The Britten-Pears Collection – Pears

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Peter Grimes, Op.33 (original version)
“Peter Grimes!” (Prologue)
“Peter Grimes, I here advise you!” (Prologue)
“The truth…the pity…” (Prologue)
Interlude I: On the beach (Prologue)
“Oh, hang at open doors” (Act 1)
“Hi! give us a hand” (Act 1)
The carter goes from pub to pub (Act 1)
“Look, the storm cone!” (Act 1)
Interlude II: The Storm (Act 1)
“Past time to close!” (Act 1)
Get the brandy, Aunt! (Act 1)
“Old Joe has gone fishing” (Act 1)
“The bridge is down, we half swam over” (Act 1)
Interlude III: Sunday morning by the beach (Act 2)
“Glitter of waves” (Act 2)
Child, you’re not too young to know (Act 2)
“Fool to let it come to this!” (Act 2)
“We planned that their lives” (Act 2)
“Swallow! Shall we go” (Act 2)
“From the gutter” (Act 2)
Interlude IV: Passacaglia (Act 2)
“Go there!” (Act 2)
“Peter Grimes! Nobody here?” (Act 2)
Interlude V: Evening (Act 3)
“Assign your prettiness to me” (Act 3)
Is the boat in? (Act 3)
“Mr.Swallow!” (Act 3)
Interlude VI: Fog (Act 3)
“Grimes! Grimes!” (Act 3)
“To those who pass the Borough” (Act 3)
Britten: Peter Grimes – Closing Credits
Britten: Billy Budd – Opening Credits
Billy Budd – Opera in 2 Acts, Op.50 (original version)
I am an old man (Act 1)
Pull, my bantams! (Act 1)
Boat ahoy! (Act 1)
I heard, your honour! (Act 1)
Christ, the poor chap! (Act 1)
Boy! My compliments to Mr. Redburn (Act 1)
Any danger of French notions spreading this side, Sir? (Act 1)
We are, sir. Claggart is an able one (Act 1)
Land on the port bow, sir (Act 1)
Blow her away, Blow her to Hilo (Act 1)
Come along Dansker and sing (Act 1)
O beauty, handsomeness goodness (Act 1)
Come here. Remember your promise (Act 1)
Billy! Hist! Billy Budd! (Act 1)
Dansker, old friend, glad to see you (Act 1)
I don’t like the look of the mist (Act 2)
This is our moment (Act 2)
There you are again, Master-at-arms (Act 2)
O this cursed mist (Act 2)
Claggart, John Claggart, beware! (Act 2)
The mists have cleared (Act 2)
William Budd, you are accused by Captain Vere (Act 2)
I accept their verdict (Act 2)
Look! Through the port (Act 2)
Here! Baby! Dansker, old friend (Act 2)
Interlude (Act 2)
According to the articles of War (Act 2)
We committed his body to the deep (Act 2)
Britten: Billy Budd – Closing Credits
Owen Wingrave, an opera in 2 Acts, Op.85 (original version)
Prelude (Act 1)
You’ve got your maps there? (Act 1)
Is it? Is glory everything? (Act 1)
Oh! I thought I knew them all (Act 1)
Interlude 1 (Act 1)
At last it’s out (Act 1)
Interlude 2 . ..War is the statesman’s game (Act 1)
Your sherry, Mrs. Coyle (Act 1)
Owen, you can’t mean it (Act 1)
Interlude 3 (Act 1)
Oh, how unforeseen (Act 1)
And now to face them (Act 1)
Sirrah! How dare you! (Act 1)
Coyle, I wish I had not come (Act 1)
Ah! Owen (Act 1)
Interlude 4 (Act 1)
May God bless the Queen (Act 1)
There was a boy, a Wingrave born (Act 2)
They called for him to toll the bell (Act 2)
I envy you, this fine old house (Act 2)
Aha! (Act 2)
It’s over, I’m disinherited (Act 2)
And with his friend young Lechmere played (Act 2)
Now you may save your scornful looks (Act 2)
Ah, Owen, what shall I do? (Act 2)
Is that you, Coyle? (Act 2)
Ah, Owen, Owen you’ve gone (Act 2)
Extracts from “Music Now”
The place is Snape, in Suffolk… (Original Version)
Colin, would it be possible for you to tell us… (Original Version)
Peter, you’re multi-parted in this new opera… (Original Version)
Ben, what was it that first attracted you to the story… (Original Version)
Gay/Britten: The Beggar’s Opera – Opening Credits
The Beggar’s Opera (realised by Benjamin Britten)
If poverty be a title to poetry (Prologue)
Overture (Prologue)
Through all the employments of life (Act 1)
‘Tis woman seduces all mankind (Act 1)
A register of the gang (Act 1)
Women are bitter bad judges…If any wench Venus’ girdle wear (Act 1)
Yonder comes my husband…Virgins are like the fair flower (Act 1)
Our Polly is a sad slut (Act 1)
The girl shows…O Polly, you might have toyed… (Act 1)
What is a jointure…The turtle dove thus with plaintive crying… (Act 1)
Now I am a wretch indeed…Pretty Polly say (Act 1)
My heart was so free (Act 1)
Sure, my dear…Were I laid on Greenland’s coast… (Act 1)
The miser thus a shilling sees (Act 1)
But the present time is ours (Act 1)
Fill ev’ry glass (Act 1)
It’s now high time…Let us take the road (Act 1)
If the heart of a man (Act 1)
Mrs Coaxer…Youth’s the season made for joys (Act 1)
It’s your own choice…Before the barn-door crowing (Act 1)
But to be sure, sir…The gamesters and lawyers (Act 1)
Constables, wait…At the tree I shall suffer with pleasure (Act 1)
Noble Captain, you are welcome (Act 2)
To see you tortured…Thus when a good housewife sees a rat (Act 2)
You know, Lucy…The first time at the looking glass.. (Act 2)
Is then his fate decreed, sir? (Act 2)
I will not!…How happy could I be with either… (Act 2)
Really, Miss Peachum, you expose yourself…Cease… (Act 2)
Why how now, Madam Flirt? (Act 2)
No pow’r on earth can e’er divide (Act 2)
To be sure, wench (Act 3)
Dear, sir, mention not my education…When young at the bar… (Act 3)
Thus gamesters united in friendship (Act 3)
Look ye, Mrs. Jenny (Act 3)
Slippery Sam…The modes of the court (Act 3)
Keep a watchful eye on Polly…What gudgeons are we men (Act 3)
In the days of my youth (Act 3)
Jealousy, rage, love and fear…I’m like a skiff (Act 3)
A curse attends a woman’s love (Act 3)
Come, sweet lass, let’s banish sorrow (Act 3)
Mozart: Idomeneo: Introduction
Idomeneo KV 366
Overture (English Version)
Idomeneo KV 366 (English Version)
When will the gods have pity on me and my misfortune? (Act 1)
Bring the Trojan captains before me (Act 1)
These are the wretched few remaining Trojans (Act 1)
Hear me, my lord (Act 1)
Ye gods, save them!! (Act 1)
Safe from the storm at last (Act 1)
Ah, what do I see? (Act 1)
To Neptune sing praises in paens resounding (Act 1)
Mozart: Idomeneo: Introduction, Act 2
Larghetto from K.367 – Arbace, now we’re alone (Act 2)
Come, my gentle Princess (Act 2)
Who can explain the meaning of that which so disturbs me? (Act 2)
What greater joy than this could e’re be granted (Act 2)
Prince, we must part now (Act 2)
Oh, portent o’erwhelming (Act 2)
Mozart: Idomeneo: Introduction, Act 3
Gentle zephrs, soft caressing (Act 3)
O Princess, forgive me (Act 3)
What do I see here? (Act 3)
My lord, outside the gates the crowd has gathered (Act 3)
Look around here, I pray you, my lord (Act 3)
March – Great Neptune, thou whose empire is abounding (Act 3)
The hero victorious triumphant returns (Act 3)
Idomeneo shall reign no more (Act 3)
Here me now (Act 3)
God of love, be thou amongst us (Act 3)
Mozart: Idomeneo: Closing Credits
Schubert: Winterreise – Opening Credits
Winterreise D 911
1. Gute Nacht
2. Die Wetterfahne
3. Gefrorne Tränen
4. Erstarrung
5. Der Lindenbaum
6. Wasserflut
7. Auf dem Flusse
8. Rückblick
9. Irrlicht
10. Rast
11. Frühlingstraum
12. Einsamkeit
13. Die Post
14. Der greise Kopf
15. Die Krähe
16. Letzte Hoffnung
17. Im Dorfe
18. Der stürmische Morgen
19. Täuschung
20. Der Wegweiser
21. Das Wirtshaus
22. Mut
23. Die Nebensonnen
24. Der Leiermann
Schubert: Winterreise – Closing Credits
The Mock Marriage
Man is for the woman made (Arr. Britten)
The Foggy Foggy Dew
O Waly Waly
Sweet Polly Oliver
Sally In Our Alley
Tom Bowling
The Lincolnshire Poacher
The Plough Boy
Oliver Cromwell
Peter Pears & Benjamin Britten discuss Winterreise
Frühlingstraum (Original Version)
Winterreise D 911
17. Im Dorfe
Peter Pears & Benjamin Britten discuss Winterreise
Der Leiermann (Original Version)

Pears, Sir Peter / Britten, Benjamin – Mackerras, Sir Charles – Meredith Davies