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