The Rape of Lucretia

Album by Benjamin Britten & Catherine Pierard & Patricia Rozario & Ameral Gunson & Jean Rigby & Nigel Robson & Donald Maxwell & Alan Opie & Alastair Miles & City of London Sinfonia & Richard Hickox

The Rape of Lucretia is a chamber opera by English composer Benjamin Britten, first performed in 1946. Scored for a small chamber ensemble and a compact vocal cast, the work blends operatic arioso and recitative within Britten's modern yet tonal idiom and occupies a place in his early post-war output as an intimate, psychologically focused stage piece.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act I: Rome is now ruled by the Etruscan upstart...
    5:47
  2. 2.
    The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act I: Here the thirsty ev'ening has drunk the wine of light...
    3:05
  3. 3.
    The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act I: Who reaches heaven first is the best philosopher...
    16:31
  4. 4.
    The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act I: Good night, Tarquinius!
    2:58
  5. 5.
    The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act I: Tarquinius does not wait for his servant to wake
    3:06
  6. 6.
    The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act I: Lucretia!
    5:49
  7. 7.
    The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act I: Listen! I heard a knock. Somebody is at the gate...
    3:03
  8. 8.
    The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act I: Time turns upon the hands of women...
    5:35
  9. 9.
    The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act I: None of the women move. It is too late for a messenger...
    6:09

Disc 2

  1. 1.
    The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act II: The prosperity of the Etruscans was due to the richness...
    7:39
  2. 2.
    The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act II: She sleeps as a rose upon the night...
    3:01
  3. 3.
    The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act II: When Tarquinius desires, then Tarquinius will dare...
    2:32
  4. 4.
    The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act II: Within this frail crucible of light...
    4:47
  5. 5.
    The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act II: Lucretia!
    6:29
  6. 6.
    The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act II: Here in this scene you see Virtue assailed by sin...
    4:14
  7. 7.
    The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act II: O what a lovely day...
    6:38
  8. 8.
    The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act II: Hush! Here she comes!
    3:37
  9. 9.
    The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act II: Flowers bring to ev'ry year the same perfection...
    6:24
  10. 10.
    The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act II: Lucretia! Lucretia! O never again must we two dare to part...
    8:42
  11. 11.
    The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act II: This dead hand lets fall all that my heart held when full...
    4:21
  12. 12.
    The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act II: Is it all? Is all this suffering and pain, is this in vain?
    5:38

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