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Act One0:00 - "Buy, buy buy!"4:12 - "Ballads, buy my ballads!"8:20 - "Here come the Morris men!"12:36 - Hugh's Song of the Road ("Horse hoofs)"17:13 - "Ah! W...
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Jan 20, 1993 · Vaughan Williams: Hugh the Drover [Original Cast Recordings] by Ralph Vaughan Williams released in 1993. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, ...
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Hugh the Drover (or Love in the Stocks) is an opera in two acts by Ralph Vaughan Williams to an original English libretto by Harold Child. The work has set numbers with recitatives. It has been described as a modern example of a ballad opera.
Jun 28, 2024 · Remastered recordings of seven songs and folk songs, largely arranged or written by Vaughan Williams and Cecil Sharp, complete the album. Two of these feature John Coates and Maggie Teyte, who Vaughan Williams had considered for the lead parts in Hugh the Drover in 1911, but it was not then to be.
Hugh the Drover, Vaughan Williams’s first full-length opera, was completed before the First World War, but not performed until 1924. A premiere at the Royal College of Music on 4 July 1924 was followed on 14 July by the first professional production at His Majesty’s Theatre in London.
Synopsis. This remark by Ralph Vaughan Williams to Bruce Richmond, editor of The Times Literary Supplement, in 1909 or 1910, was the beginning of Hugh the Drover. Richmond found Harold Child, a Times leader-writer, and some weeks later Vaughan Williams wrote him a long letter† warning him that, ‘if our scheme ever comes to anything I see ...
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May 13, 2021 · Hugh the Drover is a ballad opera written by Ralph Vaughan Williams, on a libretto by Harold Child. It was premiered in 1924. Shortly afterwards, this abridged version was recorded (in 1924 or 1925). This is not an LP of mine, but I have a recording of it.
