Ronald Corp, Victorian Opera Orchestra - Macfarren: Robin Hood (2011)

Tracklist

CD1
01. Robin Hood: Overture
02. Robin Hood: Act I: Introduction: Clang! Clang! It is a merry (Chorus)
03. Robin Hood: Act I: Ballad: The hunters wake (Alice, Chorus)
04. Robin Hood: Act I: Duet: When lovers are parted (Robin, Marian)
05. Robin Hood: Act I: Trio: A dark and troublous time (Robin, Marian, Sheriff)
06. Robin Hood: Act I: Ballad: True love (Marian)
07. Robin Hood: Act I: Scena and Song: The monk within his cell (Sompnour)
08. Robin Hood: Act I: Scena and Song: Be not severe (Allan, Robin, Chorus)
09. Robin Hood: Act I: Ballad: Englishmen by birth (Robin)
10. Robin Hood: Act I: Finale: May the saints protect
11. Robin Hood: Act II Scene 1: Entr'acte
12. Robin Hood: Act II Scene 1: Part Song: The wood, the wood (Outlaws)
13. Robin Hood: Act II Scene 1: Robbery Scene: A good fat deer (Robin, Much, John, Sompnour)
14. Robin Hood: Act II Scene 1: Ballad: The grasping Normans (Robin, Greenwood men)
15. Robin Hood: Act II Scene 2: Scena: Hail happy morn (Marian)
16. Robin Hood: Act II Scene 2: Ballad: From childhood's dawn (Sheriff)
17. Robin Hood: Act II Scene 2: Duet: To the fair (Marian, Alice)
18. Robin Hood: Act II Scene 3: Chorus: How bright is the day (Allan, Alice, Robin, Marian)

CD2
01. Robin Hood: Act II Scene 3: Dances: Round dance and Tilting at the Quintain
02. Robin Hood: Act II Scece 3: Scena: Hoodman blind (Villagers)
03. Robin Hood: Act II Scene 3: Song: My own, my guiding star (Robin)
04. Robin Hood: Act II Scene 3: Ensemble: Merry laughter (Sheriff, Marian, Alice, Allan, Company)
05. Robin Hood: Act II Scene 3: Quintet: My heart from its terror (Marian, Alice, Robin, Allan, Sheriff)
06. Robin Hood: Act II Scene 3: Finale: My children thus your lives (Sheriff, Company)
07. Robin Hood: Act III Scene 1: Entr'acte
08. Robin Hood: Act III Scene 1: Duet: Greatest plague on earth (Allan, Alice)
09. Robin Hood: Act III Scene 1: Scena: My child has fled (Sheriff)
10. Robin Hood: Act III Scene 1: Duet: To King Richard at once (Sheriff, Sompnour)
11. Robin Hood: Act III Scene 2: Part Song: Now the sun has mounted (Citizens)
12. Robin Hood: Act III Scene 2: Song: Sons of the greenwood (Marian, Greenwood men)
13. Robin Hood: Act III Scene 3: Scena: Vain was the proud ambition (Robin, Marian, Chorus)
14. Robin Hood: Act III Scene 4: Finale: Hark, to that doleful bell (Full company)
15. Robin Hood: Act III Scene 4: Finale ultimo: We've made a slight mistake (Full company)

George Macfarren était considéré par certains de ses contemporains comme le plus grand compositeur d'opéra anglais après Purcell. Robin des Bois est son oeuvre la plus connue et populaire. Ronald Corp dirige le choeur et l'orchestre du Victorian Opera avec énergie et bonheur.

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