Offer,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
Contents
Britten: The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37, Act I
- Richard Hickox, City of London Sinfonia, Nigel Robson
Rome is now ruled by the Etruscan upstart (Male Chorus)
Britten: The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37, Act I Scene 1
- Richard Hickox, City of London Sinfonia, Nigel Robson, Alastair Miles, Catherine Pierard, Alan Opie, Donald Maxwell
Here the thirsty ev'ening has drunk the wine of light (Male Chorus, Female Chorus)
Who reaches heaven first is the best philosopher (Collatinus, Tarquinius, Junius, Male Chorus)
Good night, Tarquinius! (Collatinus, Tarquinius, Junius, Male Chorus)
Britten: The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37, Interlude
- Richard Hickox, City of London Sinfonia, Nigel Robson
Tarquinius does not wait for his servant to wake (Tarquinius, Male Chorus)
Britten: The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37, Act I Scene 2
- Richard Hickox, City of London Sinfonia, Alan Opie, Jean Rigby, Patricia Rozario, Catherine Pierard, Ameral Gunson
Lucretia! (Junius, Lucretia, Bianca, Lucia, Female Chorus)
Listen! I heard a knock. Somebody is at the gate (Lucretia, Bianca, Lucia)
Time turns upon the hands of women (Lucretia, Bianca, Lucia, Female Chorus)
None of the women move. It is too late for a messenger (Lucretia, Bianca, Lucia, Female Chorus)
Britten: The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37, Act II Scene 1
- Richard Hickox, City of London Sinfonia, Jean Rigby, Donald Maxwell, Patricia Rozario, Ameral Gunson, Alastair Miles, Catherine Pierard, Alan Opie, Nigel Robson
The prosperity of the Etruscans was due to the richness of their native soil (Lucia, Bianca, Collatinus, Junius, Male Chorus, Female Chorus)
She sleeps as a rose upon the night (Female Chorus, Male Chorus)
When Tarquinius desires, then Tarquinius will dare (Male Chorus)
Within this frail crucible of light (Tarquinius, Female Chorus)
Lucretia! (Tarquinius, Lucretia, Male Chorus, Female Chorus)
Britten: The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37, Interlude
- 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)
Britten: The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37, Act II Scene 2
- Richard Hickox, City of London Sinfonia, Nigel Robson, Patricia Rozario, Jean Rigby, Catherine Pierard, Ameral Gunson, Alastair Miles, Alan Opie
O what a lovely day (Lucia, Bianca)
Hush! Here she comes! (Lucretia, Bianca, Lucia)
Flowers bring to ev'ry year the same perfection (Lucretia, Bianca)
Lucretia! Lucretia! O never again must we two dare to part (Lucretia, Collatinus)
This dead hand lets fall all that my heart held when full (Collatinus, Junius, Bianca, Lucia, Male Chorus, Female Chorus)
Is it all? Is all this suffering and pain, is this in vain? (Female Chorus, Male Chorus)