Name: Delius: Hassan - Complete Incidental Music
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Delius: Hassan - Complete Incidental Music

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How seriously was it taken in its day? More to the point, how seriously can we take it now? After listening, I really can’t say...But the music itself, stylishly delivered by the Britten Sinfonia... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2024, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Release Date: 19th Apr 2024
Catalogue No: CHAN20296
Label: Chandos
Length: 80 minutes

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Delius: Hassan, DCW 8, Act 1 Scene 1: Prelude. Slow – Quietly but expressively

Work length4:22

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Britten Sinfonia, Jamie Phillips

Meurig Bowen: Hassan, DCW 8, Act 1 Scene 1: We are in old Baghdad (Narrator)

Work length2:29

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Zeb Soanes

Delius: Hassan, DCW 8, Act 1 Scenes 1 & 2: Interlude between

Work length1:50

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Britten Sinfonia, Jamie Phillips

Delius: Hassan, DCW 8, Act 1 Scene 2: Moonlight. The street of Felicity, by the fountain of the two pigeons, in from of the house

Work length0:26

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Britten Sinfonia, Jamie Phillips

Meurig Bowen: Hassan, DCW 8, Act 1 Scene 2: It is later that night (Narrator)

Work length0:57

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Zeb Soanes

Delius: Hassan, DCW 8, Act 1 Scene 2: Serenade. Con moto moderato

Work length1:49

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Britten Sinfonia, Jamie Phillips

Meurig Bowen: Hassan, DCW 8, Act 1 Scene 2: The shutters open, and Yasmin appears (Narrator)

Work length2:26

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Zeb Soanes

Delius: Hassan, DCW 8, Act 1 Scene 2

Work length3:00

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Britten Sinfonia, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Jamie Phillips

Melos. Hassan falls under the shadow of the fountain. The first light of dawn shines in the sky. Very quietly

Track length0:52

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Chorus behind the scenes. Not too slow

Track length2:08

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Meurig Bowen: Hassan, DCW 8, Act 1 Scene 2: The first light of dawn shines in the sky (Narrator)

Work length1:27

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Zeb Soanes

Delius: Hassan, DCW 8, Act 2 Scene 1: Prelude. With animation

Work length0:50

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Britten Sinfonia, Jamie Phillips

Meurig Bowen: Hassan, DCW 8, Act 2 Scene 1: The filthy, inanimate bulk of Hassan… (Narrator)

Work length0:37

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Zeb Soanes

Delius: Hassan, DCW 8, Act 2 Scene 1: Fanfare preceding the Ballet (Gaily, outside)

Work length0:08

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Britten Sinfonia, Jamie Phillips

Grainger: Hassan, DCW 8, Act 2 Scene 1: No. 1, Dance of the Beggars. There enters the most awful selection of Eastern beggars the eye could imagine. Quick and vigorously

Work length1:20

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Frederick Long, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia, Jamie Phillips

Meurig Bowen: Hassan, DCW 8, Act 2 Scene 1: And then, after the Beggars (Narrator)

Work length0:06

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Zeb Soanes

Delius: Hassan, DCW 8, Act 2 Scene 1

Work length4:49

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Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia, Jamie Phillips

No. 2, Chorus of Women. (Enter a band of fair and dusky beauties.) Quietly

Track length2:22

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No. 3, Divertissement. Con moto

Track length2:27

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Meurig Bowen: Hassan, DCW 8, Act 2 Scene 1: Rafi is then announced as The King of the Beggars (Narrator)

Work length0:58

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Zeb Soanes

Delius: Hassan, DCW 8, Act 2 Scene 1: No. 4, General Dance. Andante moderato – Allegro – Più mosso

Work length2:53

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Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia, Jamie Phillips

Meurig Bowen: Hassan, DCW 8, Act 2 Scene 1: Rafi is asked why he hates the Caliph so (Narrator)

Work length0:46

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Zeb Soanes

Delius: Hassan, DCW 8, Act 2 Scene 1: Chorus of Beggars and Dancing Girls (from behind the scene, after the descent of the iron curtain). Comodo

Work length1:21

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Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia, Jamie Phillips

Meurig Bowen: Hassan, DCW 8, Act 2 Scene 1: This House of the Moving Walls… (Narrator)

Work length0:50

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Zeb Soanes

Delius: Hassan, DCW 8, Act 2 Scene 2: The Street of Felicity. Very quietly

Work length0:38

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Britten Sinfonia, Jamie Phillips

Meurig Bowen: Hassan, DCW 8, Act 2 Scene 2: The SOS message has fallen from the balcony… (Narrator)

Work length1:11

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Zeb Soanes

Delius: Hassan, DCW 8, Act 2 Scene 2: Music accompanying Ishak's poem. Not too slow

Work length1:32

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Zeb Soanes, Britten Sinfonia, Jamie Phillips

Meurig Bowen: Hassan, DCW 8, Act 2 Scene 2: Yasmin's regard for Hassan has instantly shifted (Narrator)

Work length0:39

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Zeb Soanes

Delius: Hassan, DCW 8, Act 3 Scene 1

Work length2:16

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Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia, Jamie Phillips

Prelude. Moderato – Slower

Track length1:33

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Curtain

Track length0:43

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Meurig Bowen: Hassan, DCW 8, Act 3 Scene 1: Hassan is installed at the Caliph's Palace (Narrator)

Work length0:26

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Zeb Soanes

Delius: Hassan, DCW 8, Act 3 Scene 1: Interlude between Scenes 1 and 2. Very quietly – Slow

Work length1:43

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Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia, Jamie Phillips

Meurig Bowen: Hassan, DCW 8, Act 3 Scene 1: The slaves inform Hassan that there is a beautiful lady… (Narrator)

Work length1:05

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Zeb Soanes

Delius: Hassan, DCW 8, Act 3 Scene 2: The great Hall of the Palace. With vigour – Quieter

Work length2:26

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Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia, Jamie Phillips

Meurig Bowen: Hassan, DCW 8, Act 3 Scene 2: We are in the Great Hall of the Caliph's Palace (Narrator)

Work length1:00

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Zeb Soanes

Delius: Hassan, DCW 8, Act 3 Scene 2: Fanfares, in the great Hall of the Palace

Work length0:11

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Britten Sinfonia, Jamie Phillips

Meurig Bowen: Hassan, DCW 8, Act 3 Scene 2: As more and more people gather… (Narrator)

Work length0:29

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Zeb Soanes

Delius: Hassan, DCW 8, Act 3 Scene 2: Entry of the Caliph. Pompously

Work length0:17

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Britten Sinfonia, Jamie Phillips

Meurig Bowen: Hassan, DCW 8, Act 3 Scene 2: The Caliph declares the trial of the beggars open (Narrator)

Work length0:09

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Zeb Soanes

Delius: Hassan, DCW 8, Act 3 Scene 2: Fanfares

Work length0:21

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Britten Sinfonia, Jamie Phillips

Meurig Bowen: Hassan, DCW 8, Act 3 Scene 2: Then Rafi, King of the Beggars, is summoned (Narrator)

Work length1:17

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Zeb Soanes

Delius: Hassan, DCW 8, Act 4 Scene 1: Prelude. Slow – Passionately

Work length4:14

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Britten Sinfonia, Jamie Phillips

Meurig Bowen: Hassan, DCW 8, Act 4 Scene 1: In the Palace's dark vaults (Narrator)

Work length0:26

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Zeb Soanes

Delius: Hassan, DCW 8, Act 4 Scenes 1 & 2: Interlude between Scenes 1 and 2. Slow and ponderously

Work length1:57

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Britten Sinfonia, Jamie Phillips

Meurig Bowen: Hassan, DCW 8, Act 4 Scene 2: Sunlight streams through the cell's grating (Narrator)

Work length1:14

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Zeb Soanes

Delius: Hassan, DCW 8, Act 5 Scene 1

Work length3:37

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Britten Sinfonia Voices, Ruairi Bowen, Britten Sinfonia, Jamie Phillips

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 comes from his Pavilion

Track length2:29

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The song of the Muezzin at sunset

Track length1:08

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Meurig Bowen: Hassan, DCW 8, Act 5 Scene 1: With another sunset approaching (Narrator)

Work length1:51

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Zeb Soanes

Delius: Hassan, DCW 8, Act 5 Scene 1: The Procession of Protracted Death. March tempo

Work length2:53

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Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia, Jamie Phillips

Meurig Bowen: Hassan, DCW 8, Act 5 Scene 1: The long, dreadful execution ensues… (Narrator)

Work length1:29

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Zeb Soanes

Delius: Hassan, DCW 8, Act 5 Scene 2

Work length13:19

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Ruairi Bowen, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Britten Sinfonia, Jamie Phillips

Prelude to the last scene. With flowing movement

Track length3:03

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Closing Scene. Slow – (The Caravan recedes farther and farther into the distance.) – (Dying away in the distance)

Track length10:16

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Although he had initially declined the commission, Delius was persuaded to write the incidental music for Hassan by the actor and director Basil Dean, in July 1920, for performances he was planning for His Majesty’s Theatre, London, the following year. Much of the music was drafted within a few weeks, and the score would eventually prove one of the greatest successes of Delius’s career. Dean’s plans for the project encountered significant obstacles and delays, however, and he had to commission additional music from Delius to cover the production’s complex scene changes. The London première eventually took place on 20 September 1923 and was a critical sensation. Flecker’s play is a sinuous double-narrative that intertwines the twin stories of the lovelorn but worldly wise Hassan, confectioner at the court of the cruel and vindictive Caliph Haroun al Rashid (called Haroun ar Rashid in Flecker’s play), and the young lovers Pervaneh and Rafi, caught up in the aftermath of a failed uprising and condemned to a terrifying and brutally protracted death. In tone and setting, Flecker’s text drew on nineteenth-century English translations of One Thousand and One Nights as well as other heavily fictionalised accounts and travel literature. Very much a product of the racial and class-based attitudes of its time, the play revels in imaginary scenes of a despotic Eastern court and its gruesomely barbaric practices.

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June 2024

How seriously was it taken in its day? More to the point, how seriously can we take it now? After listening, I really can’t say...But the music itself, stylishly delivered by the Britten Sinfonia and its Voices, and full of echoes of Rimsky-Korsakov and other late 19th-century Russians, demands to be taken seriously.

May 2024

Zeb Soanes could read the telephone directory and still captivate, so his vivid range of voices here is a special treat to complement his natural way of tempting a listener into the story.

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