Riders to the Sea / Epithalamion / Merciless Beauty

Album by Ralph Vaughan Williams & Philip Langridge & Meredith Davies & Sir David Willcocks

Riders to the Sea / Epithalamion / Merciless Beauty is a compilation album featuring works by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, released in 1971. The album showcases Vaughan Williams' versatility, encompassing the tragic opera 'Riders to the Sea', the celebratory cantata 'Epithalamion', and the lyrical song cycle 'Merciless Beauty'.

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Riders to the Sea: Where is she?
    6:17
  2. 2.
    Riders to the Sea: Where is the bit of new rope
    7:00
  3. 3.
    Riders to the Sea: Wait, Nora
    3:38
  4. 4.
    Riders to the Sea: You didn't give him his bit of bread?
    5:40
  5. 5.
    Riders to the Sea: Bartley will be lost now
    4:15
  6. 6.
    Riders to the Sea: They are all gone now
    9:36
  7. 7.
    Merciless Beauty: I. Your eyen two
    2:33
  8. 8.
    Merciless Beauty: II. So hath your beauty
    2:39
  9. 9.
    Merciless Beauty: III. Since I from Love
    1:21
  10. 10.
    Epithalamion: I. Prologue
    3:05
  11. 11.
    Epithalamion: II. Wake now
    2:39
  12. 12.
    Epithalamion: III. The Calling of the Bride
    2:26
  13. 13.
    Epithalamion: IV. The Minstrels
    1:39
  14. 14.
    Epithalamion: V. Procession of the Bride
    2:23
  15. 15.
    Epithalamion: VI. The Temple Gates
    3:41
  16. 16.
    Epithalamion: VII. The Bell Ringers
    1:45
  17. 17.
    Epithalamion: VIII. The Lover's Song
    5:54
  18. 18.
    Epithalamion: IX. The Minstrel's Song
    3:25
  19. 19.
    Epithalamion: X. Song of the Winged Loves
    1:03
  20. 20.
    Epithalamion: XI. Prayer to Juno
    4:12

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