Antony and Cleopatra

Album by Samuel Barber & Esther Hinds & Jeffrey Wells & Christian Badea & Gian Carlo Menotti & Spoleto Festival Orchestra & Westminster Choir & Joseph Flummerfelt

Antony and Cleopatra is an opera by American composer Samuel Barber, premiered in 1966. The score blends lyrical late-Romantic orchestration with dramatic vocal writing and rich orchestral colour, representing Barber's late-career engagement with large-scale operatic form within mid-20th-century American music.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Antony and Cleopatra: Act I, Prologue. “The Empire”
    1:55
  2. 2.
    Antony and Cleopatra: Act I, Scene 1. “Cleopatra's Palace in Alexandra”
    2:49
  3. 3.
    Antony and Cleopatra: Act I, Scene 1. “I am sick and sullen”
    3:25
  4. 4.
    Antony and Cleopatra: Act I, Scene 1. Orchestral Interlude
    1:31
  5. 5.
    Antony and Cleopatra: Act I, Scene 2. “The Senate in Rome”
    5:29
  6. 6.
    Antony and Cleopatra: Act I, Scene 3. “Cleopatra's Palace”
    5:51
  7. 7.
    Antony and Cleopatra: Act I, Scene 3. Slaves' Dance
    7:30
  8. 8.
    Antony and Cleopatra: Act I, Scene 4. “A Roman Banquet Hall”
    3:30
  9. 9.
    Antony and Cleopatra: Act I, Scene 4. “When first she met Mark Antony”
    2:32
  10. 10.
    Antony and Cleopatra: Act I, Scene 4. “Vision of Cleopatra's Barge”
    3:16
  11. 11.
    Antony and Cleopatra: Act II, Scene 1. “The Senate in Rome”
    2:42
  12. 12.
    Antony and Cleopatra: Act II, Scene 2. “Cleopatra's Garden”
    2:53
  13. 13.
    Antony and Cleopatra: Act II, Scene 2. “Hush, here come the Queen and Antony”
    4:25
  14. 14.
    Antony and Cleopatra: Act II, Scene 3. “Outside Antony's Battlefield Tent”
    3:58
  15. 15.
    Antony and Cleopatra: Act II, Scene 4. “Inside the Tent”
    1:33
  16. 16.
    Antony and Cleopatra: Act II, Scene 4. Duet. “Oh take, oh take those lips away”
    4:53

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Antony and Cleopatra: Act II, Scene 5. “The Battlefield At Aticum”
    3:33
  2. 3.
    Antony and Cleopatra: Act II, Scene 5. “Hark! The land bids me tread no more upon it”
    3:25
  3. 4.
    Antony and Cleopatra: Act II, Scene 6. “Cleopatra's Palace”
    4:30
  4. 5.
    Antony and Cleopatra: Act II, Scene 7. “A Battlefield”
    1:47
  5. 6.
    Antony and Cleopatra: Act II, Scene 7. “O sov'reign mistress”
    3:03
  6. 7.
    Antony and Cleopatra: Act II, Scene 7. Orchestral Interlude
    1:26
  7. 8.
    Antony and Cleopatra: Act II, Scene 8. “Inside Antony's Tent”
    4:56
  8. 9.
    Antony and Cleopatra: Act II, Scene 8. “Where's Antony?”
    2:36
  9. 10.
    Antony and Cleopatra: Act III, Scene 1. “Cleopatra's Monument”
    6:41
  10. 11.
    Antony and Cleopatra: Act III, Scene 1. “My lord, my lord! Noblest of men”
    5:32
  11. 12.
    Antony and Cleopatra: Act III, Scene 1. “The breaking of so great a thing”
    2:53
  12. 13.
    Antony and Cleopatra: Act III, Scene 2. Prelude
    2:19
  13. 14.
    Antony and Cleopatra: Act III, Scene 2. “Inside the Monument”
    3:29
  14. 15.
    Antony and Cleopatra: Act III, Scene 2. “Here is a rural fellow”
    2:13
  15. 16.
    Antony and Cleopatra: Act III, Scene 2. “Give me my robe”
    5:33
  16. 17.
    Antony and Cleopatra: Act III, Scene 2. “Death of Cleopatra”
    4:23

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