"Pull, my bantams" (First Mate, Second Mate, Sailing Master, Bosun, Midshipmen, Donald, maintop, Novice, Squeak, First Lieutenant, seamen)
Robert Johnston, Gidon Saks, Northern Voices, Kent Nagano, Matthew Hargreaves, Christopher Maltman, Gentlemen of the Hallé Choir, Christopher Gillet, Andrew Burden, Ashley Holland, Russell Smythe, Manchester Boys Choir, Hallé, Simon Thorpe
"Send for John Claggart" (First Lieutenant, Sailing Master, Ratcliffe, Claggart, Red Whiskers, Jones, Billy)
Simon Wilding, Eric Halfvarson, Russell Smythe, Thomas Hampson, Gidon Saks, Simon Thorpe, Martyn Hill, Kent Nagano, Hallé
"Billy Budd, King of the birds!" (Billy, Sailing Master, First Lieutenant, Ratcliffe, seamen's voices)
Gidon Saks, Gentlemen of the Hallé Choir, Hallé, Kent Nagano, Russell Smythe, Thomas Hampson, Simon Wilding, Nortthern Voices
"I heard, your honour!" (Claggart, Squeak, Sailor)
Eric Halfvarson, Hallé, Christopher Gillet, Kent Nagano
"Come along, Kid!" (Novice's friend, Novice, seamen)
Northern Voices, William Dazeley, Kent Nagano, Hallé, Gentlemen of the Hallé Choir, Andrew Burden
"Christ, the poor chap..." (Billy, Dansker, Red Whiskers, Donald, Claggart, First Mate, Second Mate, Bosun, seamen)
Ashley Holland, Matthew Hargreaves, Martyn Hill, Hallé, Northern Voices, Kent Nagano, Thomas Hampson, Simon Thorpe, Eric Halfvarson, Christopher Maltman, Gentlemen of the Hallé Choir
"Vere! Vere!" - Officers and men of the Indomitable..." (Seamen, Vere, Billy)
Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Northern Voices, Thomas Hampson, Gentlemen of the Hallé Choir, Hallé, Kent Nagano
"My compliments..." (Vere, Cabin Boy, First Lieutenant, Sailing Master)
Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Gidon Saks, Boy from Manchester Boys Choir, Russell Smythe, Hallé, Kent Nagano
"Don't like the french!" (Sailing Master, First Lieutenant, Vere)
"Oh, that's nothing" (Vere, First Leutenant, Sailing Master, Ratcliffe, seamen)
Simon Wilding, Northern Voices, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Kent Nagano, Gidon Saks, Gentlemen of the Hallé Choir, Russell Smythe, Hallé
Interlude / "Blow her away..." (Seamen)
Northern Voices, Gentlemen of the Hallé Choir, Kent Nagano, Hallé
"Here lads!" (Donald, Red Whiskers, Billy, Dansker, Squeak, seamen)
Kent Nagano, Northern Voices, Thomas Hampson, Christopher Maltman, Gentlemen of the Hallé Choir, Christopher Gillet, Martyn Hill, Richard Van Allas, Hallé
"Come out of that" (Billy, Squeak, Claggart, Dansker, Cabin Boy, seamen)
Richard Van Allas, Kent Nagano, Gentlemen of the Hallé Choir, Christopher Gillet, Hallé, Northern Voices, Thomas Hampson, Eric Halfvarson, Boy from Manchester Boys Choir
"Come here! Remenber your promise" (Claggart, Novice)
Andrew Burden, Hallé, Eric Halfvarson, Kent Nagano
"Billy! Hist, Billy Budd!" (Novice, Billy, Dansker)
Kent Nagano, Thomas Hampson, Hallé, Richard Van Allas, Andrew Burden
"I don't like the look of the mist" (Vere, First Lieutenant, Claggart)
"Deck ahoy!" (Maintop, Bosun, First Lieutenant, Sailing Master, Ratcliffe, Vere, Donald, Red Whiskers, Dansker, Billy, seamen, powder monkeys)
Hallé, Gidon Saks, Northern Voices, Simon Wilding, Robert Johnston, Richard Van Allas, Manchester Boys Choir, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Christopher Maltman, Gentlemen of the Hallé Choir, Matthew Hargreaves, Martyn Hill, Kent Nagano, Russell Smythe, Thomas Hampson
"All guns ready, Sir!" (First Lieutenant, Vere, Sailing Master, Maintop, Ratcliffe, seamen)
Kent Nagano, Gentlemen of the Hallé Choir, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Hallé, Gidon Saks, Simon Wilding, Robert Johnston, Russell Smythe, Northern Voices
"There are you again, Master at Arms" (Vere, Claggart, First Lieutenant)
"Nay, nay, you're mistaken" (Vere, Claggart, Cabin Boy, First Lieutenant, Sailing Master, Ratcliffe)
Gidon Saks, Boy from Manchester Boys Choir, Eric Halfvarson, Russell Smythe, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Kent Nagano, Simon Wilding, Hallé
"You wanted to see me" (Billy, Vere, Claggart)
"God o'mercy!" (Vere, First Lieutenant, Sailing Master, Ratcliffe)
Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Kent Nagano, Gidon Saks, Hallé, Russell Smythe, Simon Wilding
Interlude & "William Budd, you are accused" (First Lieutenant, Vere, Billy)
"Poor fellow, who could save him?" (First Lieutenant, Sailing Master, Ratcliffe, Vere)
Russell Smythe, Kent Nagano, Gidon Saks, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Hallé, Simon Wilding
"Look!... Trough the port comes the moonshine astray!" (Billy, Dansker)
Thomas Hampson, Hallé, Richard Van Allas, Kent Nagano
"According to the articles of war" (First Lieutenant, Billy)
"Starry Vere, God bless you" (Choir)
Kent Nagano, Northern Voices, Gentlemen of the Hallé Choir, Hallé