Smyth | The Wreckers
Music by Ethel Smyth | Libretto by Ethel Smyth, after Henry Brewster
Pascoe | Peter Sidhom
Lawrence | David Wilson-Johnson
Harvey | Brian Bannatyne-Scott
Tallan | Anthony Roden
Jack | Annemarie Sand
Mark | Justin Lavender
Thirza | Anne-Marie Owens
Avis | Judith Howarth
A Man | Brian Bannatyne-Scott
Huddersfield Choral Society
Chorus Master | Jonathan Grieves-Smith
BBC Philharmonic
Conductor | Odaline de la Martinez
CD 1
ACT I
1 | Prelude
Scene 1
1 | God’s Chosen People shall not pay the price of sin!
2 | God be thanked!
Scene 2
3 | Well may such as ye hang your heads in shame
4 | Hear then, our nets are empty
Scene 3
5 | Did the prophet say that God in his anger
Scene 4
6 | Here comes Thirza to join in our prayers
7 | Tell me comrade, have you a clue, or was it fancy?
Scene 5
8 | The wind is cold, the sky is sad
8 | Take heed, Mark, and remember the wise old saw
Scene 6
9 | Ha! Ha! Ha! The rat’s in sight!
Scene 7
10 | ’Tis she! Ah! She is wearing his flower!
11 | O Love! Love, o thou shaft of gold
Scene 8
12 | Yonder lies the house of God!
Scene 9
13 | I thought to have found you in the chapel
14 | These are the words of one distraught
Scene 10
15 | Ah! Thus should the Word be preached!
Scene 11
16 | The traitor is Pascoe!
CD 2
ACT II
1 | Prelude ‛On the Cliffs of Cornwall’
Scene 1
2 | Stop, knave!
Scene 2
3 | When wilt thou give me peace from vain desire
Scene 3
4 | Mark! Not tonight! Light not the fire!
5 | Mark! You know not what wind blew me hither
6 | To love is to die and new to awaken
7 | Thirza, is it true? So dearly you love me?
8 | That ship be our fate! Dead soul awaken!
ACT III
Scene 1
9 | Naught, and ever naught! Yes! Our fortune fails us
10 | Pray God for guidance and light
11 | This man betrayed his flock at the order of one who hates us
Scene 2
12 | Stay! I, Mark, am the betrayer!
13 | Hark the rising tide
14 | Closed is the court and sealed is the doom