Patience / Irish Symphony

Patience: Overture

Patience. Act I. “Twenty lovesick maidens we” (Maidens, Angela, Ella)

Patience. Act I. “Still brooding on their mad infatuation” (Patience, Saphir, Angela, Maidens)

Patience. Act I. “I cannot tell what this love may be” (Patience, Maidens)

Patience. Act I. “The soldiers of our Queen” (Dragoons, Colonel Calverley)

Patience. Act I. “In a doleful train… Twenty lovesick maidens we” (Ella, Angela, Saphir, Maidens, Dragoons, Bunthorne)

Patience. Act I. “When I first put this uniform on” (Colonel Calverley)

Patience. Act I. “Am I alone and unobserved?” (Bunthorne)

Patience. Act I. “Long years ago, fourteen maybe” (Patience, Angela)

Patience. Act I. “Prithee pretty maiden” (Grosvenor, Patience)

Patience. Act I. “Let the merry cymbals sound” (Maidens)

Patience. Act I. “Now tell us, we pray you” (Duke, Colonel, Major, Dragoons, Bunthorne, Maidens)

Patience. Act I. “Your maiden hearts” (Duke, Dragoons, Maidens)

Patience. Act I. “Come walk up and purchase with avidity” (Bunthorne, Maidens, Dragoons, Jane, Patience)

Patience. Act I. “True love must single-hearted be” (Patience, Bunthorne, Colonel, Major, Saphir, Angela)

Patience. Act I. “I hear the soft note… But who is this?” (All)

Patience. Act II. “On such eyes as maidens cherish” (Maidens)

Patience. Act II. “Sad is that woman’s lot” (Jane)

Patience. Act II. “Turn, oh turn in this direction” (Maidens)

Patience. Act II. “A magnet hung in a hardware shop” (Grosvenor, Maidens)

Patience. Act II. “Love is a plaintive song” (Patience)

Patience. Act II. “So go to him and say to him” (Jane, Bunthorne)

Patience. Act II. “It’s clear that medieval art alone retains its zest” (Duke, Major, Colonel)

Patience. Act II. “If Saphir I choose to marry” (Duke, Major, Saphir, Angela, Colonel)

Patience. Act II. “When I go out of door” (Bunthorne, Grosvenor)

Patience. Act II. “I’m a Waterloo House young man” (Grosvenor, Maidens)

Patience. Act II. “After much debate internal” (Duke, Bunthorne, All)

Symphony in E major “Irish”: I. Andante – Allegro, ma non troppo vivace

Symphony in E major “Irish”: II. Andante espressivo

Symphony in E major “Irish”: III. Allegretto (feat. oboe: Keith Wood)

Symphony in E major “Irish”: IV. Allegro vivace e con brio