Britten: The Rape of Lucretia

Nigel Robson (tenor), Alastair Miles (bass), Catherine Pierard, Alan Opie (baritone), Donald Maxwell, Jean Rigby (mezzo-soprano), Patricia Rozario (soprano), Ameral Gunson (mezzo-soprano), City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox

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Release date: 1st Feb 1994
Label: Chandos
Catalogue number: CHAN9254W
Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Contents and tracklist

Britten: The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37, Act I

Work length5:47

Richard Hickox, City of London Sinfonia, Nigel Robson

Rome is now ruled by the Etruscan upstart (Male Chorus)

Track length5:47

Britten: The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37, Act I Scene 1

Work length22:34

Richard Hickox, City of London Sinfonia, Nigel Robson, Catherine Pierard, Alastair Miles, Alan Opie, Donald Maxwell

Here the thirsty ev'ening has drunk the wine of light (Male Chorus, Female Chorus)

Track length3:05

Who reaches heaven first is the best philosopher (Collatinus, Tarquinius, Junius, Male Chorus)

Track length16:31

Good night, Tarquinius! (Collatinus, Tarquinius, Junius, Male Chorus)

Track length2:58

Britten: The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37, Interlude

Work length3:06

Richard Hickox, City of London Sinfonia, Nigel Robson

Tarquinius does not wait for his servant to wake (Tarquinius, Male Chorus)

Track length3:06

Britten: The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37, Act I Scene 2

Work length20:36

Richard Hickox, City of London Sinfonia, Alan Opie, Jean Rigby, Patricia Rozario, Ameral Gunson, Catherine Pierard

Lucretia! (Junius, Lucretia, Bianca, Lucia, Female Chorus)

Track length5:49

Listen! I heard a knock. Somebody is at the gate (Lucretia, Bianca, Lucia)

Track length3:03

Time turns upon the hands of women (Lucretia, Bianca, Lucia, Female Chorus)

Track length5:35

None of the women move. It is too late for a messenger (Lucretia, Bianca, Lucia, Female Chorus)

Track length6:09

Britten: The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37, Act II Scene 1

Work length24:28

Richard Hickox, City of London Sinfonia, Jean Rigby, Patricia Rozario, Ameral Gunson, Catherine Pierard, Alastair Miles, Alan Opie, Nigel Robson, Donald Maxwell

The prosperity of the Etruscans was due to the richness of their native soil (Lucia, Bianca, Collatinus, Junius, Male Chorus, Female Chorus)

Track length7:39

She sleeps as a rose upon the night (Female Chorus, Male Chorus)

Track length3:01

When Tarquinius desires, then Tarquinius will dare (Male Chorus)

Track length2:32

Within this frail crucible of light (Tarquinius, Female Chorus)

Track length4:47

Lucretia! (Tarquinius, Lucretia, Male Chorus, Female Chorus)

Track length6:29

Britten: The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37, Interlude

Work length4:14

Richard Hickox, City of London Sinfonia, Donald Maxwell, Jean Rigby, Nigel Robson, Catherine Pierard

Here in this scene you see Virtue assailed by sin (Female Chorus, Male Chorus)

Track length4:14

Britten: The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37, Act II Scene 2

Work length35:20

Richard Hickox, City of London Sinfonia, Nigel Robson, Catherine Pierard, Patricia Rozario, Ameral Gunson, Jean Rigby, Alastair Miles, Alan Opie

O what a lovely day (Lucia, Bianca)

Track length6:38

Hush! Here she comes! (Lucretia, Bianca, Lucia)

Track length3:37

Flowers bring to ev'ry year the same perfection (Lucretia, Bianca)

Track length6:24

Lucretia! Lucretia! O never again must we two dare to part (Lucretia, Collatinus)

Track length8:42

This dead hand lets fall all that my heart held when full (Collatinus, Junius, Bianca, Lucia, Male Chorus, Female Chorus)

Track length4:21

Is it all? Is all this suffering and pain, is this in vain? (Female Chorus, Male Chorus)

Track length5:38

Britten: The Rape of Lucretia

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