The Sofa / The Departure

Tracklist

• 1
  The Sofa: "Ah, my sweet consolation!"
  2:14
• 2
  The Sofa: "How light the grace, the delicate twist"
  3:07
• 3
  The Sofa: "Dominic, Casimir, Marie-Joseph, St Just, Balthasar"
  2:29
• 4
  The Sofa: "This time my patience cannot still endure"
  4:36
• 5
  The Sofa: "My mother says all girls grow sad and languish for love"
  4:14
• 6
  The Sofa: "Lucille. Ah, Lucille?"
  3:24
• 7
  The Sofa: "Ha, ha, ha! Where's Dominic?..."
  4:38
• 8
  The Sofa: "Come and dance!"
  6:01
• 9
  The Sofa: "What's happened? What's happened! Has anything happened?"
  1:55
• 10
  The Sofa: "Oh. What an intriguing, fascinating situation!"
  3:05
• 11
  The Sofa: "Have they all gone?"
  3:15
• 12
  The Departure: "I shall never be ready in time"
  3:20
• 13
  The Departure: "Weightless beyond the burning margin of our air"
  5:03
• 14
  The Departure: "But what has happened?"
  3:41
• 15
  The Departure: "Julia, are you trying to speak to me?"
  2:53
• 16
  The Departure: "Where is that Death they paint..."
  0:47
• 17
  The Departure: "Oh, why did we leave the house that day?"
  1:33
• 18
  The Departure: "Don't leave me!"
  1:39
• 19
  The Departure: "But our child lives still"
  2:09
• 20
  The Departure: "Then do not leave me"
  6:14
• 21
  The Departure: "But I hear nothing! Not a voice, not a word"
  3:36

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Release credits

• Dominic Wheeler
  conductor
• Independent Opera
  performer

Issues

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  The Sofa / The Departure

  CD
  2 February 2009