Benjamin Britten - Billy Budd
Benjamin Britten - Billy Budd
Classical | EAC: FLAC+Cue+Log | 2 Cd, Cover + Full Booklet | 750 Mb
Label: Erato - Date: 1998
Classical | EAC: FLAC+Cue+Log | 2 Cd, Cover + Full Booklet | 750 Mb
Label: Erato - Date: 1998
With the arrival of Benjamin Britten on the international music scene, many felt that English music gained its greatest genius since Purcell. A composer of wide-ranging talents, Britten found in the human voice an especial source of inspiration, an affinity that resulted in a remarkable body of work, ranging from operas like Peter Grimes (1944-1945) and Death in Venice (1973) to song cycles like the Serenade for tenor, horn, and strings (1943) to the massive choral work War Requiem (1961). He also produced much music for orchestra and chamber ensembles, including symphonies, concerti, and chamber and solo works. Britten's father was a prosperous oral surgeon in the town of Lowestoft, Suffolk; his mother was a leader in the local choral society. When Benjamin's musical aptitude became evident, the family engaged composer Frank Bridge to supervise his musical education. Bridge's tutelage was one of the formative and lasting influences on Britten's compositional development; Britten eventually paid tribute to his teacher in his Op. 10, the Variations on a Theme by Frank Bridge (1937). Britten's formal training also included studies at the Royal College of Music (1930-1933).
Upon graduation from the RCM, Britten obtained a position scoring documentaries (on prosaic themes like "Sorting Office") for the Royal Post Office film unit. Working on a tight budget, he learned how to extract the maximum variety of color and musical effectiveness from the smallest combinations of instruments, producing dozens of such scores from 1935 to 1938. He rapidly emerged as the most promising British composer of his generation and entered into collaborative relationships that exerted a profound influence upon his creative life. Among the most important of his professional associates were literary figures like W.H. Auden, and later, E.M. Forster. None, however, played as central a role in Britten's life as the tenor Peter Pears, who was Britten's closest intimate, both personally and professionally, from the late '30s to the composer's death. Pears' voice inspired a number of Britten's vocal cycles and opera roles, and the two often joined forces in song recitals and, from 1948, in the organization and administration of the Aldeburgh Festival.
A steadfast pacifist, Britten left England in 1939 as war loomed over Europe. He spent four years in the United States and Canada, his compositional pace barely slackening, as evidenced by the production of works like the Sinfonia da Requiem (1940), the song cycle Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo (1940), and his first effort for the stage, Paul Bunyan (1940-1941). Eventually, the poetry of George Crabbe drew Britten back to England. With a Koussevitzky Commission backing him, the composer wrote the enormously successful opera Peter Grimes (1944-45), which marked the greatest turning point in his career. His fame secure, Britten over the next several decades wrote a dozen more operas, several of which – Albert Herring (1947), Billy Budd (1951), The Turn of the Screw (1954), A Midsummer Night's Dream (1960), Death in Venice (1973) – became instant and permanent fixtures of the repertoire. He also continued to produce much vocal, orchestral, and chamber music, including Songs and Proverbs of William Blake (1965), the three Cello Suites (1961-1964) and the Cello Symphony (1963), written for Mstislav Rostropovich, and the Third String Quartet (1975).
Britten suffered a stroke during heart surgery in 1971, which resulted in something of a slowdown in his creative activities. Nonetheless, he continued to compose until his death in 1976, by which time he was recognized as one of the principal musical figures of the twentieth century.
From Allmusic
Tracks CD 1:
01. Act I: Prologue [0:04:34.02]
02. Act I Scene 1: "Pull, my bantams" [0:07:12.03]
First mate
03. Act I Scene 1: "Send for John Claggart!" [0:06:14.52]
First lieutenant
04. Act I Scene 1: "Billy Budd, king of the birds!" [0:02:15.53]
Billy
05. Act I Scene 1: "I heard, your honour!" [0:03:22.20]
Claggart
06. Act I Scene 1: "Come along, kid!" [0:03:18.10]
Friend
07. Act I Scene 1: "Christ, the poor chap, the poor little runt!" [0:03:15.12]
Billy
08. Act I Scene 1: "Vere! Vere! - Officers and men…" [0:04:00.68]
Vere
09. Act II Scene 1: "My compliments…" [0:04:45.60]
Vere
10. Act II Scene 1: "Don't like the French!" [0:05:16.07]
Sailing master
11. Act II Scene 1: "Oh, that's nothing" [0:04:25.25]
Vere
12. Act II Scene 2: "Blow her away…" [0:03:08.43]
Chorus
13. Act II Scene 2: "Here lads!" [0:03:53.72]
Donald
14. Act II Scene 2: "Come out of that!" [0:03:59.18]
Billy
15. Act II Scene 2: "O beauty, o handsomeness" [0:04:40.62]
Claggart
16. Act II Scene 2: "Come here! Remember your promise" [0:04:32.38]
Claggart
17. Act II Scene 2: "Billy! Hist, Billy Budd!" [0:03:45.65]
Novice
18. Act II Scene 2: "Dansker, old friend" [0:04:18.52]
Billy
Tracks CD 2:
01. Act III, Scene 1: "I don't like the look of the mist" [0:03:14.17]
Vere
02. Act III, Scene 1: "Deck ahoy!" [0:04:56.38]
Maintop
03. Act III, Scene 1: "All guns ready, Sir!" [0:04:55.65]
First lieutenant
04. Act III, Scene 1: "There are you again, Master-at-Arms" [0:03:22.52]
Vere
05. Act III, Scene 1: "Nay, nay, you're mistaken" [0:03:05.58]
Vere
06. Act III, Scene 2: "Claggart, John Claggart, beware!" [0:04:04.17]
Vere
07. Act III, Scene 2: "You wanted to see me" [0:05:23.65]
Billy
08. Act III, Scene 2: "God o'mercy!" [0:03:36.60]
Vere
09. Act III, Scene 2: "William Budd, you are accused" [0:05:36.23]
First lieutenant
10. Act III, Scene 2: "Poor fellow, who could save him?" [0:03:47.02]
First lieutenant
11. Act III, Scene 2: "I accept their verdict" [0:04:43.70]
Vere
12. Act IV, Scene 1: "Look!… Through the port comes the moonshine astray!" [0:08:50.63]
Billy
13. Act IV, Scene 1: "And farewell to ye" [0:04:27.22]
Billy
14. Act IV, Scene 1: "According to the Articles of War" [0:04:50.70]
First lieutenant
15. Act IV, Scene 1: "Starry Vere" [0:02:18.73]
All
16. Act IV, Scene 1: "We committed his body to the deep" [0:04:29.52]
Vere
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