Smyth | Fête Galante
Music by Ethel Smyth | Libretto by Smyth and Edward Shanks based on Maurice Baring
Columbine | Charmain Bedford
The Queen | Carolyn Dobbin
Pierrot | Felix Kemp
The King | Simon Wallfisch
The Lover | Mark Milhofer
Harlequin | Alessandro Fisher
Lontano Ensemble
Conductor | Odaline de la Martinez
1 | Overture: Sarabande
2 | Musette
3 | Sarabande
4 | Fanfare
5 | Puppet Quartet
6 | Now see! The blossom
7 | Sir, we are not alone
8 | Oh! It is sweet to be alone
9 | Madrigal: Soul’s joy
10 | Lovers’ duet: Ah what madness
11 | Trio: Lovers in bliss
12 | Elsewhere, Madam, our guests expect you
13 | So Columbine has drawn her knife
14 | I too bid you speak
15 | Joy unbounded, to die for the Queen
16 | Revelry – Heigho!
17 | Chorus: Hushed is the world
Lehmann: The Happy Prince
Music by Liza Lehmann after the story by Oscar Wilde
Reciter | Felicity Lott
Piano | Valerie Langfield
18 | The Happy Prince
Remastered 1939 Recordings
Light Symphony Orchestra
Conductor | Sir Adrian Boult
19 | Smyth | Fete Galante – Sarabande & Musette
20 | Smyth | Boatswain’s Mate – The Keeper
21 | Smyth | Entente Cordiale – Two Interlinked French Folk Melodies