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Britten: Billy Budd
~ Benjamin Britten (Composer), Kent Nagano (Conductor), Manchester Boys' Choir (Orchestra), Northern Voices (Orchestra), Thomas Hampson (Performer), et al.
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Track Listings

Disc: 1
1. Billy Budd: Act 1: Prologue
2. Billy Budd: Act 1: Scene I: Pull, My Bantams
3. Billy Budd: Act 1: Scene I: Send For John Claggart
4. Billy Budd: Act 1: Scene I: Billy Budd, King Of The Birds (Billy)
5. Billy Budd: Act 1: Scene I: I Heard, Your Honour! (Claggar)
6. Billy Budd: Act 1: Scene I: Come Along, Kid!
7. Billy Budd: Act 1: Scene I: Christ, The Poor Chap, The Poor Little Runt! (Billy)
8. Billy Budd: Act 1: Scene I: Vere! Vere! Officers And Men... (Vere)
9. Billy Budd: Act 2: Scene I: My Compliments... (Vere)
10. Billy Budd: Act 2: Scene I: Don't Like The French!
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Disc: 2
1. Billy Budd: Act 3: Scene 1: I Don't Like The Look Of The Mist! (Vere)
2. Billy Budd: Act 3: Scene 1: Deck Ahoy!
3. Billy Budd: Act 3: Scene 1: All Guns Ready Sir!
4. Billy Budd: Act 3: Scene 1: There Are You Again, Master-At-Arms (Vere)
5. Billy Budd: Act 3: Scene 1: Nay, Nay, You're Mistaken (Vere)
6. Billy Budd: IInterlude and Scene 2: Claggart, John Claggart, Beware (Vere)
7. Billy Budd: Act 3: Scene 2: You Wanted To See Me (Billy)
8. Billy Budd: Act 3: Scene 2: God O'Mercy! (Vere)
9. Billy Budd: Act 3: Scene 2: Interlude. William Budd, You Are Accused
10. Billy Budd: Act 3: Scene 2: Poor Fellow, Who Could Save Him?
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On this CD:
  1. Billy Budd
    Composed by Benjamin Britten
    Performed by Manchester Boys' Choir, Northern Voices, Hallé Choir, Hallé Orchestra
    with Thomas Hampson, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Eric Halfvarson, Russell Smythe, Gidon Saks, Simon Wilding, Martyn Hill, Christopher Maltman, Richard Van Allan, Andrew Burden, Christopher Gillett, Matthew Hargreaves, Ashley Holland, Simon Thorpe, Robert Johnston, William Dazeley, Simon Thorpe
    Conducted by Kent Nagano

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Amazon.co.uk Review
Benjamin Britten's "Billy Budd", based on Melville's story, is the second-best opera about life on the sea since Wagner's "Flying Dutchman"--the best being Britten's "Peter Grimes". It is one of the 20th Century's most tragic operas and the only important opera with an all-male cast. Its music evokes the ocean: the winds and waves, the sailors' songs, and the harsh realities of a seaman's life on a British 18th-century man-of-war. It climaxes in a deadly confrontation between pure good, embodied in the young sailor Billy Budd (Hampson), and pure evil in the sadistic master at arms, John Claggart (Halfvarson). Composed in 1951, it was shortened to the now standard two acts by Britten for a broadcast in 1960. This brilliant first recording of the original four-act version shows that much was lost in the revision. --Joe McLellan

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