Benjamin Britten
Peter Grimes (Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden feat. conductor: Benjamin Britten)
1985

CD 1
#    Title    Time    Info  
1 Peter Grimes: Prologue. "Peter Grimes!" (Hobson) 1:29
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: Prologue. Interlude I 2:57
6 Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene 1. "Oh! hang at open doors the net, the cork," (Women and Fishermen) 5:36
7 Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene 1. "Hi! Give us a hand!" (Peter) 3:19
8 Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene 1. "I have to go from pub to pub" (Hobson) 1:57
9 Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene 1. "Let her among you without fault cast the first stone" (Ellen) 3:09
10 Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene 1. "Look, the storm cone!" (Balstrode) 2:41
11 Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene 1. "And do you prefer the storm" (Balstrode) 4:56
12 Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene 1. "What harbour shelters peace" (Peter) 1:12
13 Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene 2. Interlude II 4:08
14 Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene 2. "Past time to close!" (Auntie) 4:20
15 Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene 2. "We live and let live" (Balstrode) 2:00
16 Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene 2. "Have you heard? The cliff is down" (Keene) 1:23
17 Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene 2. "Now the Great Bear and Pleiades" (Peter) 3:41
18 Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene 2. "Old Joe has gone fishing" (Keene) 2:27
19 Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene 2. "The bridge is down, we half swam over" (Hobson) 1:37
Total time 53:60
CD 2
#    Title    Time    Info  
1 Peter Grimes: Act II. Interlude III 2:26
2 Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene 1. "Glitter of waves and glitter of sunlight" (Ellen) 5:41
3 Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene 1. "Let this be a holiday" (Ellen) 2:60
4 Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene 1. "This unrelenting work" (Ellen) 4:41
5 Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene 1. "Fool to let it come to this!" (Auntie) 2:16
6 Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene 1. "What is it?" (Chorus) 1:04
7 Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene 1. "People!... No! I will speak!" (Boles) 2:06
8 Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene 1. "We planned that their lives should have a new start" (Ellen) 2:25
9 Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene 1. "Swallow! Shall we go and see Grimmes in his hut?" (Rector) 0:43
10 Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene 1. "Now is gossip put on trial," (Mrs Sedley, Boles, Rector, Keene, Swallow and Chorus) 2:17
11 Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene 1. "From the gutter, why should we trouble at their ribaldries?" (Nieces) 4:30
12 Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene 1. Interlude IV, Passacaglia 5:29
13 Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene 2. "Go there!" (Peter) 7:18
14 Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene 2. "Now!... Now!..." (Boles, Rector, Swallow, Keene and Chorus) 2:09
15 Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene 2. "Peter Grimes! Nobody here?" (Rector) 3:01
Total time 49:06
CD 3
#    Title    Time    Info  
1 Peter Grimes: Act III. Interlude V 4:23
2 Peter Grimes: Act III, Scene 1. "Assign your prettiness to me" (Swallow) 2:36
3 Peter Grimes: Act III, Scene 1. "Pah! Ahoy!" (Swallow and Keene) 2:48
4 Peter Grimes: Act III, Scene 1. "Come along, Doctor!" (First Burgess) 3:20
5 Peter Grimes: Act III, Scene 1. "Embroidery in childhood was a luxury of idleness" (Ellen) 5:09
6 Peter Grimes: Act III, Scene 1. "Mister Swallow! Mister Swallow!" (Mrs Sedley) 2:00
7 Peter Grimes: Act III, Scene 1. "Who holds himself apart, lets his pride rise" (Chorus) 3:45
8 Peter Grimes: Act III, Scene 1. Interlude VI 2:37
9 Peter Grimes: Act III, Scene 2. "Grimes! Grimes!" (Chorus) 4:55
10 Peter Grimes: Act III, Scene 2. "Peter, we've come to take you home" (Ellen) 2:28
11 Peter Grimes: Act III, Scene 2. "To those who pass the Borough" (Chorus) 4:51
Total time 38:53



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