Britten: Billy Budd

Daniel Harding, Ian Bostridge, Neal Davies, Nathan Gunn, Jonathan Lemalu, London Symphony Orchestra, Matthew Rose & Gidon Saks

2008-09-15 • Classical

Tracklist

• 1
  Billy Budd: Prologue 'I am an old man' (Vere)
  5:01
• 2
  Billy Budd: Pull, my bantams! Pull, my sparrow-legs!...Who did that? (First Mate et al)
  6:55
• 3
  Billy Budd: Guard boat! Indomitable! (Maintop et al)
  3:30
• 4
  Billy Budd: First man forward! (Claggart et al)
  2:11
• 5
  Billy Budd: Your name? - Billy Budd, sir (Claggart/Billy/First Lieutenant/Sailing Master)
  2:43
• 6
  Billy Budd: Billy Budd, king of the birds (Billy/Sailing Master/First Lieutenant/Ratcliffe)
  2:40
• 1
  Billy Budd: I heard your honour! (Claggart/Squeak/Novice's Friend)
  3:54
• 2
  Billy Budd: Come along kid! Come along! (Novice's Friend/Novice/Chorus)
  4:02
• 3
  Billy Budd: Christ! The poor chap, The poor little runt! (Billy/Dansker/Red Whiskers/Donald)
  1:28
• 4
  Billy Budd: What's that? What's those whistles? (Billy/Donald/Claggart/First Mate/Second Mate/Bosun)
  1:18
• 5
  Billy Budd: Starry Vere we call him (Donald/Billy/Chorus/Red Whiskers/Dansker/Bosun)
  2:26
• 6
  Billy Budd: Boy! - Yes sir! (Vere/Boy)
  3:32
• 7
  Billy Budd: Gentlemen, The King! (Vere/First Lieutenant/Sailing Master)
  6:25
• 8
  Billy Budd: Ay, at Spithead the men may have had their grievances (Vere/Sailing Master/First Lieutenant)
  1:02
• 9
  Billy Budd: We are, sir. Claggart is an able one...Land on the port bow, sir (First Lieutenant/Vere/Sailing Master/Ratcliffe)
  6:51
• 10
  Billy Budd: Blow her away, Blow her to Hilo (Red Whiskers/Chorus/Billy/Donald/Dansker)
  2:42
• 11
  Billy Budd: We're off to Samoa (Donald/Chorus/Red Whiskers/Billy/Donald/Dansker)
  3:48
• 12
  Billy Budd: Hi! You...A...A... (Billy et al)
  3:03
• 13
  Billy Budd: Over the water, over the ocean (Chorus/Claggart)
  7:44
• 14
  Billy Budd: Come here, Remember your promise (Claggart/Novice)
  5:43
• 15
  Billy Budd: Billy!...Hist! Billy Budd! (Novice/Billy)
  4:14
• 16
  Billy Budd: Dansker, old friend, glad to see you! (Billy/Dansker)
  4:49
• 1
  Billy Budd: I don't like the look of the mist (Vere/First Lieutenant)
  1:48
• 2
  Billy Budd: With great regret I must disturb your honour (Claggart/Vere)
  1:40
• 3
  Billy Budd: Deck ahoy! Enemy sail on starboard bow! (Maintop et al)
  3:22
• 4
  Billy Budd: Who'll volunteer to beard 'em in the smoke? (Vere et al.)
  7:46
• 5
  Billy Budd: There you are again, Master-at-arms (Vere/Claggart/Boy)
  4:47
• 6
  Billy Budd: O this cursed mist (Vere/First Lieutenant/Sailing Master/Ratcliffe)
  4:45
• 7
  Billy Budd: Claggart, John Claggart, beware! I'm not so easily deceived (Vere/Billy)
  3:52
• 8
  Billy Budd: Master-at-arms and foretopman, I speak to you both (Vere/Claggart/Billy)
  3:04
• 9
  Billy Budd: God o' mercy! (Vere/Boy)
  1:58
• 10
  Billy Budd: Gentlemen, William Budd here has killed the Master-at-arms (Vere/First Lieutenant/Sailing Master/Ratcliffe)
  1:23
• 11
  Billy Budd: William Budd, you are accused... (First Lieutenant/Vere/Billy)
  5:47
• 12
  Billy Budd: Poor fellow, who could save him? (First Lieutenant/Sailing Master/Ratcliffe)
  4:23
• 13
  Billy Budd: I accept their verdict (Vere)
  7:16
• 14
  Billy Budd: Look! Through the port comes the moon-shine astray! (Billy)
  5:44
• 15
  Billy Budd: Here! Baby! (Dansker/Billy)
  3:59
• 16
  Billy Budd: And farewell to ye, old Rights o' Man! (Billy)
  5:19
• 17
  Billy Budd: Interlude
  3:09
• 18
  Billy Budd: "According to the Articles of War..." (All except Vere)
  2:03
• 19
  Billy Budd: Down all hands! And see that they go! (First Lieutenant et al)
  2:51
• 20
  Billy Budd: We committed his body to the deep (Vere)
  4:45