Previn: Brief Encounter

Tracklist

Best experienced from track one — press play and let it unfold.

Disc 1

• 1 Brief Encounter / Act 1 / Prolog: Andantino amabile 2:10
• 2 Brief Encounter / Act 1 / Scene 1: The station refreshment room: "Hullo - Hullo - Hullo!" ... "Quite the stranger" 8:49
• 3 Brief Encounter / Act 1 / Scene 2: A train compartment: "He was very nice-looking" ... "This pain can't last" 5:06
• 4 Brief Encounter / Act 1 / Scene 3: The Jessons' sitting room: "Seven across" 4:07
• 5 Brief Encounter / Act 1 / Scene 3: The Jessons' sitting room: "Fred, Fred - dear Fred" ... "Never forget" 3:45
• 6 Brief Encounter / Act 1 / Interlude & Scene 4: The station refreshment room: Interlude ... "Please a glass of water" ..."Little bit of coal dust" 3:13
• 7 Brief Encounter / Act 1 / Scene 5: A Milford street and Eden Lock: "It was a Thursday" ... "All my Thursdays were the same" 3:51
• 8 Brief Encounter / Act 1 / Scene 6: The Kardomah Café: "Good Morning" ... "Are you alone?" 5:17
• 9 Brief Encounter / Act 1 / Interlude & Scene 7: Eden Lock: Interlude ... "We walked together up the river" 2:27
• 10 Brief Encounter / Act 1 / Scene 8: The station refreshment room and platform: "We walked back to the station" ... "This marriage lark" 3:43
• 11 Brief Encounter / Act 1 / Scene 8: The station refreshment room and platform: "Doctors have dreams" 4:07
• 12 Brief Encounter / Act 1 / Scene 8: The station refreshment room and platform: "I watched his train" ... "Imagine" 3:04
• 13 Brief Encounter / Act 1 / Scene 9: The Jessons' sitting-room: "Is that you Laura?" ... "A warning" 8:41
• 14 Brief Encounter / Act 1 / Scene 10: The station refreshment room and platform: "Albert Godby, how dare you?" ... "The liberty" 1:22
• 15 Brief Encounter / Act 1 / Scene 10: The station refreshment room and platform: "I sat in the café, waiting" 1:11
• 16 Brief Encounter / Act 1 / Scene 10: The station refreshment room and platform: "My dear, my dear, I'm sorry" ... "Next Thursday?" 2:21
• 17 Brief Encounter / Act 1 / Scene 11: An old boathouse by the river: "The British have always been nice to mad people" 1:35
• 18 Brief Encounter / Act 1 / Scene 11: An old boathouse by the river: "When I was a child" 7:37
• 19 Brief Encounter / Act 1 / Scene 12: The Jessons' bedroom: "Good evening, Mrs Jesson" 2:16
• 20 Brief Encounter / Act 1 / Scene 12: The Jessons' bedroom: "This is the face of a woman who lies" 4:03

Disc 2

• 1 Brief Encounter / Act 2 / Entr'acte & Scene 1: Outside the hospital: Entr'acte ... "Five minutes" 3:31
• 2 Brief Encounter / Act 2 / Scene 2: The dining room of the Royal Hotel: "He took me to lunch" 4:43
• 3 Brief Encounter / Act 2 / Scene 3: Eden Lock: "We stood on the bridge at Eden Lock" 1:35
• 4 Brief Encounter / Act 2 / Scene 4: The station platform: "That's your train" ... "Come with me" 3:01
• 5 Brief Encounter / Act 2 / Scene 5: The Jessons' sittting-room: "14 down, 6 letters" ... "Without you there's nothing" 3:02
• 6 Brief Encounter / Act 2 / Scene 6: The station refreshment room: "Hallo!" "This is the face of the woman I love" 7:09
• 7 Brief Encounter / Act 2 / Scene 6: The station refreshment room: "Promise me, however unhappy your are" 5:17
• 8 Brief Encounter / Act 2 / Scene 7: The Jessons' sitting-room: "A woman is sitting in a quiet room" 3:45
• 9 Brief Encounter / Act 2 / Scene 8: The station refreshment room: "Aren't you going to offer me another cup of tea?" ... "Time and tide" 6:17
• 10 Brief Encounter / Act 2 / Scene 9: The Jessons' sitting-room: "Fred, Fred, oh, Fred" ... "To the end of my days" 5:40

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