The Rake's Progress

Album by Igor Fyodorovitch Stravinsky & Philip Langridge & Cathryn Pope & Samuel Ramey & Stafford Dean & Sarah Walker & John Dobson & London Sinfonietta & London Sinfonietta Chorus & Riccardo Chailly

The Rake's Progress is an opera by Russian-born composer Igor Stravinsky, premiered in 1951. It is written in Stravinsky's neoclassical style, drawing on 18th-century forms and clear tonal harmonies with chamber-sized orchestration and occasional jazz-inflected rhythms, and it exemplifies his mid-career return to formally structured, tonal composition.
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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    The Rake’s Progress: Act I: Prelude
    0:30
  2. 2.
    The Rake’s Progress: Act I: Scene 1: “The woods are green”: Anne
    4:30
  3. 3.
    The Rake’s Progress: Act I: Scene 1: “The old fool!”: Tom
    2:28
  4. 4.
    The Rake’s Progress: Act I: Scene 1: “I wish I had money”: Tom
    6:31
  5. 5.
    The Rake’s Progress: Act I: Scene 1: “I’ll call the coachman, sir”: Nick
    5:31
  6. 6.
    The Rake’s Progress: Act I: Scene 2: “With air commanding and weapon handy”: Roaring Boys
    2:30
  7. 7.
    The Rake’s Progress: Act I: Scene 2: “Come, Tom”: Nick
    4:38
  8. 8.
    The Rake’s Progress: Act I: Scene 2: “Love, too frequently betrayed”: Tom
    3:26
  9. 9.
    The Rake’s Progress: Act I: Scene 2: “The sun is bright, the grass is green”: Whores and Roaring Boys
    2:18
  10. 10.
    The Rake’s Progress: Act I: Scene 3: “No word from Tom”: Anne
    8:27
  11. 11.
    The Rake’s Progress: Act II: Scene 1: “Vary the song, o London, change!”: Tom
    6:33
  12. 12.
    The Rake’s Progress: Act II: Scene 1: “I wish I were happy”: Tom / “Master, are you alone?”: Nick
    6:50
  13. 13.
    The Rake’s Progress: Act II: Scene 2: Introduction / “How strange! Although the heart for love dare everything”: Anne
    5:29
  14. 14.
    The Rake’s Progress: Act II: Scene 2: “Anne! Here!”: Tom
    2:17
  15. 15.
    The Rake’s Progress: Act II: Scene 2: “My love, am I to remain in here for ever?”: Baba
    6:12

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    The Rake’s Progress: Act II: Scene 3: “As I was saying, both brothers wore moustaches”: Baba
    3:49
  2. 3.
    The Rake’s Progress: Act II: Scene 3: “My heart is cold, I cannot weep”: Tom
    6:56
  3. 4.
    The Rake’s Progress: Act III: Scene 1: “Ruin, disaster, shame”: Chorus
    2:40
  4. 5.
    The Rake’s Progress: Act III: Scene 1: “Aha!”: Sellem / “He’s here! The auctioneer”: Crowd
    5:08
  5. 6.
    The Rake’s Progress: Act III: Scene 1: “… ever — Sold! Annoyed!”: Baba
    8:32
  6. 7.
    The Rake’s Progress: Act III: Scene 2: Prelude
    2:01
  7. 8.
    The Rake’s Progress: Act III: Scene 2: “How dark and dreadful is this place”: Tom
    4:08
  8. 9.
    The Rake’s Progress: Act III: Scene 2: “Very well, then, my dear and good Tom”: Nick
    8:19
  9. 10.
    The Rake’s Progress: Act III: Scene 2: “I burn! I burn! I freeze!”: Nick
    3:39
  10. 11.
    The Rake’s Progress: Act III: Scene 3: “Prepare yourselves, heroic shades”: Tom
    3:27
  11. 12.
    The Rake’s Progress: Act III: Scene 3: “There he is. Have no fear”: Keeper
    5:33
  12. 13.
    The Rake’s Progress: Act III: Scene 3: “Gently, little boat”: Anne
    5:54
  13. 14.
    The Rake’s Progress: Act III: Scene 3: “Where art thou Venus?”: Tom
    4:22
  14. 15.
    The Rake’s Progress: Act III: Epilogue: “Good people, just a moment”: Anne, Baba, Tom, Nick, Trulove
    2:27

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