Davies, Walford: Everyman
Elena Ferrari (soprano), Jennifer Johnston (contralto), Andrew Staples (tenor) & Pauls Putnins (bass)
London Oriana Choir & Kensington Symphony Orchestra, David Drummond
Henry Walford Davies's splendid oratorio was written and first heard in 1904, in the shadow of Elgar's Gerontius. Yet it was an immediate success and widely performed. But by the end of the... — More…
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Gramophone MagazineFebruary 2005Editor's Choice
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Davies, Walford: Part I - No. 1
- Kensington Symphony Orchestra
Prelude
Prolgue 'I Pray You All Give Your audience'
Davies, Walford: Part I - No. 2
- Kensington Symphony Orchestra, London Oriana Choir, Andrew Staples
God Speaketh 'I Perceive Here in My Majesty'
Death 'Here am I Almighty God at thy Commandment'
Davies, Walford: Part I - No. 3
- Kensington Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Staples, London Oriana Choir, Paul Putnins
Arrest of Everyman by Death: 'I am Death that No Man Feareth'
Dialogo 'Lo, Yonder I See Everyman'
Davies, Walford: Part I - No. 4: Everyman's Lament 'Alas! / The Day Passeth, it is Almost Ago'
- Kensington Symphony Orchestra, Paul Putnins, London Oriana Choir
Davies, Walford: Part II - No. 1
- Kensington Symphony Orchestra, Paul Putnins, London Oriana Choir
Everyman's Appeal 'Ah Wither for Succour Shall I Flee' / to Kindred 'Here Be We Now'
and Fellowship 'Everyman, Good Morrow by this Day'
Oaths of Undying Loyalty 'Friend, Now Show to us Your Mind'
Everyman is Forsaken 'Commanded I am to Go a Journey'
Davies, Walford: Part II - No. 2
- Kensington Symphony Orchestra, Paul Putnins, London Oriana Choir
The Apppeal 'Where art thou My Goods and Riches?' / to Riches 'I Lie Here in Corners'
The Tenets of Money 'Nay, Not So, I am too Brittle'
Presto Agitato 'Oh! to Whom Shall I Make My Moan?'
Davies, Walford: Part II - No. 3
- Kensington Symphony Orchestra, Elena Ferrari, Jennifer Johnston, Paul Putnins, London Oriana Choir
The Appeal to his Good Deeds 'I Think that I Shall Never Speed'
The Counsel of Good Deeds 'Knowledge Shall With You Abide'
Davies, Walford: Part II - No. 4: Song of Knowledge 'O Glorious Fountain that All Unclearness doth Clarify'
- Kensington Symphony Orchestra, Jennifer Johnston, London Oriana Choir
Davies, Walford: Part II - No. 5
- Kensington Symphony Orchestra, Paul Putnins, Elena Ferrari, London Oriana Choir
Everyman's Prayer to God 'O Eternal God, O Heavenly Figure'
Appeal to God 'Save Me from the Power of My Enemy'
Everyman's Redemption 'Mirror of Joy'
Davies, Walford: Part II - No. 6: Everyman's Comfort 'Be No More Sad, but Evermore Rejoice'
- Kensington Symphony Orchestra, Paul Putnins, Jennifer Johnston, Elena Ferrari, London Oriana Choir
Davies, Walford: Part III - No. 1
- Kensington Symphony Orchestra, Paul Putnins, Elena Ferrari, London Oriana Choir
Everyman's Farewell 'Alas I Am So Faint'
His Faculties Forsake Him 'Sweet Strength! Tarrry a Little While'
The Commendation 'Into thy Hands My Soul I Commend'
Davies, Walford: Part III - No. 2
- Kensington Symphony Orchestra, London Oriana Choir
Epilogue 'Now Hath He Suffered that We All Shall Endure'
Fugue 'He that Hath His Account Whole and Sound'
Davies, Walford: Appendix
- Kensington Symphony Orchestra, London Oriana Choir
God Speaketh (1934 revision)
Epilogue (1934 revision)