Volante Opera Productions Demo Cast Epic Scenes From The Silmarillion: Complete Demo CD

The comlplete set of Paul Corfield Godfrey's Epic Scenes from The Silmarillion after the mythology of JRR TolkienThese settings for soloists, chorus and orchestra survey the whole mythology of J R R Tolkien's writings on the First Age of Middle-Earth and beyond, using the author's own words with the kind permission of the Tolkien Estate and HarperCollins Publishers. As such it is the largest scale musical work ever written using Tolkien's texts, and is designed for performance over five evenings: Feanor, Beren and Luthien, The Children of Hurin, The Fall of Gondolin and The War of WrathThe scores were written over a period of forty years from 1981 and 2021 and this first complete performance by singers from Welsh National Opera (with an orchestra prepared from live samples) was recorded over a period of six years from 2017 to 2023. All five parts of the cycle are here included, together with the complete assembled texts and a guide to The Silmarillion summarising the plot as adapted in the epic scenes themselves.

1. Part One: Feanor: First Triptych 2. Part One: Feanor: Second Triptych / Third Triptych 3. Part Two: Beren and Luthien: First Triptych / Second Triptych 4. Part Two: Beren and Luthien: Second Triptych Cont. / Third Triptych 5. Part Three: The Children of Hurin: First Triptych / Second Triptych 6. Part Three: The Children of Hurin: Third Triptych 7. Part Four: The Fall of Gondolin: First Triptych 8. Part Four: The Fall of Gondolin: Second Triptych Cont. / Third Triptych 9. Part Five: The War of Wrath: First Triptych / Second Triptych 10. Part Five: The War of Wrath: Third Triptych