A Quiet Place

Album by Leonard Bernstein & Orchestre symphonique de Montréal & Kent Nagano

A Quiet Place is an opera by American composer Leonard Bernstein, premiered in 1983. Musically it blends Bernstein's theatrical and lyrical idioms, combining Broadway-inflected melody, jazz-influenced harmonies and modern classical dissonance, and it is a late-career reworking of earlier material that extends his engagement with autobiographical and family themes.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    A Quiet Place: Act 1: Prologue… ”The path of truth is plain and safe”
    3:37
  2. 2.
    A Quiet Place: Act 1: Dialogue One “I am sorry, ma’am”
    1:18
  3. 3.
    A Quiet Place: Act 1: Dialogue Two “She wasn’t exactly what you would call a beautiful woman”
    3:31
  4. 4.
    A Quiet Place: Act 1: Dialogue Three “Dede! Darling how’ve you been?” / Arietta “Fantastic, great!”
    1:23
  5. 5.
    A Quiet Place: Act 1: Dialogue Four “You’re so like her”
    1:56
  6. 6.
    A Quiet Place: Act 1: Dialogue Five “Uh, Susie, this is… — You must be François”
    0:39
  7. 7.
    A Quiet Place: Act 1: Dialogue Six “Oh François, come.”
    1:32
  8. 8.
    A Quiet Place: Act 1: Dialogue Seven “Welcome to the Family.”
    0:45
  9. 9.
    A Quiet Place: Act 1: Dialogue Eight “Say, who’s that character“
    1:18
  10. 10.
    A Quiet Place: Act 1: Dialogue Nine “Dede, where’s your brother”
    1:54
  11. 11.
    A Quiet Place: Act 1: Readings “Who can find a virtuous woman?” / Chorale “God has his ways”
    5:43
  12. 12.
    A Quiet Place: Act 1: Aria “You’re late “
    4:47
  13. 13.
    A Quiet Place: Act 1: Trio “Dear Daddy, Daddy dear”
    3:24
  14. 14.
    A Quiet Place: Act 1: Finale “Merry Christmas to you too, asshole”
    2:29
  15. 15.
    A Quiet Place: Act 1: Postlude
    4:07

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    A Quiet Place: Act 2: Aria “I wish I could sleep”
    3:56
  2. 3.
    A Quiet Place: Act 2: “What are you doing?”
    4:12
  3. 4.
    A Quiet Place: Act 2: “First, I would like to sing you a little song”
    3:57
  4. 5.
    A Quiet Place: Act 2: “I coming closer”
    3:30
  5. 6.
    A Quiet Place: Act 2: Aria “I’ve been afraid”
    4:42
  6. 7.
    A Quiet Place: Act 3: Prelude
    4:37
  7. 8.
    A Quiet Place: Act 3: Aria “Morning”
    2:53
  8. 9.
    A Quiet Place: Act 3: Scene “The one and only cereal”
    3:37
  9. 10.
    A Quiet Place: Act 3: Tag #1 “Ha! — Absence makes the heart grow fonder!” / Trio “…around. Happy twenty-first birthday”
    2:29
  10. 11.
    A Quiet Place: Act 3: Tag #2 “Watch it! — Watch out!”
    2:26
  11. 12.
    A Quiet Place: Act 3: Aria “Oh, François, please.”
    2:02
  12. 13.
    A Quiet Place: Act 3: Aria “Dear loved ones” / Laughing Chorus
    2:33
  13. 14.
    A Quiet Place: Act 3: Scene “I like it here!“
    4:25
  14. 15.
    A Quiet Place: Act 3: Aria “Stop. You will not take another step!”
    3:57
  15. 16.
    A Quiet Place: Act 3: Aria “You see, Daddy, that death does bring some relief” / Finale “I don’t know what this is”
    5:26

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