Tippett: King Priam, Act I
Tippett: King Priam, Act I Scene 1
What is it, Nurse? (Hecuba, Nurse, Priam)
Old man of Troy, you're welcome (Priam, Old Man)
Than am I no longer mother to this child (Hecuba, Old Man)
Interlude I. Thus shall a story begin (Nurse, Old Man, Young Guard)
Tippett: King Priam, Act I Scene 2
The bull is away over there (Huntsmen, Hector, Priam)
London Sinfonietta · David Atherton · Sir Thomas Allen · Clive Wearing · Norman Bailey · London Sinfonietta Chorus
They have taken my bull (Paris, Hector)
Father, he's a shepherd boy (Hector, Priam, Paris)
So I'd hoped it might be (Priam, Old Man)
Interlude II. Ah, but life, life is a bitter charade (Nurse, Young Guard, Old Man, Wedding Guests)
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Divine go-between, that's who I am (Hermes, Paris)
Philip Langridge · London Sinfonietta · Kenneth Bowen · David Atherton
Lady Athene, if I honour you… (Paris, Athene)
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Lady Hera, if I honour you… (Paris, Hera, Hermes)
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Aphrodite, if I honour you… (Paris, Aphrodite, Hera, Athene, Hermes)
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Tippett: King Priam, Act II Scene 1
So you've given up fighting! (Hector, Priam)
So Trojans honour Menelaus… (Priam, Paris)
Interlude I. Hermes, Hermes, with the winged feet come quick! (Old Man, Hermes)
Kenneth Bowen · David Wilson-Johnson · London Sinfonietta · David Atherton
Tippett: King Priam, Act II Scene 2
Why are you weeping, Patroclus? (Achilles, Patroclus)
Interlude II. O, o, what a threat to Troy (Old Man, Hermes)
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Tippett: King Priam, Ac II Scene 3
A hero in Achilles' armour… (Hermes, Paris, Priam)
Philip Langridge · London Sinfonietta · David Atherton · Norman Bailey · Kenneth Bowen
All Trojans, all fought bravely (Hector, Priam, Paris, Achilles, Old Man)
Tippett: King Priam, Act III Scene 1
Lady Andromache, should we not light the fire? (Serving Woman, Andromache)
David Atherton · Linda Hirst · Felicity Palmer · London Sinfonietta · Philip Langridge
Daughter Andromache, you must go out… (Hecuba, Andromache)
Did you hear? (Andromache, Helen, Hecuba)
O that my ears should hear impiety so gross! (Hecuba, Andromache, Helen)
Now you shall go (Andromache, Hecuba, Serving Woman)
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Interlude I. No… No… No… We have it from the runner (Serving Women)
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Tippett: King Priam, Act III Scene 2
What is happening? (Priam, Paris)
A crime (Young Guard, Old Man, Priam)
The soul will answer from where the pain is quickest (Nurse, Priam, Young Guard, Old Man)
Tippett: King Priam, Act III Scene 3
Priam! Here! What is this? (Achilles, Priam)
Old man, I am touched (Achilles, Priam)
Tippett: King Priam, Act III Scene 4
Where is my father, where is Priam? (Paris, Priam)
Ah, ah! Ah, ah! (Hecuba, Paris, Priam)
Ah, ha, ha, ha (Andromache, Paris, Priam)
Ah, ah! (Paris, Helen, Priam)