paroles de chanson The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: "Lucretia!.What Do You Want?" - Benjamin Luxon feat. Benjamin Britten, English Chamber Orchestra, Janet Baker, Sir Peter Pears & Heather Harper

Lucretia!

What do you want?

You!

What do you want from me?

Me!

What you feel

No!

In the forest of my dreams you have always been the tiger

Give me your lips, and let my eyes see

Their first element, which is your vice

No!

Give me your lips, and let me rise to my

First sepulcher, which is your thighs

No, never!

Give me your lips, and let me rest on

The oblivion which is your breast

No!

Give me!

No!

Give me!

No!

Give me!

No!

Give me!

No!

What you have taken never can you be given

Would you have given?

How could I give Tarquinius, since I have given to Collatinus?

In whom I am wholly, with whom I am

Only, and without whom I am lonely

Yet the linnet in your eyes lives with desire

And the cherries of your lips are wet with wanting

Can you deny your blood's damning?

Yes, I deny, I deny

Who hypnotize your young blood's eyes, can deny

Suffusion and denial of your lips' fair price?

No!

You lie, you lie!

Can you refuse your blood's desires?

Yes, I refuse, I refuse!

Lucretia!

I refuse, I deny!

Your blood denies!

Lucretia!

Oh, my beloved Collatinus

You have loved so well

You have tuned my body to the chase-note of a silver lute

And thus you have made my blood give you

The same measure as your love for purity

But leaders like this cannot be chased, unless

So betokened by- Oh, pity his sake, please!

Too late, Lucretia, too late!

Easier said, but done much harder, than to carve my hang-

Meet hard, when coursing to the ocean of your mind

Hades for the quietus of your- Is not the prince of blood?

I am no prince

Passion's a slave and not a prince

Then release me

What peace can passion find?

Lucretia

Though I am in your arms, I am beyond your reach

Go Tarquinius

Before the pale fruit of her breast

That your hand

Not its mix, its mix, its mix

Of my blood's kind

Its first, its first, its first

I am here

Not yours

Love's indivisible

But for me it is

Love's indivisible

But for me it is

Love's indivisible

But for me it is

Love's indivisible

Oh, it's like that!

At the heart of woman

Man climbs to what is good

Then falls to his lonely hell

See how the rambunctious enter mirth

See how the senseless enter sight

And see how the stars that rivet round their hidden thread

Now drive those screws

Lucretia and Tarquinius is through

Writer(s): B Britten

Album Britten Conducts Britten: Opera Vol. 2

date de sortie

01-01-1993

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: "In This Same Interlude It Doth Befall"
75 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "I Have a Reas'nable Good Ear in Music"
76 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "O Grim-look'd Night, O Night With Hue So Black"
77 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "You Spotted Snakes With Double Tongue"
78 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Come, Your Bergomask"
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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