BENJAMIN BRITTEN (1913-1976)

Peter Grimes

142:11

1

Prologue: Peter Grimes!

1:20

2

You sailed your boat

3:03

3

Peter Grimes, I hear advise you!

2:04

4

The truth… The pity

1:55

5

Interlude I: On the beach

3:27

6

Act I: Oh! Hang at open doors

3:43

7

Good morning. Good morning

1:04

8

Hi! Give us a hand!

3:11

9

I have to go from the pub

2:08

10

Let her among you

3:01

11

Look, the storm come!

2:21

12

And do you prefer the storm?

5:37

13

Interlude II: The storm

4:04

14

Scene II: Past time to close!

4:20

15

We live and let live

1:45

16

Have you heard?

1:16

17

Now the great bear and Pleiades

3:44

18

Old Joe has gone fishing

4:06

19

Back announcement

0:08

20

Act II: Interlude III: Sunday morning by the beach

2:20

21

Scene I: Glitter of waves and glitter of sunlight

5:18

22

Let this be a holiday

3:31

23

This unrelenting work

4:32

24

Fool to let it come to this

3:10

25

People!… No! I will speak!

1:54

26

We planned that their lives should have a new start

2:35

27

Swallow! Shall we go and see Grimes in his hut?

1:06

28

Now is gossip put on trial

2:02

29

From the gutter, why should we trouble at their ribaldries

2:35

30

Interlude IV: Passacaglia

5:37

31

Scene II: Go there!

9:34

32

Peter Grimes! Nobody here?

2:58

33

Act III: Interlude V: Evening

5:00

34

Scene I: Assign your prettiness to me

2:13

35

Ahoy! Ahoy!

3:01

36

Come along, Doctor!

2:36

37

Embroidery in childhood was a luxury of idleness

5:29

38

Mister Swallow! Mister Swallow!

1:51

39

Who holds himself apart, let his pride rise

3:54

40

Interlude VI: Fog

4:06

41

Peter Grimes!

3:14

42

Peter, we've come to take you home

4:02

43

To those who pass the borough

3:14

44

Applause and back anouncement

1:43

Peter Pears tenor - Peter Grimes

Sylvia Fisher soprano - Ellen Orford

James Pease baritone - Balstrode

Jean Watson contralto - Auntie

Joan Carlyle soprano - First niece

Iris Kells soprano - Second niece

Raymond Nilsson tenor - Bob Boles

Owen Brannigan bass - Swallow

Lauris Elms mezzo-soprano - Mrs Sedley

John Lanigan tenor - Rector

David Kelly bass - Hobson

Geraint Evans baritone - Ned Keene

Rafael Kubelik

Originally recorded 6 February 1958