Name: Walton: The Bear
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Release Date: 28th Jul 2017
Catalogue No: CHAN10947X
Label: Chandos
Series: Classics, The Hickox Legacy
Length: 53 minutes

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Walton: The Bear (An Extravaganza in One Act)

Work length53:15

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Richard Hickox, Northern Sinfonia, Della Jones, John Shirley-Quirk, Alan Opie

It is not just, Madam … (Luka, Popova)

Track length9:34

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Who is that? (Popova, Luka)

Track length3:26

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Fool! Oaf! Blockhead! (Smirnov, Popova)

Track length3:42

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There! She's vanished (Smirnov, Luka)

Track length8:37

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Sir, in my solitude (Popova, Smirnov)

Track length4:18

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Madame, je vous prie (Smirnov, Popova)

Track length3:51

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I was a constant, faithful wife (Popova)

Track length4:01

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I'm sick of this mourning (Smirnov, Popova, Luka)

Track length8:39

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Listen … Are you still angry? (Smirnov, Popova, Luka)

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Sir William Walton wrote two operas, the second – The Bear – far more readily acclaimed than the first, and more often performed. Its premiere took place in Aldeburgh in June 1967 as part of the twentieth Aldeburgh Festival, and followed the disastrous reception of Walton’s first opera, Troilus and Cressida, a piece seen as too traditional for the taste of those austere post-war times. So second time round Walton was taking no chances: everything in The Bear is on a modest scale: a chamber opera in one act, for three singers only, no chorus, and the orchestra is chambersized, with a small number of strings (originally solo players). Not only did this specific recording bring the piece to fame but it also proved a revelatory disc for the soloists, Della Jones, Alan Opie, and John Shirley- Quirk, who would go on to become multi-award-winning soloists and whose achievements in British music would become increasingly successful.

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