BENJAMIN BRITTEN

The Little Sweep (Let's make an opera) Op.45

1

'Sweep! Sweep!' (Audience)

2:01

2

'Sweep this chimney!' (Miss Baggott

1:59

3

'Now, little white boy!' (Clem/Black Bob)

4:03

4

'Pull the rope gently' (Children)

1:42

5

'Is he wounded?' (Children)

1:29

6

'Sooty tracks upon the sheet' (Children)

2:24

7

'Run, Poor Sweepboy' (Rowan)

4:18

8

'The kettles are singing' (Audience)

2:45

9

'O why do you weep' (Rowan/Sam/Children)

3:07

10

Pantomine - 'Ah!...Blackguards!' (Miss Baggott)

4:17

11

'Help! Help! She's Collapsed!' (Miss Baggott)

2:07

12

'The owl, wide-winging' (Audience)

4:05

13

'Soon the coach will carry you away' (Juliet)

2:28

14

'Morning, Sammy' (Johnnie)

1:51

15

'Ready, Alfred?' (Tom)

2:51

16

Coaching Song: 'The Horses Are Champing' (All)

2:23

Cantata Academica Op.62

Part I

17

I

Bonorum summum omnium

2:56

II quare bene beateque Vivendi

18

III

At huius caelestic

3:24

IV Maiorum imprimis virtus

V Tum vero Aenease Sylvius

19

VI

Et gubernacula mundi qui tenet

3:39

VII ut ad longaeva tempora

Part II

20

VIII

Docendi ac discendi aequitati

3:31

21

IX

Rhenana erga omnes urbs

4:33

X ut iustissime Basilea audiat

XI O cives Basilienses

22

XII

Nos autem cuncti hoc festo die

2:54

XIII vigeatque academia libera

George Malcolm

David Hemmings 'Sam, sweep-boy'

Jennifer Vyvyan 'Rowan, the nursery-maid'

Nancy Thomas 'Miss Baggott, the housekeeper'

April Cantelo 'Juliet Brook'

Michael Ingram 'Gay Brook'

Marilyn Baker 'Sophie Brook'

Robin Fairhurst 'John Crome'

Gabrielle Soskin 'Tina Crome'

Lyn Vaughan 'Hugh Crome'

Trevor Anthony 'Black Bob, the sweep-master'

Peter Pears 'Clem, the assistant sweep/Alfred, the gardener'

Benjamin Britten

Tracks 1-16 - recording first published in 1956

Tracks 17-22 - recording first published in 1961