Album lyrics Elgar: Caractacus & Severn Suite by Richard Hickox

Elgar: Caractacus & Severn Suite

Richard Hickox

2016 33 songs

1. Caractacus, Op. 35, Scene 1: Watchmen, alert! (Chorus)

2. Caractacus, Op. 35, Scene 1: Watchmen, alert! the King is here (Caractacus, Chorus)

3. Caractacus, Op. 35, Scene 1: Father!... Sire and King (Eigen, Caractacus, Orbin, Chorus)

4. Caractacus, Op. 35, Scene 1: At eve to the greenwood, we wander'd away (Eigen)

5. Caractacus, Op. 35, Scene 1: On the ocean and the river (Orbin, Caractacus, Eigen)

6. Caractacus, Op. 35, Scene 1: Rest, weary monarch (Chorus)

7. Caractacus, Op. 35, Scene 2: Tread the mystic circle round (Arch-Druid, Chorus)

8. Caractacus, Op. 35, Scene 2: Lord of dread and lord of pow'r (Arch-Druid, Chorus)

9. Caractacus, Op. 35, Scene 2: Bard, what read ye in the field...? (Arch-Druid, Orbin, Caractacus, Chorus)

10. Caractacus, Op. 35, Scene 2: Leap to light, my brand of fight (Caractacus, Orbin, Arch-Druid, Chorus)

11. Caractacus, Op. 35, Scene 2: Hence, ere the Druid's wrath is woke (Orbin, Chorus)

12. Caractacus, Op. 35, Scene 3: Introduction. Woodland Interlude

13. Caractacus, Op. 35, Scene 3: Come! beneath our woodland bow'rs (Chorus)

14. Caractacus, Op. 35, Scene 3: O'er-arch'd by leaves the streamlet weaves (Eigen, Orbin)

15. Caractacus, Op. 35, Scene 3: Last night beneath the sacred Oak (Orbin)

16. Caractacus, Op. 35, Scene 3: Come! beneath our woodland bow'rs (Orbin, Eigen, Chorus)

17. Caractacus, Op. 35, Scene 4: Wild rumours shake our calm retreat (Chorus)

18. Caractacus, Op. 35, Scene 4: When the glow of the evening had died from the hill (Eigen, Chorus)

19. Caractacus, Op. 35, Scene 4: We were gather'd by the river (Chorus)

20. Caractacus, Op. 35, Scene 4: O my warriors, tell me truly (Caractacus, Chorus)

21. Caractacus, Op. 35, Scene 5: Captive Britons, see them! Hark (A Bard, Chorus)

22. Caractacus, Op. 35, Scene 6: Processional Music - The march triumphal thunders (Chorus)

23. Caractacus, Op. 35, Scene 6: Unbind his hands, silence the trumpets (Claudius)

24. Caractacus, Op. 35, Scene 6: Heap torment upon torment, woe on woe (Caractacus, Eigen, Orbin)

25. Caractacus, Op. 35, Scene 6: Slay the Briton (Claudius, Chorus)

26. Caractacus, Op. 35, Scene 6: I plead not for myself (Caractacus, Orbin, Eigen, Claudius, Chorus)

27. Caractacus, Op. 35, Scene 6: Grace from the Roman! (Eigen, Orbin, Caractacus)

28. Caractacus, Op. 35, Scene 6: The clang of arms is over (Chorus)

29. Severn Suite, Op. 87: I. Introduction. Worcester Castle

30. Severn Suite, Op. 87: II. Toccata. Tournament

31. Severn Suite, Op. 87: III. Fugue. The Cathedral

32. Severn Suite, Op. 87: IV. Minuet. Commandery

33. Severn Suite, Op. 87: V. Coda. Lento

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