Peter Grimes

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

Peter Grimes is an opera by English composer Benjamin Britten, premiered in 1945. The score combines tonal and modernist elements with vivid orchestral colour and concentrated vocal writing to evoke the sea and village atmosphere, and it was an early work that brought Britten wider recognition and helped shape mid 20th-century British opera.
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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Peter Grimes: Prologue. "Peter grimes!" (Hobson, Swallow, Peter)
    1:36
  2. 2.
    Peter Grimes: Prologue. "You sailed your boat round the coast" (Swallow, Peter, Mrs Sedley, Chorus, Hobson, Ellen)
    3:26
  3. 3.
    Peter Grimes: Prologue. "Peter Grimes, I here advise you!" (Swallow, Chorus, Hobson, Peter)
    2:13
  4. 4.
    Peter Grimes: Prologue. "The truth ... the pity" (Peter, Ellen)
    1:57
  5. 5.
    Peter Grimes: Prologue. Interlude I: Dawn
    3:20
  6. 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)
    5:01
  7. 7.
    Peter Grimes: Act: I, Scene I. "Hi! Give us a hand!" (Peter, Boles, Balstrode, Ned, Auntie, Hobson)
    3:34
  8. 8.
    Peter Grimes: Act: I, Scene I. "I have to go from pub to pub" (Hobson, Chorus, Ellen, Ned)
    1:58
  9. 9.
    Peter Grimes: Act: I, Scene I. "Let her among you without fault cast the first stone" (Ellen, Hobson, Mrs Sedley, Ned)
    2:56
  10. 10.
    Peter Grimes: Act: I, Scene I. "Look, the storm cone!" (Balstrode, Chorus, Ned, Boles)
    2:43
  11. 11.
    Peter Grimes: Act: I, Scene I. "And do you prefer the storm"
    3:52
  12. 12.
    Peter Grimes: Act: I, Scene I. "They listen to money" (Balstrode, Peter)
    1:29
  13. 13.
    Peter Grimes: Act: I, Scene I. "What harbour shelters peace" (Peter)
    1:06
  14. 14.
    Peter Grimes: Act: I, Scene II. Interlude II: Storm
    4:20
  15. 15.
    Peter Grimes: Act: I, Scene II. "Past time to close!" (Auntie, Mrs Sedley, Balstrode, Boles, Nieces, Fisherman)
    4:40
  16. 16.
    Peter Grimes: Act: I, Scene II. "Come on, boy!" (Balstrode, Chorus)
    2:12
  17. 17.
    Peter Grimes: Act: I, Scene II. "Have you heard? The cliff is down" (Ned, Auntie, Mrs Sedley, Balstrode, Chorus)
    1:37
  18. 18.
    Peter Grimes: Act: I, Scene II. "Now the Great Bear and Pleiades" (Peter, Chorus, Nieces, Boles, Balstrode, Auntie)
    3:42
  19. 19.
    Peter Grimes: Act: I, Scene II. "Old Joe has gone fishing" (Ned, Chorus, Peter)
    2:18
  20. 20.
    Peter Grimes: Act: I, Scene II. "The bridge is down" (Hobson, Ned, Ellen, Boles, Auntie, Nieces, Peter)
    1:45
  21. 21.
    Peter Grimes: Act: II. Interlude III: Sunday morning
    2:29
  22. 22.
    Peter Grimes: Act: II, Scene I. "Glitter of waves and glitter of sunlight" (Ellen, Chorus, Rector)
    5:34
  23. 23.
    Peter Grimes: Act: II, Scene I. "Child you're not too young to know" (Ellen, Chorus, Rector, Peter)
    3:28
  24. 24.
    Peter Grimes: Act: II, Scene I. "This unrelenting work" (Ellen, Peter, Chorus)
    4:42

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    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)
    3:20
  2. 3.
    Peter Grimes: Act: II, Scene I. "People! ... No! I will speak!" (Boles, Chorus, Balstrode, Rector, Auntie, Ellen)
    2:01
  3. 4.
    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)
    3:04
  4. 5.
    Peter Grimes: Act: II, Scene I. "Now is gossip put on trial" (Chorus, Mrs Sedley, Boles, Rector, Ned, Swallow)
    2:21
  5. 6.
    Peter Grimes: Act: II, Scene I. "From the gutter" (Nieces, Auntie, Ellen)
    5:03
  6. 7.
    Peter Grimes: Act: II, Scene I. Interlude IV: Passacaglia
    5:20
  7. 8.
    Peter Grimes: Act: II, Scene II. "Go there!"
    3:14
  8. 9.
    Peter Grimes: Act: II, Scene II. "In dreams I've built myself some kindlier home" (Peter)
    3:57
  9. 10.
    Peter Grimes: Act: II, Scene II. "Now! ... Now!" (Chorus, Peter, Boles, Rector, Swallow, Ned)
    2:09
  10. 11.
    Peter Grimes: Act: II, Scene II. "Peter Grimes! Nobody there?" (Rector, Swallow, Ned)
    3:17
  11. 12.
    Peter Grimes: Act: III. Interlude V: Moonlight
    4:21
  12. 13.
    Peter Grimes: Act: III, Scene I. "Assign your prettiness to me" (Swallow, Nieces, Ned)
    2:57
  13. 14.
    Peter Grimes: Act: III, Scene I. "Mister Keene! Mister Keene! Can you spare a moment" (Mrs Sedley, Ned)
    2:45
  14. 15.
    Peter Grimes: Act: III, Scene I. "Come along, Doctor!" (First Burgess, Burgesses, Rector, Mrs Sedley, Ellen, Balstrode)
    2:50
  15. 16.
    Peter Grimes: Act: III, Scene I. "Embroidery in childhood was a luxury of idleness" (Ellen, Balstrode)
    5:07
  16. 17.
    Peter Grimes: Act: III, Scene I. "Mister Swallow! Mister Swallow!" (Mrs Sedley, Auntie, Swallow, Hobson)
    1:59
  17. 18.
    Peter Grimes: Act: III, Scene I. "Who holds himself apart, lets pride rise" (Chorus)
    3:44
  18. 19.
    Peter Grimes: Act: III, Scene I. Interlude VI
    2:34
  19. 20.
    Peter Grimes: Act: III, Scene II. "Grimes! Grimes!" (Chorus, Peter)
    5:10
  20. 21.
    Peter Grimes: Act: III, Scene II. "Peter, we've come to take you home" (Ellen, Peter, Balstrode)
    2:47
  21. 22.
    Peter Grimes: Act: III, Scene II. "To those who pass the Borough" (Chorus, Swallow, Fisherman, Auntie, Boles)
    4:28

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