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Britten Conducts Britten: Opera 2

Elizabeth Harwood (Tytania), Alfred Deller (Oberon), Peter Pears (Lysander), Thomas Hemsley (Demetrius), Heather Harper (Helena), Josephine Veasey (Hermia), John Shirley-Quirk (Theseus), Helen Watts (Hippolyta), Owen Brannigan (Bottom), Norman Lumsden (Quince), Dame Janet Baker (Lucretia), Peter...

Britten Conducts Britten: Opera 2
the set remains an essential bargain investment for collectors drawn to this repertoire

Penguin Guide, 20103 out of 4 stars

Britten Conducts Britten: Opera 2

Elizabeth Harwood (Tytania), Alfred Deller (Oberon), Peter Pears (Lysander), Thomas Hemsley (Demetrius), Heather Harper (Helena), Josephine Veasey (Hermia), John Shirley-Quirk (Theseus), Helen Watts (Hippolyta), Owen Brannigan (Bottom), Norman Lumsden (Quince), Dame Janet Baker (Lucretia), Peter...

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Work length2:23:34
"Over Hill, Over Dale"
Track length4:04
"Oberon Is Passing Fell and Wrath"
Track length3:06
"Well, Go Thy Way"
Track length3:24
"How Now My Love?"
Track length4:32
"Be It On Lion, Bear, Or Wolf, Or Bull"
Track length3:40
"Welcome Wanderer!"
Track length4:30
"Is All Our Company Here?"
Track length7:36
"Fair Love, You Faint With Wand'ring In the Wood"
Track length2:41
"Through the Forest Have I Gone"
Track length1:45
"Stay, Though Thou Kill Me, Sweet Demetrius"
Track length5:14
"Come, Now A Roundel and A Fairy Song"
Track length1:58
"You Spotted Snakes With Double Tongue"
Track length2:14
"What Thou Seest When Thou Dost Wake"
Track length1:46
Introduction: The wood
Track length3:19
"Are We All Met?"
Track length7:36
"I See Their Knavery"
Track length3:05
"Be Kind and Courteous To This Gentleman"
Track length1:16
"Hail, Mortal, Hail!"
Track length5:14
"I Have A Reas'nable Good Ear In Music"
Track length3:39
"How Now, Mad Spirit?"
Track length3:05
"Flower Of This Purple Dye"
Track length6:32
"Puppet? Why So?"
Track length3:04
"This Is Thy Negligence"
Track length2:09
"Up and down, Up and Down"
Track length6:02
"On the Ground, Sleep Sound"
Track length3:04
"My Gentle Robin, See'st Thou This Sweet Sight?"
Track length7:07
"Helena! Hermi! Demetrius! Lysander!"
Track length4:46
"When My Cue Comes, Call Me"
Track length3:37
"Have You Sent To Bottom's House?"
Track length3:09
"Now, Fair Hippolyta"
Track length7:24
"If We Offend, It Is With Our Good Will"
Track length1:20
"Gentles, Perchange You Wonder At This Show"
Track length1:16
"In This Same Interlude It Doth Befall"
Track length1:10
"O Grim-Look'd Night, O Night With Hue So Black"
Track length1:51
"O Wall, Full Often Hast Thou Heard My Moans"
Track length2:30
"You Ladies, You Whose Gentle Hearts Do Fear"
Track length0:46
"This Lanthorn Doth the Horned Moon Present"
Track length1:50
"Sweet Moon, I Thank Thee For Thy Sunny Beams"
Track length1:52
"Asleep, My Love?"
Track length2:32
"Come, Your Bergomask"
Track length2:46
"Now the Hungry Lion Roars"
Track length5:03
Britten: Phaedra, Op. 93
Work length15:22
In May, In Brilliant Athens
Track length6:37
Oh Gods Of Wrath
Track length2:50
My Time's Too Short, Your Highness
Track length5:55
Britten: The Rape of Lucretia
Work length1:47:59
"Rome Is Now Ruled By the Etruscan Upstart"
Track length2:38
"It Is An Axiom Among Kings"
Track length2:33
"Here the Thirsty Evening"
Track length2:51
"Who Reaches Heaven First"
Track length2:32
"Maria Was Unmasked At a Masked Ball"
Track length4:13
"Collatinus Is Politically Astute"
Track length4:29
"There Goes a Happy Man!"
Track length4:14
"Tarquinius Does Not Dare"
Track length2:26
"My Horse! My Horse! Tarquinius Does Not Wait"
Track length3:06
"Their Spinning-Wheel Unwinds"
Track length5:19
"Listen! I Heard a Knock"
Track length2:34
"Time Treads Upon the Hands Of Women"
Track length3:42
"The Oatmeal Slippers Of Sleep"
Track length7:36
"The Prosperity Of the Etruscans"
Track length7:19
"She Sleeps As a Rose"
Track length5:25
"Within This Frail Crucible Of Light"
Track length4:25
"Lucretia!...What Do You Want?"
Track length5:57
Interlude: "Here In This Scene"
Track length4:06
"Oh! What a Lovely Day!"
Track length4:26
"We'll Leave the Orchids For Lucretia"
Track length4:59
"Flowers Bring To Every Year"
Track length3:24
"You Were Right"
Track length3:51
"Lucretia! Lucretia!"
Track length2:57
"Last Night Tarquinius Ravished Me"
Track length3:29
"This Dead Hand Lets Fall"
Track length4:08
Epilogue: "Is It All?"
Track length5:20
Britten: The Turn of the Screw
Work length1:45:02
Prologue
Track length2:48
Theme - Scene 1: The Journey
Track length3:25
Interlude: Variation I - Scene 2: The Welcome
Track length4:08
Interlude: Variation II - Scene 3: The Letter
Track length3:51
Interlude: Variation III - Scene 4: The Tower
Track length5:49
Interlude: Variation IV - Scene 5: The Window
Track length9:59
Interlude: Variation V - Scene 6: The Lesson
Track length4:44
Interlude: Variation VI - Scene 7: The Lake
Track length6:37
Interlude: Variation VII - Scene 8: At Night
Track length10:44
Interlude: Variation VIII - Scene 1: Colloquy and So- lioquy
Track length8:36
Interlude: Variation IX - Scene 2: The Bells
Track length8:30
Interlude: Variation X - Scene 3: Miss Jessel
Track length6:20
Interlude: Variation XI - Scene 4: The Bedroom
Track length5:57
Interlude: Variation XII - Scene 5: Quint
Track length2:06
Interlude: Variation XIII - Scene 6: The Piano
Track length4:51
Interlude: Variation XIV - Scene 7: Flora
Track length4:54
Interlude: Variation XV - Scene 8: Miles
Track length11:43
Britten: Death in Venice
Work length2:24:56
  • Peter Pears (tenor), John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), Stuart Harling (baritone), Kenneth Bowen (tenor), Michael Bauer (voice), Michael Follis (voice), Neville Williams (bass-baritone), Angela Vernon Bates (voice), Sheila Brand (voice), Anna Vincent (voice), Anne Wilkens (mezzo-soprano), Iris Saunders (soprano), Penelope McKay (soprano), Stephen James Adams (voice), Janice Hooper Roe (voice), Peter Leeming (baritone), Robert Carpenter Turner (voice), Ronald Murdock (voice), James Bowman (countertenor), Keith Jones (voice)
  • English Chamber Orchestra
  • Steuart Bedford
  • Recorded: 1974-04-18
  • Recording Venue: The Maltings, Snape, Suffolk
"My Mind Beats On"
Track length4:56
"Who's That? A Foreigner, a Traveller No Doubt"
Track length4:53
"Hey There, Hey There, You!"
Track length3:47
"Serenissima...Low-Lying Clouds, Unending Grey"
Track length2:55
Overture: Venice
Track length2:35
"Ah, Serenissima!"
Track length5:20
"Mysterious Gondola"
Track length1:41
"We Are Delighted To Greet the Signore"
Track length4:08
"Was I Wrong To Come?"
Track length6:13
"There Is Indeed In Every Artist's Nature"
Track length2:40
"Children's Games: Adziu, Adziu"
Track length10:04
"Aou'! Stagando, Aou'"
Track length4:51
"Naturally, Signore, I Understand"
Track length7:55
"Here Will I Stay, Here Dedicate My Days"
Track length9:43
"First, the Race!"
Track length5:07
"The Boy, Tadzio, Shall Inspire Me"
Track length4:17
"So, It Has Come To This"
Track length4:38
"Guardate, Signore!"
Track length2:20
"Do I Detect a Scent?"
Track length6:24
"Careful Search Now Leads Me To Them"
Track length7:47
"This Way For the Players, Signori"
Track length4:25
"Fiorir Rose In Mezo Al Giasso"
Track length4:10
"One Moment, If You Please"
Track length2:00
"In These Last Years"
Track length2:56
"So It Is True"
Track length4:22
"Receive the Stranger God"
Track length3:46
"The Empty Beach: Do What You Will With Me"
Track length1:59
"Yes! A Very Wise Decision"
Track length2:23
"Hurrah For the Piazza"
Track length2:54
"Chaos, Chaos and Sickness"
Track length4:23
"The Wind Still Blows From the Land"
Track length4:17
Interlude: "Ah, No!"
Track length5:07
Britten: Gloriana
Work length2:27:12
1. Prelude
Track length2:20
2. The Tornament
Track length4:18
3. Recitative & Fight
Track length1:25
4. Entrance of the Queen
Track length1:29
5. Recitative
Track length1:07
6. The two Lords' Explanation
Track length1:24
7. Raleigh's Song
Track length1:43
8. Ensemble of Reconciliation
Track length4:48
9. Recitative & Final March
Track length1:29
10. Prelude & Dialogue
Track length2:02
11. The Queen's Song
Track length1:57
12. Cecil's Song of Government
Track length1:56
13. Recitative & Essex's Entry
Track length2:35
14. First Lute Song
Track length1:59
15. Second Lute Song
Track length3:43
16. The First Duet for the Queen & Essex
Track length4:12
17. Soliloquy & Prayer
Track length5:10
18. Prelude & Welcome
Track length4:03
19. The Masque
Track length11:47
20. Finale
Track length2:51
21. Prelude & Song
Track length2:14
22. Duet
Track length1:25
23. Double Duet
Track length1:46
24. Quartet
Track length3:38
25. Pavane
Track length2:09
26. Conversation
Track length1:20
27. Galliard
Track length1:50
28. Conversation & the Queen's Entrance
Track length1:03
29. Lavolta
Track length1:25
30. Conversation
Track length0:49
31. Morris dance
Track length1:04
32. Recitative
Track length0:24
33. The Queen's Burlesque
Track length1:49
34. Quartet
Track length2:50
35. March
Track length0:46
36. The Queen's Announcement
Track length2:04
37. Ensemble
Track length3:08
38. Coranto
Track length1:16
39. Prelude & Chatter
Track length2:54
40. Essex's Intrusion
Track length0:56
41. The Second Duet of the Queen & Essex
Track length8:00
42. The Dressing-Table Song
Track length2:45
43. The Entrance of Cecil
Track length1:03
44. Cecil's Report
Track length0:47
45. Discussion
Track length0:58
46. The Queen's Decision
Track length1:38
47. Ballad - Rondo
Track length10:35
48. Prelude & Verdict
Track length6:16
49. Cecil's Warning
Track length0:56
50. The Queen's Dilemma
Track length1:29
51. Trio
Track length2:30
52. Lady Essex's Pleading
Track length2:35
53. Penelope Rich's Pleading
Track length1:41
54. Epilogue
Track length8:51

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2010

the set remains an essential bargain investment for collectors drawn to this repertoire
3 out of 4 stars
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