Rutland Boughton: The Immortal Hour
The Immortal Hour
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Of all the landmarks in the chequered history of British opera none is more remarkable than The Immortal Hour, and no Englishman’s operatic career more curious than that of its composer, Rutland Boughton. The Immortal Hour still holds the world record for the greatest number of consecutive performances of any serious opera, and yet—save for the brief and often fatally amateur revival—it has been allowed to fall into obscurity and become, like its composer, the object of much patronizing misunderstanding and not a little derision. During his lifetime Rutland Boughton was a controversial figure, as much the architect of his misfortunes as he was of his many triumphs. But now that the dust has settled it is possible to look with a fresh and candid eye on his undaunted spirit and the work which his contemporaries regarded as a masterpiece.
Rezensionen
'This delightful opera is not to be missed' (The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs)
'Vividly atmospheric. Quite exceptional on all counts' (Gramophone)
'This superb complete recording was a salutary shock: the opera is a kind of masterpiece, bleak, passionate and inspired ... Enthusiastically recommended' (BBC Music Magazine Top 1000 CDs Guide)
'Not to be missed' (Classic CD)
Rezensionen
A.Beaujean in stereoplay 5/84:"Eine altkel- tische Version des Orpheus-Stoffes,in einer erstrangig-professionellen Aufnahme."- Tracklisting
- Details
- Mitwirkende
Disk 1 von 2 (CD)
The immortal hour (A music-drama) (Gesamtaufnahme)
- 1 A wood, dark and mysterious. In the background the faint glimmer of a lake (Akt 1, Szene 1)
- 2 Dalua (slowly coming out of the shadow)
- 3 Voices in the wood
- 4 Dalua: Ye know not who I am
- 5 Dalue: I have com hither, led by dreams and visions
- 6 A voice (unexpectedly near)
- 7 Dalua: I am old
- 8 A voice: Brother and kin to all the twilit gods
- 9 The sound of mocking laughter is heard from the wood
- 10 Dalua: Laugh not, ye outcasts of the invisible world
- 11 Etain wanders into view, looking lost and bewildered
- 12 Dalua (stepping forward with a courtly bow, faintly touched with mockery)
- 13 Dalua (touching her lightly with the shadow of his hand)
- 14 Etain: I have forgotten all
- 15 A king of men
- 16 Dalua: Led here by dreams
- 17 Etain: I will go back
- 18 Eochaidh: Sir, I am glad
- 19 Dalua: I have come
- 20 Look, o King!
- 21 Eochaidh: There is no backward way for such as I
- 22 Eochaidh: I have heard you calling
- 23 Manus: I've seen that man before who came tonight (Akt 1, Szene 2)
- 24 Manus: Yes, woman, yes, I know: for silence. Hush!
- 25 Etain: But sometimes... sometimes... Tell me: have you heard
- 26 Eochaidh: Good folk, I give you greeting
- 27 Manus: Good sir, you are most welcome.
- 28 Eochaidh: At last I know
- 29 Etain: And your name, fair lord?
- 30 Eochaidh: Truyl, I now know full well
- 31 Etain: I, too, am lifted with the breath
- 32 Eochaidh. Who laughed?
- 33 Etain: None laughed.
- 34 Unseen voices: How beautiful they are
Disk 2 von 2 (CD)
- 1 Druids: By the voice in the corries (Akt 2)
- 2 Maidens: The bells of youth are ringing
- 3 Warriors: But this was in the old, old, far-off days
- 4 Bards, Maidens and Warriors: Hail, Eochaidh, High King of Eire, hail!
- 5 Bards, Warriors and others: Green fire of Joy, green fire of life
- 6 Eochaidh: Etain, speak, my Queen
- 7 Eochaidh: No, no my Queen
- 8 Etain: I, too, have heard
- 9 Warriors and others: The Queen!
- 10 Midir: Hail, Eochaidh, King of Eire!
- 11 Midir: I am a king's first son
- 12 Druids: Dagda, Lord of thunder and silence
- 13 Eochaidh: Fair lord, my thanks I give
- 14 Midir: Have not great poets sung
- 15 Midir: In the days of the great fires when the hills were aflame
- 16 Eochaidh: Hear us, OEngus, beautiful, terrible, Sun-Lord and Death-Lord!
- 17 Midir: O king, it is a little thing
- 18 Old Bard: I have seen all things pass and all things go
- 19 Eochaidh: Welcome, my queen
- 20 Eochaidh: This nameless lord
- 21 Midir: How beautiful they are
- 22 Etain: I have heard... I have dreamed that song
- 23 Midir: I am a song
- 24 Etain: I am a small green leaf in a great wood
- 25 Eochaidh: O do not leave me, Star of my desire!
- 26 Midir: Hasten, lost love, found love!
- 27 Voices: In the land of youth
- 28 Voices: They play with lances
