Delius: Hassan - complete incidental music

"Delius: Hassan - complete incidental music album by Zeb Soanes on MusicBox"

Release Date: 2024-03-01T00:00:00.000000Z

  • Scene 1. Prelude. Slow – Quietly but expressively
  • Scene 1. We are in old Baghdad (Narrator)
  • Scenes 1 & 2. Interlude between
  • Scene 2. Moonlight. The street of Felicity, by the fountain of the two pigeons, in from of the house
  • Scene 2. It is later that night (Narrator)
  • Scene 2. Serenade. Con moto moderato
  • Scene 2. The shutters open, and Yasmin appears (Narrator)
  • Scene 2. Melos. Hassan falls under the shadow of the fountain. The first light of dawn shines in the sky. Very quietly
  • Scene 2. Chorus behind the scenes. Not too slow
  • Scene 2. The first light of dawn shines in the sky (Narrator)
  • Scene 1. Prelude. With animation
  • Scene 1. The filthy, inanimate bulk of Hassan… (Narrator)
  • Scene 1. Fanfare preceding the Ballet (Gaily, outside)
  • Scene 1. No. 1, Dance of the Beggars. There enters the most awful selection of Eastern beggars the eye could imagine. Quick and vigorously
  • Scene 1. And then, after the Beggars (Narrator)
  • Scene 1. No. 2, Chorus of Women. (Enter a band of fair and dusky beauties.) Quietly
  • Scene 1. No. 3, Divertissement. Con moto
  • Scene 1. Rafi is then announced as The King of the Beggars (Narrator)
  • Scene 1. No. 4, General Dance. Andante moderato – Allegro – Più mosso
  • Scene 1. Rafi is asked why he hates the Caliph so (Narrator)
  • Scene 1. Chorus of Beggars and Dancing Girls (from behind the scene, after the descent of the iron curtain). Comodo
  • Scene 1. This House of the Moving Walls… (Narrator)
  • Scene 2. The Street of Felicity. Very quietly
  • Scene 2. The SOS message has fallen from the balcony… (Narrator)
  • Scene 2. Music accompanying Ishak's poem. Not too slow
  • Scene 2. Yasmin's regard for Hassan has instantly shifted (Narrator)
  • Scene 1. Prelude. Moderato – Slower
  • Scene 1. Curtain
  • Scene 1. Hassan is installed at the Caliph's Palace (Narrator)
  • Scene 1. Interlude between Scenes 1 and 2. Very quietly – Slow
  • Scene 1. The slaves inform Hassan that there is a beautiful lady… (Narrator)
  • Scene 2. The great Hall of the Palace. With vigour – Quieter
  • Scene 2. We are in the Great Hall of the Caliph's Palace (Narrator)
  • Scene 2. Fanfares, in the great Hall of the Palace
  • Scene 2. As more and more people gather… (Narrator)
  • Scene 2. Entry of the Caliph. Pompously
  • Scene 2. The Caliph declares the trial of the beggars open (Narrator)
  • Scene 2. Fanfares
  • Scene 2. Then Rafi, King of the Beggars, is summoned (Narrator)
  • Scene 1. Prelude. Slow – Passionately
  • Scene 1. In the Palace's dark vaults (Narrator)
  • Scenes 1 & 2. Interlude between Scenes 1 and 2. Slow and ponderously
  • Scene 2. Sunlight streams through the cell's grating (Narrator)
  • Scene 1. Prelude. 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...
  • Scene 1. The song of the Muezzin at sunset
  • Scene 1. With another sunset approaching (Narrator)
  • Scene 1. The Procession of Protracted Death. March tempo
  • Scene 1. The long, dreadful execution ensues… (Narrator)
  • Scene 2. Prelude to the last scene. With flowing movement
  • Scene 2. Closing Scene. Slow – (The Caravan recedes farther and farther into the distance.) – (Dying away in the distance)