New London Orchestra, Ronald Corp - Harold Fraser-Simson: The Maid of the Mountains (2000)

Tracklist

01. The Maid of the Mountains, Act I: No. 1, Introduction and Chorus. Friends Have to Part (Brigands)
02. The Maid of the Mountains, Act I: No. 2, Song. Live for Today (Beppo/Brigands)
03. The Maid of the Mountains, Act I: No. 3, Song. My Life Is Love (Teresa/Brigands)
04. The Maid of the Mountains, Act I: No. 4. Nocturne
05. The Maid of the Mountains, Act I: No. 5, Song. Farewell (Teresa)
06. The Maid of the Mountains, Act I: No. 6, Song. Dividing the Spoil (Beppo/Pietro/Tonio/Baldassare/Brigands)
07. The Maid of the Mountains, Act I: No. 7, Finale. Though Curs May Quail (Beppo/Brigands)
08. The Maid of the Mountains, Act II: No. 1, Introduction and Chorus. We're Gathered Here (Citizens/Gianetta/General)
09. The Maid of the Mountains, Act II: No. 2, Song. Love Will Find a Way (Teresa)
10. The Maid of the Mountains, Act II: No. 3, Chorus. Save Us (Citizens/Baldassare/Tonio/Mayor)
11. The Maid of the Mountains, Act II: No. 4, Duet. Dirty Work (General/Tonio)
12. The Maid of the Mountains, Act II: No. 5, Duet. A Paradise for Two (Beppo/Teresa)
13. The Maid of the Mountains, Act II: No. 6, Duet. Husbands and Wives (Vittoria/Tonio)
14. The Maid of the Mountains, Act II: No. 7, Song. A Bachelor Gay (Beppo/Girls)
15. The Maid of the Mountains, Act II: No. 8, Song. I Understood (Tonio)
16. The Maid of the Mountains, Act II: No. 9, Finale. So That's It? (Teresa/Beppo/Tonio/Baldassare/Crowd/General/Angela)
17. The Maid of the Mountains, Act III: No. 1, Introduction and Chorus. When Each Day the Tides Are Ebbing and Flowing (Fisherfolk)
18. The Maid of the Mountains, Act III: No. 2. Good People, Gather Round (General/Citizens/Teresa)
19. The Maid of the Mountains, Act III: No. 3, Duet. When You're in Love (Teresa/General)
20. The Maid of the Mountains, Act III: No. 4, Duet. Over Here and Over There (Vittoria/Tonio)
21. The Maid of the Mountains, Act III: No. 5, Finale. When Each Day the Tides Are Ebbing and Flowing (Fisherfolk/Teresa/Baldassare)

Our recording of The Geisha, issued in January 1999, produced an enormous approving postbag from which we discovered that there is still a strong affection for English musical comedies from the early years of the last century. Encouraged by its success we have now recorded The Maid of the Mountains, the smash hit of 1917. A more romantic tale than The Geisha, it has probably even more 'hit' numbers, the most famous of which are A bachelor gay ('At seventeen he falls in love quite madly …'), Love will find a way ('Whate'er befall, I still recall that sunlit mountainside, where hearts are true, and skies are blue, and love's the only guide'), Husbands and wives and A paradise for two. There are also humorous interludes from Richard Suart (I understood and Dirty work). Altogether well over an hour's worth of tuneful and good-natured entertainment with a strong cast directed by the master of English light music, Ronald Corp.

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