Hassan RT I/9 (1920-1923)
Jamie Phillips, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia, Ruairi Bowen (Tenor), Frederick Long (Bass), Zeb Soanes (Speaker)
2022, Saffron Walden, Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden
Act II
- 00:51Prelude. With animation
- 00:38The filthy, inanimate bulk of Hassan… (Narrator)
- 00:08Fanfare preceding the Ballet (Gaily, outside)
- 01:20Dance of the Beggars. There enters the most awful selection of Eastern beggars the eye could imagine. Quick and vigorously
- 00:06And then, after the Beggars (Narrator)
- 02:22Chorus of Women. (Enter a band of fair and dusky beauties.) Quietly
- 02:28Divertissement. Con moto
- 00:58Rafi is then announced as The King of the Beggars (Narrator)
- 02:54General Dance. Andante moderato – Allegro – Più mosso
- 00:47Rafi is asked why he hates the Caliph so (Narrator)
- 01:21Chorus of Beggars and Dancing Girls (from behind the scene, after the descent of the iron curtain). Comodo
- 00:51This House of the Moving Walls… (Narrator)
- 00:39The Street of Felicity. Very quietly
- 01:11The SOS message has fallen from the balcony… (Narrator)
- 01:32Music accompanying Ishak's poem. Not too slow
- 00:39Yasmin's regard for Hassan has instantly shifted (Narrator)
Act III
- 01:34Prelude. Moderato – Slower
- 00:43Curtain
- 00:27Hassan is installed at the Caliph's Palace (Narrator)
- 01:44Interlude between Scenes 1 and 2. Very quietly – Slow
- 01:05The slaves inform Hassan that there is a beautiful lady… (Narrator)
- 02:26The great Hall of the Palace. With vigour – Quieter
- 01:00We are in the Great Hall of the Caliph's Palace (Narrator)
- 00:11Fanfares, in the great Hall of the Palace
- 00:29As more and more people gather… (Narrator)
- 00:18Entry of the Caliph. Pompously
- 00:09The Caliph declares the trial of the beggars open (Narrator)
- 00:22Fanfares
- 01:18Then Rafi, King of the Beggars, is summoned (Narrator)
Act IV
- 04:14Prelude. Slow – Passionately
- 00:26In the Palace's dark vaults (Narrator)
- 01:58Interlude between Scenes 1 and 2. Slow and ponderously
- 01:14Sunlight streams through the cell's grating (Narrator)
Act V
- 02:30Prelude. Quick – Slower, softer - Not too quick – Curtain. The Garden of the Caliph's Palace, in front of a pavilion. Sunset. Quietly – Enter the Caliph with attendants as Hassan comes from his Pavilion
- 01:09The song of the Muezzin at sunset
- 01:51With another sunset approaching (Narrator)
- 02:53The Procession of Protracted Death. March tempo
- 01:29The long, dreadful execution ensues… (Narrator)
- 03:04Prelude to the last scene. With flowing movement
- 10:16Closing Scene. Slow – (The Caravan recedes farther and farther into the distance.) – (Dying away in the distance)
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