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Britten: Peter Grimes

Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Grimes), Felicity Lott (Ellen Orford), Thomas Allen (Balstrode), Patricia Payne (Auntie), Sarah Walker (Mrs Sedley), Simon Keenlyside (Ned Keene), Stafford Dean (Swallow), David Wilson-Johnson (Hobson), Maria Bovino (First Niece), Gillian Webster (Second Niece)

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Britten: Peter Grimes
A wonderfully sung Peter Grimes, with superb orchestral support

BBC Music Magazine, June 20104 out of 5 stars

Britten: Peter Grimes

Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Grimes), Felicity Lott (Ellen Orford), Thomas Allen (Balstrode), Patricia Payne (Auntie), Sarah Walker (Mrs Sedley), Simon Keenlyside (Ned Keene), Stafford Dean (Swallow), David Wilson-Johnson (Hobson), Maria Bovino (First Niece), Gillian Webster (Second Niece)

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A wonderfully sung Peter Grimes, with superb orchestral support

BBC Music Magazine, June 20104 out of 5 stars

About

The mid-price collection presents some of the most important and admired recordings of the EMI Classics and Virgin Classics catalogue which make EMI 'The Home of Opera'. This performance of Peter Grimes was recorded in 1992 at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

Artists

Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Grimes), Felicity Lott (Ellen Orford), Thomas Allen (Balstrode), Patricia Payne (Auntie), Sarah Walker (Mrs Sedley), Simon Keenlyside (Ned Keene), Stafford Dean (Swallow), David Wilson-Johnson (Hobson), Maria Bovino (First Niece), Gillian Webster (Second Niece)

Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Bernard Haitink

Contents and tracklist

Britten: Peter Grimes
Work length2:24:20
Peter Grimes (Hobson / Swallow / Peter)
Track length1:36
You sailed your boat round the coast (Swallow / Peter / Mrs Sedley / Chorus / Hobson / Ellen)
Track length3:26
Peter Grimes, I here advise you! (Swallow / Chorus / Hobson / Peter)
Track length2:13
The truth ... the pity (Peter / Ellen)
Track length1:57
Interlude I: Dawn
Track length3:19
Oh hang at open doors the net (Chorus / 1st Fisherman / Auntie / Boles / Balstrode / 2nd Fisherman / Rector / Nieces / Mrs Sedley / Swallow)
Track length5:01
Hi! Give us a hand (Peter / Boles / Balstrode / Ned / Auntie / Hobson)
Track length3:33
I have to go from pub to pub (Hobson / Chorus / Ellen / Ned)
Track length1:57
Let her among you without fault cast the first stone (Ellen / Hobson / Mrs Sedley / Ned)
Track length2:56
Look! The storm cone! (Balstrode / Chorus / Ned / Boles)
Track length2:42
And do you prefer the storm
Track length3:52
They listen to money (Balstrode / Peter)
Track length1:29
What harbour shelters peace (Peter)
Track length1:06
Interlude II: Storm
Track length4:20
Past time to close! (Auntie / Mrs Sedley / Balstrode / Boles / Nieces / Fisherman)
Track length4:39
Come on, boy! (Balstrode / Chorus)
Track length2:12
Have you heard? The cliff is down (Ned / Auntie / Mrs Sedley / Balstrode / Chorus)
Track length1:37
Now the Great Bear and Pleiades (Peter / Chorus / Nieces / Boles / Balstrode / Auntie)
Track length3:42
Old Joe has gone fishing (Ned / Chorus / Peter)
Track length2:18
The bridge is down (Hobson / Ned / Ellen / Boles / Auntie / Nieces / Peter)
Track length1:45
Peter Grimes Op. 33, ACT 2: Interlude III: Sunday morning
Track length2:28
Glitter of waves and glitter of sunlight (Ellen / Chorus / Rector)
Track length5:34
Child you're not too young to know (Ellen / Chorus / Rector / Peter)
Track length3:28
This unrelenting work (Ellen / Peter / Chorus)
Track length4:42
Fool to let it come to this! (Auntie / Ned / Boles / Chorus / Mrs Sedley / Balstrode / Lawyer / Swallow / Fisherwoman / Nices / Rector)
Track length3:20
People! ... No! I will speak! (Boles / Chorus / Balstrode / Rector / Auntie / Ellen)
Track length2:01
We planned that their lives should have a new start (Ellen / Rector / Mrs Sedley / Boles / Ned / Nieces / Auntie / Balstrode / Hobson / Swallow)
Track length3:04
Now is gossip put on trial (Chorus / Mrs Sedley / Boles / Rector / Ned / Swallow)
Track length2:21
From the gutter (Nieces / Auntie / Ellen)
Track length5:03
Interlude IV: Passacaglia
Track length5:20
Go there!
Track length3:14
In dreams I've built myself some kindlier home (Peter)
Track length3:57
Now! ... Now! (Chorus / Peter / Boles / Rector / Swallow / Ned)
Track length2:09
Peter Grimes! Nobody there? (Rector / Swallow / Ned)
Track length3:17
Peter Grimes Op. 33, ACT 3: Interlude V: Moonlight
Track length4:21
Assign your prettiness to me (Swallow / Nieces / Ned)
Track length2:57
Mister Keene! Mister Keene! Can you spare a moment (Mrs Sedley / Ned)
Track length2:45
Come along, Doctor! (First Burgess / Burgesses / Rector / Mrs Sedley / Ellen / Balstrode)
Track length2:50
Embroidery in childhood was a luxury of idleness (Ellen / Balstrode)
Track length5:07
Mister Swallow! Mister Swallow! (Mrs Sedley / Auntie / Swallow / Hobson)
Track length1:59
Who holds himself apart, lets pride rise (Chorus)
Track length3:44
Interlude VI
Track length2:34
Grimes! Grimes! (Chorus / Peter)
Track length5:10
Peter, we've come to take you home (Ellen / Peter / Balstrode)
Track length2:47
To those who pass the Borough (Chorus / Swallow / Fisherman / Auntie / Boles)
Track length4:28

Awards and reviews

June 2010

A wonderfully sung Peter Grimes, with superb orchestral support
4 out of 5 stars
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