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

Britten Conducts Britten: Opera Vol. 2

Benjamin Britten

1993 97 songs

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

2. Phaedra, Op. 93: "My Time's Too Short, Your Highness"

3. Phaedra, Op. 93: "Oh Gods of Wrath"

4. Phaedra, Op. 93: "In May, in Brilliant Athens"

5. The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: "Last Night Tarquinius Ravished Me"

6. The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: "Lucretia! Lucretia!"

7. The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: "Flowers Bring to Every Year"

8. The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: "We'll Leave the Orchids for Lucretia"

9. The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: "Lucretia!.What Do You Want?"

10. The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: "The Oatmeal Slippers of Sleep"

11. The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: "Time Treads Upon the Hands of Women"

12. The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: "Their Spinning-wheel Unwinds"

13. The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: "Listen! I Heard a Knock"

14. Death in Venice, Op. 88: "Was I Wrong to Come?"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

57. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Iff We Offend, It Is With Our Good Will"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

76. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "You Spotted Snakes With Double Tongue"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

85. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "On the Ground, Sleep Sound"

86. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Over Hill, Over Dale"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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