The Little Sweep / A Boy Was Born

Tracklist

• 1
  The Little Sweep (Let's Make an opera), op. 45: I. "Sweep! Sweep!" (Audience)
  1:57
• 2
  The Little Sweep (Let's Make an opera), op. 45: II. "Sweep this chimney" (Miss Baggott)
  1:59
• 3
  The Little Sweep (Let's Make an opera), op. 45: III. "Now, little white boy!" (Black Bob, Clem)
  4:04
• 4
  The Little Sweep (Let's Make an opera), op. 45: IV. "Pull the rope gently until he is free!" (Children)
  1:43
• 5
  The Little Sweep (Let's Make an opera), op. 45: V. "Is he wounded?" (Children)
  1:29
• 6
  The Little Sweep (Let's Make an opera), op. 45: VI. "Sooty tracks..." (Children) / VII. "Wait until..." (Miss Baggott, Black Bob, Clem)
  2:24
• 7
  The Little Sweep (Let's Make an opera), op. 45: VIII. "Run... poor sweepboy" (Rowan)
  4:19
• 8
  The Little Sweep (Let's Make an opera), op. 45: IX. "The kettles are singing" (Audience)
  2:46
• 9
  The Little Sweep (Let's Make an opera), op. 45: X. "O why do you weep through the working day?" (Children, Rowan, Sam)
  3:07
• 10
  The Little Sweep (Let's Make an opera), op. 45: XI. Pantomime / XII. "Ah!... Blackguards!" (Miss Baggott)
  4:17
• 11
  The Little Sweep (Let's Make an opera), op. 45: XIII. "Help! help! she's collapsed!" (Miss Baggott)
  2:07
• 12
  The Little Sweep (Let's Make an opera), op. 45: XIV. "The owl, wide-winging through the sky" (Audience)
  4:05
• 13
  The Little Sweep (Let's Make an opera), op. 45: XV. "Soon the coach will carry you away" (Juliet)
  2:29
• 14
  The Little Sweep (Let's Make an opera), op. 45: XVI. "'Morning Sammy! Lovely weather" (Johnnie)
  1:51
• 15
  The Little Sweep (Let's Make an opera), op. 45: XVII. "Ready Alfred?" (Tom, Alfred)
  2:52
• 16
  The Little Sweep (Let's Make an opera), op. 45: XVIII. Finale "Coaching song" (All)
  2:23
• 17
  A Boy Was Born, op. 3: "A boy was born (theme)"
  2:01
• 18
  A Boy Was Born, op. 3: Variation I. "Lullay, Jesu"
  4:19
• 19
  A Boy Was Born, op. 3: Variation II. "Herod"
  2:07
• 20
  A Boy Was Born, op. 3: Variation III. "Jesu, as Thou art our Saviour"
  2:32
• 21
  A Boy Was Born, op. 3: Variation IV. "The three kings"
  3:35
• 22
  A Boy Was Born, op. 3: Variation V. "In the bleak mid-winter"
  4:52
• 23
  A Boy Was Born, op. 3: Variation VI. Finale "Noel!"
  8:54

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Release credits

• Benjamin Britten
  conductor
• Choir of All Saints Church, Margaret Street
  choir vocals [17-23]
• English Opera Group
  performing orchestra [1-16], vocal [17-23]
• Gordon Parry
  recording [17-23]
• Kenneth Wilkinson
  recording [17-23]
• Purcell Singers
  choir vocals [17-23]

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