The Rake's Progress

Album by Igor Fyodorovitch Stravinsky & Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Igor Fyodorovitch Stravinsky

The Rake's Progress is an opera by Igor Stravinsky, first performed in 1951. Written in a neoclassical idiom that recalls 18th-century opera with transparent textures, tonal harmonies and chamber-like orchestration, it marks Stravinsky's mature engagement with classical forms and occupies a prominent place in his mid-20th-century output.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    The Rake's Progress: Act I, Scene 1. "The woods are green"
    4:12
  2. 2.
    The Rake's Progress: Act I, Scene 1. "Anne, my dear"
    1:04
  3. 3.
    The Rake's Progress: Act I, Scene 1. "Here I stand" / "Since it is not by merit"
    2:45
  4. 4.
    The Rake's Progress: Act I, Scene 1. "Tom Rakewell?"
    1:28
  5. 5.
    The Rake's Progress: Act I, Scene 1. "Fair lady, gracious gentlemen"
    2:08
  6. 6.
    The Rake's Progress: Act I, Scene 1. "I wished but once"
    1:42
  7. 7.
    The Rake's Progress: Act I, Scene 1. "My Anne, behold"
    2:14
  8. 8.
    The Rake's Progress: Act I, Scene 1. "Farewell for now"
    1:12
  9. 9.
    The Rake's Progress: Act I, Scene 1. "All is ready, sir"
    0:48
  10. 10.
    The Rake's Progress: Act I, Scene 1. "Dear father Trulove"
    1:21
  11. 11.
    The Rake's Progress: Act I, Scene 1. "Laughter and light"
    1:48
  12. 12.
    The Rake's Progress: Act I, Scene 2. "With air commanding and weapon handy"
    2:38
  13. 13.
    The Rake's Progress: Act I, Scene 2. "Come, Tom"
    3:59
  14. 14.
    The Rake's Progress: Act I, Scene 2. "Soon dawn will glitter" / "Sisters of Venus, Brothers of Mars"
    1:37
  15. 15.
    The Rake's Progress: Act I, Scene 2. "Love, too frequently betrayed"
    2:41
  16. 16.
    The Rake's Progress: Act I, Scene 2. "How sad a song"
    0:59
  17. 17.
    The Rake's Progress: Act I, Scene 2. "The sun is bright, the grass is green"
    2:36
  18. 18.
    The Rake's Progress: Act I, Scene 2. "No word from Tom" / "Quietly, night"
    4:23
  19. 19.
    The Rake's Progress: Act I, Scene 2. "My father! Can I desert him" / "I go, I go to him"
    3:56
  20. 20.
    The Rake's Progress: Act II, Scene 1. "Vary the song, O London"
    3:02
  21. 21.
    The Rake's Progress: Act II, Scene 1. "O Nature, green unnatural mother"
    3:06
  22. 22.
    The Rake's Progress: Act II, Scene 1. "Always the quarry that I stalk"
    1:46
  23. 23.
    The Rake's Progress: Act II, Scene 1. "Master, are you alone?"
    1:17
  24. 24.
    The Rake's Progress: Act II, Scene 1. "Come, master, observe the host of mankind"
    1:22
  25. 25.
    The Rake's Progress: Act II, Scene 1. "In youth the panting slave pursues"
    2:16
  26. 26.
    The Rake's Progress: Act II, Scene 1. "My tale shall be told"
    2:24
  27. 27.
    The Rake's Progress: Act II, Scene 2. Introduction
    1:32
  28. 28.
    The Rake's Progress: Act II, Scene 2. "How strange!" / "O heart be stronger"
    2:40
  29. 29.
    The Rake's Progress: Act II, Scene 2. "What can this mean?"
    3:18
  30. 30.
    The Rake's Progress: Act II, Scene 2. "My love, am I to remain in here for ever?"
    0:59
  31. 31.
    The Rake's Progress: Act II, Scene 2. "Could it then have been known"
    3:06
  32. 32.
    The Rake's Progress: Act II, Scene 2. "I have not run away"
    3:05

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    The Rake's Progress: Act II, Scene 3. "As I was saying" / "Come, sweet, come" / "Scorned! Abused!"
    4:24
  2. 3.
    The Rake's Progress: Act II, Scene 3. "Fa la la"
    3:14
  3. 4.
    The Rake's Progress: Act II, Scene 3. "Thanks to this excellent device"
    1:48
  4. 5.
    The Rake's Progress: Act II, Scene 3. "Forgive me, master, for intruding"
    2:19
  5. 6.
    The Rake's Progress: Act III, Scene 1. "Ruin. Disaster. Shame"
    3:24
  6. 7.
    The Rake's Progress: Act III, Scene 1. "Ladies both fair and gracious"
    1:40
  7. 8.
    The Rake's Progress: Act III, Scene 1. "Who hears me, knows me"
    3:40
  8. 9.
    The Rake's Progress: Act III, Scene 1. "Sold! Annoyed!"
    2:19
  9. 10.
    The Rake's Progress: Act III, Scene 1. "You love him, seek to set him right"
    4:24
  10. 11.
    The Rake's Progress: Act III, Scene 1. "I go to him"
    2:04
  11. 12.
    The Rake's Progress: Act III, Scene 2. Prelude
    2:05
  12. 13.
    The Rake's Progress: Act III, Scene 2. "How dark and dreadful is this place"
    4:15
  13. 14.
    The Rake's Progress: Act III, Scene 2. "Very well then, my dear and good Tom"
    1:29
  14. 15.
    The Rake's Progress: Act III, Scene 2. "Well then" / "My heart is wild with fear"
    4:19
  15. 16.
    The Rake's Progress: Act III, Scene 2. "The simpler the trick"
    3:05
  16. 17.
    The Rake's Progress: Act III, Scene 2. "I burn, I burn! I freeze!"
    2:16
  17. 18.
    The Rake's Progress: Act III, Scene 2. "With roses crowned"
    1:25
  18. 19.
    The Rake's Progress: Act III, Scene 3. "Prepare yourselves, heroic shades"
    4:05
  19. 20.
    The Rake's Progress: Act III, Scene 3. "There he is. Have no fear"
    2:23
  20. 21.
    The Rake's Progress: Act III, Scene 3. "I have waited" / "In a foolish dream"
    2:52
  21. 22.
    The Rake's Progress: Act III, Scene 3. "I am exceeding weary"
    1:05
  22. 23.
    The Rake's Progress: Act III, Scene 3. "Gently, little boat"
    3:04
  23. 24.
    The Rake's Progress: Act III, Scene 3. "Anne, my dear"
    0:58
  24. 25.
    The Rake's Progress: Act III, Scene 3. "Every wearied body"
    1:48
  25. 26.
    The Rake's Progress: Act III, Scene 3. "Where art thou, Venus?"
    3:41
  26. 27.
    The Rake's Progress: Act III, Scene 3. "Mourn for Adonis"
    1:33
  27. 28.
    The Rake's Progress: Epilogue. "Good people, just a moment"
    2:45

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