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Richard Hickox, Northern Sinfonia - Ralph Vaughan Williams: Riders to the Sea; Household Music; Flos Campi (2015)

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Date: 30 Jan 2025 20:46:03

Richard Hickox, Northern Sinfonia - Ralph Vaughan Williams: Riders to the Sea; Household Music; Flos Campi (2015)

As he proved with his recording of A London Symphony – Record of the Year, Gramophone Awards 2001 – Richard Hickox was a Vaughan Williams specialist. This reissue of an original 1995 recording features such lesser known works from the composer as Household Music and Flos Campi.

Alternating between the passionate and the tortured, between long-breathed lyricism and moments of obvious pain, Flos Campi has never really found itself in the mainstream concert repertoire, maybe because of its title, misleadingly suggesting jolly music. Household Music has equally suffered from its title, rather an off-hand one for pieces that at their best show the composer’s brilliance as an arranger. Riders to the Sea, however, is a masterpiece, seen as the finest as well as the most concentrated of Vaughan Williams’s works for the stage, conjuring up multiple layers of emotional response to the natural world, a losing battle with the sea, and the God which rules it, for the islanders in the North Atlantic.

Vaughan Williams’s Riders to the Sea is one of the undoubted masterpieces of English twentieth-century music-theatre, yet it has received only intermittent stagings, disadvantaged in the eyes of promoters, no doubt, by its length (about forty minutes) and chamber instrumentation. The intensely private nature of the work makes it ideal for home listening, however, and this new recording under Hickox’s direction, with a brave trio of ladies in Finnie, Dawson and Attrot, leaves a poignant impression. The composer evokes the sea-wracked lives of the Arran Islanders in Synge’s famous play, in one of his most concentrated and austerely poetic scores. The tragic lamenting of the women, who by the end of the opera have been robbed by the sea of all their menfolk, is marvellously encapsulated in his continuous recitative flecked with arioso; and when the stoic acceptance of ‘There isn’t anything more the sea can do to me’ at last yields something like a song, true catharsis is achieved. The disc also includes the premiere recording of Household Music, three Welsh hymn tunes treated broadly in the manner of Dives and Lazarus, and the luxuriantly melismatic suite, Flos campi for viola (Philip Dukes in fine form), choir and orchestra. The Northern Sinfonia plays warmly throughout.

Review by Anthony Payne, BBC Music Magazine (Classical-Music.com)

Vaughan Williams at Allmusic
Vaughan Williams at Wiki

Richard Hickox at Allmusic
Richard Hickox at Wiki

Performers:

Linda Finnie - mezzo-soprano (Maurya)
Karl Daymond - baritone (Bartley)
Lynne Dawson - soprano (Cathleen)
Ingrid Attrot - soprano (Nora)
Pamela Helen Stephen - mezzo-soprano (A Woman)
Peter Francomb - obligato horn
Philip Dukes - viola
The Sinfonia Chorus
Northern Sinfonia
Richard Hickox, conductor

Tracklist:

Riders to the Sea
Opera in one act based on the play by John Millington Synge
01. Nora: 'Where is she?' (05:51)
02. Maurya: 'Isn't it turf enough you have for this day and evening?' (01:37)
03. Bartley: 'Where is the bit of new rope, Cathleen, was bought in Connemara (04:20)
04. Maurya: 'He's gone now, God spare us and we'll not see him again (03:11)
05. Cathleen: 'Wait, Nora, maybe she'd turn back quickly' (04:06)
06. Cathleen: 'You didn't give him his bit of bread?' (02:59)
07. Maurya: 'I went down to the spring well' (03:09)
08. Maurya: 'Bartley will be lost now' (05:18)
09. Maurya: 'They are all gone now' (06:10)
10. Maurya: 'And may he have mercy on my soul…' (05:04)

Household Music
Three Preludes on Welsh Hymn Tunes
11. I. Crug-Y-Bar. Fantasia. Andante sostenuto (04:49)
12. II. St Denio. Scherzo. Allegro vivace (03:15)
13. III. Aberystwyth. Variations. Theme: Lento (09:02)

Flos Campi
Suite for Solo Viola, Mixed Chorus, and Small Orchestra
14. 1. Lento (senza misura) (02:38)
15. 2. Andante con moto (02:49)
16. 3. Lento (senza misura) (03:22)
17. 4. Moderato alla marcia (01:49)
18. 5. Andante quasi lento (Largamente) (03:02)
19. 6. Moderato tranquillo (06:03)

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