Hugh the Drover

Album by Ralph Vaughan Williams & Sheila Armstrong & Helen Watts & Robert Tear & Robert Lloyd & Michael Rippon & Ambrosian Singers & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Sir Charles Groves

Hugh the Drover is an opera by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, first performed in 1924. The work mixes English folk-influenced melodies, colourful orchestration and straightforward lyric vocal writing within a pastoral, nationalist idiom, reflecting Vaughan Williams's interest in folk song and his efforts to bring vernacular English elements into his theatrical output.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Hugh the Drover: Act I, I. Buy, buy, buy
    4:38
  2. 2.
    Hugh the Drover: Act I, II. Cold blows the wind on Cotsall
    4:14
  3. 3.
    Hugh the Drover: Act I, III. As I was a-walking
    4:28
  4. 4.
    Hugh the Drover: Act I, IV. Show me a richer man
    2:45
  5. 5.
    Hugh the Drover: Act I, V. Here come the Morris men
    2:34
  6. 6.
    Hugh the Drover: Act I, VI. Life must be full of care
    4:15
  7. 7.
    Hugh the Drover: Act I, VII. Sweet little linnet that longs to be free
    3:05
  8. 8.
    Hugh the Drover: Act I, VIII. Horse-hoofs, horse-hoofs, thunder down the valleys
    6:12
  9. 9.
    Hugh the Drover: Act I, IX. In the night-time I have seen you riding
    4:23
  10. 10.
    Hugh the Drover: Act I, X. Mary! Mary!
    3:28
  11. 11.
    Hugh the Drover: Act I, XI. Oh! The devil and Bonyparty
    3:06
  12. 12.
    Hugh the Drover: Act I, XII. Yes, I!
    6:24
  13. 13.
    Hugh the Drover: Act I, XIII. Are you ready? Go!
    3:19
  14. 14.
    Hugh the Drover: Act I, XIV. The drover's won!
    1:50
  15. 15.
    Hugh the Drover: Act I, XV. I tell you there's a price on this man's head
    2:36

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Hugh the Drover: Act II, I. Past four o'clock
    3:46
  2. 3.
    Hugh the Drover: Act II, II. Gaily I go to die
    4:20
  3. 4.
    Hugh the Drover: Act II, III. Hugh!...Mary!
    8:51
  4. 5.
    Hugh the Drover: Act II, IV. Sweet little home
    3:28
  5. 6.
    Hugh the Drover: Act II, V. Where's she gone to?
    2:07
  6. 7.
    Hugh the Drover: Act II, VI. Here, queen uncrowned
    6:17
  7. 8.
    Hugh the Drover: Act II, VII. A trollop from the stocks
    4:39
  8. 9.
    Hugh the Drover: Act II, VIII. Dropped from the ranks on a winter's night
    2:57
  9. 10.
    Hugh the Drover: Act II, IX. March away, John!
    2:52
  10. 11.
    Hugh the Drover: Act II, X. O foolish girl, O radiant soul!
    3:17
  11. 12.
    Hugh the Drover: Act II, XI. Oh! the sky shall be our roof
    5:58

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