Macfarren / Spence / Voco / Hulbert Robin Hood CD

George Macfarren was considered by many of his contemporaries as the greatest British dramatic opera composer since Purcell. Described by Edward J Dent as 'very full of good fun and on the way to Sullivan', Robin Hood is Macfarren' masterpiece.

1. Overture 2. Act I: Introduction: Clang! Clang! It Is a Merry (Chorus) 3. Act I: Ballad: The Hunters Wake (Alice, Chorus) 4. Act I: Duet: When Lovers Are Parted (Robin, Marian) 5. Act I: Trio: A Dark and Troublous Time (Robin, Marian, Sheriff) 6. Act I: Ballad: True Love (Marian) 7. Act I: Scena and Song: The Monk Within His Cell (Sompnour) 8. Act I: Scena and Song: Be Not Severe (Allan, Robin, Chorus) 9. Act I: Ballad: Englishmen By Birth (Robin) 10. Act I: Finale: May the Saints Protect 11. Act II Scene 1: Entr'acte 12. Act II Scene 1: Part Song: The Wood, the Wood (Outlaws) 13. Act II Scene 1: Robbery Scene: A Good Fat Deer (Robin, Much, John, Sompnour) 14. Act II Scene 1: Ballad: The Grasping Normans (Robin, Greenwood Men) 15. Act II Scene 2: Scena: Hail Happy Morn (Marian) 16. Act II Scene 2: Ballad: From Childhood's Dawn (Sheriff) 17. Act II Scene 2: Duet: To the Fair (Marian, Alice) 18. Act II Scene 3: Chorus: How Bright Is the Day (Allan, Alice, Robin, Marian) 19. Act II Scene 3: Dances: Round Dance and Tilting at the Quintain 20. Act II Scece 3: Scena: Hoodman Blind (Villagers) 21. Act II Scene 3: Song: My Own, My Guiding Star (Robin) 22. Act II Scene 3: Ensemble: Merry Laughter (Sheriff, Marian, Alice, Allan, Company) 23. Act II Scene 3: Quintet: My Heart from It's Terror (Marian, Alice, Robin, Allan, Sheriff) 24. Act II Scene 3: Finale: My Children Thus Your Lives (Sheriff, Company) 25. Act III Scene 1: Entr'acte 26. Act III Scene 1: Duet: Greatest Plague on Earth (Allan, Alice) 27. Act III Scene 1: Scena: My Child Has Fled (Sheriff) 28. Act III Scene 1: Duet: To King Richard at Once (Sheriff, Sompnour) 29. Act III Scene 2: Part Song: Now the Sun Has Mounted (Citizens) 30. Act III Scene 2: Song: Sons of the Greenwood (Marian, Greenwood Men) 31. Act III Scene 3: Scena: Vain Was the Proud Ambition (Robin, Marian, Chorus) 32. Act III Scene 4: Finale: Hark, to That Doleful Bell (Full Company) 33. Act III Scene 4: Finale Ultimo: We've Made a Slight Mistake (Full Company)