The Immortal Hour

Album by Rutland Boughton & Anne Dawson & Patricia Taylor & Maldwyn Davies & David Wilson‐Johnson & Roger Bryson & Roderick Kennedy & Geoffrey Mitchell Choir & English Chamber Orchestra & Alan G. Melville

The Immortal Hour is a music drama by English composer Rutland Boughton, first performed in 1914. Rooted in late-Romantic and pastoral idioms with strong Celtic and folk influences, the score employs modal harmonies, lush orchestration and choral textures to evoke a mythic atmosphere and occupies a central place in Boughton's output and the tradition of English mythic/folk-inspired opera.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 1 Scene 1 no. 1: Prelude
    2:05
  2. 2.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 1 Scene 1 no. 2: By dim moon-glimmering coasts and sad sea wastes (Dalua)
    1:30
  3. 3.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 1 Scene 1 no. 3: Though you have travelled from one darkness to another (Voices in the Wood/Dalua)
    2:40
  4. 4.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 1 Scene 1 no. 4: And if I tread the long, continuous way (Dalua/Voices in the Wood)
    1:24
  5. 5.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 1 Scene 1 no. 5: I have come hither, led by dreams and visions (Dalua/Voices in the Wood)
    1:49
  6. 6.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 1 Scene 1 no. 6: Hail, Son of Shadow! (Spirit Voice)
    2:14
  7. 7.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 1 Scene 1 no. 7: I am old; more old, more ancient than the gods (Dalua)
    1:17
  8. 8.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 1 Scene 1 no. 8: Brother and kin to all the twilit gods (Spirit Voice)
    2:17
  9. 9.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 1 Scene 1 no. 9: [The sound of mocking laughter is heard from the wood]
    1:27
  10. 10.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 1 Scene 1 no. 10: For Lu and Œngus laugh not (Dalua)
    2:57
  11. 11.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 1 Scene 1 no. 11: Fair is the moonlight (Etain)
    3:31
  12. 12.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 1 Scene 1 no. 12: Hail, daughter of kings (Dalua/Etain)
    1:36
  13. 13.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 1 Scene 1 no. 13: Have you forgot the delicate smiling land (Dalua)
    0:51
  14. 14.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 1 Scene 1 no. 14: I have forgotton all (Etain/Dalua)
    3:33
  15. 15.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 1 Scene 1 no. 15: A king of men has wooed the Immortal Hour (Dalua/Etain)
    3:26
  16. 16.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 1 Scene 1 no. 16: Led here by dreams (Dalua/Etain)
    3:44
  17. 17.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 1 Scene 1 no. 17: I will go back to the country of the young (Etain)
    0:39
  18. 18.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 1 Scene 1 no. 18: Sir, I am glad. I had not thought to see one here (Eochaidh/Dalua)
    2:50
  19. 19.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 1 Scene 1 no. 19: I have come to this lone wood (Dalua/Eochaidh)
    1:26
  20. 20.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 1 Scene 1 no. 20: Look, O king … I see a fountain (Dalua/Eochaidh)
    2:42
  21. 21.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 1 Scene 1 no. 21: There is no backward way for such as I (Eochaidh/Dalua)
    2:50
  22. 22.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 1 Scene 1 no. 22: I have heard you calling, Dalua (Eochaidh/Dalua)
    1:59
  23. 23.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 1 Scene 2 no. 1: I've seen that man before who came tonight (Manus/Maive)
    2:16
  24. 24.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 1 Scene 2 no. 2: Yes woman, yes, I know (Manus/Etain/Maive)
    3:06
  25. 25.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 1 Scene 2 no. 3: But sometimes. Tell me, have you heard (Etain/Manus/Maive/Eochaidh)
    1:22
  26. 26.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 1 Scene 2 no. 4: Good folk, I give you greeting (Eochaidh/Etain/Manus)
    1:38
  27. 27.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 1 Scene 2 no. 5: Good sir, brave Lord! (Maive/Manus/Eochaidh/Etain)
    3:19
  28. 28.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 1 Scene 2 no. 6: At last I know why dreams have led me hither (Eochaidh)
    1:44
  29. 29.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 1 Scene 2 no. 7: And your name, fair lord? (Etain/Eochaidh)
    1:54
  30. 30.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 1 Scene 2 no. 8: Truly, I now know full well (Eochaidh)
    2:28
  31. 31.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 1 Scene 2 no. 9: I, too, am lifted with the breath (Etain/Eochaidh)
    1:15
  32. 32.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 1 Scene 2 no. 10: Who laughed? (Eochaidh/Manus/Maive/Etain)
    0:39
  33. 33.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 1 Scene 2 no. 11: Dear lord, sit here (Etain/Eochaidh)
    1:35
  34. 34.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 1 Scene 2 no. 12: How beautiful they are (Spirit Voices)
    1:13

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 2 no. 1: By the voice in the corries (Druids)
    4:02
  2. 3.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 2 no. 2: The bells of youth are ringing (Maidens)
    1:32
  3. 4.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 2 no. 3: But this was in the old, far-off days (Warriors)
    1:55
  4. 5.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 2 no. 4: Hail, Eochaidh, high king of Eiré, hail! (Bards/Maidens/Warriors)
    1:54
  5. 6.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 2 no. 5: Green fire of joy, green fire of life
    1:46
  6. 7.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 2 no. 6: Etain, speak, my queen (Eochaidh/Etain)
    1:51
  7. 8.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 2 no. 7: No, no my queen (Eochaidh)
    2:33
  8. 9.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 2 no. 8: I, too, have heard strange delicate music (Etain)
    1:15
  9. 10.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 2 no. 9: The queen! (Warriors/Maidens/Druids)
    3:04
  10. 11.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 2 no. 10: Hail, Eochaidh, King of Eiré! (Midir/Eochaidh)
    1:52
  11. 12.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 2 no. 11: I am a king's first son (Midir)
    1:50
  12. 13.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 2 no. 12: Dagda, lord of thunder and silence (Druids)
    0:42
  13. 14.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 2 no. 13: Fair lord, my thanks I give (Eochaidh/Midir)
    1:27
  14. 15.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 2 no. 14: Have not great poets sung (Midir/Eochaidh)
    1:13
  15. 16.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 2 no. 15: in the days of the Great Fires (Midir)
    3:09
  16. 17.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 2 no. 16: Hear us, Œngus, beautiful, terrible, sun-lord (Eochaidh)
    1:03
  17. 18.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 2 no. 17: But now, fair lord, tell me the boon you crave (Eochaidh/Midir)
    2:06
  18. 19.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 2 no. 18: I have seen all things pass and all things go (Old Bard)
    2:25
  19. 20.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 2 no. 19: Welcome my queen (Eochaidh/Etain)
    1:46
  20. 21.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 2 no. 20: This nameless lord (Eochaidh/Etain)
    2:31
  21. 22.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 2 no. 21: How beautiful they are (Midir)
    1:25
  22. 23.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 2 no. 22: I have heard, I have dreamed that song (Etain)
    1:47
  23. 24.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 2 no. 23: I am a song in the land of the young (Midir)
    3:12
  24. 25.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 2 no. 24: I am a small green leaf in a great wood (Etain/Eochaidh/Midir)
    2:15
  25. 26.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 2 no. 25: O do not leave me, Star of my Desire! (Eochaidh)
    0:40
  26. 27.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 2 no. 26: Hasten, lost love, found love! (Midir/Etain)
    1:08
  27. 28.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 2 no. 27: in the land of youth there are pleasant places (Spirit Voices)
    1:12
  28. 29.
    The Immortal Hour: Act 2 no. 28: My dreams! My dreams! (Eochaidh/Spirit Voices)
    1:11

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