The Pilgrim's Progress

Album by Ralph Vaughan Williams & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden & Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden & Richard Hickox & Gerald Finley

The Pilgrim's Progress is an opera by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, premiered in 1951. The score employs a late-period English tonal and modal idiom with hymn-like choruses, pastoral orchestration and episodic dramatic scenes, and it occupies a place as one of Vaughan Williams's major late-stage vocal works in his catalogue.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    The Pilgrim’s Progress: Prologue. Bunyan in Prison
    3:43
  2. 2.
    The Pilgrim’s Progress: Act I, Scene 1. The Pilgrim Meets Evangelist
    10:38
  3. 3.
    The Pilgrim’s Progress: Act I, Scene 2. The House Beautiful
    14:38
  4. 4.
    The Pilgrim’s Progress: Act I. Nocturne (Intermezzo)
    8:26
  5. 5.
    The Pilgrim’s Progress: Act II, Scene 1. The Arming of the Pilgrim
    9:26
  6. 6.
    The Pilgrim’s Progress: Act II, Scene 2. The Pilgrim Meets Apollyon
    13:48

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    The Pilgrim’s Progress: Act III, Scene 1. Vanity Fair. "Buy! What will ye buy!" (Chorus of Traders)
    7:23
  2. 3.
    The Pilgrim’s Progress: Act III, Scene 1. Vanity Fair. "I buy the truth!" (Pilgrim)
    11:16
  3. 4.
    The Pilgrim’s Progress: Act III, Scene 2. The Pilgrim in Prison
    11:37
  4. 5.
    The Pilgrim’s Progress: Act IV, Scene 1. The Pilgrim Meets Mr By-Ends
    11:21
  5. 6.
    The Pilgrim’s Progress: Act IV. Entr'acte
    2:42
  6. 7.
    The Pilgrim’s Progress: Act IV, Scene 2. The Shepherds of the Delectable Mountains. "Who so dwelleth…" (First Shepherd)
    8:14
  7. 8.
    The Pilgrim’s Progress: Act IV, Scene 2. The Shepherds of the Delectable Mountains. "The Lord is my Shepherd" (Voice of a Bird)
    10:23
  8. 9.
    The Pilgrim’s Progress: Act IV, Scene 3. The Pilgrim Reaches the End of His Journey
    3:35
  9. 10.
    The Pilgrim’s Progress: Epilogue
    3:20

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