Hanson, H: Merry Mount, Op. 31 (2CD)

Howard Hanson: Merry Mount, Op. 31

Act I: Prelude

Act I: Be as a lion, dread Jehovah… From plots of Hell and witcheries (Puritans, Bradford, Bridget, Plentiful, Myles Brodrib, Tewke, Desire)

Act I: Ah - I deny thy Christ (Bradford, Banks, Tewke, Puritans)

Act I: A savoury discourse, good Master Bradford (Bradford, Tewke)

Act I: Last night came One that paced a-down the stairway of the sky (Bradford)

Act I: My son, Thou'rt over-ripe for marriage! (Tewke, Bradford)

Act I: The willow keep to thatch our sleep (Plentiful, Bradford)

Act I: Plentiful Tewke hath catched the preacher! (Love, Bradford, Peregrine Brodrib, Prence, Children)

Act I: Gi' you good night, sir… (Prence, Myles Brodrib, Marigold, Bradford, Tinker, Morton, Puritans, Cavaliers)

Act I: Scratch a Roundhead, find a rebel … Thrones of Earth be idle things (Prence, Scrooby, Tewke, Bradford, Puritans, Cavaliers)

Act I: Right rev'rend priest, our holy joy … Respect the Sabbath day (Prence, Scrooby, Tewke, Bradford, Puritans, Cavaliers)

Act I: Marigold! Lady! … Let us be lions of Jehovah (Bradford, Marigold, Lackland, Myles Brodrib, Tewke, Puritans, Cavaliers)

Act II Scene 1: Prelude - I wind and I wind, My true love to find (Men and Women)

Act II Scene 1: From forth the hill … I christen 'Merry Mount' - Maypole Dance (Lackland, Men and Women)

Act II Scene 1: Long Live the Lady (Men and Women)

Act II Scene 1: Marigold! When the morning stars together sang (Lackland, Marigold, Men and Women)

Act II Scene 1: Methinks I see th'infernal rendezvous of Satan and his bond-slaves (Bradford, Men and Women, Morton, Tewke, Puritans)

Act II Scene 2: O pity me! Thou alone of women Canst heal this tortured heart (Bradford, Marigold, Lackland, Tewke, Puritans)

Act II Scene 2: Let them strike twice, And I will come to thee! (Marigold)

Act II Scene 2: Hale her to the village, A prisoner… (Tewke, Bradford)

Act II Scene 2: Almighty Father, My King and my God (Bradford, Mystic Voices)

Act II Scene 2: Chorus of Mystic Voices

Act II Scene 3: Alleluia! Alleluia! (Bradford, Lucifer, Monsters, Witches and Demons)

Act II Scene 3: Now thou art mine (Lucifer, Monsters, Witches and Demons, Bradford)

Act II Scene 3: Rise up, my love my fair one (Bradford, Astoreth)

Act III Scene 1: Prelude

Act III Scene 2: Gird you with Sackcloth (Tewke, Puritans)

Act III Scene 2: Never more shall prayer ravish these lips!… (Bradford, Chorus)

Act III Scene 2: Woe, woe! Lost sheep are we (Puritans, Bradford, Myles Brodrib)

Act III Scene 2: No witch am I; But one that long ago was happy (Marigold)

Act III Scene 2: Ay, even now thy lover frets at Hellgate - Death to the Witch (Bradford, Marigold, Ensemble)







cast:
Lauren Flanigan, Walter MacNeil, Richard Zeller & Charles Robert Austin