Help
Skip to main content
Basket 0 items, $0.00

Special offer. German: Tom Jones

Marianne Hellgren Staykov, Richard Morrison, Heather Shipp, Donald Maxwell, Simon Butteriss, Richard Suart, Gaynor Keeble & Giles Davies

National Festival Orchestra and Chorus, David Russell Hulme

German: Tom Jones
David Russell Hulme, the conductor, has long made a special study of German's music, and his grasp of its scope and nuances is readily apparent. In those leading roles Richard Morrison and...

Gramophone Magazine, March 2010

More reviews

Special offer. German: Tom Jones

Marianne Hellgren Staykov, Richard Morrison, Heather Shipp, Donald Maxwell, Simon Butteriss, Richard Suart, Gaynor Keeble & Giles Davies

National Festival Orchestra and Chorus, David Russell Hulme

Purchase product

2 CDs

Original price $21.50 Reduced price $17.20

1 available: usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days

Summer Opera - up to 40% off selected titles

Special offer ends: 12/08/2026

Download

From$14.00

Download

Audio formats guide

44.1 kHz, 16 bit, FLAC/ALAC/WAV

$18.00

320 kbps, MP3

$14.00

This release includes a digital booklet

Stream now lossless, 44.1 kHz, 16 bit
Free 30 day trial
David Russell Hulme, the conductor, has long made a special study of German's music, and his grasp of its scope and nuances is readily apparent. In those leading roles Richard Morrison and...

Gramophone Magazine, March 2010

More reviews

About

Tom Jones, based on Fielding’s classic novel, first appeared in 1907.

One of the finest British operettas to follow Gilbert and Sullivan, the music has a style of its own and brings a new Romantic sweep to the genre.

Full of superb numbers, such as the famous waltz-song For Tonight, On a January morning, A Soldier’s Scarlet Coat, Dream o’ Day Jill and West Country lad, this is the first complete recording, and includes three numbers cut during the original run.

  • Release date: 17th Aug 2009
  • Label: Naxos
  • Series: Opera Classics
  • Catalogue number: 8660270-71
  • Length: 1 hour 49 minutes
  • Genre:

Contents and tracklist

German: Tom Jones
Work length1:49:36
  • Donald Maxwell (baritone), Marianne Hellgren Staykov (soprano), Richard Suart (baritone), Richard Morrison (baritone), Gaynor Keeble (mezzo-soprano), Simon Butteriss (baritone), Heather Shipp (mezzo-soprano), Paul Carey Jones (baritone), Ashley Bremner (baritone), Catrine Kirkman (soprano), Rachel Harland (soprano), Elizabeth Menezes (soprano), Iestyn Morris (tenor), Giles Davies (baritone), Timothy Ochala-Greenough (tenor), Rachel Chapman (soprano), Karen Wise (mezzo-soprano), Annette Stein (soprano)
  • National Festival Chorus, National Festival Orchestra
  • David Russell Hulme
  • Recorded: 01-03 September 2008
  • Recording Venue: Haden Freeman Concert Hall, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester
Act I, "The lawn at Squire Western's": Introduction
Track length3:16
Act I: Don't you find the weather charming? (Chorus)
Track length4:31
Act I: Song: On a Januairy morning (Squire Western, Chorus)
Track length2:49
Act I: Song: West Country lad (Tom, Chorus)
Track length3:00
Act I: Song: To-day my spinet (Sophia)
Track length3:45
Act I: Interlude: I gave your message, Miss (Sophia, Honour, Tom)
Track length1:15
Act I: Trio: Wisdom says, Festina lente (Sophia, Honour, Tom)
Track length3:21
Act I: Sextet: The Barley Mow (Honour, Gregory, Peggy, Betty, Grizzle, Dobbin)
Track length3:56
Act I: Madrigal Quartet: Here's a paradox for lovers (Sophia, Honour, Tom, Allworthy)
Track length3:16
Act I: Finale: For aye, my love (Sophia, Tom, Squire Western, Blifil, Allworthy, Chorus)
Track length9:35
Act II, "The Inn at Upton": Hurry! Bustle! (Hostess, Officer, Chorus)
Track length3:51
Act II: Song: A Person of Parts (Partridge, Chorus)
Track length3:30
Act II: Song: Dream o' Day Jill (Sophia)
Track length2:55
Act II: Song: Gurt-Uncle Jan Tappit (Gregory, Chorus)
Track length2:35
Act II: Jig: With a fal la la (Chorus)
Track length1:31
Act II: My lady's coach (Hostess, Chorus)
Track length1:06
Act II: Song: As all the maids (Honour)
Track length3:23
Act II: Laughing Trio: You have a pretty wit (Honour, Partridge, Gregory)
Track length2:27
Act II: Song: A Soldier's Scarlet Coat (Tom, Chorus) (lyrics: Harry Beswick)
Track length2:24
Act II: Song: Love maketh the heart a garden fair (Sophia, Chorus)
Track length3:14
Act II: Finale: Where be my daughter? (Lady Bellaston, Tom, Squire Western, Partridge, Officer, Hostess, Chorus)
Track length9:51
Act III, "Ranelagh Gardens": Morris Dance
Track length1:56
Act III: Gavotte: Glass of fashion (Chorus)
Track length2:20
Act III: Song: The Green Ribbon (Honour, Chorus of Men)
Track length4:46
Act III: Song: If love's content (Tom)
Track length3:30
Act III: Barcarolle: Beguile, beguile, with music sweet (Chorus, Chapman, Wise, Stein)
Track length3:21
Act III: Recitative: Which is my own true self? (Sophia) - Waltz Song: For to-night (Sophia)
Track length3:26
Act III: Trio: Says a well-worn saw (Honour, Partridge, Gregory)
Track length2:07
Act III: Melos
Track length0:57
Act III: Finale: Hark, the merry marriage bells! (Sophia, Honour, Tom, Chorus)
Track length1:40
Additional Song: A Foundling Boy (Tom)
Track length3:15
Additional Song: By night and day (Sophia)
Track length3:44
Additional Trio: Come away with me my deary (Sophia, Honour, Tom)
Track length3:03

Awards and reviews

March 2010

David Russell Hulme, the conductor, has long made a special study of German's music, and his grasp of its scope and nuances is readily apparent. In those leading roles Richard Morrison and Marianne Hellgren Staykov do the work proud…
View download progress

Download queue