The Trial

Album by Philip Glass & Music Theatre Wales & Michael Rafferty

The Trial is a recording of Philip Glass’s chamber opera based on Franz Kafka’s novel, with an English libretto by Christopher Hampton and a minimalist score for small ensemble. Commissioned by Music Theatre Wales and the Royal Opera House, it dramatises Josef K.’s entanglement in an opaque judicial bureaucracy.
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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    The Trial: Act One: Scene 1: The Arrest: Franz, Willem, The Inspector
    14:29
  2. 2.
    The Trial: Act One: Scene 2A: The Landlady, Frau Grubach
    4:15
  3. 3.
    The Trial: Act One: Scene 2B: The Tenant Next Door, Fräulein Bürstner
    3:13
  4. 4.
    The Trial: Act One: Scene 3: The Court
    9:06
  5. 5.
    The Trial: Act One: Scene 4: Washerwoman, The Student, The Court Usher (Washerwoman's husband)
    11:37
  6. 6.
    The Trial: Act One: Scene 5A: At the Bank: Uncle Albert
    5:31
  7. 7.
    The Trial: Act One: Scene 5B: The Flogger
    3:32

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    The Trial: Act Two: Prelude
    1:25
  2. 3.
    The Trial: Act Two: Scene 1: Uncle Albert takes K. to visit Lawyer Huld and Leni (Huld's maid-cum-nurse)
    12:28
  3. 4.
    The Trial: Act Two: Scene 2: Titorelli the painter
    10:36
  4. 5.
    The Trial: Act Two: Scene 3: Lawyer Huld's House: Block (another client), Leni
    14:21
  5. 6.
    The Trial: Act Two: Scene 4: The Priest
    12:12
  6. 7.
    The Trial: Act Two: Scene 5: Journey to a Quarry
    5:00

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