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Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress- An Opera in 3 Acts
Genre: Classical

Track Listings (15) - Disc #1
1. The Rake's Progresss: Act I - Prelude
2. The Rake's Progresss: Act I - Duet and Trio - The Woods Are Green (Anne - Rakewell - Trulove)
3. The Rake's Progresss: Act I: The Old Fool (Rakewell) - Recitative - Here I Stand (Rakewell) - Aria - Since It Is Not By Merit (Rakewell)
4. The Rake's Progresss: Act 1 - I Wish I Had Money (Rakewell) - Recitative - Tom Rakewell? ( Rakewell) (Shadow) - Recitative - Fair Lady, Gracious Gentlemen (Shadow) - Quartet - I W ished But Once (Rakewell - Shadow - Ann Trulove)
5. The Rake's Progresss: Act 1 - Recitative - I'll call the coachman (Trulove) - Duettino - Farewell, For Now My Heart (Ann Trulove) (Shadow) - Recitative - All Is Ready, Sir (Rakewell)
6. The Rake's Progresss: Act 1 - With Air Commanding And Wepon Handy
7. The Rake's Progresss: Act 1- Recitative And Scene: come Tom (Shadow - Rakewell) - Chorus: Soon Dawn Will Glitter - Recitative - Sister Of Venus (Shodow)
8. The Rake's Progresss: Act 1 - Cavatina - Love, Too Frequently Betrayed (Rockwell) - Chorus - How Sad A Song
9. The Rake's Progresss: Act 1 - Chorus - The Sun Is Bright, The Grass Is Green
10. The Rake's Progresss: Act 1 - Recitative: No Word From Tom (Anne) - Aria - Quietly, Night (Anne) - Recitative: My Father Can I Desert Him (Anne) - Cabaletta - I Go, I Go To Him (Anne)
11. The Rake's Progresss: Act 2 - aria - Vary The Song, O London (Rakewell) - Recitative - O Nature, Green Unnatural Mother (Rockwell) - Aria - (Reprise) Always The Quarry That I Stalk (Rakewell)
12. The Rake's Progresss: Act 2 - I Wish I Were Happy (Rakewell) - Recitative - Master, Are You Alone? (Shadow - Rakewell) - Aria - In Youth The Panting Slave (Shadow) - Duet-Finale - My Tale Shall Be Told (Rakewell - Shadow)
13. The Rake's Progresss: Act 2 - Recitative And Arioso: How Strange! Although The Heart (Anne)
14. The Rake's Progresss: Act 2 - Duet - Anne! Here! (Anne - Rakewell)
15. The Rake's Progresss: Act 2 - recitative - My Love, Am I To Remain In Here For Ever? (Anne Rockwell) - Trio - Could It Then Have Been Known (Anne - Rockwell) - Finale - I Have Not Run Away (Rockwell)
Track Listings (14) - Disc #2
1. The Rake's Progress: Act 2 - Aria - As I Was Sayin, Both Brothers (Rakewell) - Baba's Song: Come, Sweet, Come - Aria - Scorned! Abused! (Rakewell)
2. The Rake's Progress: Act 2 - Recitative And Pantomime - My Heart Is Cold (Rakewell - Shadow) - Recitative
3. The Rake's Progress: Act III - Ruin. Disaster. Shame
4. Act III - Aha! He Is Here The Auctioneer, Recitative - Ladies, Both Fair & Gracious, Aria - Who Hears Me, Knows Me, Bidding Scene - Seven - Eleven, Bidding Scene - Seven - Eleven, Aria - BEhold It, Roman, Moral - Bidding Scene - Fifteen - And A Half, R...
5. The Rake's Progress: Act III - Ever, Aria - Sold! Annoyed!, Recitative - Now, WHat Was That, Duet - You Love Him - Ballad Tune - If Boys Had Wings, Stretto - Finale - I Go To Him
6. The Rake's Progress: Prelude
7. The Rake's Progress: Duet - How Dark And Dreadful
8. The Rake's Progress: Recitative - Very WEll, Then, My Dear And Good Tom, Duet - Well, Then - My Heart Is Wild With Fear
9. The Rake's Progress: I Burn, I Burn! I Freeze
10. The Rake's Progress: Arioso - Prepare Yourselves, Heroic Shades, Dialogue - Madmen's Word Are All Untrue
11. The Rake's Progress: Recitative ' There He Is, Have No Fear, Arisos - I Have Waited, Duet - In A Foolish Dream
12. The Rake's Progress: Lullaby - Gently, Little Boat, Recitative - Anne, My Dear
13. The Rake's Progress: Finale (Recitative & Chorus): Where Art Thou, Venus?, Mourning Chorus - Mourn For Adonis
14. The Rake's Progress: Epilogue - Good People, Just A Moment

CD Details

All Artists: Tokyo Opera Singers
Title: Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress- An Opera in 3 Acts
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Philips
Release Date: 4/15/1997
Genre: Classical
Style: Opera & Classical Vocal
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPC: 028945443126

CD Reviews

Another missed opportunity

Santa Fe Listener | Santa Fe, NM USA | 09/18/2005

(3 out of 5 stars)

"Those of us who love the Rake keep being frustrated by new recordings--five in toto since the Eighties--in which things go hit-or-miss. There was a lot of promise here. McNair makes a very good, pure lyric anne, but then things go sour. Rolfe-Johnson is a wonderful tenor in the light English style, but he is twenty years too old for the part, and Ozawa conducts limply in many places. So far, nobody has surpassed the classic Sixties account on Sony with Stravinsky conducting a nearly perfect cast. Thank goodness we have it, since the recent recordings have turned out so disappointing: Gardiner, Chailly, Nagaon, and Craft among them."