The Rape of Lucretia

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

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  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: Scene 1: Here the thirsty ev'ening has drunk the wine of light
  3. The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act I: Scene 1: Who reaches heaven first is the best philosopher
  4. The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act I: Scene 1: Oh, my God, with what agility does jealousy jump into a small heart
  5. The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act I: Scene 1: Tarquinus doses not dare when Tarquinius does not desire
  6. The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act I: Scene 1: Tarquinius does not wait for his servant to wake
  7. The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act I: Scene 2: Their spinning wheel unwinds dreams which desire has spun
  8. The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act I: Scene 2: Listen! I heard a knock. Somebody is at the gate
  9. The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act I: Scene 2: Time turns upon the hands of women
  10. The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act I: Scene 2: None of the women move. It is too late for a messenger
  11. The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act II: Scene 1: The prosperity of the Etruscans was due to the richness of their native soil
  12. The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act II: Scene 1: She sleeps as a rose upon the night
  13. The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act II: Scene 1: When Tarquinius desires, then Tarquinius will dare
  14. The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act II: Scene 1: Within this frail crucible of light
  15. The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act II: Scene 1: Lucretia!
  16. The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act II: Here in this scene you see Virtue assailed by sin
  17. The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act II: Scene 2: O what a lovely day
  18. The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act II: Scene 2: Hush! Here she comes!
  19. The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act II: Scene 2: Flowers bring to ev'ry year the same perfection
  20. The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act II: Scene 2: Lucretia! Lucretia! O never again must we two dare to part
  21. The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act II: Scene 2: Last night Tarquinius ravished me and tore the fabric of our love
  22. The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act II: Scene 2: This dead hand lets fall all that my heart held when full
  23. The Rape of Lucretia, op. 37: Act II: Scene 2: Is it all? Is all this suffering and pain, is this in vain?

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