Chorus of Welsh National Opera, Kenneth Alwyn & Welsh National Opera Orchestra — Coleridge-Taylor: Hiawatha

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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s <i>The Song of Hiawatha</i> was so popular between the two world wars that it drew capacity crowds to London’s Royal Albert Hall to watch (and perform in) elaborate stagings of the work. This trilogy of choral cantatas, composed between 1898 and 1900, caught the drama of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s epic poem, based in part on legends told by the Ojibwe people, which Coleridge-Taylor conveyed through a montage of vibrant choruses and heart-on-sleeve solos. Kenneth Alwyn showed why <i>Hiawatha</i> was such a hit with the recording he made in January 1990 with Welsh National Opera and a superb solo team. The veteran conductor’s deep affection for Coleridge-Taylor and feel for his sumptuous tunes and bold romantic gestures propel a compelling performance in which WNO’s Chorus are quite simply sensational. Bryn Terfel, not long out of music college, is on commanding form, especially in <i>Hiawatha’s Departure</i>, although he’s outshone by lyric tenor Arthur Davies’ soaring delivery of “Onaway! Awake, Beloved”.

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Chorus of Welsh National Opera, Kenneth Alwyn & Welsh National Opera Orchestra

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  1. Hiawatha - Hiawatha's Wedding Feast: Introduction 0:51
  2. Hiawatha - Hiawatha's Wedding Feast: You Shall Hear How Pau-Puk-Keewis 4:40
  3. Hiawatha - Hiawatha's Wedding Feast: And When All the Guests Had Finished 3:56
  4. Hiawatha - Hiawatha's Wedding Feast: He Was Dressed in Shirt of Doe Skin 2:44
  5. Hiawatha - Hiawatha's Wedding Feast: First He Danced a Solemn Measure 2:58
  6. Hiawatha - Hiawatha's Wedding Feast: Then They Said to Chibiabos 4:04
  7. Hiawatha - Hiawatha's Wedding Feast: "Onaway! Awake, Beloved!" 5:47
  8. Hiawatha - Hiawatha's Wedding Feast: Thus the Gentle Chibiabos 1:20
  9. Hiawatha - Hiawatha's Wedding Feast: Very Boastful Was Iagoo 3:27
  10. Hiawatha - Hiawatha's Wedding Feast: And They Said "O Good Iagoo" 4:11
  11. Hiawatha - the Death of Minnehaha: Introduction 2:25
  12. Hiawatha - the Death of Minnehaha: O the Long and Dreary Winter! 4:24
  13. Hiawatha - the Death of Minnehaha: Into Hiawatha's Wigwam 3:13
  14. Hiawatha - the Death of Minnehaha: Forth Into the Empty Forest 5:28
  15. Hiawatha - the Death of Minnehaha: in the Wigwam With Nokomis 4:22
  16. Hiawatha - the Death of Minnehaha: Over Snow Fields Waste and Pathless 3:57
  17. Hiawatha - the Death of Minnehaha: And He Rushed Into the Wigwam 3:45
  18. Hiawatha - the Death of Minnehaha: Then They Buried Minnehaha 4:19
  19. Hiawatha - the Death of Minnehaha: "Farewell," Said He, "Minnehaha" 5:05
  20. Hiawatha - Hiawatha's Departure: Introduction 0:52
  21. Hiawatha - Hiawatha's Departure: Spring Had Come Wit All Its Splendour 2:39
  22. Hiawatha - Hiawatha's Departure: From His Wanderings Far to Eastward 3:39
  23. Hiawatha - Hiawatha's Departure: Only Hiawatha Laughed Not 6:33
  24. Hiawatha - Hiawatha's Departure: By the Shore of Gitche Gumee 2:47
  25. Hiawatha - Hiawatha's Departure: From the Brow of Hiawatha 2:38
  26. Hiawatha - Hiawatha's Departure: It Was Neither Goose Nor Diver 2:49
  27. Hiawatha - Hiawatha's Departure: Then the Joyous Hiawatha 4:23
  28. Hiawatha - Hiawatha's Departure: Then the Generous Hiawatha 3:41
  29. Hiawatha - Hiawatha's Departure: Then the Black-Robe Chief, and Prophet 3:43
  30. Hiawatha - Hiawatha's Departure: Heavy With the Heat and Silence 2:22
  31. Hiawatha - Hiawatha's Departure: From His Place Rose Hiawatha 4:17
  32. Hiawatha - Hiawatha's Departure: On the Shore Stood Hiawatha 3:34
  33. Hiawatha - Hiawatha's Departure: And They Said "Farewell for Ever" 4:07