BBC Music, Volume 7, Number 9: The Rose of Persia (extended highlights)

Album by Sullivan; Southwark Voices, The Hanover Band, Tom Higgins

Released May 1999

Tracklist

  • 1
    The Rose of Persia: Overture
    Arthur Sullivan
    3:11
  • 2
    The Rose of Persia: Act I: 1. "As We lie in langour lazy... I'm Abu'l Hassan" (Chorus of Girls, Hassan)
    Arthur Sullivan
    3:21
  • 3
    The Rose of Persia: Act I: 4. "Sunbeam, the priest keeps saying... If a sudden stroke of fate" (Abdallah, Blush-of-Morning, Dancing Sunbeam)
    Arthur Sullivan
    1:39
  • 4
    The Rose of Persia: Act I: 6. "'Neath my lattice through the night" (Rose-in-Bloom)
    Arthur Sullivan
    3:35
  • 5
    The Rose of Persia: Act I: 8. "When my father sent me to Ishpahan" (Hassan, Chorus)
    Arthur Sullivan
    2:23
  • 6
    The Rose of Persia: Act I: 9. "Peace be upon this house... I care not if the cup I hold" (Yussuf, HassanChorus)
    Arthur Sullivan
    3:04
  • 7
    The Rose of Persia: Act I: 10. "Musical Maidens are we" (Rose-in-Bloom, Scent-of-Lilies, Heart's Desire, Honey-of-Life, Hassan, Chorus)
    Arthur Sullivan
    5:30
  • 8
    The Rose of Persia: Act I: 11. "We have come to invade" (Abdallah, Hassan)
    Arthur Sullivan
    1:35
  • 9
    The Rose of Persia: Act I: 12."The Sultan's Executioner" (Dancing Sunbeam, Hassan, Abdallah, Rose-in-Bloom, Heart's Desire, Scent-of-Lilies, Honey-of-Life, Yussuf)
    Arthur Sullivan
    2:14
  • 10
    The Rose of Persia: Act I: 14. "Oh, luckless hour!" (Chorus, Dancing Sunbeam, Sultan, Blush-of-Morning, Vizier, Physician, Hassan, etc.))
    Arthur Sullivan
    16:27
  • 11
    The Rose of Persia: Act II: 1. "Oh, What is love?" (Heart's Desire, Yussuf)
    Arthur Sullivan
    2:37
  • 12
    The Rose of Persia: Act II: 2. "If you or I, should tell the truth" (Scent-of-Lilies, Honey-of-Life, Heart's Desire, Yussuf)
    Arthur Sullivan
    2:49
  • 13
    The Rose of Persia: Act II: 4."Let the satirist enumerate a catalogue" (Sultan, Chorus)
    Arthur Sullivan
    2:47
  • 14
    The Rose of Persia: Act II: 5. "In my heart of my hearts I've always known" (Dancing Sunbeam, Blush-of-Morning, Honey-of-Life, Song-of-Nightingales, Sultan, Vizier, Physician)
    Arthur Sullivan
    3:05
  • 15
    The Rose of Persia: Act II: 7. "Laughing low, on Toe-tip" (Chorus, Hassan, Vizier, Physician, Executioner)
    Arthur Sullivan
    3:39
  • 16
    The Rose of Persia: Act II: 8. "It's a busy, busy, busy, busy day for thee" (Scent-of-Lilies, Executioner, Chorus, Yussuf, Heart's Desire, Hassan)
    Arthur Sullivan
    2:33
  • 17
    The Rose of Persia: Act II: 10. "What does it mean?... Joy and Sorrow Alternate" (Dancing Sunbeam, Blush-of-Morning, Yussuf, Royal Guard)
    Arthur Sullivan
    2:42
  • 18
    The Rose of Persia: Act II: 12. "Hassan, the sultan with his court approaches" (Vizier, Physician, Executioner, Chorus, Sultan)
    Arthur Sullivan
    2:18
  • 19
    The Rose of Persia: Act II: 13. "There was once a small street Arab" (Hassan, Chorus)
    Arthur Sullivan
    2:51
  • 20
    The Rose of Persia: Act II: 14. "A bridal march" (Chorus)
    Arthur Sullivan
    1:26

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