Benjamin Britten
Peter Grimes (Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden feat. conductor: Benjamin Britten)
2001

CD 1
#    Title    Time    Info  
1 Peter Grimes: Prologue. "Peter Grimes!" (Hobson) 1:28
2 Peter Grimes: Prologue. "You sailed your boat round the coast" (Swallow) 3:04
3 Peter Grimes: Prologue. "Peter Grimes, I here advise you!" (Swallow) 2:10
4 Peter Grimes: Prologue. "The truth... the pity... and the truth" (Peter) 1:54
5 Peter Grimes: Interlude I: On the beach (Dawn) 2:58
6 Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene I. "Oh! hang at open doors the net, the cork" (Women, Fishermen) 5:35
7 Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene I. "Hi! Give us a hand!" (Peter) 3:19
8 Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene I. "I have to go from pub to pub" (Hobson) 1:57
9 Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene I. "Let her among you without fault cast the first stone" (Ellen) 3:09
10 Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene I. "Look, the storm cone!" (Balstrode) 2:41
11 Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene I. "And do you prefer the storm" (Balstrode) 4:57
12 Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene I. "What harbour shelters peace" (Peter) 1:12
13 Peter Grimes: Interlude II: The Storm 4:08
14 Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene II. "Past time to close!" (Auntie) 4:22
15 Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene II. "We live and let live" (Balstrode) 2:00
16 Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene II. "Have you heard? The cliff is down" (Keene) 1:23
17 Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene II. "Now the Great Bear and Pleiades" (Peter) 3:40
18 Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene II. "Old Joe has gone fishing" (Keene) 2:27
19 Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene II. "The bridge is down, we half swam over" (Hobson) 1:39
20 Peter Grimes: Interlude III: Sunday morning by the beach 2:25
21 Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene I. "Glitter of waves and glitter of sunlight" (Ellen) 5:41
22 Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene I. "Let this be a holiday" (Ellen) 2:60
23 Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene I. "This unrelenting work" (Ellen) 4:41
24 Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene I. "Fool to let it come to this!" (Auntie) 2:18
25 Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene I. "What is it?" (Chorus) 1:03
26 Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene I. "People!... No! I will speak!" (Boles) 2:13
Total time 75:23
CD 2
#    Title    Time    Info  
1 Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene I. "We planned that their lives should have a new start" (Ellen) 2:25
2 Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene I. "Swallow! Shall we go and see Grimes in his hut?" (Rector) 0:44
3 Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene I. "Now is gossip put on trial" (Mrs. Sedley, Boles, Rector, Keene, Swallow, Chorus) 2:12
4 Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene I. "From the gutter, why should we trouble at their ribaldries?" (Nieces) 4:35
5 Peter Grimes: Interlude IV (Passacaglia) 5:27
6 Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene II. "Go there!" (Peter) 7:18
7 Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene II. "Now!... Now!..." (Boles, Rector, Swallow, Keene, Chorus (off)) 2:09
8 Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene II. "Peter Grimes! Nobody here?" (Rector) 3:07
9 Peter Grimes: Interlude V: Evening 4:19
10 Peter Grimes: Act III, Scene I. "Assign your prettiness to me" (Swallow) 2:36
11 Peter Grimes: Act III, Scene I. "Pah!... Ahoy!" (Swallow, Keene) 2:49
12 Peter Grimes: Act III, Scene I. "Come along, Doctor!" (First Burgess) 3:19
13 Peter Grimes: Act III, Scene I. "Embroidery in childhood was a luxury of idleness" (Ellen) 5:09
14 Peter Grimes: Act III, Scene I. "Mister Swallow! Mister Swallow!" (Mrs. Sedley) 1:60
15 Peter Grimes: Act III, Scene I. "Who holds himself apart, lets his pride rise" (Chorus) 3:45
16 Peter Grimes: Interlude VI: Fog 2:36
17 Peter Grimes: Act III, Scene II. "Grimes! Grimes!" (Chorus (off)) 4:56
18 Peter Grimes: Act III, Scene II. "Peter, we've come to take you home" (Ellen) 2:29
19 Peter Grimes: Act III, Scene II. "To those who pass the Borough" (Chorus) 5:01
Total time 66:57



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