Britten: the Complete Operas

1.1. - introduction - Philip Brunelle
1.2. - since the birth of the earth - Philip Brunelle
1.3. - no. no. we do not want life to be slow - Philip Brunelle
1.4. - ooh! ooh! o how terrible to be as old fashioned as a tree - Philip Brunelle
1.5. - you are all to leave here - Philip Brunelle
1.6. - it isn't very often the conservatives are wrong...but once in a while the odd thing happens" - Philip Brunelle
1.7. - first ballad interlude: "the cold wind blew through the crooked thorn" - Pop Wagner
1.8. - bunyan's greeting - Philip Brunelle
1.9. - call of lumberjacks - Philip Brunelle
1.10. - lumberjacks' chorus: "my birthplace was in sweden" - Philip Brunelle
1.11. - bunyan's welcome - Philip Brunelle
1.12. - quartet of swedes: "swedish born and swedish bred" - Philip Brunelle
1.13. - western union boy's song: "a telegram from oversea" - Philip Brunelle
1.14. - cooks' duet: "sam for soups. ben for beans" - Philip Brunelle
1.15. - animal trio: "ah! miaou! the single creature lives a partial life" - Philip Brunelle
1.16. - bunyan's goodnight (1) - Philip Brunelle
1.17. - exit of lumberjacks: "down the line...timberrr" - Philip Brunelle
1.18. - the blues: "gold in the north came the blizzard to say" - Philip Brunelle
1.19. - bunyan's goodnight (2) - Philip Brunelle
1.20. - second ballad interlude: "the spring came and the summer and fall" - Pop Wagner
1.21. - food chorus: "do I look the sort of fellow" - Philip Brunelle
1.22. - chorus accusation: "there now look what you have done" - Philip Brunelle
1.23. - slim's song: "in fair days and foul...I come from open spaces" - Philip Brunelle
1.24. - bunyan's return: "look, the chief is back" - Philip Brunelle
1.25. - inkslinger's song: "it was out in the sticks" - Philip Brunelle
1.26. - entrance of chorus - Philip Brunelle
1.27. - tiny's entrance - Philip Brunelle
1.28. - tiny's song: "ah!...whether the sun shine upon children playing" - Philip Brunelle
1.29. - inkslinger's regret: "all the little brooks of love" - Philip Brunelle
1.30. - bunyan's goodnight (3) - Philip Brunelle

2.1. - bunyan's good morning - Philip Brunelle
2.2. - shears' song: "it has always been my dream" - Philip Brunelle
2.3. - bunyan's warning - Philip Brunelle
2.4. - farmers' song: "the shanty-boy invades the wood" - Philip Brunelle
2.5. - farmers' exit - Philip Brunelle
2.6. - the mocking of hel helson: "heron, heron winging by" - Philip Brunelle
2.7. - fido's sympathy: "won't you tell me what's the matter?" - Philip Brunelle
2.8. - cats' creed: "let man the romantic in vision espy" - Philip Brunelle
2.9. - the fight: "what is it? what's happening?" - Philip Brunelle
2.10. - love duet: "move, move from the trysting stone" - Philip Brunelle
2.11. - mock funeral march: "take away the body and lay it on the ice" - Philip Brunelle
2.12. - hymn: "o great day of discovery!" - Philip Brunelle
2.13. - third ballad interlude: "so helson smiled and bunyan smiled" - Pop Wagner
2.14. - rah! another slice of turkey - Philip Brunelle
2.15. - dear friends, with your leave - Philip Brunelle
2.16. - carry her over the water - Philip Brunelle
2.17. - where we are is not very far - Philip Brunelle
2.18. - a telegram from hollywood - Philip Brunelle
2.19. - we always knew that one day you - Philip Brunelle
2.20. - bunyan's farewell - Philip Brunelle
2.21. - litany: "the campfire embers are black and cold" - Philip Brunelle
2.22. - overture - Philip Brunelle
2.23. - inkslinger's love song - Philip Brunelle
2.24. - lullaby of dream shadows - Philip Brunelle

3.1. Peter grimes prologue - peter grimes!
3.2. Peter grimes prologue - you sailed your boat
3.3. Peter grimes prologue - peter grimes, I here advise you!
3.4. Peter grimes prologue - the truth...the pity...
3.5. Peter grimes prologue - interlude I: on the beach
3.6. Peter grimes acte I - oh, hang at open doors
3.7. Peter grimes acte I - hi! give us a hand
3.8. Peter grimes acte I - I have to go from pub to pub
3.9. Peter grimes acte I - let her among you
3.10. Peter grimes acte I - look, the storm cone!
3.11. Peter grimes acte I - and do you prefer the storm
3.12. Peter grimes acte I - what harbour shelters peace
3.13. Peter grimes acte I - interlude II: the storm
3.14. Peter grimes acte I - past time to close!
3.15. Peter grimes acte I - we live and let live
3.16. Peter grimes acte I - have you heard?
3.17. Peter grimes acte I - now the great bear and pleiades
3.18. Peter grimes acte I - old joe has gone fishing
3.19. Peter grimes acte I - the bridge is down, we half swam over
3.20. Peter grimes acte II - interlude III: sunday morning by the beach
3.21. Peter grimes acte II - glitter of waves
3.22. Peter grimes acte II - let this be a holiday
3.23. Peter grimes acte II - this unrelenting work
3.24. Peter grimes acte II - fool to let it come to this!
3.25. Peter grimes acte II - what is it?
3.26. Peter grimes acte II - people!...no! I will speak!

4.1. Peter grimes acte II - we planned that their lives
4.2. Peter grimes acte II - swallow! shall we go
4.3. Peter grimes acte II - now is gossip put on trial
4.4. Peter grimes acte II - from the gutter
4.5. Peter grimes acte II - interlude IV: passacaglia
4.6. Peter grimes acte II - go there!
4.7. Peter grimes acte II - now!...now!
4.8. Peter grimes acte II - peter grimes! nobody here?
4.9. Peter grimes acte III - interlude V: evening (moonlight)
4.10. Peter grimes acte III - assign your prettiness to me
4.11. Peter grimes acte III - pah!
4.12. Peter grimes acte III - come along, doctor!
4.13. Peter grimes acte III - embroidery in childhood
4.14. Peter grimes acte III - mr.swallow!
4.15. Peter grimes acte III - who holds himself apart
4.16. Peter grimes acte III - interlude VI: fog
4.17. Peter grimes acte III - grimes! grimes!
4.18. Peter grimes acte III - peter, we've come to take you home
4.19. Peter grimes acte III - to those who pass the borough

5.1. Le viol de lucrece - rome is now ruled by the etruscan upstart
5.2. Le viol de lucrece - it is an axiom among kings
5.3. Le viol de lucrece - here the thirsty evening
5.4. Le viol de lucrece - who reaches heaven first
5.5. Le viol de lucrece - maria was unmasked at a masked ball
5.6. Le viol de lucrece - collatinus is politically astute
5.7. Le viol de lucrece - there goes a happy man!
5.8. Le viol de lucrece - tarquinius does not dare
5.9. Le viol de lucrece - my horse! my horse! tarquinius does not wait
5.10. Le viol de lucrece - their spinning-wheel unwinds
5.11. Le viol de lucrece - listen! I heard a knock
5.12. Le viol de lucrece - time treads upon the hands of women
5.13. Le viol de lucrece - the oatmeal slippers of sleep

6.1. Le viol de lucrece - the prosperity of the etruscans
6.2. Le viol de lucrece - she sleeps as a rose
6.3. Le viol de lucrece - within this frail crucible of light
6.4. Le viol de lucrece - lucretia!...what do you want?
6.5. Le viol de lucrece - interlude: "here in this scene"
6.6. Le viol de lucrece - oh! what a lovely day!
6.7. Le viol de lucrece - we'll leave the orchids for lucretia
6.8. Le viol de lucrece - flowers bring to every year
6.9. Le viol de lucrece - you were right
6.10. Le viol de lucrece - lucretia! lucretia!
6.11. Le viol de lucrece - last night tarquinius ravished me
6.12. Le viol de lucrece - this dead hand lets fall
6.13. Le viol de lucrece - epilogue: "is it all?"

7.1. Albert herring - flor-ence! tell the midwife!
7.2. Albert herring - doctor jessop's midwife
7.3. Albert herring - I hope we're not too early, florence?
7.4. Albert herring - stuffy!
7.5. Albert herring - now then! notebook, florence!
7.6. Albert herring - the first suggestion on my list
7.7. Albert herring - is this all you can bring?
7.8. Albert herring - beggin' your pardon
7.9. Albert herring - right! we'll have him!
7.10. Albert herring - interlude
7.11. Albert herring - bounce me high
7.12. Albert herring - shop! hi! albert!
7.13. Albert herring - tickling a trout
7.14. Albert herring - meet me at a quarter past eight
7.15. Albert herring - he's much too busy
7.16. Albert herring - good morning, young man
7.17. Albert herring - we bring great news to you
7.18. Albert herring - isn't he here?
7.19. Albert herring - for three precious weeks
7.20. Albert herring - quickly! quickly, come along!
7.21. Albert herring - here they are, dears!
7.22. Albert herring - my flowers are few

8.1. Albert herring - I'm full of happiness
8.2. Albert herring - as representing the local council
8.3. Albert herring - my heart leaps up with joy
8.4. Albert herring - er-humph! er-humph! I'm no great shakes
8.5. Albert herring - well tried, albert!
8.6. Albert herring - interlude
8.7. Albert herring - albert the good!
8.8. Albert herring - you oughtn't to whistle!
8.9. Albert herring - heaven helps those who help themselves!
8.10. Albert herring - introduction
8.11. Albert herring - is she asleep?
8.12. Albert herring - I'm hungry, I'm tired
8.13. Albert herring - give me a decent murder with a corpse!
8.14. Albert herring - have you found him?
8.15. Albert herring - fools! fools! blundering fools!
8.16. Albert herring - in the midst of life is death
8.17. Albert herring - albert!
8.18. Albert herring - I'm sorry about that
8.19. Albert herring - I can't remember everything
8.20. Albert herring - albert's come back to stay

9.1. Billy budd - I am an old man who has experienced much
9.2. Billy budd - pull, my bantams!
9.3. Billy budd - guard boat! indomitable!
9.4. Billy budd - first man forward!
9.5. Billy budd - your name? billy budd, sir
9.6. Billy budd - billy budd, king of the birds!
9.7. Billy budd - I heard, your honour!
9.8. Billy budd - come along kid! come along!
9.9. Billy budd - christ, the poor chap!
9.10. Billy budd - what's that? what's those whistles?
9.11. Billy budd - starry vere we call him
9.12. Billy budd - boy! my compliments to mr. redburn
9.13. Billy budd - gentlemen, the king!
9.14. Billy budd - ay, at spithead the men may have had their grievances
9.15. Billy budd - we are, sir. claggart is an able one
9.16. Billy budd - blow, blow, blow
9.17. Billy budd - we're off to samoa by way of genoa
9.18. Billy budd - hi! you a... a... a...
9.19. Billy budd - over the water...handsomely done
9.20. Billy budd - come here. remember your promise
9.21. Billy budd - billy! hist! billy budd!
9.22. Billy budd - dansker, old friend, glad to see you

10.1. Billy budd - I don't like the look of the mist
10.2. Billy budd - with great regret I must disturb your honour
10.3. Billy budd - deck ahoy! enemy sail on starboard bow
10.4. Billy budd - who'll volunteer to board 'em
10.5. Billy budd - there you are again, master-at-arms
10.6. Billy budd - o this cursed mist
10.7. Billy budd - claggart, john claggart, beware!
10.8. Billy budd - master-at-arms and foretopman
10.9. Billy budd - god o' mercy! here, help me!
10.10. Billy budd - gentlemen, william budd here has killed
10.11. Billy budd - william budd, you are accused by captain vere
10.12. Billy budd - poor fellow, who could save him?
10.13. Billy budd - I accept their verdict
10.14. Billy budd - look! through the port
10.15. Billy budd - here! baby! dansker, old friend
10.16. Billy budd - and farewell to ye
10.17. Billy budd - interlude
10.18. Billy budd - according to the articles of war
10.19. Billy budd - down all hands! and see that they go
10.20. Billy budd - we committed his body to the deep

11.1. Gloriana op.53 - 1. prelude - Charles Mackerras
11.2. Gloriana op.53 - 2. the tornament - Charles Mackerras
11.3. Gloriana op.53 - 3. recitative & fight - Charles Mackerras
11.4. Gloriana op.53 - 4. entrance of the queen - Charles Mackerras
11.5. Gloriana op.53 - 5. recitative - Charles Mackerras
11.6. Gloriana op.53 - 6. the two lords' explanation - Charles Mackerras
11.7. Gloriana op.53 - 7. raleigh's song - Charles Mackerras
11.8. Gloriana op.53 - 8. ensemble of reconciliation - Charles Mackerras
11.9. Gloriana op.53 - 9. recitative & final march - Charles Mackerras
11.10. Gloriana op.53 - 10. prelude & dialogue - Charles Mackerras
11.11. Gloriana op.53 - 11. the queen's song - Charles Mackerras
11.12. Gloriana op.53 - 12. cecil's song of government - Charles Mackerras
11.13. Gloriana op.53 - 13. recitative & essex's entry - Charles Mackerras
11.14. Gloriana op.53 - 14. first lute song - Charles Mackerras
11.15. Gloriana op.53 - 15. second lute song - Charles Mackerras
11.16. Gloriana op.53 - 16. the first duet for the queen & essex - Charles Mackerras
11.17. Gloriana op.53 - 17. soliloquy & prayer - Charles Mackerras
11.18. Gloriana op.53 - 18. prelude & welcome - Charles Mackerras
11.19. Gloriana op.53 - 19. the masque - Charles Mackerras
11.20. Gloriana op.53 - 20. finale - Charles Mackerras
11.21. Gloriana op.53 - 21. prelude & song - Charles Mackerras
11.22. Gloriana op.53 - 22. duet - Charles Mackerras
11.23. Gloriana op.53 - 23. double duet - Charles Mackerras
11.24. Gloriana op.53 - 24. quartet - Charles Mackerras

12.1. Gloriana op.53 - 25. pavane - Charles Mackerras
12.2. Gloriana op.53 - 26. conversation - Charles Mackerras
12.3. Gloriana op.53 - 27. galliard - Charles Mackerras
12.4. Gloriana op.53 - 28. conversation & the queen's entrance - Charles Mackerras
12.5. Gloriana op.53 - 29. lavolta - Charles Mackerras
12.6. Gloriana op.53 - 30. conversation - Charles Mackerras
12.7. Gloriana op.53 - 31. morris dance - Charles Mackerras
12.8. Gloriana op.53 - 32. recitative - Charles Mackerras
12.9. Gloriana op.53 - 33. the queen's burlesque - Charles Mackerras
12.10. Gloriana op.53 - 34. quartet - Charles Mackerras
12.11. Gloriana op.53 - 35. march - Charles Mackerras
12.12. Gloriana op.53 - 36. the queen's announcement - Charles Mackerras
12.13. Gloriana op.53 - 37. ensemble - Charles Mackerras
12.14. Gloriana op.53 - 38. coranto - Charles Mackerras
12.15. Gloriana op.53 - 39. prelude & chatter - Charles Mackerras
12.16. Gloriana op.53 - 40. essex's intrusion - Charles Mackerras
12.17. Gloriana op.53 - 41. the second duet of the queen & essex - Charles Mackerras
12.18. Gloriana op.53 - 42. the dressing-table song - Charles Mackerras
12.19. Gloriana op.53 - 43. the entrance of cecil - Charles Mackerras
12.20. Gloriana op.53 - 44. cecil's report - Charles Mackerras
12.21. Gloriana op.53 - 45. discussion - Charles Mackerras
12.22. Gloriana op.53 - 46. the queen's décision - Charles Mackerras
12.23. Gloriana op.53 - 47. ballad - rondo - Charles Mackerras
12.24. Gloriana op.53 - 48. prelude & verdict - Charles Mackerras
12.25. Gloriana op.53 - 49. cecil's warning - Charles Mackerras
12.26. Gloriana op.53 - 50. the queen's dilemma - Charles Mackerras
12.27. Gloriana op.53 - 51. trio - Charles Mackerras
12.28. Gloriana op.53 - 52. lady essex's pleading - Charles Mackerras
12.29. Gloriana op.53 - 53. penepole rich's pleading - Charles Mackerras
12.30. Gloriana op.53 - 54. epilogue - Charles Mackerras

13.1. The turn of the screw - prologue
13.2. The turn of the screw - thème - scene 1: the journey
13.3. The turn of the screw - interlude: variation I - scene 2: the welcome
13.4. The turn of the screw - interlude: variation II - scene 3: the letter
13.5. The turn of the screw - interlude: variation III - scene 4: the tower
13.6. The turn of the screw - interlude: variation IV - scene 5: the window
13.7. The turn of the screw - interlude: variation V - scene 6: the lesson
13.8. The turn of the screw - interlude: variation VI - scene 7: the lake
13.9. The turn of the screw - interlude: variation VII - scene 8: at night

14.1. The turn of the screw - interlude: variation VIII - scene 1: colloquy and so- lioquy
14.2. The turn of the screw - interlude: variation IX - scene 2: the bells
14.3. The turn of the screw - interlude: variation X - scene 3: miss jessel
14.4. The turn of the screw - interlude: variation XI - scene 4: the bedroom
14.5. The turn of the screw - interlude: variation XII - scene 5: quint
14.6. The turn of the screw - interlude: variation XIII - scene 6: the piano
14.7. The turn of the screw - interlude: variation XIV - scene 7: flora
14.8. The turn of the screw - interlude: variation XV - scene 8: miles

15.1. Le songe d'une nuit d'ete acte I - over hill, over dale
15.2. Le songe d'une nuit d'ete acte I - oberon is passing fell and wrath
15.3. Le songe d'une nuit d'ete acte I - well, go thy way
15.4. Le songe d'une nuit d'ete acte I - how now my love?
15.5. Le songe d'une nuit d'ete acte I - be it on lion, bear, or wolf, or bull
15.6. Le songe d'une nuit d'ete acte I - welcome wanderer!
15.7. Le songe d'une nuit d'ete acte I - is all our company here?
15.8. Le songe d'une nuit d'ete acte I - fair love, you faint with wand'ring in the wood
15.9. Le songe d'une nuit d'ete acte I - through the forest have I gone
15.10. Le songe d'une nuit d'ete acte I - stay, though thou kill me, sweet demetrius
15.11. Le songe d'une nuit d'ete acte I - come, now a roundel and a fairy song
15.12. Le songe d'une nuit d'ete acte I - you spotted snakes with double tongue
15.13. Le songe d'une nuit d'ete acte I - what thou seest when thou dost wake
15.14. Le songe d'une nuit d'ete acte II - introduction: the wood
15.15. Le songe d'une nuit d'ete acte II - are we all met?
15.16. Le songe d'une nuit d'ete acte II - I see their knavery
15.17. Le songe d'une nuit d'ete acte II - be kind and courteous to this gentleman
15.18. Le songe d'une nuit d'ete acte II - hail, mortal, hail!
15.19. Le songe d'une nuit d'ete acte II - I have a reas'nable good ear in music
15.20. Le songe d'une nuit d'ete acte II - how now, mad spirit?

16.1. Le songe d'une nuit d'ete acte II - flower of this purple dye
16.2. Le songe d'une nuit d'ete acte II - puppet? why so?
16.3. Le songe d'une nuit d'ete acte II - this is thy negligence
16.4. Le songe d'une nuit d'ete acte II - up and down, up and down
16.5. Le songe d'une nuit d'ete acte II - on the ground, sleep sound
16.6. Le songe d'une nuit d'ete acte III acte III - my gentle robin, see'st thou this sweet sight?
16.7. Le songe d'une nuit d'ete acte III acte III - helena! hermi! demetrius! lysander!
16.8. Le songe d'une nuit d'ete acte III acte III - when my cue comes, call me
16.9. Le songe d'une nuit d'ete acte III acte III - have you sent to bottom's house?
16.10. Le songe d'une nuit d'ete acte III acte III - now, fair hippolyta
16.11. Le songe d'une nuit d'ete acte III acte III - if we offend, it is with our good will
16.12. Le songe d'une nuit d'ete acte III acte III - gentles, perchange you wonder at this show
16.13. Le songe d'une nuit d'ete acte III acte III - in this same interlude it doth befall
16.14. Le songe d'une nuit d'ete acte III acte III - o grim-look'd night, o night with hue so black
16.15. Le songe d'une nuit d'ete acte III acte III - o wall, full often hast thou heard my moans
16.16. Le songe d'une nuit d'ete acte III acte III - you ladies, you whose gentle hearts do fear
16.17. Le songe d'une nuit d'ete acte III acte III - this lanthorn doth the horned moon present
16.18. Le songe d'une nuit d'ete acte III acte III - sweet moon, I thank thee for thy sunny beams
16.19. Le songe d'une nuit d'ete acte III acte III - asleep, my love?
16.20. Le songe d'une nuit d'ete acte III acte III - come, your bergomask
16.21. Le songe d'une nuit d'ete acte III acte III - now the hungry lion roars

17.1. Owen wingrave - prelude
17.2. Owen wingrave - you've got your maps there?
17.3. Owen wingrave - at last it's out
17.4. Owen wingrave - your sherry, mrs. coyle
17.5. Owen wingrave - oh, how unforeseen
17.6. Owen wingrave - sirrah! how dare you!
17.7. Owen wingrave - coyle, I wish I had not come
17.8. Owen wingrave - may god bless the queen

18.1. Owen wingrave - there was a boy, a wingrave born
18.2. Owen wingrave - I envy you, this fine old house
18.3. Owen wingrave - paramore shall welcome woe!
18.4. Owen wingrave - and with his friend young lechmere played
18.5. Owen wingrave - now you may save your scornful looks
18.6. - ah, owen, what shall I do?
18.7. Owen wingrave - is that you, coyle?
18.8. Owen wingrave - come in...it's me, lechmere

19.1. Mort a venise - my mind beats on - Steuart Bedford
19.2. Mort a venise - who's that? a foreigner, a traveller no doubt - Steuart Bedford
19.3. Mort a venise - hey there, hey there, you! - Steuart Bedford
19.4. Mort a venise - serenissima...low-lying clouds, unending grey - Steuart Bedford
19.5. Mort a venise - overture: venice - Steuart Bedford
19.6. Mort a venise - ah, serenissima! - Steuart Bedford
19.7. Mort a venise - mysterious gondola - Steuart Bedford
19.8. Mort a venise - we are delighted to greet the signore - Steuart Bedford
19.9. Mort a venise - was I wrong to come? - Steuart Bedford
19.10. Mort a venise - there is indeed in every artist's nature - Steuart Bedford
19.11. Mort a venise - children's games: adziu, adziu - Steuart Bedford
19.12. Mort a venise - aou'! stagando, aou' - Steuart Bedford
19.13. Mort a venise - naturally, signore, I understand - Steuart Bedford
19.14. Mort a venise - here will I stay, here dedicate my days - Steuart Bedford
19.15. Mort a venise - first, the race! - Steuart Bedford
19.16. Mort a venise - the boy, tadzio, shall inspire me - Steuart Bedford

20.1. Mort a venise - so, it has come to this - Steuart Bedford
20.2. Mort a venise - guardate, signore! - Steuart Bedford
20.3. Mort a venise - do I detect a scent? - Steuart Bedford
20.4. Mort a venise - careful search now leads me to them - Steuart Bedford
20.5. Mort a venise - this way for the players, signori - Steuart Bedford
20.6. Mort a venise - fiorir rose in mezo al giasso - Steuart Bedford
20.7. Mort a venise - one moment, if you please - Steuart Bedford
20.8. Mort a venise - in these last years - Steuart Bedford
20.9. Mort a venise - so it is true - Steuart Bedford
20.10. Mort a venise - receive the stranger god - Steuart Bedford
20.11. Mort a venise - the empty beach: do what you will with me - Steuart Bedford
20.12. Mort a venise - yes! a very wise décision - Steuart Bedford
20.13. Mort a venise - hurrah for the piazza - Steuart Bedford
20.14. Mort a venise - chaos, chaos and sickness - Steuart Bedford
20.15. Mort a venise - the wind still blows from the land - Steuart Bedford
20.16. Mort a venise - interlude: "ah, no!" - Steuart Bedford