play pause radio-play skip-back skip-forward playing search copy check embed close plus caret-down caret-left caret-right caret-up chevron-down chevron-left chevron-right chevron-up arrow-left arrow-right open-in-new-tab filter menu more-horizontal more-vertical share share-android select star star-block volume-block volume-mute-block volume-mute volume lock settings recording composition devices laptop speaker
Log inCreate account

The Importance of Being Earnest (2011)

Libretto: Gerald Barry
Thomas Adès, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Chorus, Barbara Hannigan (Soprano), Katalin Károlyi (Mezzo Soprano), Peter Tantsits (Tenor), Joshua Bloom (Baritone), Alan Ewing (Bass), Benjamin Bevan (Bass), Josua Hart (Speaker), Malcolm Wilson (Piano)
April 2012, London, Barbican Hall
Live
37 Tracks, 1:19:48

  • Act I

    • 1. Auld Lang Syne
      01:16
    • 2. 'Did you hear what I was playing?' (Algernon, Lane, Jack, Chorus)
      04:36
    • 3. 'Lady Bracknell and Miss Fairfax' (Lane, Lady Bracknell, Algernon, Gwendolen, Jack)
      03:30
    • 4. 'Freude, schöner Götterfunken' (Lady Bracknell)
      01:16
    • 5. 'Miss Fairfax, ever since I met you' (Jack, Gwendolen)
      02:57
    • 6. 'Mister Worthing!' (Lady Bracknell, Gwendolen, Jack)
      01:58
    • 7. 'I feel bound to tell you' (Lady Bracknell, Jack)
      02:06
    • 8. 'Are your parents living?' (Lady Bracknell, Jack)
      02:10
    • 9. 'What should I do?' (Jack, Lady Bracknell)
      01:25
    • 10. 'What should I do?' (Jack, Lady Bracknell)
      01:27
    • 11. 'Will you stop!!' (Jack, Algernon, Lane, Gwendolen)
      02:42

  • Act II

    • 1. 'Cecily, Cecily!' (Miss Prism, Cecily)
      03:32
    • 2. 'I wish Uncle Jack would allow' (Cecily)
      00:19
    • 3. 'Freude, schöner Götterfunken' (Miss Prism, Cecily, Merriman)
      03:19
    • 4. 'You are my little cousin Cecily' (Algernon, Cecily)
      01:08
    • 5. 'Mister Worthing!' (Miss Prism, Chasuble, Jack, Cecily, Algernon)
      02:45
    • 6. 'He's going to send me away' (Algernon, Cecily, Merriman)
      01:09
    • 7. 'Cecily, ever since I looked' (Algernon, Cecily, Merriman)
      02:00
    • 8. 'You must not laugh at me' (Cecily, Algernon)
      02:52
    • 9. 'Miss Fairfax' (Merriman, Cecily, Gwendolen)
      03:33
    • 10. Orchestral Interlude
      01:12
    • 11. 'I had no idea' (Gwendolen, Cecily, Jack, Algernon)
      03:49
    • 12. 'And this is what you call Bunburying!?' (Jack, Algernon)
      02:32

  • Act III

    • 1. Orchestral Introduction – 'Here having eaten more friends' (Cecily)
      02:34
    • 2. 'Your Christian names' (Gwendolen, Cecily, Jack, Algernon)
      00:52
    • 3. 'Lady Bracknell' (Merriman, Lady Bracknell, Gwendolen, Jack, Algernon, Cecily)
      02:49
    • 4. 'Mister Worthing, is Miss Cardew' (Lady Bracknell, Jack)
      02:32
    • 5. 'Pretty child!' (Lady Bracknell, Algernon, Cecily)
      02:10
    • 6. 'I am Miss Cardew's guardian' (Jack, Lady Bracknell, Chasuble)
      01:42
    • 7. 'Miss Prism!' (Lady Bracknell, Chasuble)
      01:21
    • 8. 'Twenty-eight years ago' (Lady Bracknell, Orchestral Players)
      01:10
    • 9. 'Lady Bracknell' (Miss Prism)
      01:27
    • 10. 'But where did you deposit the handbag?' (Jack, Miss Prism, Gwendolen)
      01:08
    • 11. 'What do you think this means' (Chasuble, Lady Bracknell)
      01:49
    • 12. 'Is this the handbag?' (Jack, Miss Prism, Lady Bracknell)
      02:19
    • 13. 'Lady Bracknell, who am I?' (Jack, Lady Bracknell, Algernon, Gwendolen, Cecily)
      01:49
    • 14. 'Explosion!' (All, Jack, Gwendolen, Chasuble, Miss Prism, Algernon, Cecily)
      02:33