BRITTEN, B.: Owen Wingrave (Complete)

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Owen Wingrave, Op. 85 (more info)
Performed by: City of London Sinfonia
Composed by: Benjamin Britten
Conducted by: Richard Hickox
James Gilchrist, tenor
Pamela Helen Stephen, mezzo-soprano
Janice Watson, soprano
Alan Opie, baritone
Elizabeth Connell, soprano
Peter Coleman-Wright, baritone
Robin Leggate, tenor
Tatyana Tugarinova,


1.   Act I: Prelude - 3:24
2.   Act I Scene 1: You've got your maps there? (Coyle, Lechmere, Owen) - 5:06
3.   Act I Scene 1: Sir, I can't go through with it (Owen, Coyle) - 3:49
4.   Act I Scene 1: Straight out of school they come to me (Coyle) - Interlude - 3:23
5.   Act I Scene 2: At last it's out. No doubt old Coyle will rage (Owen, Miss Wingrave, Coyle) - Interlude II: Was is the stateman's game (Owen) - 7:10
6.   Act I Scene 3: Your sherry, Mrs. Coyle (Lechmere, Mrs. Coyle, Coyle, Owen) - 5:44
7.   Act I Scene 3: Owen, you can't mean it - it's mad, it's your whole life (Lechmere, Owen) - Interlude III - 5:22
8.   Act I Scene 4: Oh, how unforeseen (Mrs. Julian, Kate, Miss Wingrave) - 4:33
9.   Act I Scene 4: And now, to face them, all of them, the living and the dead (Owen, Mrs. Julian, Kate, Miss Wingrave) - 5:58
10.   Act I Scene 4: Sirrah! How dare you! (Sir Philip, Kate) - Scene 5: How dare you! (Miss Wingrave, Kate, Sir Philip, Mrs. Julian) - 4:04
11.   Act I Scene 6: Coyle, I wish I had not come. It's horrible! (Mrs. Coyle, Coyle) - 3:12
12.   Act I Scene 6: Ah! Owen! (Mrs. Coyle, Coyle, Owen, Lechmere) - Interlude IV - 3:53
13.   Act I Scene 7: May God bless the Queen, and this house (Sir Philip, Mrs. Coyle, Kate, Miss Wingrave, Lechmere, Owen, Mrs. Julian) - 8:49

Owen Wingrave, Op. 85 (more info)
Performed by: City of London Sinfonia
Composed by: Benjamin Britten
Conducted by: Richard Hickox
James Gilchrist, tenor
Pamela Helen Stephen, mezzo-soprano
Janice Watson, soprano
Alan Opie, baritone
Elizabeth Connell, soprano
Peter Coleman-Wright, baritone
Robin Leggate, tenor
Tatyana Tugarinova,


1.   Act II: Prologue: The Ballad: There was a boy, a Wingrave born (The Narrator, Chorus) - 4:32
2.   Act II: They called for him to toll the bell (The Narrator, Chorus) - Scene 1: The bell was for the child he slew (Owen, Coyle) - 2:37
3.   Act II Scene 1: I envy you His fine old house (Lechmere, Mrs. Julian, Mrs. Coyle, Coyle, Owen, Kate) - 2:29
4.   Act II Scene 1: Aha! (Sir Philip, Coyle, Lechmere, Mrs. Coyle, Kate, Mrs. Julian, Miss Wingrave) - 7:21
5.   Act II Scene 1: And with his friend young Lechmere played … (Owen, Miss Wingrave, Kate, Mrs. Julian, Mrs. Coyle, Coyle) - 4:13
6.   Act II Scene 1: Now you may save your scornful looks (Owen) - 5:26
7.   Act II Scene 1: Ah, Owen what shall I do? (Kate, Owen) - 7:41
8.   Act II Scene 2: Is that you, Coyle? (Mrs. Coyle, Coyle, Lechmere) - 5:07
9.   Act II Scene 2: Ah, Owen, Owen — (Kate, Lechmere, Mrs. Coyle, Coyle, Mrs. Julian, Miss Wingrave, Sir Philip, The Narrator, Chorus) - 3:17

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