Billy Budd

Album by Benjamin Britten

Billy Budd is an opera by English composer Benjamin Britten, first performed in 1951. The score blends tonal lyricism with modernist orchestration, prominent choral writing and maritime motifs, and it is regarded as one of Britten's major mid-career works within 20th-century British opera.
First released: 1998

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Billy Budd: Act I: Prologue
    4:34
  2. 2.
    Billy Budd: Act III, Scene 1: "I don't like the look of the mist"
    3:14
  3. 3.
    Billy Budd: Act III, Scene 1: "Deck ahoy!"
    4:56
  4. 4.
    Billy Budd: Act I Scene 1: "Pull, my bantams"
    7:12
  5. 5.
    Billy Budd: Act I Scene 1: "Send for John Claggart!"
    6:14
  6. 6.
    Billy Budd: Act III, Scene 1: "All guns ready, Sir!"
    4:55
  7. 7.
    Billy Budd: Act I Scene 1: "Billy Budd, king of the birds!"
    2:15
  8. 8.
    Billy Budd: Act III, Scene 1: "There are you again, Master-at-Arms"
    3:22
  9. 9.
    Billy Budd: Act III, Scene 1: "Nay, nay, you're mistaken"
    3:05
  10. 10.
    Billy Budd: Act I Scene 1: "I heard, your honour!"
    3:22
  11. 11.
    Billy Budd: Act I Scene 1: "Come along, kid!"
    3:18
  12. 12.
    Billy Budd: Act III, Scene 2: "Claggart, John Claggart, beware!"
    4:04
  13. 13.
    Billy Budd: Act III, Scene 2: "You wanted to see me"
    5:23
  14. 14.
    Billy Budd: Act I Scene 1: "Christ, the poor chap, the poor little runt!"
    3:15
  15. 15.
    Billy Budd: Act I Scene 1: "Vere! Vere! - Officers and men..."
    4:00
  16. 16.
    Billy Budd: Act III, Scene 2: "God o'mercy!"
    3:36
  17. 17.
    Billy Budd: Act II Scene 1: "My compliments..."
    4:45
  18. 18.
    Billy Budd: Act III, Scene 2: "William Budd, you are accused"
    5:36
  19. 19.
    Billy Budd: Act II Scene 1: "Don't like the French!"
    5:16
  20. 20.
    Billy Budd: Act III, Scene 2: "Poor fellow, who could save him?"
    3:47
  21. 21.
    Billy Budd: Act II Scene 1: "Oh, that's nothing"
    4:25
  22. 22.
    Billy Budd: Act III, Scene 2: "I accept their verdict"
    4:43
  23. 23.
    Billy Budd: Act IV, Scene 1: "Look!... Through the port comes the moonshine astray!"
    8:50
  24. 24.
    Billy Budd: Act II Scene 2: "Blow her away..."
    3:08
  25. 25.
    Billy Budd: Act II Scene 2: "Here lads!"
    3:53
  26. 26.
    Billy Budd: Act IV, Scene 1: "And farewell to ye"
    4:27
  27. 27.
    Billy Budd: Act II Scene 2: "Come out of that!"
    3:59
  28. 28.
    Billy Budd: Act IV, Scene 1: "According to the Articles of War"
    4:50
  29. 29.
    Billy Budd: Act IV, Scene 1: "Starry Vere"
    2:18
  30. 30.
    Billy Budd: Act II Scene 2: "O beauty, o handsomeness"
    4:40
  31. 31.
    Billy Budd: Act IV, Scene 1: "We committed his body to the deep"
    4:29
  32. 32.
    Billy Budd: Act II Scene 2: "Come here! Remember your promise"
    4:32
  33. 33.
    Billy Budd: Act II Scene 2: "Billy! Hist, Billy Budd!"
    3:45
  34. 34.
    Billy Budd: Act II Scene 2: "Dansker, old friend"
    4:18