Ronald Corp - Robin Hood - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

George Macfarren was considered by many of his contemporaries as the greatest British dramatic opera composer since Purcell. Described by Edward J Dent as 'very full of good fun and on the way to Sullivan', Robin Hood is Macfarren' masterpiece. Album Tracks 1. Overture 2. Act I Introduction Clang! Clang! It Is a Merry (Chorus) 3. Act I Ballad The Hunters Wake (Alice, Chorus) 4. Act I Duet When Lovers Are Parted (Robin, Marian) 5. Act I Trio A Dark and Troublous Time (Robin, Marian, Sheriff) 6. Act I Ballad True Love (Marian) 7. Act I Scena and Song The Monk Within His Cell (Sompnour) 8. Act I Scena and Song Be Not Severe (Allan, Robin, Chorus) 9. Act I Ballad Englishmen By Birth (Robin) 10. Act I Finale May the Saints Protect 11. Act II Scene 1 Entr'acte 12. Act II Scene 1 Part Song The Wood, the Wood (Outlaws) 13. Act II Scene 1 Robbery Scene A Good Fat Deer (Robin, Much, John, Sompnour) 14. Act II Scene 1 Ballad The Grasping Normans (Robin, Greenwood Men) 15. Act II Scene 2 Scena Hail Happy Morn (Marian) 16. Act II Scene 2 Ballad From Childhood's Dawn (Sheriff) 17. Act II Scene 2 Duet To the Fair (Marian, Alice) 18. Act II Scene 3 Chorus How Bright Is the Day (Allan, Alice, Robin, Marian) 1. Act II Scene 3 Dances Round Dance and Tilting at the Quintain 2. Act II Scece 3 Scena Hoodman Blind (Villagers) 3. Act II Scene 3 Song My Own, My Guiding Star (Robin) 4. Act II Scene 3 Ensemble Merry Laughter (Sheriff, Marian, Alice, Allan, Company) 5. Act II Scene 3 Quintet My Heart from It's Terror (Marian, Alice, Robin, Allan, Sheriff) 6. Act II Scene 3 Finale My Children Thus Your Lives (Sheriff, Company) 7. Act III Scene 1 Entr'acte 8. Act III Scene 1 Duet Greatest Plague on Earth (Allan, Alice) 9. Act III Scene 1 Scena My Child Has Fled (Sheriff) 10. Act III Scene