Zeb Soanes, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia & Jamie Phillips – Delius: Hassan – complete incidental music (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Zeb Soanes, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia & Jamie Phillips – Delius: Hassan – complete incidental music (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:20:25 minutes | 1,21 GB | Genre: Classical
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Although he had initially declined the commission, Delius was persuaded to write the incidental music for Hassan by the actor and director Basil Dean, in July 1920, for performances he was planning for His Majesty’s Theatre, London, the following year. Much of the music was drafted within a few weeks, and the score would eventually prove one of the greatest successes of Delius’s career. Dean’s plans for the project encountered significant obstacles and delays, however, and he had to commission additional music from Delius to cover the production’s complex scene changes. The London première eventually took place on 20 September 1923 and was a critical sensation. Flecker’s play is a sinuous double-narrative that intertwines the twin stories of the lovelorn but worldly wise Hassan, confectioner at the court of the cruel and vindictive Caliph Haroun al Rashid (called Haroun ar Rashid in Flecker’s play), and the young lovers Pervaneh and Rafi, caught up in the aftermath of a failed uprising and condemned to a terrifying and brutally protracted death. In tone and setting, Flecker’s text drew on nineteenth-century English translations of One Thousand and One Nights as well as other heavily fictionalised accounts and travel literature. Very much a product of the racial and class-based attitudes of its time, the play revels in imaginary scenes of a despotic Eastern.

Tracklist:
1. Zeb Soanes, Frederick Long, Ruairi Bowen, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia & Jamie Phillips – Hassan, DCW 8, Act 1 Scene 1: Prelude. Slow – Quietly but expressively (04:22)
2. Zeb Soanes, Frederick Long, Ruairi Bowen, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia & Jamie Phillips – Hassan, DCW 8, Act 1 Scene 1: We are in old Baghdad (Narrator) (02:29)
3. Zeb Soanes, Frederick Long, Ruairi Bowen, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia & Jamie Phillips – Hassan, DCW 8, Act 1 Scenes 1 & 2: Interlude between (01:50)
4. Zeb Soanes, Frederick Long, Ruairi Bowen, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia & Jamie Phillips – Hassan, DCW 8, Act 1 Scene 2: Moonlight. The street of Felicity, by the fountain of the two pigeons, in from of the house (00:26)
5. Zeb Soanes, Frederick Long, Ruairi Bowen, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia & Jamie Phillips – Hassan, DCW 8, Act 1 Scene 2: It is later that night (Narrator) (00:57)
6. Zeb Soanes, Frederick Long, Ruairi Bowen, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia & Jamie Phillips – Hassan, DCW 8, Act 1 Scene 2: Serenade. Con moto moderato (01:49)
7. Zeb Soanes, Frederick Long, Ruairi Bowen, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia & Jamie Phillips – Hassan, DCW 8, Act 1 Scene 2: The shutters open, and Yasmin appears (Narrator) (02:26)
8. Zeb Soanes, Frederick Long, Ruairi Bowen, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia & Jamie Phillips – Hassan, DCW 8, Act 1 Scene 2: Melos. Hassan falls under the shadow of the fountain. The first light of dawn shines in the sky. Very quietly (00:52)
9. Zeb Soanes, Frederick Long, Ruairi Bowen, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia & Jamie Phillips – Hassan, DCW 8, Act 1 Scene 2: Chorus behind the scenes. Not too slow (02:08)
10. Zeb Soanes, Frederick Long, Ruairi Bowen, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia & Jamie Phillips – Hassan, DCW 8, Act 1 Scene 2: The first light of dawn shines in the sky (Narrator) (01:27)
11. Zeb Soanes, Frederick Long, Ruairi Bowen, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia & Jamie Phillips – Hassan, DCW 8, Act 2 Scene 1: Prelude. With animation (00:50)
12. Zeb Soanes, Frederick Long, Ruairi Bowen, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia & Jamie Phillips – Hassan, DCW 8, Act 2 Scene 1: The filthy, inanimate bulk of Hassan… (Narrator) (00:37)
13. Zeb Soanes, Frederick Long, Ruairi Bowen, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia & Jamie Phillips – Hassan, DCW 8, Act 2 Scene 1: Fanfare preceding the Ballet (Gaily, outside) (00:08)
14. Zeb Soanes, Frederick Long, Ruairi Bowen, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia & Jamie Phillips – Hassan, DCW 8, Act 2 Scene 1: No. 1, Dance of the Beggars. There enters the most awful selection of Eastern beggars the eye could imagine. Quick and vigorously (01:20)
15. Zeb Soanes, Frederick Long, Ruairi Bowen, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia & Jamie Phillips – Hassan, DCW 8, Act 2 Scene 1: And then, after the Beggars (Narrator) (00:06)
16. Zeb Soanes, Frederick Long, Ruairi Bowen, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia & Jamie Phillips – Hassan, DCW 8, Act 2 Scene 1: No. 2, Chorus of Women. (Enter a band of fair and dusky beauties.) Quietly (02:22)
17. Zeb Soanes, Frederick Long, Ruairi Bowen, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia & Jamie Phillips – Hassan, DCW 8, Act 2 Scene 1: No. 3, Divertissement. Con moto (02:27)
18. Zeb Soanes, Frederick Long, Ruairi Bowen, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia & Jamie Phillips – Hassan, DCW 8, Act 2 Scene 1: Rafi is then announced as The King of the Beggars (Narrator) (00:58)
19. Zeb Soanes, Frederick Long, Ruairi Bowen, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia & Jamie Phillips – Hassan, DCW 8, Act 2 Scene 1: No. 4, General Dance. Andante moderato – Allegro – Più mosso (02:53)
20. Zeb Soanes, Frederick Long, Ruairi Bowen, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia & Jamie Phillips – Hassan, DCW 8, Act 2 Scene 1: Rafi is asked why he hates the Caliph so (Narrator) (00:46)
21. Zeb Soanes, Frederick Long, Ruairi Bowen, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia & Jamie Phillips – Hassan, DCW 8, Act 2 Scene 1: Chorus of Beggars and Dancing Girls (from behind the scene, after the descent of the iron curtain). Comodo (01:21)
22. Zeb Soanes, Frederick Long, Ruairi Bowen, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia & Jamie Phillips – Hassan, DCW 8, Act 2 Scene 1: This House of the Moving Walls… (Narrator) (00:50)
23. Zeb Soanes, Frederick Long, Ruairi Bowen, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia & Jamie Phillips – Hassan, DCW 8, Act 2 Scene 2: The Street of Felicity. Very quietly (00:38)
24. Zeb Soanes, Frederick Long, Ruairi Bowen, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia & Jamie Phillips – Hassan, DCW 8, Act 2 Scene 2: The SOS message has fallen from the balcony… (Narrator) (01:11)
25. Zeb Soanes, Frederick Long, Ruairi Bowen, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia & Jamie Phillips – Hassan, DCW 8, Act 2 Scene 2: Music accompanying Ishak’s poem. Not too slow (01:32)
26. Zeb Soanes, Frederick Long, Ruairi Bowen, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia & Jamie Phillips – Hassan, DCW 8, Act 2 Scene 2: Yasmin’s regard for Hassan has instantly shifted (Narrator) (00:39)
27. Zeb Soanes, Frederick Long, Ruairi Bowen, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia & Jamie Phillips – Hassan, DCW 8, Act 3 Scene 1: Prelude. Moderato – Slower (01:33)
28. Zeb Soanes, Frederick Long, Ruairi Bowen, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia & Jamie Phillips – Hassan, DCW 8, Act 3 Scene 1: Curtain (00:43)
29. Zeb Soanes, Frederick Long, Ruairi Bowen, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia & Jamie Phillips – Hassan, DCW 8, Act 3 Scene 1: Hassan is installed at the Caliph’s Palace (Narrator) (00:26)
30. Zeb Soanes, Frederick Long, Ruairi Bowen, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia & Jamie Phillips – Hassan, DCW 8, Act 3 Scene 1: Interlude between Scenes 1 and 2. Very quietly – Slow (01:43)
31. Zeb Soanes, Frederick Long, Ruairi Bowen, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia & Jamie Phillips – Hassan, DCW 8, Act 3 Scene 1: The slaves inform Hassan that there is a beautiful lady… (Narrator) (01:05)
32. Zeb Soanes, Frederick Long, Ruairi Bowen, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia & Jamie Phillips – Hassan, DCW 8, Act 3 Scene 2: The great Hall of the Palace. With vigour – Quieter (02:26)
33. Zeb Soanes, Frederick Long, Ruairi Bowen, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia & Jamie Phillips – Hassan, DCW 8, Act 3 Scene 2: We are in the Great Hall of the Caliph’s Palace (Narrator) (01:00)
34. Zeb Soanes, Frederick Long, Ruairi Bowen, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia & Jamie Phillips – Hassan, DCW 8, Act 3 Scene 2: Fanfares, in the great Hall of the Palace (00:11)
35. Zeb Soanes, Frederick Long, Ruairi Bowen, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia & Jamie Phillips – Hassan, DCW 8, Act 3 Scene 2: As more and more people gather… (Narrator) (00:29)
36. Zeb Soanes, Frederick Long, Ruairi Bowen, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia & Jamie Phillips – Hassan, DCW 8, Act 3 Scene 2: Entry of the Caliph. Pompously (00:17)
37. Zeb Soanes, Frederick Long, Ruairi Bowen, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia & Jamie Phillips – Hassan, DCW 8, Act 3 Scene 2: The Caliph declares the trial of the beggars open (Narrator) (00:09)
38. Zeb Soanes, Frederick Long, Ruairi Bowen, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia & Jamie Phillips – Hassan, DCW 8, Act 3 Scene 2: Fanfares (00:21)
39. Zeb Soanes, Frederick Long, Ruairi Bowen, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia & Jamie Phillips – Hassan, DCW 8, Act 3 Scene 2: Then Rafi, King of the Beggars, is summoned (Narrator) (01:17)
40. Zeb Soanes, Frederick Long, Ruairi Bowen, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia & Jamie Phillips – Hassan, DCW 8, Act 4 Scene 1: Prelude. Slow – Passionately (04:14)
41. Zeb Soanes, Frederick Long, Ruairi Bowen, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia & Jamie Phillips – Hassan, DCW 8, Act 4 Scene 1: In the Palace’s dark vaults (Narrator) (00:26)
42. Zeb Soanes, Frederick Long, Ruairi Bowen, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia & Jamie Phillips – Hassan, DCW 8, Act 4 Scenes 1 & 2: Interlude between Scenes 1 and 2. Slow and ponderously (01:57)
43. Zeb Soanes, Frederick Long, Ruairi Bowen, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia & Jamie Phillips – Hassan, DCW 8, Act 4 Scene 2: Sunlight streams through the cell’s grating (Narrator) (01:14)
44. Zeb Soanes, Frederick Long, Ruairi Bowen, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia & Jamie Phillips – Hassan, DCW 8, Act 5 Scene 1: Prelude. Quick – Slower, softer – Not too quick – Curtain. The Garden of the Caliph’s Palace, in front of a pavilion. Sunset. Quietly – Enter the Caliph with attendants as Hassan comes from his Pavilion (02:29)
45. Zeb Soanes, Frederick Long, Ruairi Bowen, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia & Jamie Phillips – Hassan, DCW 8, Act 5 Scene 1: The song of the Muezzin at sunset (01:08)
46. Zeb Soanes, Frederick Long, Ruairi Bowen, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia & Jamie Phillips – Hassan, DCW 8, Act 5 Scene 1: With another sunset approaching (Narrator) (01:51)
47. Zeb Soanes, Frederick Long, Ruairi Bowen, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia & Jamie Phillips – Hassan, DCW 8, Act 5 Scene 1: The Procession of Protracted Death. March tempo (02:53)
48. Zeb Soanes, Frederick Long, Ruairi Bowen, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia & Jamie Phillips – Hassan, DCW 8, Act 5 Scene 1: The long, dreadful execution ensues… (Narrator) (01:29)
49. Zeb Soanes, Frederick Long, Ruairi Bowen, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia & Jamie Phillips – Hassan, DCW 8, Act 5 Scene 2: Prelude to the last scene. With flowing movement (03:03)
50. Zeb Soanes, Frederick Long, Ruairi Bowen, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia & Jamie Phillips – Hassan, DCW 8, Act 5 Scene 2: Closing Scene. Slow – (The Caravan recedes farther and farther into the distance.) – (Dying away in the distance) (10:16)

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