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Britten Conducts Britten: Operas, Vol. 2
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CD DetailsComposer: Benjamin Britten Conductor: Benjamin Britten Conductor: Steuart Bedford Conductor: Charles Mackerras Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra Orchestra: Welsh National Opera Orchestra Orchestra: English Opera Group Orchestra Performer: Janet Baker Performer: Elizabeth Harwood Performer: Philip Langridge Performer: Peter Pears Performer: John Shirley-Quirk Performer: Owen Brannigan Performer: Alfred Deller Performer: Heather Harper Performer: Thomas Hemsley Performer: David Kelly Performer: Norman Lumsden Performer: Kenneth MacDonald Edition: Music CD Audio: English (Original Language) Format: Box set, Collector's Edition CD Release Date: 2005-03-15 Music Label: Decca Soundtracks: Music CD 1- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 1. Introduction... Over hill, over dale
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 1. Oberon is passing... Ill met by moonlight
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 1. Well, go thy way
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 1. How now, my love? Why is your cheek so pale?... I swear to thee, by Cupid's stronges
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 1. (Be it Lion, Bear or Wolf...) ...I love thee not
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 1. Welcome, wanderer!... I know a bank
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 1. Is all our company here?
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 1. Fair love, you faint with wand'ring in the wood
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 1. Through the forest have I gone
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 1. Stay, tho' thou kill me, sweet Demetrius... Lysander, if you live, good sire, awake
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 1. Come, now a roundel, and a fairy song
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 1. You spotted snakes
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 1. What thou seest when thou dost wake
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 2. Introduction
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 2. Are we all met?... What hempen homespuns have we swaggering here
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 2. I see their knavery... What angel wakes me
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 2. Be kind and courteous to this gentleman
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 2. Hail, mortal, hail!
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 2. I have a reas'nable good ear in music
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 2. How now, mad spirit... O why rebuke you him that loves you so?...What hast thou done
Music CD 2- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 2. Flower of this purple dye... Why should you think that I should woo in scorn?... O H
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 2. Puppet? why so?
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 2. This is thy negligence... Thou see'st these lovers seek a place to fight
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 2. Up and down... Where art thou, proud Demetrius?
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 2. On the ground, sleep sound
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 3. Scene 1. Introduction... My gentle Robin, see'st thou this sweet sight?... My Oberon
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 3. Scene 1. Helena! - Hermia! - Demetrius! - Lysander!
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 3. Scene 1. When my cue comes, call me
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 3. Scene 1. Have you sent to Bottom's house?
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 3. Scene 2. Orchestral march... Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 3. Scene 2. If we offend, it is with our good will
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 3. Scene 2. Gentle, perchance you wonder at this show
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 3. Scene 2. In this same Interlude, it doth befall
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 3. Scene 2. O grim-lock'd night
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 3. Scene 2. O Wall, full often hast thou heard my moans
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 3. Scene 2. You Ladies, you (whose gentle hearts do fear...)
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 3. Scene 2. Sweet Moon, I thank thee for thy sunny beams
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 3. Scene 2. Come, your Bergomask
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 3. Scene 2. Now the hungry lion roars... Through the house give glimmering light... Now
Music CD 3- Phaedra, dramatic cantata for mezzo-soprano, string orchestra, percussion & harpsichord, Op. 93: In May, in brilliant Athens
- Phaedra, dramatic cantata for mezzo-soprano, string orchestra, percussion & harpsichord, Op. 93: Oh Gods of wrath
- Phaedra, dramatic cantata for mezzo-soprano, string orchestra, percussion & harpsichord, Op. 93: My time's too short; your highness
- The Rape of Lucretia, chamber opera, Op. 37: Act 1. Scene 1. Rome is now ruled by the Etruscan upstart: Tarquinius Superbus
- The Rape of Lucretia, chamber opera, Op. 37: Act 1. Scene 1. It is an axion among kings, to use a foreign threat to hide a local evil
- The Rape of Lucretia, chamber opera, Op. 37: Act 1. Scene 1. Here the thirsty evening has drunk the wine of light
- The Rape of Lucretia, chamber opera, Op. 37: Act 1. Scene 1. Who reaches heaven first is the best philosopher
- The Rape of Lucretia, chamber opera, Op. 37: Act 1. Scene 1. Maria was unmasked at a masked ball
- The Rape of Lucretia, chamber opera, Op. 37: Act 1. Scene 1. Collatinus is politically astute to choose a virtuous wife
- The Rape of Lucretia, chamber opera, Op. 37: Act 1. Scene 1. There goes a happy man!
- The Rape of Lucretia, chamber opera, Op. 37: Act 1. Scene 1. Tarquinius does not dare, when Tarquinius does not desire
- The Rape of Lucretia, chamber opera, Op. 37: Act 1. Scene 1. My horse! My horse! / Interlude. Tarquinius does not wait for his servan
- The Rape of Lucretia, chamber opera, Op. 37: Act 1. Scene 2. Their spinning-wheel unwinds dreams which desire has spun!
- The Rape of Lucretia, chamber opera, Op. 37: Act 1. Scene 2. Listen! I heard a knock... How cruel men are to teach us love!
- The Rape of Lucretia, chamber opera, Op. 37: Act 1. Scene 2. Time treads upon the hands of women
- The Rape of Lucretia, chamber opera, Op. 37: Act 1. Scene 2. The oatmeal slippers of sleep creep through the city... Open, in the nam
Music CD 4- The Rape of Lucretia, chamber opera, Op. 37: Act 2. Scene 1. The prosperity of the Etruscans was due to the richness of their native
- The Rape of Lucretia, chamber opera, Op. 37: Act 2. Scene 1. She sleeps as a rose upon the night
- The Rape of Lucretia, chamber opera, Op. 37: Act 2. Scene 1. Within this frail crucible of light
- The Rape of Lucretia, chamber opera, Op. 37: Act 2. Scene 1. Lucretia! - What do you want? - You!
- The Rape of Lucretia, chamber opera, Op. 37: Act 2. Interlude. Here in this scene you see virtue assailed by sin
- The Rape of Lucretia, chamber opera, Op. 37: Act 2. Scene 2. Oh! What a lovely day!
- The Rape of Lucretia, chamber opera, Op. 37: Act 2. Scene 2. We'll leave the orchids for Lucretia to arrange... Lucia, go send a mess
- The Rape of Lucretia, chamber opera, Op. 37: Act 2. Scene 2. Flowers bring to every year the same perfection
- The Rape of Lucretia, chamber opera, Op. 37: Act 2. Scene 2. You were right. Tarquinius took one of the horses... Where is Lucretia?
- The Rape of Lucretia, chamber opera, Op. 37: Act 2. Scene 2. Lucretia! Lucretia!
- The Rape of Lucretia, chamber opera, Op. 37: Act 2. Scene 2. Las night Tarquinius ravished me
- The Rape of Lucretia, chamber opera, Op. 37: Act 2. Scene 2. This dead hand lets fall all that my heart held when full
- The Rape of Lucretia, chamber opera, Op. 37: Act 2. Epilogue. Is it all?
Music CD 5- Turn of the Screw, chamber opera, Op. 54: Act 1. Prologue
- Turn of the Screw, chamber opera, Op. 54: Act 1. Theme. Scene 1. The Journey
- Turn of the Screw, chamber opera, Op. 54: Act 1. Variation 1 / Scene 2. The Welcome
- Turn of the Screw, chamber opera, Op. 54: Act 1. Variation 2 / Scene 3. The Letter
- Turn of the Screw, chamber opera, Op. 54: Act 1. Variation 3 / Scene 4. The Tower
- Turn of the Screw, chamber opera, Op. 54: Act 1. Variation 4 / Scene 5. The Window
- Turn of the Screw, chamber opera, Op. 54: Act 1. Variation 5 / Scene 6. The Lesson
- Turn of the Screw, chamber opera, Op. 54: Act 1. Variation 6 / Scene 7. The Lake
- Turn of the Screw, chamber opera, Op. 54: Act 1. Variation 7 / Scene 8. At Night
Music CD 6- Turn of the Screw, chamber opera, Op. 54: Act 2. Variation 8 / Scene 1. Colloquy and Soliloquy
- Turn of the Screw, chamber opera, Op. 54: Act 2. Variation 9 / Scene 2. The Bells
- Turn of the Screw, chamber opera, Op. 54: Act 2. Variation 10 / Scene 3. Miss Jesse!
- Turn of the Screw, chamber opera, Op. 54: Act 2. Variation 11 / Scene 4. The Bedroom
- Turn of the Screw, chamber opera, Op. 54: Act 2. Variation 12 / Scene 5. Quint
- Turn of the Screw, chamber opera, Op. 54: Act 2. Variation 13 / Scene 6. The Piano
- Turn of the Screw, chamber opera, Op. 54: Act 2. Variation 14 / Scene 7. Flora
- Turn of the Screw, chamber opera, Op. 54: Act 2. Variation 15 / Scene 8. Miles
Music CD 7- Death in Venice, opera, Op. 88: Act 1. Scene 6. Naturally, Signore, I understand
- Death in Venice, opera, Op. 88: Act 1. Scene 6. Here I will stay, here dedicate my days to the sun / Scene 7. Beneath a dazzling sk
- Death in Venice, opera, Op. 88: Act 1. Scene 1. My mind beats on and no words come
- Death in Venice, opera, Op. 88: Act 1. Scene 1. Who's that? A foreigner, a traveller no doubt... Marvels unfold!
- Death in Venice, opera, Op. 88: Act 1. Scene 2. Hey there, hey there, you!... Ho! Here comes young Casanova... Greetings, Conte!
- Death in Venice, opera, Op. 88: Act 1. Scene 2. Serenissima, Serenissima - Low-lying clouds
- Death in Venice, opera, Op. 88: Act 1. Scene 2. Overture: Venice
- Death in Venice, opera, Op. 88: Act 1. Scene 3. Ah Serenissima!
- Death in Venice, opera, Op. 88: Act 1. Scene 3. Mysterious gondola
- Death in Venice, opera, Op. 88: Act 1. Scene 4. We are delighted to greet the Signore to our excellent hotel
- Death in Venice, opera, Op. 88: Act 1. Scene 4. Was I wrong to come
- Death in Venice, opera, Op. 88: Act 1. Scene 4. There is indeed in every artist's nature / Scene 5. The wind is from the West... Ah
- Death in Venice, opera, Op. 88: Act 1. Scene 6. Aou'! Stagando, aou!
Music CD 8- Death in Venice, opera, Op. 88: Act 1. Scene 7. First the race!
- Death in Venice, opera, Op. 88: Act 1. Scene 7. The boy, Tadzio, shall inspire me
- Death in Venice, opera, Op. 88: Act 2. Scene 7. So, it has come to this
- Death in Venice, opera, Op. 88: Act 2. Scene 8. Guardate, Signore!
- Death in Venice, opera, Op. 88: Act 2. Scene 9. Do I detect a scent? A sweetish medicinal cleanliness
- Death in Venice, opera, Op. 88: Act 2. Scene 9. Careful search now leads me to them... Ah, Tadzio, Eros, Ganymede... Gustav von Asc
- Death in Venice, opera, Op. 88: Act 2. Scene 10. This way for the players, Signori! Why are they disinfecting Venice?
- Death in Venice, opera, Op. 88: Act 2. Scene 11. One moment, if you please... Young man, why do all these people hurry to leave?
- Death in Venice, opera, Op. 88: Act 2. Scene 11. In these last years, Asiatic cholerea has spread
- Death in Venice, opera, Op. 88: Act 2. Scene 12. So it is true, true, more fearful than I thought
- Death in Venice, opera, Op. 88: Act 2. Scene 13. Receive the stranger god - No! Reject the abyss
- Death in Venice, opera, Op. 88: Act 2. Scene 14. (The empty beach) ...Do what you will with me!
- Death in Venice, opera, Op. 88: Act 2. Scene 15. Yes, a very wise decision
- Death in Venice, opera, Op. 88: Act 2. Scene 16. Hurrah for the Piazza
- Death in Venice, opera, Op. 88: Act 2. Scene 16. Chaos, chaos and sickness
- Death in Venice, opera, Op. 88: Act 2. Scene 17. The wind still blows from the land
- Death in Venice, opera, Op. 88: Act 2. Scene 17. (On the beach) ...Ah, no!
Music CD 9- Gloriana, opera, Op. 53: Act 1. Scene 1. No. 1. Prelude
- Gloriana, opera, Op. 53: Act 1. Scene 1. No. 2. The tournament
- Gloriana, opera, Op. 53: Act 1. Scene 1. No. 3. Recitative and fight
- Gloriana, opera, Op. 53: Act 1. Scene 1. No. 4. Entrance of the Queen
- Gloriana, opera, Op. 53: Act 1. Scene 1. No. 5. Recitative
- Gloriana, opera, Op. 53: Act 1. Scene 1. No. 6. The two lords' explanation
- Gloriana, opera, Op. 53: Act 1. Scene 1. No. 7. Raleigh's song
- Gloriana, opera, Op. 53: Act 1. Scene 1. No. 8. Ensemble of reconciliation
- Gloriana, opera, Op. 53: Act 1. Scene 1. No. 9. Recitative and final march
- Gloriana, opera, Op. 53: Act 1. Scene 2. No. 1. Prelude and dialogue
- Gloriana, opera, Op. 53: Act 1. Scene 2. No. 2. The Queen's song
- Gloriana, opera, Op. 53: Act 1. Scene 2. No. 3. Cecil's song of government
- Gloriana, opera, Op. 53: Act 1. Scene 2. No. 4. Recitative and Essex's entry
- Gloriana, opera, Op. 53: Act 1. Scene 2. No. 5. First lute song
- Gloriana, opera, Op. 53: Act 1. Scene 2. No. 6. Second lute song
- Gloriana, opera, Op. 53: Act 1. Scene 2. No. 7. The first duet for the Queen and Essex
- Gloriana, opera, Op. 53: Act 1. Scene 2. No. 8. Soliloquy and prayer
- Gloriana, opera, Op. 53: Act 2. Scene 1. No. 1. Prelude and welcome
- Gloriana, opera, Op. 53: Act 2. Scene 1. No. 2. The Masque
- Gloriana, opera, Op. 53: Act 2. Scene 1. No. 3. Finale
- Gloriana, opera, Op. 53: Act 2. Scene 2. No. 1. Prelude and song
- Gloriana, opera, Op. 53: Act 2. Scene 2. No. 2. Duet
- Gloriana, opera, Op. 53: Act 2. Scene 2. No. 3. Double duet
- Gloriana, opera, Op. 53: Act 2. Scene 2. No. 4. Quartet
Music CD 10- Gloriana, opera, Op. 53: Act 2. Scene 3. No. 1. Pavane
- Gloriana, opera, Op. 53: Act 2. Scene 3. No. 2. Conversation
- Gloriana, opera, Op. 53: Act 2. Scene 3. No. 3. Galliard
- Gloriana, opera, Op. 53: Act 2. Scene 3. No. 4. Conversation and the Queen's entrance
- Gloriana, opera, Op. 53: Act 2. Scene 3. No. 5. Lavolta
- Gloriana, opera, Op. 53: Act 2. Scene 3. No. 6. Conversation
- Gloriana, opera, Op. 53: Act 2. Scene 3. No. 7. Morris dance
- Gloriana, opera, Op. 53: Act 2. Scene 3. No. 8. Recitative
- Gloriana, opera, Op. 53: Act 2. Scene 3. No. 9. The Queen's burlesque
- Gloriana, opera, Op. 53: Act 2. Scene 3. No. 10. Quartet
- Gloriana, opera, Op. 53: Act 2. Scene 3. No. 11. March
- Gloriana, opera, Op. 53: Act 2. Scene 3. No. 12. The Queen's announcement
- Gloriana, opera, Op. 53: Act 2. Scene 3. No. 13. Ensemble
- Gloriana, opera, Op. 53: Act 2. Scene 3. No. 14. Coranto
- Gloriana, opera, Op. 53: Act 3. Scene 1. No. 1. Prelude and chatter
- Gloriana, opera, Op. 53: Act 3. Scene 1. No. 2. Essex's intrusion
- Gloriana, opera, Op. 53: Act 3. Scene 1. No. 3. The second duet of the Queen and Essex
- Gloriana, opera, Op. 53: Act 3. Scene 1. No. 4. The dressing-table song
- Gloriana, opera, Op. 53: Act 3. Scene 1. No. 5. The entrance of Cecil
- Gloriana, opera, Op. 53: Act 3. Scene 1. No. 6. Cecil's report
- Gloriana, opera, Op. 53: Act 3. Scene 1. No. 7. Discussion
- Gloriana, opera, Op. 53: Act 3. Scene 1. No. 8. The Queen's decision
- Gloriana, opera, Op. 53: Act 3. Scene 2. Ballad - rondo
- Gloriana, opera, Op. 53: Act 3. Scene 3. No. 1. Prelude and verdict
- Gloriana, opera, Op. 53: Act 3. Scene 3. No. 2. Cecil's warning
- Gloriana, opera, Op. 53: Act 3. Scene 3. No. 3. The Queen's dilemma
- Gloriana, opera, Op. 53: Act 3. Scene 3. No. 4. Trio
- Gloriana, opera, Op. 53: Act 3. Scene 3. No. 5. Lady Essex's pleading
- Gloriana, opera, Op. 53: Act 3. Scene 3. No. 6. Penelope Rich's pleading
- Gloriana, opera, Op. 53: Act 3. Scene 3. No. 7. Epilogue
Music reviews of Britten Conducts Britten: Operas, Vol. 2Music Review: Britten's lesser operas Rating: 3 Stars
I loved Britten's Operas 1. So I snatched this item up right away. It's o.k. but not as good as the first collection. Death in Venice and the Turn of the Screw were the only operas on these discs that I really cared for. Bedford's version of Death in Venice is every bit as good as the Hickox version so if you already have one there's really no need to get the other. As for the other operas they're nowhere near as good as Billy Budd, Peter Grimes, or Albert Herring. For those just discovering Britten's operas start out with the first boxed set.
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