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Death in Venice, Op. 88 - An opera in two acts

COMPACT DISC ONE

Act I

Scene 1. Munich

01 - Aschenbach: ‘My mind beats on’

02 - (He is suddenly aware of the Traveller…) – Aschenbach: ‘Who’s that?’

03 - Aschenbach: ‘I have always kept a close watch over my development’

Scene 2. On the boat to Venice

04 - Youths: ‘Hey there, hey there, you!’

05 - Overture. Venice

Scene 3. The journey to the Lido

06 - Aschenbach: ‘Ah Serenissima!’ 5:09 67

07 - Aschenbach: ‘Mysterious gondola’

Scene 4. The first evening at the hotel

08 - Hotel Manager: ‘We are delighted to greet the Signore’

09 - Aschenbach: ‘So I am led to Venice once again’

10 - Hotel Guests: ‘The Lido is so charming, is it not?’

11 - Aschenbach: ‘How does such beauty come about?’

Scene 5. On the beach

12 - Aschenbach and Hotel Guests stroll about – Aschenbach: ‘The wind is from the West’

13 - (A group of children play at beach games…) – Strawberry Seller: ‘Le bele fragole’

14 - Aschenbach: ‘Ah, how peaceful to contemplate the sea’

15 - (children’s games with Tadzio as ringleader) – Chorus: ‘Adziù, Adziù!’

16 - Aschenbach: ‘As one who strives to create beauty’

Scene 6. The foiled departure

17 - Aschenbach crosses to Venice in a gondola – Gondolier: ‘Aou’! Stagando, aou’!’

18 - Hotel Manager: ‘Naturally, Signore, I understand’

19 - Hotel Porter: ‘There you are, Signore, just in time’

20 - Aschenbach: ‘I am become like one of my early heroes’

21 - Hotel Manager: ‘A thousand apologies to the Signore’

Scene 7. The Games of Apollo

22 - Chorus of Hotel Guests: ‘Beneath a dazzling sky the sea…’

23 - Chorus: ‘No boy, but Phoebus of the golden hair’

24 - Chorus: ‘See where Hyacinthus plays’

25 - Chorus: ‘Phaedrus learned what beauty is’

COMPACT DISC TWO

01 - Chorus: ‘First, the race!’

02 - Chorus: ‘Try your skill’

03 - Chorus: ‘Young discobolus’

04 - Chorus: ‘Up and over’

05 - Chorus: ‘Measure to fight’

06 - Aschenbach: ‘The boy, Tadzio, shall inspire me’

Act II

07 - [Orchestral introduction]

08 - Aschenbach: ‘So, it has come to this’

Scene 8. The Hotel Barber’s shop (i)

09 - Hotel Barber: ‘Guardate, Signore!’

Scene 9. The pursuit

10 - Aschenbach is crossing to Venice – Aschenbach: ‘Do I detect a scent?’

11 - (Aschenbach begins following the family) – Aschenbach: ‘And now I cannot let them out of sight’

12 - Chorus: ‘Kyrie eleison’

13 - Aschenbach: ‘Gustav von Aschenbach, what is this path you have taken?’

Scene 10. The Strolling Players

14 - Hotel Porter: ‘This way for the players, Signori!’

15 - (The Leader of the Players comes forward…) – Leader of the Players: ‘La mia nonna always used to tell me’

16 - Leader of the Players: ‘Fiorir rose in mezo al giasso’

17 - A Young English Clerk: ‘One moment, if you please’

Scene 11. The travel bureau

Scene 12. The Lady of the Pearls

18 - Aschenbach walks up and down agitatedly – Aschenbach: ‘So it is true, true, more fearful than I thought’

19 - Aschenbach: ‘So – I didn’t speak!’

Scene 13. The dream

20 - Voice of Dionysus: ‘Receive the stranger god’

Scene 14. The empty beach

21 - Aschenbach slowly moves to his chair on the beach… – Aschenbach: ‘Do what you will with me!’

Scene 15. The Hotel Barber’s shop (ii)

22 - Hotel Barber: ‘Yes! a very wise decision, if I may say so’

Scene 16. The last visit to Venice

23 - Aschenbach, with his new appearance, is seen getting gaily into a gondola – Aschenbach: ‘Hurrah for the Piazza’

24 - Aschenbach: ‘Does beauty lead to wisdom, Phaedrus?’

Scene 17. The departure

25 - Hotel Manager: ‘The wind still blows from the land’

26 - (The Hotel Manager watches Aschenbach go out to the deserted beach…) – Aschenbach: ‘Ah, no!’

Gustav von Aschenbach - Philip Langridge, tenor

The Traveller, The Elderly Fop, The Old Gondolier, The Hotel Manager, The Hotel Barber, The Leader of the Players, The Voice of Dionysus - Alan Opie, baritone

The Voice of Apollo - Michael Chance, counter-tenor

BBC Singers

City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox, conductor