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
    5:48
  2. 2.
    The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act I: Scene 1: Here the thirsty ev'ening has drunk the wine of light
    3:05
  3. 3.
    The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act I: Scene 1: Who reaches heaven first is the best philosopher
    7:46
  4. 4.
    The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act I: Scene 1: Oh, my God, with what agility does jealousy jump into a small heart
    8:52
  5. 5.
    The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act I: Scene 1: Tarquinus doses not dare when Tarquinius does not desire
    2:58
  6. 6.
    The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act I: Scene 1: Tarquinius does not wait for his servant to wake
    3:13
  7. 7.
    The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act I: Scene 2: Their spinning wheel unwinds dreams which desire has spun
    5:38
  8. 8.
    The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act I: Scene 2: Listen! I heard a knock. Somebody is at the gate
    3:04
  9. 9.
    The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act I: Scene 2: Time turns upon the hands of women
    5:36
  10. 10.
    The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act I: Scene 2: None of the women move. It is too late for a messenger
    6:09

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act II: Scene 1: The prosperity of the Etruscans was due to the richness of their native soil
    7:41
  2. 3.
    The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act II: Scene 1: She sleeps as a rose upon the night
    3:01
  3. 4.
    The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act II: Scene 1: When Tarquinius desires, then Tarquinius will dare
    2:33
  4. 5.
    The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act II: Scene 1: Within this frail crucible of light
    4:47
  5. 6.
    The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act II: Scene 1: Lucretia!
    6:30
  6. 7.
    The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act II: Here in this scene you see Virtue assailed by sin
    4:15
  7. 8.
    The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act II: Scene 2: O what a lovely day
    6:39
  8. 9.
    The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act II: Scene 2: Hush! Here she comes!
    3:37
  9. 10.
    The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act II: Scene 2: Flowers bring to ev'ry year the same perfection
    6:24
  10. 11.
    The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act II: Scene 2: Lucretia! Lucretia! O never again must we two dare to part
    5:07
  11. 12.
    The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act II: Scene 2: Last night Tarquinius ravished me and tore the fabric of our love
    3:36
  12. 13.
    The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act II: Scene 2: This dead hand lets fall all that my heart held when full
    4:22
  13. 14.
    The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act II: Scene 2: Is it all? Is all this suffering and pain, is this in vain?
    5:42

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