Riders to the Sea

Album by Ralph Vaughan Williams & Royal Northern Sinfonia & Chorus of Royal Northern Sinfonia & Richard Hickox

Riders to the Sea is a one-act opera by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, completed in 1927. The work employs modal melodies, spare orchestration and declamatory vocal writing to evoke a bleak coastal drama and represents a concentrated, small-scale dramatic experiment within Vaughan Williams's output alongside his larger symphonic and choral works.

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  1. 1.
    Riders to the Sea: Where Is She (Nora)
    5:50
  2. 2.
    Riders to the Sea: Isn't It Turf Enough You Have (Maurya)
    1:37
  3. 3.
    Riders to the Sea: Where Is the Bit of New Rope, Cathleen (Bartley)
    4:20
  4. 4.
    Riders to the Sea: He's Gone Now, God Spare Us (Maurya)
    3:11
  5. 5.
    Riders to the Sea: Wait Nora, Maybe She'd Turn Back Quickly (Cathleen)
    4:06
  6. 6.
    Riders to the Sea: You Didn't Give Him His Bit of Bread? (Cathleen)
    2:59
  7. 7.
    Riders to the Sea: I Went Down to the Spring Well (Maurya)
    3:09
  8. 8.
    Riders to the Sea: Bartley Will Be Lost Now (Maurya)
    5:18
  9. 9.
    Riders to the Sea: They Are All Gone Now (Maurya)
    6:10
  10. 10.
    Riders to the Sea: And May He Have Mercy on My Soul (Maurya)
    5:04
  11. 11.
    Household Music: I. Crug-Y-Bar. Fantasia
    4:52
  12. 12.
    Household Music: II. St. Denio. Scherzo
    3:19
  13. 13.
    Household Music: III. Aberystwyth. Variations
    9:02
  14. 14.
    Flos Campi: I. Sicut Lilium inter spinas
    2:38
  15. 15.
    Flos Campi: II. Iam enim hiems transit
    2:49
  16. 16.
    Flos Campi: III. Quaesivi quem diligit anima mea
    3:22
  17. 17.
    Flos Campi: IV. En lectulum Salomonis
    1:49
  18. 18.
    Flos Campi: V. Revertere, revertere Sulamitis
    3:02
  19. 19.
    Flos Campi: VI. Pone me ut signaculum
    5:54

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