1 Billy Budd: Prologue 'I am an old man' (Vere) 5:00 2 Billy Budd: Pull, my bantams! Pull, my sparrow-legs!...Who did that? (First Mate et al) 6:55 3 Billy Budd: Guard boat! Indomitable! (Maintop et al) 3:29 4 Billy Budd: First man forward! (Claggart et al) 2:10 5 Billy Budd: Your name? - Billy Budd, sir (Claggart/Billy/First Lieutenant/Sailing Master) 2:43 6 Billy Budd: Billy Budd, king of the birds (Billy/Sailing Master/First Lieutenant/Ratcliffe) 2:39 1 Billy Budd: I heard your honour! (Claggart/Squeak/Novice's Friend) 3:53 2 Billy Budd: Come along kid! Come along! (Novice's Friend/Novice/Chorus) 4:02 3 Billy Budd: Christ! The poor chap, The poor little runt! (Billy/Dansker/Red Whiskers/Donald) 1:27 4 Billy Budd: What's that? What's those whistles? (Billy/Donald/Claggart/First Mate/Second Mate/Bosun) 1:17 5 Billy Budd: Starry Vere we call him (Donald/Billy/Chorus/Red Whiskers/Dansker/Bosun) 2:26 6 Billy Budd: Boy! - Yes sir! (Vere/Boy) 3:32 7 Billy Budd: Gentlemen, The King! (Vere/First Lieutenant/Sailing Master) 6:25 8 Billy Budd: Ay, at Spithead the men may have had their grievances (Vere/Sailing Master/First Lieutenant) 1:01 9 Billy Budd: We are, sir. Claggart is an able one...Land on the port bow, sir (First Lieutenant/Vere/Sailing Master/Ratcliffe) 6:51 10 Billy Budd: Blow her away, Blow her to Hilo (Red Whiskers/Chorus/Billy/Donald/Dansker) 2:41 11 Billy Budd: We're off to Samoa (Donald/Chorus/Red Whiskers/Billy/Donald/Dansker) 3:48 12 Billy Budd: Hi! You...A...A... (Billy et al) 3:03 13 Billy Budd: Over the water, over the ocean (Chorus/Claggart) 7:43 14 Billy Budd: Come here, Remember your promise (Claggart/Novice) 5:43 15 Billy Budd: Billy!...Hist! Billy Budd! (Novice/Billy) 4:13 16 Billy Budd: Dansker, old friend, glad to see you! (Billy/Dansker) 4:48 1 Billy Budd: I don't like the look of the mist (Vere/First Lieutenant) 1:48 2 Billy Budd: With great regret I must disturb your honour (Claggart/Vere) 1:39 3 Billy Budd: Deck ahoy! Enemy sail on starboard bow! (Maintop et al) 3:22 4 Billy Budd: Who'll volunteer to beard 'em in the smoke? (Vere et al.) 7:46 5 Billy Budd: There you are again, Master-at-arms (Vere/Claggart/Boy) 4:46 6 Billy Budd: O this cursed mist (Vere/First Lieutenant/Sailing Master/Ratcliffe) 4:44 7 Billy Budd: Claggart, John Claggart, beware! I'm not so easily deceived (Vere/Billy) 3:52 8 Billy Budd: Master-at-arms and foretopman, I speak to you both (Vere/Claggart/Billy) 3:04 9 Billy Budd: God o' mercy! (Vere/Boy) 1:58 10 Billy Budd: Gentlemen, William Budd here has killed the Master-at-arms (Vere/First Lieutenant/Sailing Master/Ratcliffe) 1:23 11 Billy Budd: William Budd, you are accused... (First Lieutenant/Vere/Billy) 5:47 12 Billy Budd: Poor fellow, who could save him? (First Lieutenant/Sailing Master/Ratcliffe) 4:22 13 Billy Budd: I accept their verdict (Vere) 7:15 14 Billy Budd: Look! Through the port comes the moon-shine astray! (Billy) 5:44 15 Billy Budd: Here! Baby! (Dansker/Billy) 3:58 16 Billy Budd: And farewell to ye, old Rights o' Man! (Billy) 5:18 17 Billy Budd: Interlude 3:08 18 Billy Budd: "According to the Articles of War..." (All except Vere) 2:02 19 Billy Budd: Down all hands! And see that they go! (First Lieutenant et al) 2:50 20 Billy Budd: We committed his body to the deep (Vere) 4:45
Billy Budd by Benjamin Britten + Nathan Gunn + Ian Bostridge + Gidon Saks + Neal Davies + Jonathan Lemalu + Matthew Rose + London Symphony Orchestra + Chorus + Daniel Harding
