This fairytale melodrama was adapted from a book by Algernon Blackwood a Prisoner in Fairyland for a West End theatre production staged during World War 1 with music by Elgar. Based on a new score which has been adapted by Sir Andrew Davis who also here conducts the Scottish Chamber Orchestra this is the most comprehensive recorded version to date. The two-disc set includes the incidental music with narrative by Simon Callow and an extended suite of freestanding orchestral movements and songs.
2 Act I Scene 1: In the Village of Bourcelles in the Swiss
3 Act I Scene 1: Just Then a Lamplighter
4 Act I Scene 1: At That Time, Henry Had Told Him About the Old Railway
5 Act I Scene 1: The Mother of Them All
6 Act I Scene 1: Oh! But I'm Forgetting the Most Important One of All
7 Act I Scene 1: They Were Always Eager to Hear His Poetry
8 Act I Scene 1: And Suddenly a New, Enormous Thing Stirred in Their Father's Heart
9 Act I Scene 1: As Though on Cue
10 Act I Scene 1: To the Children: That's Odd, Said Mother
11 Act I Scene 1: Gold and Had Put It on for Warmth Against the Cool Evening Air
12 Act I Scene 1: Before Them Stood An Extremely Dishevelled Figure Holding a Suitcase
13 Act I Scene 1: As Daddy Took Charge of the Luggage
14 Act I Scene 1: We Want to Tell You Something
15 Act I Scene 1: All the Rules I Swear to Keep
16 Act I Scene 1: Are You Sure You Have Everything You Need?
17 Act II Scene 1: The Blue-Eyed Fairy
18 Act II Scene 1: They Found a Clearing with the Open Sky Above Them
19 Act II Scene 1: Henry Explained That the Pleiades Had Been Attendants Upon Artemis
20 Act II Scene 1: The Sun Has Gone
21 Act II Scene 1: The Sun Has Gone: Now, Cats Are Curious Creatures, and Riquette Was No Exception
22 Act II Scene 1: Turning Towards the Open Window
23 Act II Scene 1: At Length Jinny Came Out of the Cave and Came Over to Them
24 Act II Scene 1: Then There's Madame Jequier and Dear Miss Waghorn
25 Act II Scene 1: Could It Be?
26 Act II Scene 1: And with That the First Passenger Hurried By Them
27 Act II Scene 1: The Sweep
28 Act II Scene 1: Then a Fantastic, Light, Twirling Creature
29 Act II Scene 1: I'm Ev'rywhere
30 Act II Scene 1: And the Shabby Tramp, Playing His Barrel Organ
31 Act II Scene 1: Well, Let's See Now
32 Act II Scene 1: Wake Up, You Little Night Winds
33 Act II Scene 1: Dance of the Winds
34 Act II Scene 1: But Where's Cousin Henry?
35 Act II Scene 1: I'm Ev'rywhere: Ah! Anyone Gazing Skywards at That Moment
36 Act II Scene 1: Sun Dance
37 Act II Scene 2: Madame Jequier's Constant Anxiety
38 Act II Scene 2: Dandelions, Daffodils
39 Act II Scene 2: In Her Attic Chamber Above
40 Act II Scene 2: Henry Turned to the Children
41 Act II Scene 3: At the Citadelle
42 Act II Scene 3: O, Stars Shine Brightly
43 Act II Scene 3: The Sprites Had Almost Finished Their Task
44 Act II Scene 3: The Sprites Flitted Out, Back to the Starlight Express
45 Act II Scene 3: Dawn Song
- Disc 2 -
1 Act III Scene 1: My Old Tunes
2 Act III Scene 1: Dandelions, Daffodils
3 Act III Scene 1: Miss Waghorn, Whose Confusion of Mind
4 Act III Scene 1: My Main Idea Is This
5 Act III Scene 1: Then Mother Spoke
6 Act III Scene 1: A Few Days Later Henry Left to Return to London
7 Act III Scene 2: It Was Late Evening on the Day of His Arrival
8 Act III Scene 2: And Suddenly He Remembered An Extraordinary Conversation
9 Act III Scene 2: All Three Children, Perhaps Sent Back from Their Nocturnal Enterprises
10 Act III Scene 2: Sympathy - Hearts Must Be Soft-Shiny Dressed'
11 Act III Scene 2: Jinny Said, with Her Characteristic Gravity
12 No. 1. the Organ-Grinder's Song
13 No. 2. the Dustman's Song
14 No. 3. the Gardener's Song
15 I. to the Children
16 II. Andantino
17 III. the Blue-Eyed Fairy
18 IV. the Sun Has Gone
19 V. Andantino
20 VI. Lento
21 VII. Allegro
22 VIII. I'm Ev'rywhere
23 IX. Wake Up, You Little Night Winds
24 X. Dance of the Winds
25 XI. Lento
26 XII. Sun Dance
27 XIII. Andante
28 XIV. Allegretto
29 XV. O, Stars Shine Brightly
30 XVI. Dawn Song
31 XVII. My Old Tunes
32 XVIII. Dandelions, Daffodils
33 XIX. Moderato
34 XX. Hearts Must Be Soft-Shiny Dressed
35 XXI. Grandioso
This fairytale melodrama was adapted from a book by Algernon Blackwood a Prisoner in Fairyland for a West End theatre production staged during World War 1 with music by Elgar. Based on a new score which has been adapted by Sir Andrew Davis who also here conducts the Scottish Chamber Orchestra this is the most comprehensive recorded version to date. The two-disc set includes the incidental music with narrative by Simon Callow and an extended suite of freestanding orchestral movements and songs.
