VA — Berkeley: The One Act Operas (2021)

FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 3:08:49 | 914 Mb
Classical, Instrumental

Berkeley\’s first opera, Nelson, was put on at Sadler\’s Wells in 1954. The others were performed by the English Opera Group which had been founded by the young Benjamin Britten, Joan Cross, Eric Crozier and Peter Pears in 1946. In the same year as the Nelson prre Berkeley\’s first oneacter, A Dinner Engagement, featured at Aldeburgh. Aldeburgh was also the scene of Ruth in 1956 and Castaway in 1967. Each work inhabits its own world, and each finds Berkeley\’s musical imagination delivering new sounds to match the drama.

1. Salt, Pepper, Olive Oil

2. No Servants!

3. Mother, Please Can I Help

4. We Saw Him Last

5. Missis Kneebone, the Green Cookery Book

6. So This, Dear Lady Dunmox, Is Your Drawing Room

7. Forgive My Curiosity

8. Sir, Will You Join Us

9. But If You Are the Dunmow\’s Daughter

10. And Now, Shall We Go Into the Garden

11. Kiss Her at Once!

12. Milords, Ladies, Dinner Is Served!

13. Once More I See Your Green and Golden Hills

14. See! Is This Naomi!

15. Gold Grows the Barley

16. Who Is This Approaching

17. Let Me Beg You to Forgive Your Countrymen

18. This Is the Place! Come, Daughter

19. Golden Ripe the Barley Grows

20. Farewell, Bright Summer

21. Come Now, My Daughter

22. Ho There, My People!

23. Great God, Poseidon! (Live)

24. Before the Morning of My Life (Live)

25. Blow Softly, Wind! (Live)

26. A Man A Beast A God (Live)

27. Sir, Do Not Misunderstand Me (Live)

28. Orchestral Interlude (Live)

29. Drink Deep, Drink Slow (Live)

30. We Observe That Our Shipwrecked Stranger (Live)

31. I Will Sing You a Song of the Shore (Live)

32. What Shall I Sing to My Lord the Stranger (Live)

33. My Lord, Why Do You Weep (Live)

34. Farewell Odysseus (Live)