HANSON: Merry Mount

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Merry Mount, Op. 31 (more info)
Performed by: Seattle Symphony Orchestra
Composed by: Howard Hanson
Conducted by: Gerard Schwarz
Rosy Freudenstein, alto
Fred K. Dent, baritone
Lauren Flanigan, soprano
Gino Luchetti, tenor
Byron Ellis, bass-baritone
Nan Beth Walton, alto
Charles Robert Austin, bass
Daniel Jessup, bass
Paul Gudas, tenor
Louise Marley, mezzo-soprano
Christopher Bristol, tenor
Diana Huber, soprano
Richard Zeller, baritone
Joachim Schneider, baritone
Gene Buchholz, bass
Walter MacNeil, tenor
Barry Johnson, baritone
Recording date: 28-29 October 1996
Produced by: Stern, Adam


1.   Act I: Prelude - 03:01
2.   Act I: Be as a lion, dread Jehovah... From plots of Hell and witcheries (Puritans, Bradford, Bridget, Plentiful, Myles Brodrib, Tewke, Desire) - 08:09
3.   Act I: Ah - I deny thy Christ (Bradford, Banks, Tewke, Puritans) - 03:51
4.   Act I: A savoury discourse, good Master Bradford (Bradford, Tewke) - 02:49
5.   Act I: Last night came One that paced a-down the stairway of the sky (Bradford) - 02:37
6.   Act I: My son, Thou'rt over-ripe for marriage! (Tewke, Bradford) - 01:44
7.   Act I: The willow keep to thatch our sleep (Plentiful, Bradford) - 03:42
8.   Act I: Plentiful Tewke hath catched the preacher! (Love, Bradford, Peregrine Brodrib, Prence, Children) - 04:48
9.   Act I: Gi' you good night, sir... (Prence, Myles Brodrib, Marigold, Bradford, Tinker, Morton, Puritans, Cavaliers) - 04:59
10.   Act I: Scratch a Roundhead, find a rebel ... Thrones of Earth be idle things (Prence, Scrooby, Tewke, Bradford, Puritans, Cavaliers) - 02:15
11.   Act I: Right rev'rend priest, our holy joy ... Respect the Sabbath day (Prence, Scrooby, Tewke, Bradford, Puritans, Cavaliers) - 02:41
12.   Act I: Marigold! Lady! ... Let us be lions of Jehovah (Bradford, Marigold, Lackland, Myles Brodrib, Tewke, Puritans, Cavaliers) - 04:37

Merry Mount, Op. 31 (more info)
Performed by: Seattle Symphony Orchestra
Composed by: Howard Hanson
Conducted by: Gerard Schwarz
Rosy Freudenstein, alto
Fred K. Dent, baritone
Lauren Flanigan, soprano
Gino Luchetti, tenor
Byron Ellis, bass-baritone
Nan Beth Walton, alto
Charles Robert Austin, bass
Daniel Jessup, bass
Paul Gudas, tenor
Louise Marley, mezzo-soprano
Christopher Bristol, tenor
Diana Huber, soprano
Richard Zeller, baritone
Joachim Schneider, baritone
Gene Buchholz, bass
Walter MacNeil, tenor
Barry Johnson, baritone
Recording date: 28-29 October 1996
Produced by: Stern, Adam


1.   Act II Scene 1: Prelude - I wind and I wind, My true love to find (Men and Women) - 03:48
2.   Act II Scene 1: From forth the hill ... I christen 'Merry Mount' - Maypole Dance (Lackland, Men and Women) - 03:56
3.   Act II Scene 1: Long Live the Lady (Men and Women) - 00:53
4.   Act II Scene 1: Marigold! When the morning stars together sang (Lackland, Marigold, Men and Women) - 04:23
5.   Act II Scene 1: Methinks I see th'infernal rendezvous of Satan and his bond-slaves (Bradford, Men and Women, Morton, Tewke, Puritans) - 06:36
6.   Act II Scene 2: O pity me! Thou alone of women Canst heal this tortured heart (Bradford, Marigold, Lackland, Tewke, Puritans) - 03:05
7.   Act II Scene 2: Let them strike twice, And I will come to thee! (Marigold) - 02:38
8.   Act II Scene 2: Hale her to the village, A prisoner... (Tewke, Bradford) - 00:40
9.   Act II Scene 2: Almighty Father, My King and my God (Bradford, Mystic Voices) - 03:11
10.   Act II Scene 2: Chorus of Mystic Voices - 03:11
11.   Act II Scene 3: Alleluia! Alleluia! (Bradford, Lucifer, Monsters, Witches and Demons) - 14:23
12.   Act II Scene 3: Now thou art mine (Lucifer, Monsters, Witches and Demons, Bradford) - 01:47
13.   Act II Scene 3: Rise up, my love my fair one (Bradford, Astoreth) - 04:33
14.   Act III Scene 1: Prelude - 07:30
15.   Act III Scene 2: Gird you with Sackcloth (Tewke, Puritans) - 02:56
16.   Act III Scene 2: Never more shall prayer ravish these lips!... (Bradford, Chorus) - 03:37
17.   Act III Scene 2: Woe, woe! Lost sheep are we (Puritans, Bradford, Myles Brodrib) - 01:47
18.   Act III Scene 2: No witch am I; But one that long ago was happy (Marigold) - 04:31
19.   Act III Scene 2: Ay, even now thy lover frets at Hellgate - Death to the Witch (Bradford, Marigold, Ensemble) - 05:23

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