Libretto by the composer after Ostrovsky's play The Storm in the Czech translation by Cervinka, English translation by Norman Tucker, with revisions by Rodney Blumer and Henrietta Bredin
COMPACT DISC ONE
Act I
Scene 1
1
[Introduction]
4:19
2
'Marvellous! Really, just admit it'
1:35
Kudryash, Glasha
3
'What d'you think you're hanging around for?'
0:57
Dikoi, Boris
4
'Is your mistress at home?'
3:23
Dikoi, Glasha, Kudryash, Boris, Feklusha
5
'All of them so good and pious'
2:03
Feklusha, Boris, Kudryash
6
'If you want to obey your mother'
4:31
Kabanicha, Tichon, Katya, Varvara
7
Intermezzo I
1:04
Scene 2
8
'I'm always wondering'
5:46
9
'Madness? Oh, how I wish I really knew'
2:57
Katya, Varvara
10
'Ah, but you, what can you know of this?'
1:56
Katya, Varvara, Feklusha, Glasha, Tichon
11
'Do you not love me any more?'
2:52
Katya, Tichon
12
'It's time, Tichon'
3:50
Kabanicha, Tichon, Katya
Act II
Scene 1
13
'There now, you're always boasting'
2:05
Kabanicha, Katya
14
'It's so warm indoors'
3:23
Varvara, Katya, Dikoi, Kabanicha
15
'No, no, no one, yet my heart was beating'
2:13
Katya
16
'It's nothing much'
2:38
Dikoi, Kabanicha
17
Intermezzo II
0:56
Scene 2
18
[Introduction]
1:05
19
'Nobody here yet!'
3:37
Kudryash, Boris
20
'Far away my love is gone across the water'
1:46
Varvara, Kudryash, Boris
21
'Is that you, Katerina Petrovna?'
5:26
Boris, Katya
22
'So you've found each other'
5:45
Varvara, Boris, Kudryash, Katya
64:33
COMPACT DISC TWO
Act III
Scene 1
1
'Raining!' 'There's a storm coming'
4:05
Kuligin, Kudryash, Dikoi
2
'Psst! Psst! Boris, listen to me!'
1:06
Varvara, Boris
3
'Oh, Varvara! I shall die!'
2:44
Katya, Zena, Varvara, Chorus, Kudryash, Dikoi, Kabanicha, Tichon
