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At the boar's head
2017

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The opera, or rather and properly the musical interlude, At the Boar's Head was written in 1924. Gustav Holst composed it at his home in Thaxted, where he was resting after collapsing, probably due to being overladen with work. The libretto, which Holst also composed, is based on Shakespeare's Henry IV parts one and two. Also included in this release is Ralph Vaughan Williams' Riders to the Sea, a short one-act opera based on the play of the same name by John Millington Synge.

Item Details

Description:

  • 2 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
  • digital optical
  • audio file CD audio
  • 4 3/4 in.

Notes:

  • Compact disc.
  • Libretto of the 1st work by the composer after William Shakespeare; libretto of the 2nd work by the composer, based on the play by John Millington Synge.
  • Booket with program notes in English and Polish, and librettos with Polish translations (14 pages : colored illustrastgions and portraits) inserted in container.
  • World premiere recording of the complete score"--CD 1.
  • Gary Griffiths, Nicole Percifield, Kathleen Reveille, Evanna Chiew, Anna Fijalkowska, Jonathan Lemalu, Eric Barry, Pawel Kolodziej, Krzysztof Szumanski, Adam Zdunikowski, Mateusz Stachura.

Contents:

  • Of all the birds (3:31)
  • Are you not a coward? (1:31)
  • I am a rogue (5:21)
  • We two saw you four (3:57)
  • I know you all (5:16)
  • Do thou stand (9:44)
  • I' faith, sweetheart (4:13)
  • Devouring time (4:15)
  • How now! What news? (2:46)
  • Harry is valiant (7:10)
  • For God's sake (2:38)
  • Now comes in the sweetest morsel (3:04)
  • Where is she? (5:38)
  • Isn't it turf enough you have for this day and evening (1:38)
  • Where is the bit of new rope, Cathleen (4:38)
  • He's gone now, God spare us (3:09)
  • Wait, Nora, maybe she'd turn back quickly (3:59)
  • You didn't give him his bit of bread? (2:36)
  • I went down to the spring well (2:57)
  • Bartley will be lost now (4:30)
  • They are all gone now (5:18)
  • And may he have mercy on my soul (4:06).

Publisher or Distributor Number: 11819057

Control Number: 2041299

UPC: 590254701307

Publisher: Warsaw : Dux Recording Producers, 2017.
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