Billy Budd

Album by Benjamin Britten & Simon Keenlyside & Philip Langridge & John Tomlinson & London Symphony Chorus & London Symphony Orchestra & Richard Hickox

Billy Budd is an opera by English composer Benjamin Britten, first performed in 1951. The score blends lyrical vocal lines with incisive, often austere orchestration and dramatic choral writing to evoke maritime settings and moral conflict, and it stands as a significant mid-career operatic work that helped consolidate Britten's position in 20th-century British opera.
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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Billy Budd: Prologue "I am an old man..."
    5:10
  2. 2.
    Billy Budd: Act I, Scene I. "Pull, me bantams!"
    6:43
  3. 3.
    Billy Budd: Act I, Scene I. "Boat Ahoy!"
    3:17
  4. 4.
    Billy Budd: Act I, Scene I. "First man forward!"
    2:17
  5. 5.
    Billy Budd: Act I, Scene I. "Your name?"
    2:40
  6. 6.
    Billy Budd: Act I, Scene I. "Billy Budd, king of the birds!"
    2:28

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Billy Budd: Act I, Scene I. "I hear, your honour!"
    3:30
  2. 3.
    Billy Budd: Act I, Scene I. "Come along, kid!"
    4:22
  3. 4.
    Billy Budd: Act I, Scene I. "Christ! The poor chap..."
    1:30
  4. 5.
    Billy Budd: Act I, Scene I. "What's that? What's those whistles?"
    1:16
  5. 6.
    Billy Budd: Act I, Scene I. "Starry Vere we call him"
    2:17
  6. 7.
    Billy Budd: Act I, Scene II. "Boy!"
    3:25
  7. 8.
    Billy Budd: Act I, Scene II. "Gentlemen, the King!"
    5:44
  8. 9.
    Billy Budd: Act I, Scene II. "Ay, at Spithead..."
    1:01
  9. 10.
    Billy Budd: Act I, Scene II. "We are, Sir. Claggart is an able one."
    6:36
  10. 11.
    Billy Budd: Act I, Scene III. "Blow her away."
    2:44
  11. 12.
    Billy Budd: Act I, Scene III. "We're off to Samoa..."
    3:44
  12. 13.
    Billy Budd: Act I, Scene III. "Hi! You ... a... a...!"
    3:02
  13. 14.
    Billy Budd: Act I, Scene III. "Over the water..."
    7:29
  14. 15.
    Billy Budd: Act I, Scene III. "Come here"
    6:22
  15. 16.
    Billy Budd: Act I, Scene III. "Billy!... Hist! Billy Budd!"
    4:24
  16. 17.
    Billy Budd: Act I, Scene III. "Dansker, old friend..."
    4:51

Disc 3

  1. 3.
    Billy Budd: Act II, Scene I. "I don't like the look of the mist..."
    2:18
  2. 4.
    Billy Budd: Act II, Scene I. "With great regret I must disturb your honour."
    1:04
  3. 5.
    Billy Budd: Act II, Scene I. "Deck ahoy!"
    3:27
  4. 6.
    Billy Budd: Act II, Scene I. "Volunteers! Call for boarding volunteers!"
    8:13
  5. 7.
    Billy Budd: Act II, Scene I. "There you are again, Master-at-Arms."
    5:01
  6. 8.
    Billy Budd: Act II, Scene I. "Oh, this cursèd mist!"
    4:04
  7. 9.
    Billy Budd: Act II, Scene II. "Claggart, John Claggart, beware!"
    3:36
  8. 10.
    Billy Budd: Act II, Scene II. "Master-at-Armas and foretopman..."
    3:19
  9. 11.
    Billy Budd: Act II, Scene II. "God o' mercy!"
    2:11
  10. 12.
    Billy Budd: Act II, Scene II. "Gentlemen, William Budd here..."
    1:34
  11. 13.
    Billy Budd: Act II, Scene II. "William Budd, you are accused..."
    5:48
  12. 14.
    Billy Budd: Act II, Scene II. "Poor fellow, who could save him?"
    5:02
  13. 15.
    Billy Budd: Act II, Scene II. "I accept their verdict."
    5:15
  14. 16.
    Billy Budd: Act II, Scene III. "Look!"
    6:05
  15. 17.
    Billy Budd: Act II, Scene III. "Here! Baby!"
    4:10
  16. 18.
    Billy Budd: Act II, Scene III. "And farewell to ye..."
    5:48
  17. 19.
    Billy Budd: Act II, Scene IV. "Interlude"
    3:11
  18. 20.
    Billy Budd: Act II, Scene IV. "According to the Articles of War..."
    2:18
  19. 21.
    Billy Budd: Act II, Scene IV. "Down all hands!"
    2:27
  20. 22.
    Billy Budd: Epilogue. "We committed his body to the deep"
    4:57

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