Britten: Billy Budd ~ Hampson

Britten: Billy Budd ~ Hampson

Britten: Billy Budd ~ Hampson
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Composer: Benjamin Britten
Conductor: Kent Nagano
Orchestra: Hallé Orchestra
Performer: Manchester Boys Choir
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Import, Live
CD Release Date: 2005-08-17
Music Label: Erato / Warner
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Billy Budd: Act 1: Prologue
  2. Billy Budd: Act 1: Scene I: Pull, My Bantams
  3. Billy Budd: Act 1: Scene I: Send For John Claggart
  4. Billy Budd: Act 1: Scene I: Billy Budd, King Of The Birds (Billy)
  5. Billy Budd: Act 1: Scene I: I Heard, Your Honour! (Claggar)
  6. Billy Budd: Act 1: Scene I: Come Along, Kid!
  7. Billy Budd: Act 1: Scene I: Christ, The Poor Chap, The Poor Little Runt! (Billy)
  8. Billy Budd: Act 1: Scene I: Vere! Vere! Officers And Men... (Vere)
  9. Billy Budd: Act 2: Scene I: My Compliments... (Vere)
  10. Billy Budd: Act 2: Scene I: Don't Like The French!
  11. Billy Budd: Act 2: Scene I: Oh, That's Nothing (Vere)
  12. Billy Budd: Interlude and Scene 2: Blow Her Away
  13. Billy Budd: Act 2: Scene 2: Here Lads!
  14. Billy Budd: Act 2: Scene 2: Come Out Of That! (Billy)
  15. Billy Budd: Act 2: Scene 2: O Beauty, O Handsomeness (Claggart)
  16. Billy Budd: Act 2: Scene 2: Come Here, Remember Your Promise! (Claggart)
  17. Billy Budd: Act 2: Scene 2: Billy! Hist, Billy Budd!
  18. Billy Budd: Act 2: Scene 2: Dansker, Old Friend (Billy)
Music CD 2
  1. Billy Budd: Act 3: Scene 1: I Don't Like The Look Of The Mist! (Vere)
  2. Billy Budd: Act 3: Scene 1: Deck Ahoy!
  3. Billy Budd: Act 3: Scene 1: All Guns Ready Sir!
  4. Billy Budd: Act 3: Scene 1: There Are You Again, Master-At-Arms (Vere)
  5. Billy Budd: Act 3: Scene 1: Nay, Nay, You're Mistaken (Vere)
  6. Billy Budd: IInterlude and Scene 2: Claggart, John Claggart, Beware (Vere)
  7. Billy Budd: Act 3: Scene 2: You Wanted To See Me (Billy)
  8. Billy Budd: Act 3: Scene 2: God O'Mercy! (Vere)
  9. Billy Budd: Act 3: Scene 2: Interlude. William Budd, You Are Accused
  10. Billy Budd: Act 3: Scene 2: Poor Fellow, Who Could Save Him?
  11. Billy Budd: I Accept Their Verdict (Vere)
  12. Billy Budd: Act 4: Scene 1: Look! Through The Port Comes The Moonshine Astray! (Billy)
  13. Billy Budd: Act 4: Scene 1: And Farewell To Ye (Billy)
  14. Billy Budd: Act 4: Scene 1: According To The Articles Of War
  15. Billy Budd: Act 4: Scene 1: Starry Vere
  16. Billy Budd: Act 4: Scene 1: We Committed His Body To The Deep (Vere)

Music reviews of Britten: Billy Budd ~ Hampson

Music Review: Great Opera, Great performance ,Splendid Sound Quality
Rating: 5 Stars

My own bias: Melville lover. This is the only 20th century opera in English I've ever found really emotionally involving as a drama. It's a unique blend of 20th century sensibility and 20th century style with, somehow a 19th century flavor. Note how Billy's Act IV moonlight reflections on his execution set for the dawn is set to the same gentle rocking figure that Berlioz used for Hylas' lonely song in Les Troyens. I wonder whether it is even possible that Britten in 1950 could have known that Berlioz piece. The libretto by E. M. Forster and Eric Crozier is a wonderful humanizing of Melville's hard crystalline cerebral story of a good man confronting fathomless evil, and "having" to abet the evil by killing a purely good man for the "greater good" of his ship and country. They manage to get across a great deal of the complexity of Melville's short novel while adding opportunities for warmth and humor. And manage to make a slightly fatuous "Captain Vere has become a good man due to his contact with Billy" ending a reasonably acceptable conclusion even to someone like me who would prefer to leave the tale as Melville did, without that comforting thought.
Britten takes full advantage of every opportunity Forster and Crozier give him, setting scenes that move like good drama, with sweep and pace, and creates an unforgettable ending with the brass writing for Billy's hanging somehow dangling and twisting in the air with his body (never seen in either of the two productions I've seen) No need. Britten is both eyes and ears here.
I've never seen this 4-act version, just the 2-act revision
usually staged. Much was lost in the cutting. This recording is in really magnificent full throated sound with a very strong cast singing wonderfully and Kent Nagano never missing an opportunity for meaningfull phrasing. He instills, improbably but beautifully, a delicacy which is a perfect counterbalance to the vastness of the story and the orchestral force involved. I can see that i've gushed here. This recording deserves it. One of the treasures of my collection.
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