BBC Music, Volume 7, Number 9: The Rose of Persia (extended highlights)

Album by Arthur Sullivan & Southwark Voices & The Hanover Band & Tom Higgins

First released: May 1999

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    The Rose of Persia: Overture
    3:11
  2. 2.
    The Rose of Persia: Act I: 1. "As We lie in langour lazy... I'm Abu'l Hassan" (Chorus of Girls, Hassan)
    3:21
  3. 3.
    The Rose of Persia: Act I: 4. "Sunbeam, the priest keeps saying... If a sudden stroke of fate" (Abdallah, Blush-of-Morning, Dancing Sunbeam)
    1:39
  4. 4.
    The Rose of Persia: Act I: 6. "'Neath my lattice through the night" (Rose-in-Bloom)
    3:35
  5. 5.
    The Rose of Persia: Act I: 8. "When my father sent me to Ishpahan" (Hassan, Chorus)
    2:23
  6. 6.
    The Rose of Persia: Act I: 9. "Peace be upon this house... I care not if the cup I hold" (Yussuf, HassanChorus)
    3:04
  7. 7.
    The Rose of Persia: Act I: 10. "Musical Maidens are we" (Rose-in-Bloom, Scent-of-Lilies, Heart's Desire, Honey-of-Life, Hassan, Chorus)
    5:30
  8. 8.
    The Rose of Persia: Act I: 11. "We have come to invade" (Abdallah, Hassan)
    1:35
  9. 9.
    The Rose of Persia: Act I: 12."The Sultan's Executioner" (Dancing Sunbeam, Hassan, Abdallah, Rose-in-Bloom, Heart's Desire, Scent-of-Lilies, Honey-of-Life, Yussuf)
    2:14
  10. 10.
    The Rose of Persia: Act I: 14. "Oh, luckless hour!" (Chorus, Dancing Sunbeam, Sultan, Blush-of-Morning, Vizier, Physician, Hassan, etc.))
    16:27
  11. 11.
    The Rose of Persia: Act II: 1. "Oh, What is love?" (Heart's Desire, Yussuf)
    2:37
  12. 12.
    The Rose of Persia: Act II: 2. "If you or I, should tell the truth" (Scent-of-Lilies, Honey-of-Life, Heart's Desire, Yussuf)
    2:49
  13. 13.
    The Rose of Persia: Act II: 4."Let the satirist enumerate a catalogue" (Sultan, Chorus)
    2:47
  14. 14.
    The Rose of Persia: Act II: 5. "In my heart of my hearts I've always known" (Dancing Sunbeam, Blush-of-Morning, Honey-of-Life, Song-of-Nightingales, Sultan, Vizier, Physician)
    3:05
  15. 15.
    The Rose of Persia: Act II: 7. "Laughing low, on Toe-tip" (Chorus, Hassan, Vizier, Physician, Executioner)
    3:39
  16. 16.
    The Rose of Persia: Act II: 8. "It's a busy, busy, busy, busy day for thee" (Scent-of-Lilies, Executioner, Chorus, Yussuf, Heart's Desire, Hassan)
    2:33
  17. 17.
    The Rose of Persia: Act II: 10. "What does it mean?... Joy and Sorrow Alternate" (Dancing Sunbeam, Blush-of-Morning, Yussuf, Royal Guard)
    2:42
  18. 18.
    The Rose of Persia: Act II: 12. "Hassan, the sultan with his court approaches" (Vizier, Physician, Executioner, Chorus, Sultan)
    2:18
  19. 19.
    The Rose of Persia: Act II: 13. "There was once a small street Arab" (Hassan, Chorus)
    2:51
  20. 20.
    The Rose of Persia: Act II: 14. "A bridal march" (Chorus)
    1:26

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