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Paul Bunyan
I guarantee if you never heard this work before you would have no idea that it was by Benjamin Britten. Britten throws himself fully into the American idiom creating an opera that more closely resembles a musical with hints of Richard Rodgers and Kurt Weill. There is, however, a hint of British wit in the score, and of course Britten's musical invention and curiosity, but Britten also creates some beautiful folksy songs that sound like they could be out of any American Songbook. The cast assembled is very good. Peter Pears is a sure stand out, although he is less convincing as an American. A young Anthony Rolfe-Johnson displays a heart-melting sweet voice in the role of Hot Biscuit Slim.
Track List
Act I
1. Since the birth of the earth
2. It isn't very often the conservatives are wrong
3. The cold wind blew through the crooked thorn
4. It is a spring morning without benefit of young persons
5. My birthplace was in Sweden, it's a very long way off
6. A telegram! A telegram from oversea
7. The single creature lives a partial life
8. Gold in the North came the blizzard to say
9. The spring came and the Summer and Fall
10. Do I look the sort of fellow whom you might expect to bellow
11. I come from open spaces
12. It was out of the sticks that the fire of my existance
13. Ah! Be quiet you fools...
14. All the little brooks of love
2. It isn't very often the conservatives are wrong
3. The cold wind blew through the crooked thorn
4. It is a spring morning without benefit of young persons
5. My birthplace was in Sweden, it's a very long way off
6. A telegram! A telegram from oversea
7. The single creature lives a partial life
8. Gold in the North came the blizzard to say
9. The spring came and the Summer and Fall
10. Do I look the sort of fellow whom you might expect to bellow
11. I come from open spaces
12. It was out of the sticks that the fire of my existance
13. Ah! Be quiet you fools...
14. All the little brooks of love
Act II
15. The songs of dawn have been sung
16. The shanty-boy invades the wood
17. Heron, heron winging by
18. Let man the romantic in vision espy
19. Atta boy!... What's happening? What is it?
20. So Helson smiled and Bunyan smiled
21. Another slice of turkey, another slice of ham
22. The campfire embers are black and cold
16. The shanty-boy invades the wood
17. Heron, heron winging by
18. Let man the romantic in vision espy
19. Atta boy!... What's happening? What is it?
20. So Helson smiled and Bunyan smiled
21. Another slice of turkey, another slice of ham
22. The campfire embers are black and cold
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