Opera - Peter Grimes

BENJAMIN BRITTEN

Peter Grimes Op 33

147:11

1

Prologue - Hobson - 'Peter Grimes'

1:25

2

Swallow - 'You sailed your boat round the coast'

3:05

3

Swallow - 'Peter Grimes, I here advise you'

2:05

4

Peter - 'The truth - the pity - and the truth'

1:56

5

Interlude I

3:14

Act I

45:53

6

Scene 1 - Chorus - 'Oh, hang at open doors'

4:42

7

Rector - 'Good morning, good morning!'

1:04

8

Peter - 'Hi! Give us a hand'

3:42

9

Hobson - 'I'll have to go from pub to pub'

2:00

10

Ellen - 'Let her among you without fault'

3:13

11

Balstrode - 'Look! The storm cone!'

2:47

12

Balstrode - 'And do you prefer the storm'

3:31

13

Peter - 'They listen to money'

1:32

14

Peter - 'What harbour shelters peace'

1:04

15

Interlude II

4:11

Scene 2

16

Auntie - 'Past time to close'

2:16

17

Aunti - 'Loud man'

1:05

18

Fisherman - 'There's been a landslide up the coast'

1:08

19

Boles - 'No, I mean love'

0:37

20

Balstrode - 'Pub conversation should depend'

1:35

21

Ned - 'Have you heard the cliff is down'

1:39

22

Peter - 'Now the Great Bear and Pleiades'

3:42

23

Balstrode - 'For peace sake'

2:29

24

Hobson - 'The bridge is down'

1:35

Act II

25

Interlude III

2:29

Scene 1

26

Ellen - 'Glitter of waves'

1:33

27

Chorus - 'Now that the daylight fills the sky'

3:40

28

Ellen - 'Child you're not too young'

3:15

29

Ellen - 'This unrelenting work'

4:26

30

Aunti - 'Fool to let it come to this'

3:18

31

Boles - 'People . . . No! I will speak!'

2:05

32

Ellen - 'We planned that their lives'

2:29

33

Rector - 'Swallow - shall we go and see Grimes in his hut?'

0:44

34

Chorus - 'Now gossip is put on trial'

2:18

35

Nieces - 'From the gutter'

4:35

36

Interlude IV

5:48

Scene 2

37

Peter - 'Go there!'

2:03

38

Peter - 'They listen to money'

5:04

39

Chorus - 'Now! Now!'

2:14

40

Rector - 'Peter Grimes'

3:20

Act III

41:55

41

Interlude V

5:09

42

Scene 1 - Swallow - 'Assign your prettiness to me'

3:02

43

Mrs Sedley - 'Mr Keene'

1:31

44

Mrs Sedley - 'Murder most foul it is'

1:33

45

Burgess - 'Come along, Doctor'

2:57

46

Ellen - 'Embroidery in childhood was'

5:50

47

Mrs Sedley - 'Mr Swallow'

2:03

48

Chorus - 'Who holds himself apart'

3:57

49

Interlude Vi

2:46

Scene 2

50

Voices - 'Grimes!'

5:23

51

Ellen - 'Peter, we've come to take you home'

2:41

52

Chorus - 'To those who pass the Borough'

5:04

Alan Opie baritone

Ameral Gunson contralto

Anne Collins contralto

Janice Watson soprano

John Connell bass

John Fryatt tenor

John Graham Hall tenor

Matthew Best bass

Pamela Helen Stephen mezzo-soprano

Philip Langridge tenor

Roderick Williams baritone

Yvonne Barclay soprano

Richard Hickox

2-3, 5-7 July & 31 August 1995