Billy Budd - Benjamin Britten; Nathan Gunn, Ian Bostridge, Gidon Saks, Neal Davies, Jonathan Lemalu, Matthew Rose, London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Daniel Harding

Billy Budd

Album by Benjamin Britten; Nathan Gunn, Ian Bostridge, Gidon Saks, Neal Davies, Jonathan Lemalu, Matthew Rose, London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Daniel Harding

Released 15 September 2008

Tracklist

Digital Media 1
1
Billy Budd: Prologue 'I am an old man' (Vere)
Benjamin Britten
5:00
2
Billy Budd: Pull, my bantams! Pull, my sparrow-legs!...Who did that? (First Mate et al)
Benjamin Britten
6:55
3
Billy Budd: Guard boat! Indomitable! (Maintop et al)
Benjamin Britten
3:29
4
Billy Budd: First man forward! (Claggart et al)
Benjamin Britten
2:10
5
Billy Budd: Your name? - Billy Budd, sir (Claggart/Billy/First Lieutenant/Sailing Master)
Benjamin Britten
2:43
6
Billy Budd: Billy Budd, king of the birds (Billy/Sailing Master/First Lieutenant/Ratcliffe)
Benjamin Britten
2:39
Digital Media 2
1
Billy Budd: I heard your honour! (Claggart/Squeak/Novice's Friend)
Benjamin Britten
3:53
2
Billy Budd: Come along kid! Come along! (Novice's Friend/Novice/Chorus)
Benjamin Britten
4:02
3
Billy Budd: Christ! The poor chap, The poor little runt! (Billy/Dansker/Red Whiskers/Donald)
Benjamin Britten
1:27
4
Billy Budd: What's that? What's those whistles? (Billy/Donald/Claggart/First Mate/Second Mate/Bosun)
Benjamin Britten
1:17
5
Billy Budd: Starry Vere we call him (Donald/Billy/Chorus/Red Whiskers/Dansker/Bosun)
Benjamin Britten
2:26
6
Billy Budd: Boy! - Yes sir! (Vere/Boy)
Benjamin Britten
3:32
7
Billy Budd: Gentlemen, The King! (Vere/First Lieutenant/Sailing Master)
Benjamin Britten
6:25
8
Billy Budd: Ay, at Spithead the men may have had their grievances (Vere/Sailing Master/First Lieutenant)
Benjamin Britten
1:01
9
Billy Budd: We are, sir. Claggart is an able one...Land on the port bow, sir (First Lieutenant/Vere/Sailing Master/Ratcliffe)
Benjamin Britten
6:51
10
Billy Budd: Blow her away, Blow her to Hilo (Red Whiskers/Chorus/Billy/Donald/Dansker)
Benjamin Britten
2:41
11
Billy Budd: We're off to Samoa (Donald/Chorus/Red Whiskers/Billy/Donald/Dansker)
Benjamin Britten
3:48
12
Billy Budd: Hi! You...A...A... (Billy et al)
Benjamin Britten
3:03
13
Billy Budd: Over the water, over the ocean (Chorus/Claggart)
Benjamin Britten
7:43
14
Billy Budd: Come here, Remember your promise (Claggart/Novice)
Benjamin Britten
5:43
15
Billy Budd: Billy!...Hist! Billy Budd! (Novice/Billy)
Benjamin Britten
4:13
16
Billy Budd: Dansker, old friend, glad to see you! (Billy/Dansker)
Benjamin Britten
4:48
Digital Media 3
1
Billy Budd: I don't like the look of the mist (Vere/First Lieutenant)
Benjamin Britten
1:48
2
Billy Budd: With great regret I must disturb your honour (Claggart/Vere)
Benjamin Britten
1:39
3
Billy Budd: Deck ahoy! Enemy sail on starboard bow! (Maintop et al)
Benjamin Britten
3:22
4
Billy Budd: Who'll volunteer to beard 'em in the smoke? (Vere et al.)
Benjamin Britten
7:46
5
Billy Budd: There you are again, Master-at-arms (Vere/Claggart/Boy)
Benjamin Britten
4:46
6
Billy Budd: O this cursed mist (Vere/First Lieutenant/Sailing Master/Ratcliffe)
Benjamin Britten
4:44
7
Billy Budd: Claggart, John Claggart, beware! I'm not so easily deceived (Vere/Billy)
Benjamin Britten
3:52
8
Billy Budd: Master-at-arms and foretopman, I speak to you both (Vere/Claggart/Billy)
Benjamin Britten
3:04
9
Billy Budd: God o' mercy! (Vere/Boy)
Benjamin Britten
1:58
10
Billy Budd: Gentlemen, William Budd here has killed the Master-at-arms (Vere/First Lieutenant/Sailing Master/Ratcliffe)
Benjamin Britten
1:23
11
Billy Budd: William Budd, you are accused... (First Lieutenant/Vere/Billy)
Benjamin Britten
5:47
12
Billy Budd: Poor fellow, who could save him? (First Lieutenant/Sailing Master/Ratcliffe)
Benjamin Britten
4:22
13
Billy Budd: I accept their verdict (Vere)
Benjamin Britten
7:15
14
Billy Budd: Look! Through the port comes the moon-shine astray! (Billy)
Benjamin Britten
5:44
15
Billy Budd: Here! Baby! (Dansker/Billy)
Benjamin Britten
3:58
16
Billy Budd: And farewell to ye, old Rights o' Man! (Billy)
Benjamin Britten
5:18
17
Billy Budd: Interlude
Benjamin Britten
3:08
18
Billy Budd: "According to the Articles of War..." (All except Vere)
Benjamin Britten
2:02
19
Billy Budd: Down all hands! And see that they go! (First Lieutenant et al)
Benjamin Britten
2:50
20
Billy Budd: We committed his body to the deep (Vere)
Benjamin Britten
4:45