Billy Budd | Benjamin Britten; Nathan Gunn, Ian Bostridge, Gidon Saks, Neal Davies, Jonathan Lemalu, Matthew Rose, London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Daniel Harding

Artist name

Benjamin Britten; Nathan Gunn, Ian Bostridge, Gidon Saks, Neal Davies, Jonathan Lemalu, Matthew Rose, London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Daniel Harding

Release date 2008

Tracklist

1

Billy Budd: Prologue 'I am an old man' (Vere)

2

Billy Budd: Pull, my bantams! Pull, my sparrow-legs!...Who did that? (First Mate et al)

3

Billy Budd: Guard boat! Indomitable! (Maintop et al)

4

Billy Budd: First man forward! (Claggart et al)

5

Billy Budd: Your name? - Billy Budd, sir (Claggart/Billy/First Lieutenant/Sailing Master)

6

Billy Budd: Billy Budd, king of the birds (Billy/Sailing Master/First Lieutenant/Ratcliffe)

7

Billy Budd: I heard your honour! (Claggart/Squeak/Novice's Friend)

8

Billy Budd: Come along kid! Come along! (Novice's Friend/Novice/Chorus)

9

Billy Budd: Christ! The poor chap, The poor little runt! (Billy/Dansker/Red Whiskers/Donald)

10

Billy Budd: What's that? What's those whistles? (Billy/Donald/Claggart/First Mate/Second Mate/Bosun)

11

Billy Budd: Starry Vere we call him (Donald/Billy/Chorus/Red Whiskers/Dansker/Bosun)

12

Billy Budd: Boy! - Yes sir! (Vere/Boy)

13

Billy Budd: Gentlemen, The King! (Vere/First Lieutenant/Sailing Master)

14

Billy Budd: Ay, at Spithead the men may have had their grievances (Vere/Sailing Master/First Lieutenant)

15

Billy Budd: We are, sir. Claggart is an able one...Land on the port bow, sir (First Lieutenant/Vere/Sailing Master/Ratcliffe)

16

Billy Budd: Blow her away, Blow her to Hilo (Red Whiskers/Chorus/Billy/Donald/Dansker)

17

Billy Budd: We're off to Samoa (Donald/Chorus/Red Whiskers/Billy/Donald/Dansker)

18

Billy Budd: Hi! You...A...A... (Billy et al)

19

Billy Budd: Over the water, over the ocean (Chorus/Claggart)

20

Billy Budd: Come here, Remember your promise (Claggart/Novice)

21

Billy Budd: Billy!...Hist! Billy Budd! (Novice/Billy)

22

Billy Budd: Dansker, old friend, glad to see you! (Billy/Dansker)

23

Billy Budd: I don't like the look of the mist (Vere/First Lieutenant)

24

Billy Budd: With great regret I must disturb your honour (Claggart/Vere)

25

Billy Budd: Deck ahoy! Enemy sail on starboard bow! (Maintop et al)

26

Billy Budd: Who'll volunteer to beard 'em in the smoke? (Vere et al.)

27

Billy Budd: There you are again, Master-at-arms (Vere/Claggart/Boy)

28

Billy Budd: O this cursed mist (Vere/First Lieutenant/Sailing Master/Ratcliffe)

29

Billy Budd: Claggart, John Claggart, beware! I'm not so easily deceived (Vere/Billy)

30

Billy Budd: Master-at-arms and foretopman, I speak to you both (Vere/Claggart/Billy)

31

Billy Budd: God o' mercy! (Vere/Boy)

32

Billy Budd: Gentlemen, William Budd here has killed the Master-at-arms (Vere/First Lieutenant/Sailing Master/Ratcliffe)

33

Billy Budd: William Budd, you are accused... (First Lieutenant/Vere/Billy)

34

Billy Budd: Poor fellow, who could save him? (First Lieutenant/Sailing Master/Ratcliffe)

35

Billy Budd: I accept their verdict (Vere)

36

Billy Budd: Look! Through the port comes the moon-shine astray! (Billy)

37

Billy Budd: Here! Baby! (Dansker/Billy)

38

Billy Budd: And farewell to ye, old Rights o' Man! (Billy)

39

Billy Budd: Interlude

40

Billy Budd: "According to the Articles of War..." (All except Vere)

41

Billy Budd: Down all hands! And see that they go! (First Lieutenant et al)

42

Billy Budd: We committed his body to the deep (Vere)

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