Sir Arthur Sullivan: Music to Shakespeare's Tempest

ACTI
Song: Come unto these yellow sands (Ariel)
Song: Full fathom five thy father lies (Ariel)
ACT II
Ariel's Music
IMelodrama and Song: While you here do snoring lie (Ariel)
ACT III
Prelude
Banquet Dance
ACT IV
Overture
Masque of Iris, Ceres, Juno
Duet: Honour, riches, marriage blessings (Juno and Ceres)
SIDE 2 ACT IV Continued
Dance of nymphs and reapers
ACT V
Prelude
Song: Where the bee sucks (Ariel)
Epilogue
1955
Conductor F. Charles Adler;
Orchestra Vienna Orchestral Society
It seemed a great day for English music when on April 5, 1862, London for the first time heard Music to Shakespeare's Tempest by the young composer, Arthur Seymour Sullivan. Born in 1842 he had written the work during his eighteenth and nineteenth years. The audience in the still new and glittering Crystal Palace gave the work an ovation, the critics lavished their praise and musical circles hailed the twenty year old composer as the English Mendelssohn, as the hope of English music.