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, op. 88: Act 1: "My Mind Beats On"
    4:56
  2. 2.
    Death in Venice, op. 88: Act 1: "Who's That? A Foreigner, a Traveller No Doubt"
    4:53
  3. 3.
    Death in Venice, op. 88: Act 1: "Hey There, Hey There, You!"
    3:47
  4. 4.
    Death in Venice, op. 88: Act 1: "Serenissima...Low-Lying Clouds, Unending Grey"
    2:55
  5. 5.
    Death in Venice, op. 88: Act 1: Overture: Venice
    2:35
  6. 6.
    Death in Venice, op. 88: Act 1: "Ah, Serenissima!"
    5:20
  7. 7.
    Death in Venice, op. 88: Act 1: "Mysterious Gondola"
    1:41
  8. 8.
    Death in Venice, op. 88: Act 1: "We Are Delighted To Greet the Signore"
    4:08
  9. 9.
    Death in Venice, op. 88: Act 1: "Was I Wrong To Come?"
    6:13
  10. 10.
    Death in Venice, op. 88: Act 1: "There Is Indeed In Every Artist's Nature"
    2:40
  11. 11.
    Death in Venice, op. 88: Act 1: "Children's Games: Adziu, Adziu"
    10:04
  12. 12.
    Death in Venice, op. 88: Act 1: "Aou'! Stagando, Aou'"
    4:51
  13. 13.
    Death in Venice, op. 88: Act 1: "Naturally, Signore, I Understand"
    7:55
  14. 14.
    Death in Venice, op. 88: Act 1: "Here Will I Stay, Here Dedicate My Days"
    9:43

Disc 2

  1. 1.
    Death in Venice, op. 88: Act 1: "First, the Race!"
    5:10
  2. 2.
    Death in Venice, op. 88: Act 1: "The Boy, Tadzio, Shall Inspire Me"
    4:17
  3. 3.
    Death in Venice, op. 88: Act 1: "So, It Has Come To This"
    4:46
  4. 4.
    Death in Venice, op. 88: Act 1: "Guardate, Signore!"
    2:20
  5. 5.
    Death in Venice, op. 88: Act 1: "Do I Detect a Scent?"
    6:24
  6. 6.
    Death in Venice, op. 88: Act 1: "Careful Search Now Leads Me To Them"
    7:47
  7. 7.
    Death in Venice, op. 88: Act 1: "This Way For the Players, Signori"
    4:25
  8. 8.
    Death in Venice, op. 88: Act 1: "Fiorir Rose In Mezo Al Giasso"
    4:10
  9. 9.
    Death in Venice, op. 88: Act 1: "One Moment, If You Please"
    2:00
  10. 10.
    Death in Venice, op. 88: Act 1: "In These Last Years"
    2:56
  11. 11.
    Death in Venice, op. 88: Act 1: "So It Is True"
    4:21
  12. 12.
    Death in Venice, op. 88: Act 1: "Receive the Stranger God"
    3:46
  13. 13.
    Death in Venice, op. 88: Act 1: "The Empty Beach: Do What You Will With Me"
    1:59
  14. 14.
    Death in Venice, op. 88: Act 1: "Yes! A Very Wise Decision"
    2:23
  15. 15.
    Death in Venice, op. 88: Act 1: "Hurrah For the Piazza"
    2:54
  16. 16.
    Death in Venice, op. 88: Act 1: "Chaos, Chaos and Sickness"
    4:23
  17. 17.
    Death in Venice, op. 88: Act 1: "The Wind Still Blows From the Land"
    4:17
  18. 18.
    Death in Venice, op. 88: Act 1: Interlude: "Ah, No!"
    5:07

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