Peter Grimes

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Peter Grimes: Prologue. "Peter Grimes!" (Hobson)

  Benjamin Britten
  1:29
• 2
  Peter Grimes: Prologue. "You sailed your boat round the coast" (Swallow)

  Benjamin Britten
  3:04
• 3
  Peter Grimes: Prologue. "Peter Grimes, I here advise you!" (Swallow)

  Benjamin Britten
  2:10
• 4
  Peter Grimes: Prologue. "The truth...the pity...and the truth" (Peter)

  Benjamin Britten
  1:54
• 5
  Peter Grimes: Prologue. Interlude I

  Benjamin Britten
  2:57
• 6
  Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene I. "Oh! hang at open doors the net, the cork," (Women and Fishermen)

  Benjamin Britten
  5:36
• 7
  Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene I. "Hi! Give us a hand!" (Peter)

  Benjamin Britten
  3:19
• 8
  Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene I. "I have to go from pub to pub" (Hobson)

  Benjamin Britten
  1:57
• 9
  Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene I. "Let her among you without fault cast the first stone" (Ellen)

  Benjamin Britten
  3:09
• 10
  Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene I. "Look, the storm cone!" (Balstrode)

  Benjamin Britten
  2:41
• 11
  Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene I. "And do you prefer the storm" (Balstrode)

  Benjamin Britten
  4:56
• 12
  Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene I. "What harbour shelters peace" (Peter)

  Benjamin Britten
  1:12
• 13
  Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene II. Interlude II

  Benjamin Britten
  4:08
• 14
  Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene II. "Past time to close!" (Auntie)

  Benjamin Britten
  4:20
• 15
  Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene II. "We live and let live" (Balstrode)

  Benjamin Britten
  2:00
• 16
  Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene II. "Have you heard? The cliff is down" (Keene)

  Benjamin Britten
  1:23
• 17
  Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene II. "Now the Great Bear and Pleiades" (Peter)

  Benjamin Britten
  3:41
• 18
  Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene II. "Old Joe has gone fishing" (Keene)

  Benjamin Britten
  2:27
• 19
  Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene II. "The bridge is down, we half swam over" (Hobson)

  Benjamin Britten
  1:37
• CD 2
• 1
  Peter Grimes: Act II. Interlude III

  Benjamin Britten
  2:26
• 2
  Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene I. "Glitter of waves and glitter of sunlight" (Ellen)

  Benjamin Britten
  5:41
• 3
  Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene I. "Let this be a holiday" (Ellen)

  Benjamin Britten
  3:00
• 4
  Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene I. "This unrelenting work" (Ellen)

  Benjamin Britten
  4:41
• 5
  Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene I. "Fool to let it come to this!" (Auntie)

  Benjamin Britten
  2:16
• 6
  Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene I. "What is it?" (Chorus)

  Benjamin Britten
  1:04
• 7
  Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene I. "People!... No! I will speak!" (Boles)

  Benjamin Britten
  2:06
• 8
  Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene I. "We planned that their lives should have a new start" (Ellen)

  Benjamin Britten
  2:25
• 9
  Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene I. "Swallow! Shall we go and see Grimes in his hut?" (Rector)

  Benjamin Britten
  0:43
• 10
  Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene I. "Now is gossip put on trial," (Mrs Sedley, Boles, Rector, Keene, Swallow and Chorus)

  Benjamin Britten
  2:17
• 11
  Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene I. "From the gutter, why should we trouble at their ribaldries?" (Nieces)

  Benjamin Britten
  4:30
• 12
  Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene I. Interlude IV, Passacaglia

  Benjamin Britten
  5:29
• 13
  Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene II. "Go there!" (Peter)

  Benjamin Britten
  7:18
• 14
  Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene II. "Now!... Now!..." (Boles, Rector, Swallow, Keene and Chorus)

  Benjamin Britten
  2:09
• 15
  Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene II. "Peter Grimes! Nobody here?" (Rector)

  Benjamin Britten
  3:01
• CD 3
• 1
  Peter Grimes: Act III. Interlude V

  Benjamin Britten
  4:23
• 2
  Peter Grimes: Act III, Scene I. "Assign your prettiness to me" (Swallow)

  Benjamin Britten
  2:36
• 3
  Peter Grimes: Act III, Scene I. "Pah! Ahoy!" (Swallow and Keene)

  Benjamin Britten
  2:48
• 4
  Peter Grimes: Act III, Scene I. "Come along, Doctor!" (First Burgess)

  Benjamin Britten
  3:20
• 5
  Peter Grimes: Act III, Scene I. "Embroidery in childhood was a luxury of idleness" (Ellen)

  Benjamin Britten
  5:09
• 6
  Peter Grimes: Act III, Scene I. "Mister Swallow! Mister Swallow!" (Mrs Sedley)

  Benjamin Britten
  2:00
• 7
  Peter Grimes: Act III, Scene I. "Who holds himself apart, lets his pride rise" (Chorus)

  Benjamin Britten
  3:45
• 8
  Peter Grimes: Act III, Scene I. Interlude VI

  Benjamin Britten
  2:37
• 9
  Peter Grimes: Act III, Scene II. "Grimes! Grimes!" (Chorus)

  Benjamin Britten
  4:55
• 10
  Peter Grimes: Act III, Scene II. "Peter, we've come to take you home" (Ellen)

  Benjamin Britten
  2:28
• 11
  Peter Grimes: Act III, Scene II. "To those who pass the Borough" (Chorus)

  Benjamin Britten
  4:51

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Release credits

• Benjamin Britten
  conductor
• Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
  choir vocals [3.7, 3.9, 3.11, 1.6, 2.6, 2.10, 2.14]
• Claire Watson
  soprano vocals [3.5, 3.10, 2.2-4, 2.8, 1.9]
• David Kelly
  bass vocals [1, 8, 19]
• Erik Smith
  producer
• Geraint Evans
  baritone vocals [1.16, 1.18, 2.10, 2.14, 3.3]
• James Pease
  baritone vocals [10-11, 15]
• Jean Watson
  contralto vocals [2.5, 1.14]
• John Lanigan
  tenor vocals [9-10, 14-15]
• Kenneth Wilkinson
  recording
• Lauris Margaret Elms
  mezzo-soprano vocals [2.10, 3.6]
• Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
  performing orchestra
• Owen Brannigan
  bass vocals [3.2-3, 2.10, 2.14, 1.2-3]
• Peter Pears
  tenor vocals [1.4, 1.7, 1.12, 1.17, 2.13]
• Raymond Nilsson
  tenor vocals [7, 10, 14]

Issues

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  P
  (Combined release view)
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  P
  Peter Grimes

  3x CD (Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden)
  1985
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  P
  Peter Grimes

  3x CD
  1985
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  P
  Peter Grimes

  Digital Media (96 kHz / 24-bit)
  2016