Britten: billy budd
(2008)

eMusic

Provider: hoopla

Details

PUBLISHED
[United States] : Warner Classics : Made available through hoopla, 2008
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (1 audio file (2hr., 45 min.)) : digital

ISBN/ISSN
MWT11085560, 11085560
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Mode of access: World Wide Web

CONTENTS
Billy Budd: Prologue 'I am an old man' (Vere) (5:00) -- Billy Budd: Pull, my bantams! Pull, my sparrow-legs!...Who did that? (First Mate et al) (6:55) -- Billy Budd: Guard boat! Indomitable! (Maintop et al) (3:29) -- Billy Budd: First man forward! (Claggart et al) (2:10) -- Billy Budd: Your name? - Billy Budd, sir (Claggart/Billy/First Lieutenant/Sailing Master) (2:43) -- Billy Budd: Billy Budd, king of the birds (Billy/Sailing Master/First Lieutenant/Ratcliffe) (2:39) -- Billy Budd: I heard your honour! (Claggart/Squeak/Novice's Friend) (3:53) -- Billy Budd: Come along kid! Come along! (Novice's Friend/Novice/Chorus) (4:02) -- Billy Budd: Christ! The poor chap, the poor little runt! (Billy/Dansker/Red Whiskers/Donald) (1:27) -- Billy Budd: What's that? What's those whistles? (Billy/Donald/Claggart/First Mate/Second Mate/Bosun) (1:17) -- Billy Budd: Starry Vere we call him (Donald/Billy/Chorus/Red Whiskers/Dansker/Bosun) (2:26) -- Billy Budd: Boy! - Yes sir! (Vere/Boy) (3:32) -- Billy Budd: Gentlemen, the King! (Vere/First Lieutenant/Sailing Master) (6:25) -- Billy Budd: Ay, at Spithead the men may have had their grievances (Vere/Sailing Master/First Lieutenant) (1:01) -- Billy Budd: We are, sir. Claggart is an able one...Land on the port bow, sir (First Lieutenant/Vere/Sailing Master/Ratcliffe) (6:51) -- Billy Budd: Blow her away, Blow her to Hilo (Red Whiskers/Chorus/Billy/Donald/Dansker) (2:41) -- Billy Budd: We're off to Samoa (Donald/Chorus/Red Whiskers/Billy/Donald/Dansker) (3:48) -- Billy Budd: Hi! You...a...a... (Billy et al) (3:03) -- Billy Budd: Over the water, over the ocean (Chorus/Claggart) (7:43) -- Billy Budd: Come here, Remember your promise (Claggart/Novice) (5:43) -- Billy Budd: Billy!...Hist! Billy Budd! (Novice/Billy) (4:13) -- Billy Budd: Dansker, old friend, glad to see you! (Billy/Dansker) (4:48) -- Billy Budd: I don't like the look of the mist (Vere/First Lieutenant) (1:48) -- Billy Budd: With great regret I must disturb your honour (Claggart/Vere) (1:39) -- Billy Budd: Deck ahoy! Enemy sail on starboard bow! (Maintop et al) (3:22) -- Billy Budd: Who'll volunteer to beard 'em in the smoke? (Vere et al.) (7:46) -- Billy Budd: There you are again, Master-at-arms (Vere/Claggart/Boy) (4:46) -- Billy Budd: O this cursed mist (Vere/First Lieutenant/Sailing Master/Ratcliffe) (4:44) -- Billy Budd: Claggart, John Claggart, beware! I'm not so easily deceived (Vere/Billy) (3:52) -- Billy Budd: Master-at-arms and foretopman, I speak to you both (Vere/Claggart/Billy) (3:04) -- Billy Budd: God o' mercy! (Vere/Boy) (1:58) -- Billy Budd: Gentlemen, William Budd here has killed the Master-at-arms (Vere/First Lieutenant/Sailing Master/Ratcliffe) (1:23) -- Billy Budd: William Budd, you are accused... (First Lieutenant/Vere/Billy) (5:47) -- Billy Budd: Poor fellow, who could save him? (First Lieutenant/Sailing Master/Ratcliffe) (4:22) -- Billy Budd: I accept their verdict (Vere) (7:15) -- Billy Budd: Look! Through the port comes the moon-shine astray! (Billy) (5:44) -- Billy Budd: Here! Baby! (Dansker/Billy) (3:58) -- Billy Budd: And farewell to ye, old Rights o' Man! (Billy) (5:18) -- Billy Budd: Interlude (3:08) -- Billy Budd: "According to the Articles of War..." (All except Vere) (2:02) -- Billy Budd: Down all hands! And see that they go! (First Lieutenant et al) (2:50) -- Billy Budd: We committed his body to the deep (Vere) (4:45)

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