22 used & new from $9.67

Have one to sell? Sell yours here
 
 
Delius: A Village Romeo and Juliet
 
Customer image from Luke Lovell
 

Delius: A Village Romeo and Juliet

Frederick Delius (Composer), Charles Mackerras (Conductor), ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra), Orf Choir and Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra), Andrea Mellis (Performer), Arthur Davies (Performer), Barry Mora (Performer), David McShane (Performer), Elizabeth Dobie (Performer), Helen Field (Performer), John Antoniou (Performer), Kimberly Barber (Performer), Maria Venuti (Performer), Pamela Mildenhall (Performer), Patricia Caya (Performer), Robert Lucien Demers (Performer), Samuel Linay (Performer), Sergio Lonbana (Performer), Stafford Dean (Performer), Thomas Hampson (Performer)
5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review) More about this product


Available from these sellers.


3 new from $98.40 18 used from $9.67 1 collectible from $119.99

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

Bernstein: A Quiet Place

Bernstein: A Quiet Place

~ Leonard Bernstein / Steohen Wadsworth
Debussy, Ravel: Orchestral Works

Debussy, Ravel: Orchestral Works

~ Claude Debussy
5.0 out of 5 stars (8)  $53.98
Wagner: The Great Operas from the Bayreuth Festival

Wagner: The Great Operas from the Bayreuth Festival

~ Richard Wagner
Explore similar items

Product Details

  • Performer: Andrea Mellis, Arthur Davies, Barry Mora, David McShane, Elizabeth Dobie, et al.
  • Orchestra: ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orf Choir and Symphony Orchestra
  • Conductor: Charles Mackerras
  • Composer: Frederick Delius
  • Audio CD (October 11, 1990)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Label: Polygram Records
  • ASIN: B00000E4LH
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #155,073 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

    Popular in this category: (What's this?)

    #50 in  Music > Classical > Featured Composers, A-Z > ( D ) > Delius, Frederick

Disc: 1
1. A Village Romeo & Juliet, lyric drama, RT i/6: Scene 1. Prelude
2. A Village Romeo & Juliet, lyric drama, RT i/6: Scene 1. A shame it is
3. A Village Romeo & Juliet, lyric drama, RT i/6: Scene 1. How strange the wind sounds
4. A Village Romeo & Juliet, lyric drama, RT i/6: Scene 1. Twixt us, methinks, will lie the bidding
5. A Village Romeo & Juliet, lyric drama, RT i/6: Scene 2. Prelude
6. A Village Romeo & Juliet, lyric drama, RT i/6: Scene 2. Vredi!... Sali!
7. A Village Romeo & Juliet, lyric drama, RT i/6: Scene 2. Interlude / Prelude to Scene 3
8. A Village Romeo & Juliet, lyric drama, RT i/6: Scene 3. I knew we'd meet again
9. A Village Romeo & Juliet, lyric drama, RT i/6: Scene 3. O Sali, I'm afraid
10. A Village Romeo & Juliet, lyric drama, RT i/6: Scene 3. Shameless hussy!
See all 15 tracks on this disc
Disc: 2
1. A Village Romeo & Juliet, lyric drama, RT i/6: Scene 5. Prelude
2. A Village Romeo & Juliet, lyric drama, RT i/6: Scene 5. O Sali, see
3. A Village Romeo & Juliet, lyric drama, RT i/6: Scene 5. Well, well, gracious me
4. A Village Romeo & Juliet, lyric drama, RT i/6: Scene 5. The Walk to the Paradise Garden
5. A Village Romeo & Juliet, lyric drama, RT i/6: Scene 6. Dance along
6. A Village Romeo & Juliet, lyric drama, RT i/6: Scene 6. So you want to know
7. A Village Romeo & Juliet, lyric drama, RT i/6: Scene 6. 'Tis almost night
8. A Village Romeo & Juliet, lyric drama, RT i/6: Scene 6. Come and live with us
9. A Village Romeo & Juliet, lyric drama, RT i/6: Scene 6. Halleo! Halleo!
10. A Village Romeo & Juliet, lyric drama, RT i/6: Scene 6. See, the moonbeams


Tag this product

 (What's this?)
Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items.
Your tags: Add your first tag
 

 

Customer Reviews

1 Review
5 star:
 (1)
4 star:    (0)
3 star:    (0)
2 star:    (0)
1 star:    (0)
 
 
 
 
 
Average Customer Review
5.0 out of 5 stars (1 customer review)
 
 
 
 
Share your thoughts with other customers:
Most Helpful Customer Reviews

 
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Review from The Financial Times, September 17, 2005
Sir Charles Mackerras's new recording of A Village Romeo and Juliet should do much to remove that lovely work from the ranks of 'operas for connoisseurs' and place it where it belongs, in the main repertory. In spite of his cosmopolitan-intellectual tastes and acquaintance, Delius was an intensely physical composer. With the partial exception of Fennimore and Gerda his operas work not by their appeal to the mind but by gut reaction. As in the Zurich production of 1980, which he conducted, Mackerras makes one feel the musculature below the covering of drenching beauty and sadness for things passing. He gives full value to the recurrent streak of popular vulgarity.

The set was made in Vienna, sung in English by mostly British soloists, with the Austrian Radio (ORF) Symphony Orchestra and Arnold-Schonberg Choir. As the lovers Sali and Vrenchen, kept apart by a family feud over a strip of waste-land outside their Swiss village, Arthur Davies and Helen Field sing freshly, youthfully and ardently, with the right feeling of pained innocence. The most unusual performance is the Dark Fiddler of Thomas Hampson. In adapting their libretto from Gottfried Keller's long short story, Delius and his wife Jelka watered down the realism, and with it the sinister side of the Fiddler's character. Hampson sings him strongly without attempting to suggest quaintness, and it works. Barry Mora and Stafford Dean do what can be done for the children's nasty, quarrelling fathers Marti and Manz. The off-stage boatmen in the final scene make a splendid sound. The chorus deals neatly with the folksy-fey la-las of the Fiddler's drop-out friends in the riverside scene. This is turn-of-the-century period stuff, somewhere between Stevensonian vagabondage and The Immortal Hour.

Small wonder Sali and Vrenchen decided not to join the drop-outs, who in any case reject them as being 'too respectable'. It is wide of the mark to regard the couple as working-class rebels. Their fathers are small landowners, petty bourgeois in their narrow-mindedness. Vrenchen cries over the disappearance (to pay lawyer's fees - that strip of disputed land) of home comforts. The two dream of a conventional wedding--a church, a priest, a choir, peals of bells. When they get to the fair, Vrenchen longs for cheap finery--consumer goods, in fact. It makes the upward transition to a poetic double death-wish rather too sudden. But when the moon floods the river landscape and the lovers step into the hay-barge, cast off and drift away to drown together, the outpouring of passionately lyrical music stills all objections. The orchestral playing here, and in the familiar Walk to the Paradise Garden interlude, is irresistibly eloquent.
Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)


Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
 
 
 
Only search this product's reviews



Customer Discussions

This product's forum
Discussion Replies Latest Post
No discussions yet

Ask questions, Share opinions, Gain insight
Start a new discussion
Topic:
First post:
Prompts for sign-in
 


Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
Search all Amazon discussions
   
Related forums




SoundUnwound Says...

A Village Romeo and Juliet (Arnold-Schönberg-Chor Wien & Orf Chor und Symphonieorchester feat. conductor: Sir Charles Mackerras) opens new browser window by Frederick Delius opens new browser window is mainly Opera and quite Classical”

Disagree? Cast your vote now! opens new browser window

Share your knowledge and explore the rest of the music world at SoundUnwound.com opens new browser window

SoundUnwound Logo

What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing This Item?

Delius: A Village Romeo and Juliet
86% buy the item featured on this page:
Delius: A Village Romeo and Juliet 5.0 out of 5 stars (1)
Delius: A Village Romeo and Juliet
6% buy
Delius: A Village Romeo and Juliet 5.0 out of 5 stars (4)


Look for Similar Items by Category


Look for Similar Items by Subject

Search Music by subject:





i.e., each title must be in subject 1 AND subject 2 AND ...
 

Feedback

If you need help or have a question for Customer Service, contact us.
 Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
Is there any other feedback you would like to provide?

Your comments can help make our site better for everyone.



Your Recent History

 (What's this?)

After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.