A Village Romeo and Juliet

Album by Frederick Delius & ORF Radio‐Symphonieorchester Wien & Arnold Schoenberg Chor & Charles Mackerras

A Village Romeo and Juliet is an opera by English composer Frederick Delius, completed in 1907. The score employs late-Romantic harmonies, lush pastoral orchestration and impressionistic textures to evoke mood and landscape, and it represents Delius's mature operatic approach that emphasises atmosphere and orchestral colour over conventional dramatic structure.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    A Village Romeo and Juliet: Scene 1. Prelude
    3:03
  2. 2.
    A Village Romeo and Juliet: Scene 1. "A shame it is"
    5:17
  3. 3.
    A Village Romeo and Juliet: Scene 1. "How strange the wind sounds"
    6:04
  4. 4.
    A Village Romeo and Juliet: Scene 1. "'Twixt us, methinks, will lie the bidding"
    2:30
  5. 5.
    A Village Romeo and Juliet: Scene 2. Prelude
    2:16
  6. 6.
    A Village Romeo and Juliet: Scene 2. "Vreli! Sali!"
    6:49
  7. 7.
    A Village Romeo and Juliet: Scene 2. Interlude / Prelude to Scene 3
    5:45
  8. 8.
    A Village Romeo and Juliet: Scene 3. "I knew we'd meet again"
    4:25
  9. 9.
    A Village Romeo and Juliet: Scene 3. "O Sali, I'm afraid!"
    3:34
  10. 10.
    A Village Romeo and Juliet: Scene 3. "Shameless hussy!"
    2:28
  11. 11.
    A Village Romeo and Juliet: Scene 4. Prelude
    2:54
  12. 12.
    A Village Romeo and Juliet: Scene 4. "Ah, the night is approaching"
    5:04
  13. 13.
    A Village Romeo and Juliet: Scene 4. "Dearest, I'll leave you no more"
    7:11
  14. 14.
    A Village Romeo and Juliet: Scene 4. "The Dream of Sali and Vrenchen"
    7:35
  15. 15.
    A Village Romeo and Juliet: Scene 4. "Ah, it was a dream!"
    4:05

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    A Village Romeo and Juliet: Scene 5. Prelude
    2:28
  2. 3.
    A Village Romeo and Juliet: Scene 5. "O Sali, see"
    1:44
  3. 4.
    A Village Romeo and Juliet: Scene 5. "Well, well, gracoius me"
    4:25
  4. 5.
    A Village Romeo and Juliet: Scene 5. "The Walk to the Paradise Garden"
    10:38
  5. 6.
    A Village Romeo and Juliet: Scene 6. "Dance along"
    2:00
  6. 7.
    A Village Romeo and Juliet: Scene 6. "So you want to know?"
    3:34
  7. 8.
    A Village Romeo and Juliet: Scene 6. "'Tis almost night"
    3:59
  8. 9.
    A Village Romeo and Juliet: Scene 6. "Come and live with us"
    3:02
  9. 10.
    A Village Romeo and Juliet: Scene 6. "Halleo! Halleo!"
    4:45
  10. 11.
    A Village Romeo and Juliet: Scene 6. "See, the moonbeams"
    5:34

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