Hiawatha

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Scenes from "The Song of Hiawatha", op. 30: Part I (Hiawatha's Wedding Feast). "Introduction"

  Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  0:52
• 2
  Scenes from "The Song of Hiawatha", op. 30: Part I (Hiawatha's Wedding Feast). "You shall hear how Pau-Puk-Keewis"

  Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  4:41
• 3
  Scenes from "The Song of Hiawatha", op. 30: Part I (Hiawatha's Wedding Feast). "And when all the guests had finished"

  Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  3:56
• 4
  Scenes from "The Song of Hiawatha", op. 30: Part I (Hiawatha's Wedding Feast). "He was dressed in shirt of doe-skin"

  Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  2:45
• 5
  Scenes from "The Song of Hiawatha", op. 30: Part I (Hiawatha's Wedding Feast). "First he danced a solemn measure"

  Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  2:58
• 6
  Scenes from "The Song of Hiawatha", op. 30: Part I (Hiawatha's Wedding Feast). "Then they said to Chibiabos"

  Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  4:04
• 7
  Scenes from "The Song of Hiawatha", op. 30: Part I (Hiawatha's Wedding Feast). "Onaway! Awake, beloved!"

  Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  5:47
• 8
  Scenes from "The Song of Hiawatha", op. 30: Part I (Hiawatha's Wedding Feast). "Thus the gentle Chibiabos"

  Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  1:21
• 9
  Scenes from "The Song of Hiawatha", op. 30: Part I (Hiawatha's Wedding Feast). "Very boastful was Iagoo"

  Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  3:28
• 10
  Scenes from "The Song of Hiawatha", op. 30: Part I (Hiawatha's Wedding Feast). "And they said, 'O good Iagoo'"

  Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  4:16
• 11
  Scenes from "The Song of Hiawatha", op. 30: Part II (Death of Minnehaha). Introduction

  Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  2:26
• 12
  Scenes from "The Song of Hiawatha", op. 30: Part II (Death of Minnehaha). "O the long and dreary winter!"

  Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  4:25
• 13
  Scenes from "The Song of Hiawatha", op. 30: Part II (Death of Minnehaha). "Into Hiawatha's wigwam"

  Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  3:14
• 14
  Scenes from "The Song of Hiawatha", op. 30: Part II (Death of Minnehaha). "Forth into the empty forest"

  Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  5:29
• 15
  Scenes from "The Song of Hiawatha", op. 30: Part II (Death of Minnehaha). "In the wigwam with Nokomis"

  Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  4:22
• 16
  Scenes from "The Song of Hiawatha", op. 30: Part II (Death of Minnehaha). "Over snow-fields waste and pathless"

  Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  3:58
• 17
  Scenes from "The Song of Hiawatha", op. 30: Part II (Death of Minnehaha). "And he rushed into the wigwam"

  Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  3:45
• 18
  Scenes from "The Song of Hiawatha", op. 30: Part II (Death of Minnehaha). "Then they buried Minnehaha"

  Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  4:19
• 19
  Scenes from "The Song of Hiawatha", op. 30: Part II (Death of Minnehaha). "Farewell!" said he, "Minnehaha!"

  Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  5:05
• CD 2
• 1
  Scenes from "The Song of Hiawatha", op. 30: Part III (Hiawatha's Departure). Introduction

  Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  0:53
• 2
  Scenes from "The Song of Hiawatha", op. 30: Part III (Hiawatha's Departure). "Spring had come with all its splendour"

  Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  2:40
• 3
  Scenes from "The Song of Hiawatha", op. 30: Part III (Hiawatha's Departure). "From his wanderings far to eastward"

  Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  3:39
• 4
  Scenes from "The Song of Hiawatha", op. 30: Part III (Hiawatha's Departure). "Only Hiawatha laughed not"

  Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  6:34
• 5
  Scenes from "The Song of Hiawatha", op. 30: Part III (Hiawatha's Departure). "By the shore of Gitche Gumee"

  Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  2:48
• 6
  Scenes from "The Song of Hiawatha", op. 30: Part III (Hiawatha's Departure). "From the brow of Hiawatha"

  Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  2:39
• 7
  Scenes from "The Song of Hiawatha", op. 30: Part III (Hiawatha's Departure). "It was neither goose nor diver"

  Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  2:49
• 8
  Scenes from "The Song of Hiawatha", op. 30: Part III (Hiawatha's Departure). "Then the joyous Hiawatha"

  Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  4:23
• 9
  Scenes from "The Song of Hiawatha", op. 30: Part III (Hiawatha's Departure). "Then the generous Hiawatha"

  Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  3:42
• 10
  Scenes from "The Song of Hiawatha", op. 30: Part III (Hiawatha's Departure). "Then the Black-Robe chief, the Prophet"

  Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  3:44
• 11
  Scenes from "The Song of Hiawatha", op. 30: Part III (Hiawatha's Departure). "Heavy with the heat and silence"

  Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  2:23
• 12
  Scenes from "The Song of Hiawatha", op. 30: Part III (Hiawatha's Departure). "From his place rose Hiawatha"

  Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  4:17
• 13
  Scenes from "The Song of Hiawatha", op. 30: Part III (Hiawatha's Departure). "On the shore stood Hiawatha"

  Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  3:35
• 14
  Scenes from "The Song of Hiawatha", op. 30: Part III (Hiawatha's Departure). "And they said, 'Farewell for ever!'"

  Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  4:08

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Release credits

• Andrew Greenwood
  chorus master [1.2-6, 1.8-10, 1.12-19, 2.3-5, 2.7-14]
• Arthur Davies
  tenor vocals, solo [1.7, 2.8, 2.10], tenor vocals [1.7, 2.8, 2.10]
• Bryn Terfel
  baritone vocals, baritone vocals [2.4, 2.8, 2.12, 1.13-14, 1.16, 1.19], solo [2.4, 2.8, 2.12, 1.13-14, 1.16, 1.19]
• Chorus of the Welsh National Opera
  choir vocals, choir vocals [2.3-5, 2.7-14, 1.2-6, 1.8-10, 1.12-19]
• Chris Hazell
  producer
• Helen Field
  soprano vocals, solo [1.13, 1.15-17, 2.2, 2.6], soprano vocals [2.2, 2.6, 1.13, 1.15-17]
• Kenneth Alwyn
  conductor
• Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera
  performing orchestra
• Simon Eadon
  recording

Issues

• H
  Hiawatha

  2x CD
  1991