Album lyrics Britten Conducts Britten: Opera Vol. 2 by Benjamin Britten

Britten Conducts Britten: Opera Vol. 2

Benjamin Britten

2004 80 songs

1. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: Introduction: The Wood

2. The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54: Interlude: Variation XV - Scene 8: Miles

3. The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54: Interlude: Variation II - Scene 3: The Letter

4. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "My Gentle Robin, See'st Thou This Sweet Sight?"

5. The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54: Interlude: Variation XII - Scene 5: Quint

6. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Be Kind and Courteous to This Gentleman"

7. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Come, Now a Roundel and a Fairy Song"

8. The Turn of the Screw, Op.54: Interlude: Variation X - Scene 3: Miss Jessel

9. The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: "Epilogue: Is It All?"

10. The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: "She Sleeps As a Rose"

11. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Are We All Met?"

12. The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54: Interlude: Variation VII - Scene 8: At Night

13. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "This Lanthorn Doth the Horned Moon Present"

14. The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: "The Prosperity of the Etruscans"

15. The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: "Interlude: Here in This Scene"

16. The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: "It Is an Axiom Among Kings"

17. Death in Venice, Op. 88: Overture: Venice

18. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Now the Hungry Lion Roars"

19. Death in Venice, Op. 88: "Hey There, Hey There, You!"

20. Death in Venice, Op. 88: Children's Games: "Adziu, Adziu"

21. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "O Wall, Fur Often Hast Thou Heard My Moans"

22. Death in Venice, Op. 88: "Mysterious Gondola"

23. Death in Venice, Op. 88: "My Mind Beats On"

24. The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: "Who Reaches Heaven First"

25. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Puppet? Why So?"

26. Death in Venice, Op. 88: "There Is Indeed in Every Artist's Nature"

27. The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54: Interlude: Variation VIII - Scene 1: Colloquy and So- Lioquy

28. The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: "Collatinus Is Politically Astute"

29. The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54: Interlude: Variation VI - Scene 7: The Lake

30. The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: "Within This Frail Crucible of Light"

31. The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54: Prologue

32. The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54: Theme - Scene 1: The Journey

33. The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54: Interlude: Variation III - Scene 4: The Tower

34. The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: "Maria Was Unmasked At a Masked Ball"

35. Death in Venice, Op. 88: "We Are Delighted to Greet the Signore"

36. The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: "My Horse! My Horse! Tarquinius Does Not Wait"

37. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "You Ladies, You Whose Gentle Hearts Do Fear"

38. The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54: Interlude: Variation I - Scene 2: The Welcome

39. The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54: Interlude: Variation IV - Scene 5: The Window

40. The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54: Interlude: Variation IX - Scene 2: The Bells

41. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Gentles, Perchange You Wonder At This Show"

42. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "I See Their Knavery"

43. Death in Venice, Op. 88: "Naturally, Signore, I Understand"

44. The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: "You Were Right"

45. The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: "Oh! What a Lovely Day!"

46. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Have You Sent to Bottom's House?"

47. The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: "This Dead Hand Lets Fall"

48. The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54: Interlude: Variation V - Scene 6: The Lesson

49. Death in Venice, Op. 88: "Ah, Serenissima!"

50. The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54: Interlude: Variation XI - Scene 4: The Bedroom

51. Death in Venice, Op. 88: "Aou'! Stagando, Aou'"

52. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "How Now, Mad Spirit?"

53. The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54: Interlude: Variation XIV - Scene 7: Flora

54. The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54: Interlude: Variation XIII - Scene 6: The Piano

55. The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: 'There Goes a Happy Man!'

56. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Helena! Hermi! Demetrius! Lysander!"

57. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "What Thou Seest When Thou Dost Wake"

58. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Up and Down, Up and Down"

59. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Hail, Mortal, Hail!"

60. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Sweet Moon, I Thank Thee for Thy Sunny Beams"

61. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Flower of This Purple Dye"

62. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "I Have a Reas'nable Good Ear in Music"

63. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "O Grim-look'd Night, O Night With Hue So Black"

64. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Come, Your Bergomask"

65. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "In This Same Interlude It Doth Befall"

66. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Now, Fair Hippolyta"

67. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "This Is Thy Negligence"

68. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Asleep, My Love?"

69. The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: Tarquinius does not dare

70. The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: Here the thirsty evening

71. The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: Rome is now ruled by the Etruscan upstart

72. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Oberon Is Passing Fell and Wrath"

73. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Well, Go Thy Way"

74. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "How Now My Love?"

75. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Be It On Lion, Bear, or Wolf, or Bull"

76. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Welcome Wanderer!"

77. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Is All Our Company Her?"

78. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Fair Love, You Faint With Wand'ring in the Wood"

79. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Through the Forest Have I Gone"

80. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Stay, Though Thou Kill Me, Sweet Demetrius"

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