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Special offer. Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress

Jayne West, Jon Garrison, ArthurWoodley, John Cheek, Shirley Love, Wendy White, Melvin Lowery & Jeffrey Johnson

Gregg Smith Singers & Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Robert Craft

Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress
An Anglophone cast benefits Auden and Kallman's text while Robert Craft's neat conducting highlights the delicate ironies of Stravinsky's neo-classical score.

BBC Music Magazine, November 20093 out of 5 stars

Special offer. Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress

Jayne West, Jon Garrison, ArthurWoodley, John Cheek, Shirley Love, Wendy White, Melvin Lowery & Jeffrey Johnson

Gregg Smith Singers & Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Robert Craft

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An Anglophone cast benefits Auden and Kallman's text while Robert Craft's neat conducting highlights the delicate ironies of Stravinsky's neo-classical score.

BBC Music Magazine, November 20093 out of 5 stars

About

Robert Craft first met Stravinsky on the same day that Auden delivered the completed libretto to the composer, and was directly involved in what he describes as “the first step” in the composition of The Rake’s Progress.

This was principally with regard to helping Stravinsky master the pronunciation, vocabulary and rhythms of the English text, and sharing the composer’s excitement as the brilliantly conceived score took shape.

This 1993 recording, conducted by Craft, is no less significant than Stravinsky’s 1953 Metropolitan Opera recording, available on Naxos Historical 8111266-67.

“Craft understands Stravinsky's music better than anyone.” Fanfare

  • Release date: 27th Apr 2009
  • Label: Naxos
  • Series: Opera Classics
  • Catalogue number: 8660272-73
  • Length: 2 hours 7 minutes
  • Genre:

Contents and tracklist

Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress
Work length2:07:27
  • Jayne West (soprano), Jon Garrison (tenor), John Cheek (bass-baritone), Jeffrey Johnson (bass), Arthur Woodley (baritone), Shirley Love (mezzo-soprano), Wendy White (mezzo-soprano), Melvin Lowery (tenor)
  • Gregg Smith Singers, St. Luke's Orchestra
  • Robert Craft
  • Recorded: 10-18 May 1993
  • Recording Venue: The Preforming Arts Center, SUNY, Purchase, New York, USA
Prelude
Track length0:29
Act I Scene 1: Duet and Trio: The woods are green… (Anne, Tom, Trulove)
Track length3:16
Act I Scene 1: Recitative: Anne, my dear… (Trulove, Anne, Tom)
Track length0:54
Act I Scene 1: Recitative: Here I stand… (Tom)
Track length0:49
Act I Scene 1: Aria: Since it is not by merit… (Tom)
Track length1:31
Act I Scene 1: Recitative: Tom Rakewell? (Nick, Tom)
Track length1:24
Act I Scene 1: Recitative: Fair lady… (Nick)
Track length1:56
Act I Scene 1: Quartet: I wished but once… (Tom, Nick, Anne, Trulove)
Track length3:08
Act I Scene 1: Recitative: I'll call the coachman, sir (Nick, Trulove)
Track length0:11
Act I Scene 1: Duettino: Farewell, farewell… (Anne, Tom)
Track length1:13
Act I Scene 1: Recitative: All is ready, sir (Nick, Tom)
Track length0:45
Act I Scene 1: Arioso: Dear Father Trulove… (Tom)
Track length1:20
Act I Scene 1: Terzettino: Laughter and light… (Tom, Anne, Trulove, Nick)
Track length1:21
Act I Scene 2: Chorus: With air commanding… (Roaring boys, Whores)
Track length2:27
Act I Scene 2: Recitative and Scene: Come, Tom… (Nick, Mother Goose, Tom)
Track length3:30
Act I Scene 2: Chorus: Soon dawn will glitter… (Roaring boys, Whores, Nick)
Track length0:36
Act I Scene 2: Recitative: Brothers of Mars… (Nick)
Track length0:55
Act I Scene 2: Cavatina: Love, too frequently betrayed… (Tom)
Track length2:21
Act I Scene 2: Chorus: How sad a song (Whores, Mother Goose)
Track length0:48
Act I Scene 2: Chorus: The sun is bright (Chorus, Nick)
Track length2:09
Act I Scene 3: Introduction
Track length0:48
Act I Scene 3: Recitative: No word from Tom (Anne)
Track length0:52
Act I Scene 3: Aria: Quietly, night… (Anne)
Track length2:02
Act I Scene 3: Recitative: My father! (Anne)
Track length0:53
Act I Scene 3: Cabaletta: I go, I go to him (Anne)
Track length2:47
Act II Scene 1: Introduction
Track length0:31
Act II Scene 1: Aria: Vary the song (Tom)
Track length2:00
Act II Scene 1: Recitative: O Nature, green unnatural mother… (Tom)
Track length2:07
Act II Scene 1: Aria: Always the quarry… (Tom)
Track length1:22
Act II Scene 1: Recitative: Master, are you alone? (Nick, Tom)
Track length2:31
Act II Scene 1: Aria: In youth the panting slave… (Nick)
Track length2:08
Act II Scene 1: Duet-Finale: My tale shall be told… (Tom, Nick)
Track length2:09
Act II Scene 2: Introduction
Track length1:31
Act II Scene 2: Recitative and Arioso: How strange! (Anne)
Track length3:06
Act II Scene 2: Duet: Anne! Here! (Tom, Anne)
Track length2:15
Act II Scene 2: Recitative: My love, am I to remain in here forever? (Baba, Ann, Tom)
Track length0:55
Act II Scene 2: Trio: Could it then… (Anne, Tom, Baba)
Track length2:45
Act II Scene 2: Finale: I have not run away… (Baba, Tom, Town People)
Track length2:02
Act II Scene 3: Aria: As I was saying… (Baba, Tom)
Track length1:40
Act II Scene 3: Baba's Song (Baba)
Track length0:21
Act II Scene 3: Aria: Scorned! Abused! Neglected! (Baba)
Track length1:33
Act II Scene 3: Recitative: My heart is cold… (Tom)
Track length0:16
Act II Scene 3: Pantomime (Nick)
Track length0:58
Act II Scene 3: Recitative - Arioso - Recitative: Awake? (Nick, Tom)
Track length1:44
Act II Scene 3: Duet: Thanks to this excellent device… (Tom, Nick)
Track length1:41
Act II Scene 3: Recitative: Forgive me, master… (Nick, Tom)
Track length2:11
Act III Scene 1: Ruin, Disaster, Shame (Town People, Anne, Sellem)
Track length3:06
Act III Scene 1: Recitative: Ladies, both fair and gracious… (Sellem)
Track length1:25
Act III Scene 1: Aria: Who hears me, knows me… (Sellem, Chorus, Baba)
Track length3:31
Act III Scene 1: Aria: Sold! Annoyed! (Baba, Chorus, Tom, Nick)
Track length0:55
Act III Scene 1: Recitative: Now, what was that? (Chorus, Baba, Anne, Sellem)
Track length0:59
Act III Scene 1: Duet: You love him, seek to set him right… (Baba, Anne, Sellem, Chorus)
Track length3:29
Act III Scene 1: Ballad Tune: If boys had wings and girls had stings… (Tom, Nick, Anne, Baba, Sellem, Chorus)
Track length0:24
Act III Scene 1: Stretto-finale: I go to him… (Anne, Baba, Sellem, Chorus)
Track length0:50
Act III Scene 1: Ballad Tune: Who cares a fig… (Tom, Nick, Baba, Chorus)
Track length0:58
Act III Scene 2: Prelude
Track length1:35
Act III Scene 2: Duet: How dark, how dark and dreadful is this place (Tom, Nick)
Track length4:03
Act III Scene 2: Recitative: Very well then… (Nick, Tom)
Track length1:20
Act III Scene 2: Duet: Well, then. My heart is wild with fear… (Nick, Tom, Anne)
Track length10:28
Act III Scene 3: Introduction
Track length0:37
Act III Scene 3: Arioso: Prepare yourselves… (Tom)
Track length0:59
Act III Scene 3: Dialogue: Madmen's words are all untrue… (Madmen, Tom)
Track length0:23
Act III Scene 3: Chorus-minuet: Leave all love and hope behind! (Madmen)
Track length1:12
Act III Scene 3: Recitative: There he is… (Keeper, Tom, Anne)
Track length0:50
Act III Scene 3: Arioso: I have waited (Tom)
Track length0:57
Act III Scene 3: Duet: In a foolish dream… (Tom, Anne)
Track length2:42
Act III Scene 3: Recitative: I am exceeding weary (Tom)
Track length0:58
Act III Scene 3: Lullaby: Gently, little boat (Anne, Chorus)
Track length2:31
Act III Scene 3: Recitative: Anne, my dear… (Trulove, Anne)
Track length0:40
Act III Scene 3: Duettino: Every wearied body must… (Anne, Trulove)
Track length1:34
Act III Scene 3: Finale: Where art thou, Venus? (Tom, Chorus)
Track length3:15
Act III Scene 3: Mourning-chorus: Mourn for Adonis (Chorus)
Track length1:05
Act III Scene 3: Epilogue: Good people, just a moment… (Anne, Baba, Tom, Nick, Trulove)
Track length2:30

Awards and reviews

November 2009

An Anglophone cast benefits Auden and Kallman's text while Robert Craft's neat conducting highlights the delicate ironies of Stravinsky's neo-classical score.
3 out of 5 stars
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