Death in Venice

Album by Benjamin Britten & Peter Pears & John Shirley‐Quirk & English Opera Group & English Chamber Orchestra & Steuart Bedford

Death in Venice is an opera by English composer Benjamin Britten, premiered in 1973. Musically, it blends lyrical vocal writing with a refined orchestral palette and modernist harmonic language, and it stands as Britten's final opera, embodying his late-career focus on mortality and literary adaptation.
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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Death in Venice: Act 1, Scene 1. "My mind beats on" (Aschenbach)
    4:56
  2. 2.
    Death in Venice: Act 1, Scene 1. "Who's that? A foreigner" (Aschenbach)
    4:53
  3. 3.
    Death in Venice: Act 1, Scene 2. "Hey there, hey there" (Youths)
    3:47
  4. 4.
    Death in Venice: Act 1, Scene 2. "Serenissima… Low-lying clouds" (Youths, Aschenbach)
    2:55
  5. 5.
    Death in Venice: Act 1, Scene 2. Overture "Venice"
    2:35
  6. 6.
    Death in Venice: Act 1, Scene 3. "Ah Serenissima!" (Aschenbach)
    5:20
  7. 7.
    Death in Venice: Act 1, Scene 3. "Mysterious gondola" (Aschenbach)
    1:41
  8. 8.
    Death in Venice: Act 1, Scene 4. "We are delighted to greet the Signore" (Hotel Manager)
    4:08
  9. 9.
    Death in Venice: Act 1, Scene 4. "Was I wrong to come" (Aschenbach)
    6:13
  10. 10.
    Death in Venice: Act 1, Scene 5. "There is indeed in every artist's nature" (Aschenbach)
    2:40
  11. 11.
    Death in Venice: Act 1, Scene 5. (Children's games)… "Adziù! Adziù!" (Chorus)
    10:04
  12. 12.
    Death in Venice: Act 1, Scene 6. "Aou'! Stagando, aou'!" (Gondolier)
    4:51
  13. 13.
    Death in Venice: Act 1, Scene 6. "Naturally, Signore, I understand" (Hotel Manager)
    7:55
  14. 14.
    Death in Venice: Act 1, Scene 7. "Here I will stay, here dedicate my days" (Aschenbach)
    9:43

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Death in Venice: Act 1, Scene 7. "First the race!" (Chorus)
    5:07
  2. 3.
    Death in Venice: Act 1, Scene 7. "The boy, Tadzio, shall inspire me" (Aschenbach)
    4:25
  3. 4.
    Death in Venice: Act 2. "So it has come to this" (Aschenbach)
    4:38
  4. 5.
    Death in Venice: Act 2, Scene 8. "Guardate, Signore!" (Hotel Barber)
    2:20
  5. 6.
    Death in Venice: Act 2, Scene 9. "Do I detect a scent?" (Aschenbach)
    6:24
  6. 7.
    Death in Venice: Act 2, Scene 9. "Careful search now leads me to them" (Aschenbach)
    7:47
  7. 8.
    Death in Venice: Act 2, Scene 10. "This way for the players, Signori!" (Hotel Porter)
    4:25
  8. 9.
    Death in Venice: Act 2, Scene 10. "Fiorir rose in mezo al giasso" (Leader of the players)
    4:10
  9. 10.
    Death in Venice: Act 2, Scene 11. "One moment if you please" (English Clerk)
    2:00
  10. 11.
    Death in Venice: Act 2, Scene 11. "In these last years" (English Clerk)
    2:56
  11. 12.
    Death in Venice: Act 2, Scene 12. "So it is true, true" (Aschenbach)
    4:22
  12. 13.
    Death in Venice: Act 2, Scene 13. "Receive the stranger god" (Voice of Dionysus)
    3:46
  13. 14.
    Death in Venice: Act 2, Scene 14. (The empty beach)… "Do what you will with me!" (Aschenbach)
    1:59
  14. 15.
    Death in Venice: Act 2, Scene 15. "Yes! A very wise decision" (Hotel Barber)
    2:23
  15. 16.
    Death in Venice: Act 2, Scene 16. "Hurrah for the Piazza" (Aschenbach)
    2:54
  16. 17.
    Death in Venice: Act 2, Scene 16. "Chaos, chaos and sickness" (Aschenbach)
    4:23
  17. 18.
    Death in Venice: Act 2, Scene 17. "The wind still blows from the land" (Hotel Manager)
    4:17
  18. 19.
    Death in Venice: Act 2, Scene 17. (On the beach)… "Ah, no!" (Aschenbach)
    5:07

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