Sullivan Society and The D'Oyly Carte Charitable Trust, have resurrected this masterpiece.

During the summer of 1886 following on from the huge success that was The Mikado, Sullivan hid himself away in a cottage in Yorktown and composed a secular cantata that Gilbert was to recognise as "the biggest thing you've done". Scenes following the premiere at the Leeds Festival on October 15th transcended any known before, with the audience on its feet waving programmes and hats, climbing on chairs and hurling flowers. The choir had formed an opinion of its own of the work at rehearsal, and had accumulated bouquets under their chairs to launch at the composer.

Hailed by Stanford as deserving of a place "on the shelves of the classics", Hyperion is therefore proud to participate in the revival of a work of such enormity, removing The Golden Legend's overwhelming popularity from the archives and placing it righfully in the present.

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