The Rape of Lucretia

1994 · Music · Britten, Catherine Pierard, Patricia Rozario, Ameral Gunson, Jean Rigby, Nigel Robson, Donald Maxwell, Alan Opie, Alastair Miles, City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox

Donald Maxwell

Tracklist

  1. The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act I: Rome is now ruled by the Etruscan upstart...
  2. The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act I: Here the thirsty ev'ening has drunk the wine of light...
  3. The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act I: Who reaches heaven first is the best philosopher...
  4. The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act I: Good night, Tarquinius!
  5. The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act I: Tarquinius does not wait for his servant to wake
  6. The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act I: Lucretia!
  7. The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act I: Listen! I heard a knock. Somebody is at the gate...
  8. The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act I: Time turns upon the hands of women...
  9. The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act I: None of the women move. It is too late for a messenger...
  10. The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act II: The prosperity of the Etruscans was due to the richness...
  11. The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act II: She sleeps as a rose upon the night...
  12. The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act II: When Tarquinius desires, then Tarquinius will dare...
  13. The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act II: Within this frail crucible of light...
  14. The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act II: Lucretia!
  15. The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act II: Here in this scene you see Virtue assailed by sin...
  16. The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act II: O what a lovely day...
  17. The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act II: Hush! Here she comes!
  18. The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act II: Flowers bring to ev'ry year the same perfection...
  19. The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act II: Lucretia! Lucretia! O never again must we two dare to part...
  20. The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act II: This dead hand lets fall all that my heart held when full...
  21. The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act II: Is it all? Is all this suffering and pain, is this in vain?