Peter Grimes

Album by Benjamin Britten & Jon Vickers & Heather Harper & Jonathan Summers & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden & Sir Colin Davis

Peter Grimes is an opera by English composer Benjamin Britten, first performed in 1945. The score combines lyrical vocal writing, dramatic orchestral colour and maritime motifs to portray a tense psychological drama, and the work marked a pivotal point in mid-20th-century British opera that helped secure Britten's prominence.
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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Peter Grimes, op. 33: Prologue: "Peter Grimes!"
    1:36
  2. 2.
    Peter Grimes, op. 33: Prologue: "You Sailed Your Boat"
    3:23
  3. 3.
    Peter Grimes, op. 33: Prologue: "Peter Grimes, I Here Advise You!"
    2:10
  4. 4.
    Peter Grimes, op. 33: Prologue: "The Truth... The Pity..."
    2:01
  5. 5.
    Peter Grimes, op. 33: Prologue: Interlude I: On the Beach
    3:44
  6. 6.
    Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act I: "Oh, Hang at Open Doors"
    5:15
  7. 7.
    Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act I: "Hi! Give Us a Hand"
    3:30
  8. 8.
    Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act I: "I Have to Go from Pub to Pub"
    2:01
  9. 9.
    Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act I: "Let Her Among You"
    2:30
  10. 10.
    Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act I: "Look, the Storm Cone!"
    2:42
  11. 11.
    Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act I: "And Do You Prefer the Storm"
    5:21
  12. 12.
    Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act I: "What Harbour Shelters Peace"
    1:31
  13. 13.
    Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act I: Interlude II: The Storm
    4:21
  14. 14.
    Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act I: "Past Time to Close!"
    4:02
  15. 15.
    Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act I: "We Live and Let Live"
    1:54
  16. 16.
    Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act I: "Have You Heard?"
    1:25
  17. 17.
    Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act I: "Now the Great Bear and Pleiades"
    4:07
  18. 18.
    Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act I: "Old Joe Has Gone Fishing"
    3:53
  19. 19.
    Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act II: Interlude III: Sunday Morning by the Beach
    2:37
  20. 20.
    Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act II: "Glitter of Waves"
    5:57
  21. 21.
    Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act II: "Let This Be a Holiday"
    2:39
  22. 22.
    Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act II: "This Unrelenting Work"
    4:39

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act II: "Fool to Let It Come to This!"
    2:17
  2. 3.
    Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act II: "What Is It?"
    0:59
  3. 4.
    Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act II: "People!... No! I Will Speak!"
    1:59
  4. 5.
    Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act II: "We Planned That Their Lives"
    2:31
  5. 6.
    Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act II: "Swallow! Shall We Go"
    0:48
  6. 7.
    Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act II: "Now Is Gossip Put on Trial"
    1:54
  7. 8.
    Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act II: "From the Gutter"
    4:37
  8. 9.
    Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act II: Interlude IV: Passacaglia
    5:24
  9. 10.
    Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act II: "Go There!"
    8:16
  10. 11.
    Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act II: "Now!... Now!"
    1:59
  11. 12.
    Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act II: "Peter Grimes! Nobody Here?"
    3:07
  12. 13.
    Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act III: Interlude V: Evening
    4:47
  13. 14.
    Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act III: "Assign Your Prettiness to Me"
    2:29
  14. 15.
    Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act III: "Pah!"
    2:54
  15. 16.
    Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act III: "Come Along, Doctor!"
    3:33
  16. 17.
    Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act III: "Embroidery in Childhood"
    4:57
  17. 18.
    Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act III: "Mr. Swallow!"
    1:45
  18. 19.
    Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act III: "Who Holds Himself Apart"
    3:37
  19. 20.
    Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act III: Interlude VI: Fog
    2:43
  20. 21.
    Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act III: "Grimes! Grimes!"
    7:16
  21. 22.
    Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act III: "Peter, We've Come to Take You Home"
    2:34
  22. 23.
    Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act III: "To Those Who Pass the Borough"
    4:28

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