Disc 01 Billy Budd op. 50 (Oper in 2 Akten) (Originalfassung in 4 Akten 1951) (Gesamtaufnahme)
01. "I am an old man who has experienced much (1. Akt)"
02. "Pull, my bantams!, Pull, my sparrowlegs!"
03. "Bota ahoy! - Guard boat!"
04. "To report having boarded"
05. "Billy Budd, king of the brids!"
06. "I heard, your honour!"
07. "Come along, kid!"
08. "Christ, the poor chap, the poor little runt"
09. "Vere! - Officers and men of the indomitable"
10. "Boy! My compliments to Mr. Redburn (2. Akt)"
11. "Plutarch - The greeks and the romans"
12. "Any danger of french notions"
13. "Land on the port, sir"
14. "Blow her away, blow her to Hilo"
15. "Billy went to his bag"
16. "O beauty, o handsomeness!"
Disc 02 01. "I, John Claggart, Master-at-Arms"
02. "Why had it to be Billy, the one we all love?"
03. "I don't like the look of the mist (3. Akt)"
04. "Well, what is it, Master-at-Arms?"
05. "There you are again, Master-at-Arms"
06. "Interlude"
07. "Claggart, John Claggart, beware!"
08. "Master-at-Arms and foretopman, I speak to you both"
09. "The mists have cleared"
Disc 03 01. "William Budd, you are accused by Captain Vere"
02. "I accept their verdict"
03. "Look! Through the port comes the moonshine"
04. "Here! Baby! - Dansker, old friend"
05. "And farewell to ye, old Rights o' Man!"
06. "According to the articles of War..."
07. "Down all hands!"
08. "We committed his body to the deep"
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Descripción:
This is a re-issue of one of the bestsellers of ORFEO's catalogue. It contains the Austrian premiere of the Britten opera, in the rarely performed original version in four acts. The baritone Bo Skovhus, whose international career began in Vienna in the early 1990s, gave a perfect Billy Budd - for the last time in his career, as he considered himself too old for the role at 40., Runningtime: 00:00:00, Labelcode OEO230133.2
"Billy Budd (2001 Live Recording)", en formato CD, recoge la vibrante interpretación en vivo de la ópera homónima compuesta por Benjamin Britten y grabada en directo desde la Ópera Estatal de Viena con una calidad sonora excepcional y gran carga emocional y dramática gracias al elenco encabezado por Neil Shicoff y Bo Skovhus bajo la dirección magistral del maestro Donald Runnicles junto a la reconocida Orquesta Estatal vienesa que da vida al relato marítimo sobre inocencia e injusticia ideado por Britten para el escenario operístico internacional contemporáneo. El sello discográfico ORFEO D'OR es sinónimo mundialmente reconocido de excelencia dentro del ámbito clásico: su catálogo preserva actuaciones históricas protagonizadas por los mejores artistas y orquestas del mundo entero para disfrute presente y futuro del público melómano más exigente. El tenor estadounidense Neil Shicoff ha cosechado elogios globales gracias a su expresividad vocal única sobre las tablas mientras que el barítono danés Bo Skovhus destaca como uno de los intérpretes europeos más versátiles tanto en ópera como recitales líricos actuales.