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Britten: Owen Wingrave (2 CD)

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Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)

Owen Wingrave, Op. 85 107:18
An opera in two acts
Libretto by Myfanwy Piper based on the short story by Henry James

COMPACT DISC ONE

Act I
1 Prelude – 3:24

Scene 1
2 Coyle: 'You've got your maps there?' – 5:06
3 Owen: 'Sir – I can't go through with it' – 3:49
4 Coyle: 'Straight out of school they come to me' – Interlude I – 3:23

Scene 2
5 Owen: 'At last it's out' – Interlude II. Owen: ''War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight…'' 7:10

Scene 3
6 Lechmere: 'Your sherry, Mrs Coyle' – 5:44
7 Lechmere: 'Owen, you can't mean it' – Interlude III – 5:22

Scene 4
8 Mrs Julian: 'Oh, how unforeseen' – 4:33
9 Owen: 'And now, to face them' – 5:58
10 Sir Philip: 'Sirrah! How dare you!' – 4:04

Scene 5
Miss Wingrave, Kate, Sir Philip, Mrs Julian: 'How dare you!' –

Scene 6
11 Mrs Coyle: 'Coyle, I wish I had not come' – 3:12
12 Mrs Coyle: 'Ah! Owen!' – Interlude IV – 3:53

Scene 7
13 Sir Philip: 'May God bless the Queen, and this house' 8:49
64:31

COMPACT DISC TWO

Act II
1 Prologue (The Ballad). The Narrator: 'There was a boy, a Wingrave born' – 4:32
2 The Narrator: 'They called for him to toll the bell' – 2:37

Scene 1
Owen: 'The bell was for the child he slew' –
3 Lechmere: 'I envy you this fine old house' – 2:29
4 Sir Philip: 'Aha!' – 7:21
5 Owen: ''And with his friend young Lechmere played…'' – 4:13
6 Owen: 'Now you may save your scornful looks' – 5:26
7 Kate: 'Ah, Owen, what shall I do?' – 7:41

Scene 2
8 Mrs Coyle: 'Is that you, Coyle?' – 5:07
9 Kate: 'Ah, Owen, Owen – you've gone!' 3:17
42:47

Peter Coleman-Wright baritone - Owen Wingrave
Alan Opie baritone - Spencer Coyle
James Gilchrist tenor - Lechmere
Elizabeth Connell soprano - Miss Wingrave
Janice Watson soprano - Mrs Coyle
Sarah Fox soprano - Mrs Julian
Pamela Helen Stephen mezzo-soprano - Kate
Robin Leggate tenor - General Sir Philip Wingrave, Narrator
Tiffin Boys' Choir Distant chorus
City of London Sinfonia
Richard Hickox
Recorded in:
Blackheath Halls, London
6-9 December 2007
Producer(s)
Brian Couzens
Sound Engineer(s)
Ralph Couzens
Jonathan Cooper (Assistant)
Format: Digital CD 16Bit 44.1Khz
Originally recorded in: 24Bit 96Khz

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