Opera - Sir John in Love
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
(1872-1958)
Sir John in Love
136:39
An opera in four acts
The libretto based on Shakespeare's 'The Merry Wives of Windsor'
Act I
1
Orchestral introduction -
6:48
Shallow, Sir Hugh Evans: 'What hoa, what hoa!'
2
Anne Page: 'Ahem'
1:46
3
Anne Page: 'This is my father's choice'
8:03
4
Page: 'How now, what does Master Fenton here?'
1:02
5
Dr Caius: 'Vere is dat knave Rugby?'
6:52
6
Episode
2:22
7
Bardolph, Nym, Pistol: 'How now, mine Host of the Garter'
2:49
8
Sir John Falstaff: 'I spy entertainment in her . . .'
3:37
9
Pistol: 'Wilt thou revenge . . .?'
2:20
10
Ford: 'Love my wife? I will be patient'
3:33
Act II
11
Orchestral introduction -
6:25
Scene 1
Mrs Page: ' ''Thine own true knight'' '
12
Mrs Qucikly: 'Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more'
3:00
Scene 2
13
Sir John Falstaff: 'Bardolph! Bardolph, I say!'
5:28
14
Sir John Falstaff: 'Go thy ways, go thy ways, old Jack!'
5:10
15
Ford: 'Sir, my name is Brook'
5:31
16
Ford: 'Ha, is this a vision?'
3:12
Act III
Scene 1: Interlude
17
Orchestral introduction -
5:41
Fenton: 'Yet hear me speak'
18
Chorus of Young Women: 'Fair and fair and twice so fair'
2:40
19
Anne Page: 'But listen, good mine Host'
2:25
Scene 2
20
Orchestral introduction -
3:49
Sir Hugh Evans: ' ''When as we sat in Papylon'' '
21
Peter Simple: 'Yonder he's coming'
2:29
22
Page: 'Come, Master Ford'
1:46
23
Orchestral introduction -
2:23
Scene 3
Mrs Ford: 'What, John! What, Robert!'
24
Mrs Ford: 'Alas, my love, you do me wrong'
2:48
25
Mrs Quickly: 'Mistress Ford!'
2:07
26
Ford, Chorus of Men: 'Ah!'
4:23
Act IV
27
Orchestral introduction -
3:35
Scene 1
Ford: 'Pardon me, wife'
28
Mrs Page: 'There is an old tale that goes Herne the hunter'
6:37
29
(Interlude)
2:03
Scene 2
30
Orchestral introduction -
1:58
31
Sir John Falstaff: 'The Windsor bell hath struck twelve'
2:47
32
Mrs Ford: 'Ah' -
3:29
Sir John Falstaff: 'Who comes here?'
33
Mrs Qucikly: 'But till 'tis one o'clock'
0:57
34
Dance of the Fairies
1:57
35
Sir Hugh Evans: 'But stay! I smell a man of middle earth'
2:09
36
Page: 'Nay, do not fly'
4:24
37
Mrs Page: 'My heart misgives me'
2:58
38
Sir John Falstaff: 'Stand not amazed'
5:04
Characters (in order of appearance)
Adrian Thompson tenor (solo parts) - Shallow
Stephan Loges baritone (ensemble parts) - Shallow
Stephen Varcoe bass - Sir Hugh Evans
Daniel Norman tenor - Slender
Henry Moss baritone - Peter Simple
Roderick Williams baritone - Page
Donald Maxwell baritone - Sir John Falstaff
John Bowen tenor - Bardolph
Richard Lloyd-Morgan bass - Nym
Brian Bannatyne-Scott baritone - Pistol
Susan Gritton soprano - Anne Page
Laura Claycomb soprano - Mrs Page
Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano - Mrs Ford
Mark Padmore tenor- Fenton
Adrian Thompson tenor - Dr Caius
Mark Richardson bass - Rugby
Anne-Marie Owens mezzo-soprano - Mrs Quickly
Stephan Loges baritone - The Host of the 'Garter Inn'
Matthew Best bass - Ford
Richard Hickox
7-10 December 2000