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Britten: Peter Grimes

Jon Vickers (Grimes), Heather Harper (Ellen), Jonathan Summers (Balstrode), Elizabeth Bainbridge (Auntie), Forbes Robinson (Swallow), Patricia Payne (Mrs Sedley), Thomas Allen (Ned Keene), Richard Van Allan (Hobson)

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Sir Colin Davis

Britten: Peter Grimes

Awards:

the cast is fine and the tension cumulative

BBC Music Magazine, July 20113 out of 5 stars

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Britten: Peter Grimes

Jon Vickers (Grimes), Heather Harper (Ellen), Jonathan Summers (Balstrode), Elizabeth Bainbridge (Auntie), Forbes Robinson (Swallow), Patricia Payne (Mrs Sedley), Thomas Allen (Ned Keene), Richard Van Allan (Hobson)

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Sir Colin Davis

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Awards:

the cast is fine and the tension cumulative

BBC Music Magazine, July 20113 out of 5 stars

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About

  • Release date: 18th Mar 2013
  • Label: Decca
  • Series: Operas
  • Catalogue number: 4785273
  • Length: 2 hours 25 minutes
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Contents and tracklist

Britten: Peter Grimes
Work length2:25:59
"Peter Grimes!"
Track length1:36
"You sailed your boat"
Track length3:23
"Peter Grimes, I here advise you!"
Track length2:10
"The truth...the pity..."
Track length2:01
Interlude I: On the beach
Track length3:44
"Oh, hang at open doors"
Track length5:15
"Hi! give us a hand"
Track length3:30
"I have to go from pub to pub"
Track length2:01
"Let her among you"
Track length2:30
"Look, the storm cone!"
Track length2:42
"And do you prefer the storm"
Track length5:21
"What harbour shelters peace"
Track length1:31
Interlude II: The Storm
Track length4:21
"Past time to close!"
Track length4:02
"We live and let live"
Track length1:54
"Have you heard?"
Track length1:25
"Now the Great Bear and Pleiades"
Track length4:07
"Old Joe has gone fishing"
Track length3:53
Interlude III: Sunday morning by the beach
Track length2:37
"Glitter of waves"
Track length5:57
"Let this be a holiday"
Track length2:39
"This unrelenting work"
Track length4:38
"Fool to let it come to this!"
Track length2:17
"What is it?"
Track length0:59
"People!...No! I will speak!"
Track length1:59
"We planned that their lives"
Track length2:31
"Swallow! Shall we go"
Track length0:48
"Now is gossip put on trial"
Track length1:54
"From the gutter"
Track length4:37
Interlude IV: Passacaglia
Track length5:24
"Go there!"
Track length8:16
"Now!...Now!"
Track length1:59
"Peter Grimes! Nobody here?"
Track length2:55
Interlude V: Evening
Track length4:47
"Assign your prettiness to me"
Track length2:29
"Pah!"
Track length2:54
"Come along, Doctor!"
Track length3:33
"Embroidery in childhood"
Track length4:57
"Mr.Swallow!"
Track length1:45
"Who holds himself apart"
Track length3:37
Interlude VI: Fog
Track length2:43
"Grimes! Grimes!"
Track length7:16
"Peter, we've come to take you home"
Track length2:34
"To those who pass the Borough"
Track length4:28

Awards and reviews

July 2011

the cast is fine and the tension cumulative
3 out of 5 stars

2010 edition

Sir Colin Davis takes a fundamentally darker, tougher view of Peter Grimes than the composer himself. Jon Vickers's powerful, heroic interpretation sheds keen new light on what arguably remains the greatest of Britten's operas...A genuine bargain.
3 out of 4 stars

10th May 2013

Convincingly dark reading from Covent Garden
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