Peter Grimes

Album by Benjamin Britten

Peter Grimes is an opera by English composer Benjamin Britten, premiered in 1945. The score blends modernist harmony with English lyrical elements, features rich orchestral colours and demanding vocal writing, and it helped establish Britten's reputation in large-scale 20th-century opera.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Peter Grimes: Prologue. Peter Grimes
    1:31
  2. 2.
    Peter Grimes: Prologue. You sailed your boat round the coast
    3:20
  3. 3.
    Peter Grimes: Prologue. Peter Grimes, I here advise you
    2:09
  4. 4.
    Peter Grimes: Prologue. The truth - the pity - and the truth
    1:55
  5. 5.
    Peter Grimes: Act 1, Interlude 1. Dawn
    2:47
  6. 6.
    Peter Grimes: Act 1, Scene 1. Oh, hang at open doors
    4:20
  7. 7.
    Peter Grimes: Act 1, Scene 1. Good morning, good morning!
    1:05
  8. 8.
    Peter Grimes: Act 1, Scene 1. Hi! Give us a hand
    3:21
  9. 9.
    Peter Grimes: Act 1, Scene 1. I'll have to go from pub to pub
    1:54
  10. 10.
    Peter Grimes: Act 1, Scene 1. Let her among without fault
    2:59
  11. 11.
    Peter Grimes: Act 1, Scene 1. Look! The storm come!
    2:35
  12. 12.
    Peter Grimes: Act 1, Scene 1. And do you prefer the storm
    3:24
  13. 13.
    Peter Grimes: Act 1, Scene 1. They listen to money
    1:35
  14. 14.
    Peter Grimes: Act 1, Scene 1. What harbour shelters peace
    1:02
  15. 15.
    Peter Grimes: Act 1, Interlude 2. Storm
    4:04
  16. 16.
    Peter Grimes: Act 1, Scene 2. Past time to close
    2:22
  17. 17.
    Peter Grimes: Act 1, Scene 2. Loud man
    0:59
  18. 18.
    Peter Grimes: Act 1, Scene 2. There's been a landslide up the coast
    0:59
  19. 19.
    Peter Grimes: Act 1, Scene 2. No, I mean love
    0:31
  20. 20.
    Peter Grimes: Act 1, Scene 2. Pub conversation should depend
    1:18
  21. 21.
    Peter Grimes: Act 1, Scene 2. Have you heard the cliff is down
    1:33
  22. 22.
    Peter Grimes: Act 1, Scene 2. Now the Great Bear and Pleiades
    3:33
  23. 23.
    Peter Grimes: Act 1, Scene 2. For peace sake
    2:29
  24. 24.
    Peter Grimes: Act 1, Scene 2. The bridge is down
    1:32
  25. 25.
    Peter Grimes: Act 2, Interlude 3. Sunday Morning
    2:25
  26. 26.
    Peter Grimes: Act 2, Scene 1. Glitter of waves
    1:28
  27. 27.
    Peter Grimes: Act 2, Scene 1. Now that the daylight fills the sky
    3:38
  28. 28.
    Peter Grimes: Act 2, Scene 1. Child you're not too young
    3:10
  29. 29.
    Peter Grimes: Act 2, Scene 1. This unrelenting work
    4:17
  30. 30.
    Peter Grimes: Act 2, Scene 1. Fool to let it come to this
    3:12
  31. 31.
    Peter Grimes: Act 2, Scene 1. People... No! I will speak!
    2:12

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Peter Grimes: Act 2, Scene 1. We planned that their lives
    2:15
  2. 3.
    Peter Grimes: Act 2, Scene 1. Shall we go and see Grimes in his hut?
    0:46
  3. 4.
    Peter Grimes: Act 2, Scene 1. Now gossip is put on trial
    2:01
  4. 5.
    Peter Grimes: Act 2, Scene 1. From the gutter
    4:01
  5. 6.
    Peter Grimes: Act 2, Interlude 4. Passacaglia
    5:28
  6. 7.
    Peter Grimes: Act 2, Scene 2. Go there
    1:53
  7. 8.
    Peter Grimes: Act 2, Scene 2. They listen to money
    5:01
  8. 9.
    Peter Grimes: Act 2, Scene 2. Now! Now!
    2:08
  9. 10.
    Peter Grimes: Act 2, Scene 2. Peter Grimes
    2:59
  10. 11.
    Peter Grimes: Act 3, Interlude 5. Moonlight
    3:39
  11. 12.
    Peter Grimes: Act 3, Scene 1. Assign your prettiness to me
    3:11
  12. 13.
    Peter Grimes: Act 3, Scene 1. Mr. Keene
    1:26
  13. 14.
    Peter Grimes: Act 3, Scene 1. Murder most foul it is
    1:22
  14. 15.
    Peter Grimes: Act 3, Scene 1. Come along, Doctor
    2:43
  15. 16.
    Peter Grimes: Act 3, Scene 1. Embroidery in childhood was
    4:48
  16. 17.
    Peter Grimes: Act 3, Scene 1. Mr. Swallow
    1:54
  17. 18.
    Peter Grimes: Act 3, Scene 1. Who holds himself apart
    3:27
  18. 19.
    Peter Grimes: Act 3, Interlude 6
    2:08
  19. 20.
    Peter Grimes: Act 3, Scene 2. Grimes!
    5:08
  20. 21.
    Peter Grimes: Act 3, Scene 2. Peter, we've come to take you home
    2:22
  21. 22.
    Peter Grimes: Act 3, Scene 2. To those who pass the Borough
    5:11

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