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Artist:English Chamber Orchestra
Title:Rutland Boughton: The Immortal Hour
Format:CD Album
Label:  Hyperion
Country:UK
Date:1998
Catalogue:CDD22040
Barcode:034571120409
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Performers
ComposerRutland Boughton
Orchestra / EnsembleEnglish Chamber Orchestra, The Geoffrey Mitchell Choir
ConductorAlan G. Melville
SoloistAnne Dawson, David Wilson-Johnson, Maldwyn Davies, Patricia Taylor, Roderick Kennedy, Roger Bryson, Valery Hill


TrackArtistTitleComposerRating
Act I Scene 1
1-01English Chamber Orchestra PreludeRutland BoughtonRate
1-02English Chamber OrchestraDalia: By Dim Moon-glimmering CoastsRutland BoughtonRate
1-03English Chamber OrchestraVoices: Though You Have TravelledRutland BoughtonRate
1-04English Chamber OrchestraDalia: Ye Know Not Who I AmRutland BoughtonRate
1-05English Chamber OrchestraDalia: I Have Come HitherRutland BoughtonRate
1-06English Chamber OrchestraA Voice: Hail, Son Of ShadowRutland BoughtonRate
1-07English Chamber OrchestraDalia: I Am Old; More Old, More AncientRutland BoughtonRate
1-08English Chamber OrchestraA Voice: Brother And Kin To All The Twilit GodsRutland BoughtonRate
1-09English Chamber OrchestraVoices: Mocking LaughterRutland BoughtonRate
1-10English Chamber OrchestraDalia: Laugh Not, Ye OutcastsRutland BoughtonRate
1-11English Chamber OrchestraEtain: Fair Is The MoonlightRutland BoughtonRate
1-12English Chamber OrchestraDalia: Hail, Daughter Of KingsRutland BoughtonRate
1-13English Chamber OrchestraDalia: Have You ForgotRutland BoughtonRate
1-14English Chamber OrchestraEtain: I Have Forgotten AllRutland BoughtonRate
1-15English Chamber OrchestraDalia: A King Of MenRutland BoughtonRate
1-16English Chamber OrchestraDalia: Led Here By DreamsRutland BoughtonRate
1-17English Chamber OrchestraEtain: I Will Go Back To The Country Of The YoungRutland BoughtonRate
1-18English Chamber OrchestraEochaidh: Sir, I Am GladRutland BoughtonRate
1-19English Chamber OrchestraDalia: I Have Come To This Lone WoodRutland BoughtonRate
1-20English Chamber OrchestraDaliah: Look O King!Rutland BoughtonRate
1-21English Chamber OrchestraEochaidh: There Is No Backward Way For Such As IRutland BoughtonRate
1-22English Chamber OrchestraEochaidh: I Have Heard You Calling, Dalua, DaluaRutland BoughtonRate
1-23English Chamber OrchestraManus: I've Seen That Man Before Who Came TonightRutland BoughtonRate
Act I Scene 2
1-24English Chamber Orchestra Manus: Yes, Woman, Yes, I KnowRutland BoughtonRate
1-25English Chamber OrchestraEtain: But Sometimes...sometimes...Rutland BoughtonRate
1-26English Chamber OrchestraEochaidh: Good Folk, I Give You GreetingRutland BoughtonRate
1-27English Chamber OrchestraManus: Good Sir, You Are Most WelcomeRutland BoughtonRate
1-28English Chamber OrchestraEochaidh: At Last I Know Why Dreams Have Led Me HitherRutland BoughtonRate
1-29English Chamber OrchestraEtain: And Your Name, Fair Lord?Rutland BoughtonRate
1-30English Chamber OrchestraEochaidh: Truly, I Now Know Full WellRutland BoughtonRate
1-31English Chamber OrchestraEtain: I, Too, Am Lifted With The BreathRutland BoughtonRate
1-32English Chamber OrchestraEochaid: who laughed?Rutland BoughtonRate
1-33English Chamber OrchestraEtain: Dear Lord, Sit Here, I Am WearyRutland BoughtonRate
1-34English Chamber OrchestraUnseen Voices: How Beautiful They Are, The Lordly OnesRutland BoughtonRate
Act II
2-01English Chamber Orchestra Druids: By The Voice In The CorriesRutland BoughtonRate
2-02English Chamber OrchestraMaidens: The Bells Of Youth Are RingingRutland BoughtonRate
2-03English Chamber OrchestraWarriors: But This Was In The Old, Far-Off DaysRutland BoughtonRate
2-04English Chamber OrchestraBards, Maidens, Warriors: Hail, EochaidhRutland BoughtonRate
2-05English Chamber OrchestraMaidens, Bards, Warriors: Green Fire Of JoyRutland BoughtonRate
2-06English Chamber OrchestraEochaidh: Etain, Speak, My QueenRutland BoughtonRate
2-07English Chamber OrchestraEochaidh: Etain, No, No, My QueenRutland BoughtonRate
2-08English Chamber OrchestraEtain: I Too Have HeardRutland BoughtonRate
2-09English Chamber OrchestraWarriors And Others: The Queen!Rutland BoughtonRate
2-10English Chamber OrchestraMidir: Hail, Eochaidh, King Of EiréRutland BoughtonRate
2-11English Chamber OrchestraMidir: I Am A King's First SonRutland BoughtonRate
2-12English Chamber OrchestraDruids: Dagda, Lord Of ThunderRutland BoughtonRate
2-13English Chamber OrchestraEochaidh: Fair Lord, My Thanks I GiveRutland BoughtonRate
2-14English Chamber OrchestraMidir: Have Not Great Poets SungRutland BoughtonRate
2-15English Chamber OrchestraMidir: In The Days Of The Great FiresRutland BoughtonRate
2-16English Chamber OrchestraEochaidh: Hear Us, ŒngusRutland BoughtonRate
2-17English Chamber OrchestraEochaidh: But Now, Fair Lord, Tell MeRutland BoughtonRate
2-18English Chamber OrchestraOld Bard: I Have Seen All Things PassRutland BoughtonRate
2-19English Chamber OrchestraEochaidh: Welcome My QueenRutland BoughtonRate
2-20English Chamber OrchestraEochaidh: This Nameless LordRutland BoughtonRate
2-21English Chamber OrchestraMidir: How Beautiful They AreRutland BoughtonRate
2-22English Chamber OrchestraEtain: I Have HeardRutland BoughtonRate
2-23English Chamber OrchestraMidir: I Am A SongRutland BoughtonRate
2-24English Chamber OrchestraEtain: I Am A Small Green LeafRutland BoughtonRate
2-25English Chamber OrchestraEochaidh: O Do Not Leave MeRutland BoughtonRate
2-26English Chamber OrchestraMidir: Hasten, Lost Love, Found LoveRutland BoughtonRate
2-27English Chamber OrchestraVoices: In The Land Of YouthRutland BoughtonRate
2-28English Chamber OrchestraEochaidh: My Dreams! My Dreams!Rutland BoughtonRate


Notes

Recorded in the Church of All Saints, Tooting, London on 11, 13, 14 June 1983, producer Martin Compton

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Gill Sans SUBS
8th Oct 2022
 The "prettily lilting Faery Song" mentioned in the review is "How Beautiful They Are": it was well-known and popular at the time, sung and recorded by tenors and sopranos as "Faery Song" and will be familiar to most. At present we have six recordings in 78 World.

Unfortunately the booklet here gives no details of who sang each part, but there are no videos from this recording.
 
 
Gill Sans SUBS
8th Oct 2022
 The music, and the breakdown of tracks is characteristic of Boughton. The "Gramophone Classical Music Guide" give this mis-en-scene for The Immortal Hour:

The Immortal Hour is part of theatrical folklore: in London in the early 1920s it ran, unprecedentedly, for 216 consecutive performances and, shortly afterwards, for a further 160 at the first of several revivals. Within a decade it had been played a thousand times. Many in those audiences returned repeatedly, fascinated by the otherworldly mystery of the plot (it concerns the love of a mortal king, Eochaidh, for the faery princess Etain and the destruction of their happiness by her nostalgic longing for the Land of the Ever Young) and by the gentle, lyrical simplicity of its music. In the bleak aftermath of 1918, with civil war in Ireland, political instability at home and the names of Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin emerging from obscurity into the headlines, what blessed escapism this blend of Celtic myth and folk-tinged pentatonic sweetness must have been. Boughton's score still has the power to evoke that world, immediately and effortlessly.
It's quiet, sweet music, muted in colour and softly plaintive, and whenever the plot demands more than this the opera sags. Midir, the visitant from the Land of the Ever Young who lures Etain away from the mortal world, really needs music of dangerously heady, Dionysiac incandescence, but Boughton's vocabulary can run to nothing more transported than the prettily lilting Faery Song and some pages of folksy lyricism with a few showy high notes. No less seriously the music has little dramatic grip. Despite all this, The ImmortalHour does have a quality, difficult to define, that's genuinely alluring. It's there in the touching purity of Etain's music (and how movingly Anne Dawson sings the role).
It's there in the moments of true darkness that the music achieves: Dalua, the tormented Lord of Shadow conjures up something of the sombre shudder of the supernatural world.
The performance could hardly speak more eloquently for the opera. Alan G Melville allows the music to emerge from and retreat into shadowy silences; all the principal singers are accomplished and the superb chorus has been placed so as to evoke a sense of space.
 

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