Tracklist

  • CD 1
  • 1
    Peter Grimes: Prologue. "Peter grimes!" (Hobson, Swallow, Peter)
    Benjamin Britten
    1:36
  • 2
    Peter Grimes: Prologue. "You sailed your boat round the coast" (Swallow, Peter, Mrs Sedley, Chorus, Hobson, Ellen)
    Benjamin Britten
    3:26
  • 3
    Peter Grimes: Prologue. "Peter Grimes, I here advise you!" (Swallow, Chorus, Hobson, Peter)
    Benjamin Britten
    2:13
  • 4
    Peter Grimes: Prologue. "The truth ... the pity" (Peter, Ellen)
    Benjamin Britten
    1:57
  • 5
    Peter Grimes: Prologue. Interlude I: Dawn
    Benjamin Britten
    3:20
  • 6
    Peter Grimes: Act: I, Scene I. "Oh! Hang at open doors the net, the cork," (Chorus, 1st Fisherman, Auntie, Boles, Balstrode, 2nd Fisherman, Rector, Nieces, Mrs Sedley, Swallow)
    Benjamin Britten
    5:01
  • 7
    Peter Grimes: Act: I, Scene I. "Hi! Give us a hand!" (Peter, Boles, Balstrode, Ned, Auntie, Hobson)
    Benjamin Britten
    3:34
  • 8
    Peter Grimes: Act: I, Scene I. "I have to go from pub to pub" (Hobson, Chorus, Ellen, Ned)
    Benjamin Britten
    1:58
  • 9
    Peter Grimes: Act: I, Scene I. "Let her among you without fault cast the first stone" (Ellen, Hobson, Mrs Sedley, Ned)
    Benjamin Britten
    2:56
  • 10
    Peter Grimes: Act: I, Scene I. "Look, the storm cone!" (Balstrode, Chorus, Ned, Boles)
    Benjamin Britten
    2:43
  • 11
    Peter Grimes: Act: I, Scene I. "And do you prefer the storm"
    Benjamin Britten
    3:52
  • 12
    Peter Grimes: Act: I, Scene I. "They listen to money" (Balstrode, Peter)
    Benjamin Britten
    1:29
  • 13
    Peter Grimes: Act: I, Scene I. "What harbour shelters peace" (Peter)
    Benjamin Britten
    1:06
  • 14
    Peter Grimes: Act: I, Scene II. Interlude II: Storm
    Benjamin Britten
    4:20
  • 15
    Peter Grimes: Act: I, Scene II. "Past time to close!" (Auntie, Mrs Sedley, Balstrode, Boles, Nieces, Fisherman)
    Benjamin Britten
    4:40
  • 16
    Peter Grimes: Act: I, Scene II. "Come on, boy!" (Balstrode, Chorus)
    Benjamin Britten
    2:12
  • 17
    Peter Grimes: Act: I, Scene II. "Have you heard? The cliff is down" (Ned, Auntie, Mrs Sedley, Balstrode, Chorus)
    Benjamin Britten
    1:37
  • 18
    Peter Grimes: Act: I, Scene II. "Now the Great Bear and Pleiades" (Peter, Chorus, Nieces, Boles, Balstrode, Auntie)
    Benjamin Britten
    3:42
  • 19
    Peter Grimes: Act: I, Scene II. "Old Joe has gone fishing" (Ned, Chorus, Peter)
    Benjamin Britten
    2:18
  • 20
    Peter Grimes: Act: I, Scene II. "The bridge is down" (Hobson, Ned, Ellen, Boles, Auntie, Nieces, Peter)
    Benjamin Britten
    1:45
  • 21
    Peter Grimes: Act: II. Interlude III: Sunday morning
    Benjamin Britten
    2:29
  • 22
    Peter Grimes: Act: II, Scene I. "Glitter of waves and glitter of sunlight" (Ellen, Chorus, Rector)
    Benjamin Britten
    5:34
  • 23
    Peter Grimes: Act: II, Scene I. "Child you're not too young to know" (Ellen, Chorus, Rector, Peter)
    Benjamin Britten
    3:28
  • 24
    Peter Grimes: Act: II, Scene I. "This unrelenting work" (Ellen, Peter, Chorus)
    Benjamin Britten
    4:42
  • CD 2
  • 1
    Peter Grimes: Act: II, Scene I. "Fool to let it come to this!" (Auntie, Ned, Boles, Chorus, Mrs Sedley, Balstrode, Lawyer, Swallow, Fisherwoman, Nices, Rector)
    Benjamin Britten
    3:20
  • 2
    Peter Grimes: Act: II, Scene I. "People! ... No! I will speak!" (Boles, Chorus, Balstrode, Rector, Auntie, Ellen)
    Benjamin Britten
    2:01
  • 3
    Peter Grimes: Act: II, Scene I. "We planned that their lives should have a new start" (Ellen, Rector, Mrs Sedley, Boles, Ned, Nieces, Auntie, Balstrode, Hobson, Swallow)
    Benjamin Britten
    3:04
  • 4
    Peter Grimes: Act: II, Scene I. "Now is gossip put on trial" (Chorus, Mrs Sedley, Boles, Rector, Ned, Swallow)
    Benjamin Britten
    2:21
  • 5
    Peter Grimes: Act: II, Scene I. "From the gutter" (Nieces, Auntie, Ellen)
    Benjamin Britten
    5:03
  • 6
    Peter Grimes: Act: II, Scene I. Interlude IV: Passacaglia
    Benjamin Britten
    5:20
  • 7
    Peter Grimes: Act: II, Scene II. "Go there!"
    Benjamin Britten
    3:14
  • 8
    Peter Grimes: Act: II, Scene II. "In dreams I've built myself some kindlier home" (Peter)
    Benjamin Britten
    3:57
  • 9
    Peter Grimes: Act: II, Scene II. "Now! ... Now!" (Chorus, Peter, Boles, Rector, Swallow, Ned)
    Benjamin Britten
    2:09
  • 10
    Peter Grimes: Act: II, Scene II. "Peter Grimes! Nobody there?" (Rector, Swallow, Ned)
    Benjamin Britten
    3:17
  • 11
    Peter Grimes: Act: III. Interlude V: Moonlight
    Benjamin Britten
    4:21
  • 12
    Peter Grimes: Act: III, Scene I. "Assign your prettiness to me" (Swallow, Nieces, Ned)
    Benjamin Britten
    2:57
  • 13
    Peter Grimes: Act: III, Scene I. "Mister Keene! Mister Keene! Can you spare a moment" (Mrs Sedley, Ned)
    Benjamin Britten
    2:45
  • 14
    Peter Grimes: Act: III, Scene I. "Come along, Doctor!" (First Burgess, Burgesses, Rector, Mrs Sedley, Ellen, Balstrode)
    Benjamin Britten
    2:50
  • 15
    Peter Grimes: Act: III, Scene I. "Embroidery in childhood was a luxury of idleness" (Ellen, Balstrode)
    Benjamin Britten
    5:07
  • 16
    Peter Grimes: Act: III, Scene I. "Mister Swallow! Mister Swallow!" (Mrs Sedley, Auntie, Swallow, Hobson)
    Benjamin Britten
    1:59
  • 17
    Peter Grimes: Act: III, Scene I. "Who holds himself apart, lets pride rise" (Chorus)
    Benjamin Britten
    3:44
  • 18
    Peter Grimes: Act: III, Scene I. Interlude VI
    Benjamin Britten
    2:34
  • 19
    Peter Grimes: Act: III, Scene II. "Grimes! Grimes!" (Chorus, Peter)
    Benjamin Britten
    5:10
  • 20
    Peter Grimes: Act: III, Scene II. "Peter, we've come to take you home" (Ellen, Peter, Balstrode)
    Benjamin Britten
    2:47
  • 21
    Peter Grimes: Act: III, Scene II. "To those who pass the Borough" (Chorus, Swallow, Fisherman, Auntie, Boles)
    Benjamin Britten
    4:28

More by Benjamin Britten, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Felicity Lott, Sir Thomas Allen, Chorus, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Bernard Haitink

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