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Tree Musical Fables
The Wind in the Willows, Brother Heinrichs Christmas and The Reluctant Dragon are
published by Hinshaw Music, Inc. (P.O. Box 470, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514)
for the USA, and by Oxford University Press (Great Clarendon Street, Oxford,
OX2 6DP, England) for all other countries.
The Wind in the Willows and The Reluctant Dragon were originally recorded by
Masterchord Records and Tapes Ltd. and released on the Masterchord label.
Collegium Records acknowledges with thanks Masterchords permission for their use.
Brother Heinrichs Christmas was originally released on the Collegium album Hurry to
Bethlehem.
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Introduction
Sigismund sings in the abbey choir
Sigismund is dismissed
Brother Heinrich and the new carol
The angels appear on Christmas Eve
Brother Heinrich writes down the Angels Carol
Christmas morning
The Angels Carol and Christmas dinner
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Introduction
Rat and Mole meet: A life on the river
Scene at Badgers house
Toads car
Court scene
Toad in gaol: Let me tickle your fancy
Toads song: Ive got style
The recapture of Toad Hall: Lets wallop a weasel
The banquet at Toad Hall
Finale: Home is a special kind of feeling
Introduction
The boy visits the dragons cave
The villagers and St George arrive
Trio: I say, old boy
Planning the tournament: First he waves his spear around
The tournament
Banquet fugue
Finale: Lets begin again
Rat, Mole and Badger: Well sort him out, well put him
right,
Well set him straight, well lecture him,
Well get him on the rails
And bash him up if all else fails,
Yes, thats what well do to prevent him from falling.
Field mice: On the first day of Christmas
My true love sent to me
A partridge in a pear tree . . .
Rat, Mole and Badger: Be off!
Narrator: And thats how things were left. Rat and
Mole returned home the next day, determined to save
Toad from the dreadful consequences of his new motor
car craze.
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Narrator: The rest of the winter passed quietly, but one
morning, quite early in the spring, all three animals
happened to be standing in a peaceful lane near the river
bank when they heard a most terrible commotion in the
distance. Sure enough, it was Toad; he jumped down
from his car.
I say you chaps, he said, what do you think of her?
Straight eight, with sleeve valves, of course . . . family
crest on the door . . . does nearly fifty downhill!
Badger interrupted sternly. Toad, you unhappy
creature!
Me unhappy? exclaimed Toad. What a lot of rot you
do talk, Badger. Why, Im the happiest creature alive!
The open road . . . the smell of hot oil . . . If you chaps
cant recognize the coming thing when you see it, then
Im afraid progress wont wait for you, and no more shall
I . . . Must be off! See you all up at my place some time.
And with that, Toad started the car up again and drove
off. But that wasnt the end of it, as Im afraid we shall
see . . .
5 Court scene
Usher: Silence! Silence in court!
Magistrate: Never in all my time as a magistrate . . .
never in all the long years Ive served on this bench . . .
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Angels: Alpha es et O,
Alpha es et O!
Narrator: The bright light faded, the singing stopped,
the angels disappeared; and all that was left was Brother
Heinrich lying dizzy and breathless on the ground, with
Sigismund beside him.
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Narrator: Did it really happen, Sigismund? wondered
Brother Heinrich. That was such a beautiful song the
angels sang. If only I could write a carol just like that we
could sing it at the Christmas service tomorrow . . .
Sigismund, why dont we sing the angels carol at the
Christmas service? If I go and write it down now we can
practise it first thing in the morning and itll be ready for
the service. Ill tell the choir the angels sang it to me!
Brother Heinrich rushed back to his room with
Sigismund clip-clopping close behind him. He sat down
excitedly at his desk, dipped his quill in the ink pot and
started writing out the angels carol as fast as he could go,
sprinkling sand on the parchment every so often to help
the ink dry.
A terrible thing had happened: he couldnt remember
how the tune ended. He tried all sorts of different
endings but none of them was the same as the angels had
sung. Oh Sigismund, wailed Brother Heinrich, were
not going to be able to do the angels carol after all I
cant remember the last bit . . . See, the tunes no use
without an ending.
What was that, Sigismund? Brother Heinrich clapped
his hands. Sigismund, thats it! Now I remember how
the tune ends!
Brother Heinrich quickly wrote down the last bit of the
tune in case he forgot it again, then the two of them
danced round and round the little room singing the
angels carol till they both fell asleep exhausted.
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Narrator: Early next morning Brother Heinrich ran to
find the Abbot and tell him everything that had
happened. The Abbot didnt believe a word of the story
about the angels, but he was so relieved that they were
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CSCD 513
STEREO DDD
Made in Great Britain
The Wind in the Willows and The Reluctant Dragon were recorded at
Roundhouse Recording Studios, London, in June 1983
(producer: Chris Hazell, sound engineer: John Gallen,
assisted by Neil Hutchinson).
Brother Heinrichs Christmas was recorded in the Great Hall of
University College School, London, in April 1985, by the
BBC Transcription Unit (producer: Jillian White;
balance engineer: Campbell Hughes)
Cover design: Elaine Pamphilon
Layout: Nick Findell
P this compilation 1991 Collegium Records
C this compilation 2003 Collegium Records
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