Hyperion Records | Holst: Savitri

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CDH55042
(Originally issued on CDA66099)
Helios (Hyperion's budget label)

Buy? £6.99

Recording details: June 1983
Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel, Hampstead, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Mark Brown
Engineered by Antony Howell
Release date: June 2000
Total duration: 57 minutes 49 seconds
Available for download on iTunes: Yes

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GRAMOPHONE CRITICS' CHOICE

'This CD contains one of the masterpieces of British music of the last century ... Savitri deserves a place of honour on the shelf marked "British" (International Record Review)

'If you have not come across Holst’s Savitri, then I envy you the prospect of hearing this small miracle of a one-act opera for the first time. Fine performances make this a budget-price bargain' (Classic FM Magazine)

'An attractive disc' (BBC Music Magazine)

'A fine issue' (Hi-Fi News)

'Full, immediate recording' (The Daily Telegraph)

'Most vivid and sensitive performance' (Gramophone)

Gustav Holst (1874-1934)

Savitri

City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox (conductor)

		Savitri, H96 Op 25
1		Part 01: Savitri! Savitri! I am death [4:21] Felicity Palmer (mezzo-soprano), Stephen Varcoe (baritone)
2		Part 02: Greeting to thee, my loving Savitri! [1:58] Philip Langridge (tenor), Felicity Palmer (mezzo-soprano)
3		Part 03: The forest is to me a mirror wherein I see another world [1:30] Felicity Palmer (mezzo-soprano), Philip Langridge (tenor), The Richard Hickox Singers
4		Part 04: Love to the lover [0:43] Philip Langridge (tenor), The Richard Hickox Singers
5		Part 05: Once I knew maya [1:43] Felicity Palmer (mezzo-soprano), Philip Langridge (tenor)
6		Part 06: Savitri, Savitri! Mine arm is pow'rless [1:13] Philip Langridge (tenor), Felicity Palmer (mezzo-soprano)
7		Part 07: I am with thee; my arms are around thee [1:50] Felicity Palmer (mezzo-soprano)
8		Part 08: Savitri! Aah! All fades! Death is at my heart! [0:56] Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Felicity Palmer (mezzo-soprano)
9		Part 09: Welcome, Lord! Thou art called the Just One [1:14] Felicity Palmer (mezzo-soprano), The Richard Hickox Singers
10		Part 10: Thine is the holiness [1:50] Stephen Varcoe (baritone), The Richard Hickox Singers
11		Part 11: Then enter, Lord; dwell with me! [1:22] Felicity Palmer (mezzo-soprano), Stephen Varcoe (baritone), The Richard Hickox Singers
12		Part 12: Stay! Grant me this boon! [3:58] Felicity Palmer (mezzo-soprano), Stephen Varcoe (baritone), The Richard Hickox Singers
13		Part 13: Ah! Death, the Just One [2:49] Felicity Palmer (mezzo-soprano), The Richard Hickox Singers
14		Part 14: Loneliness and pain are ended [0:48] Felicity Palmer (mezzo-soprano)
15		Part 15: Savitri! Is it thou? [3:04] Philip Langridge (tenor), Felicity Palmer (mezzo-soprano), The Richard Hickox Singers
16		Part 16: Unto his kingdom Death wendeth alone [0:52] Stephen Varcoe (baritone)
17		Part 17: I am with thee, my arms around thee [1:12] Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Felicity Palmer (mezzo-soprano)
		The Dream-City
18		Part 01. No 1 of Twelve Songs, H174 Op 48: Persephone [1:30] Patrizia Kwella (soprano)
19		Part 02. No 2 of Twelve Songs, H174 Op 48: Things lovelier [1:32] Patrizia Kwella (soprano)
20		Part 03. No 3 of Twelve Songs, H174 Op 48: Now in these fairylands [1:18] Patrizia Kwella (soprano)
21		Part 04. No 4 of Twelve Songs, H174 Op 48: A Little Music [2:20] Patrizia Kwella (soprano)
22		Part 05. No 6 of Twelve Songs, H174 Op 48: The Floral Bandit [2:14] Patrizia Kwella (soprano)
23		Part 06. No 8 of Twelve Songs, H174 Op 48: The Dream-City [4:16] Patrizia Kwella (soprano)
24		Part 07. No 7 of Twelve Songs, H174 Op 48: Envoi [4:00] Patrizia Kwella (soprano)
25		Part 08. No 11 of Twelve Songs, H174 Op 48: Rhyme [1:38] Patrizia Kwella (soprano)
26		Part 09. No 9 of Twelve Songs, H174 Op 48: Journey's End [2:52] Patrizia Kwella (soprano)
27		Part 10. No 12 of Twelve Songs, H174 Op 48: Betelgeuse [4:46] Patrizia Kwella (soprano)