Hyperion Records | Bliss: Rout & Rhapsody

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CDA66137
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Recording details: February 1984
Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel, Hampstead, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Andrew Keener
Engineered by Antony Howell
Release date: December 1988
Total duration: 62 minutes 5 seconds

'Performances are outstanding... beautifully recorded' (The Monthly Guide to Recorded Music)

'Brilliantly inventive pieces... unalloyed pleasures. Indispensable' (The Daily Telegraph)

'Bliss at his very best … A lovely disc - and eminently well engineered too. It can be warmly recommended even to those who do not normally admire this composer' (Penguin Guide to Compact Discs)

Sir Arthur Bliss (1891-1975)

Rout & Rhapsody

The Nash Ensemble, Lionel Friend (conductor)

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1		Rout [7'29] Elizabeth Gale (soprano)
2		Rhapsody [7'43] Elizabeth Gale (soprano), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor)
		Conversations
3		Movement 1: The committee meeting [1'12]
4		Movement 2: In the wood [2'33]
5		Movement 3: In the ballroom [2'28]
6		Movement 4: Soliloquy [2'10]
7		Movement 5: In the tube at Oxford Circus [5'04]
8		Madam Noy [3'55] Elizabeth Gale (soprano)
		The Women of Yueh
9		No 1: She is a southern girl of Chang-kan Town [2'08] Elizabeth Gale (soprano)
10		No 2: Many a girl of the south is white and lucent [0'59] Elizabeth Gale (soprano)
11		No 3: She is gathering lotus buds in the river of Yeh [1'51] Elizabeth Gale (soprano)
12		No 4: She, a Tung-yang girl, stands barefoot in the bank [1'16] Elizabeth Gale (soprano)
13		No 5: The water in the mirror lake [1'29] Elizabeth Gale (soprano)
		Quintet for oboe and string quartet
14		Movement 1: Assai sostenuto. Moderato. Allegro assai agitato. molto meno mosso [8'08]
15		Movement 2: Andante con moto. Allegro moderato. Tempo I, ma poco agitato [7'51]
16		Movement 3: Vivace [5'49]