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Benjamin Britten - Peter Grimes
Britten* - Pears*, Watson* – Peter Grimes
Label: Decca – 475 7713
Series: The Originals
Format:
2 x CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered
Country: Europe
Released: Aug 7, 2006
Genre: Classical
Style: Modern, Opera
Tracklist
Position Title/Credits Duration
Peter Grimes, Opera, Op. 33
Prologue
1-1 Peter Grimes! 1:28
1-2 You Sailed Your Boat Round The Coast 3:04
1-3 Peter Grimes, I Here Advise You! 2:09
1-4 The Truth... The Pity... And The Truth 1:55
1-5 Interlude I: On The Beach (Dawn) 2:58
Act One
Scene 1
1-6 Oh! Hang At Open Doors The Net, The Cork 5:35
1-7 Hi! Give Us A Hand 3:19
1-8 I Have To Go From Pub To Pub 1:57
1-9 Let Her Among You Without Fault Cast The First Stone 3:09
1-10 Look, The Storm Cone! 2:42
1-11 And Do You Prefer The Storm 4:56
1-12 What Harbour Shelters Peace 1:12
1-13 Interlude II: The Storm 4:08
Scene 2
1-14 Past Time To Close! 4:19
1-15 We Live And Let Live 2:00
1-16 Have You Heard? The Cliff Is Down 1:23
1-17 Now The Great Bear And Pleiades 3:41
1-18 Old Joe Has Gone Fishing 2:28
1-19 The Bridge Is Down, We Half Swam Over 1:42
Act Two
1-20 Interlude III: Sunday Morning By The Beach 2:22
Scene 1
1-21 Glitter Of Waves And Glitter Of Sunlight 5:41
1-22 Let This Be A Holiday 3:00
1-23 This Unrelenting Work 4:41
1-24 Fool To Let It Come To This! 2:18
1-25 What Is It? 1:03
1-26 People!... No! I Will Speak 2:11
2-1 We Planned That Their Lives SHould Have A New Start 2:27
2-2 Swallow! Shall We Go And See Grimes In His Hut? 0:44
2-3 Now Is Gossip Put On Trial 2:13
2-4 From The Gutter, Why Should We Trouble At Their Ribaldries? 4:34
2-5 Interlude IV (Passacaglia) 5:28
Scene 2
2-6 Go There! 7:18
2-7 Now!... Now!... 2:09
2-8 Peter Grimes! Nobody Here? 3:08
Act Three
2-9 Interlude V: Evening 4:20
Scene 1
2-10 Assign Your Prettiness To Me 2:36
2-11 Pah!... Ahoy! 2:49
2-12 Come Along, Doctor! 3:19
2-13 Embroidery In Childhood Was A Luxury Of Idleness 5:10
2-14 Mister Swallow! Mister Swallow! 2:01
2-15 Who Holds Himself Apart, Lets His Pride Rise 3:44
2-16 Interlude VI: Fog 2:37
Scene 2
2-17 Grimes! Grimes! 4:55
2-18 Peter, We've Come To Take You Home 2:21
2-19 To Those Who Pass The Borough 5:08
Companies, etc.
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Decca Music Group Limited
Copyright (c) – Decca Music Group Limited
Published By – Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd
Made By – EDC, Germany – 51760251
Made By – EDC, Germany – 51760253
Recorded At – Walthamstow Assembly Hall
Credits
Baritone Vocals [Ned Keene] – Geraint Evans
Bass Vocals [Hobson] – David Kelly (7)
Bass Vocals [Swallow] – Owen Brannigan
Bass-Baritone Vocals [Captain Balstrode] – James Pearson
Chorus – Chorus Of The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Chorus Master – Douglas Robinson
Composed By – Benjamin Britten
Conductor – Benjamin Britten
Contralto Vocals [Auntie] – Jean Watson
Engineer [Recording Engineer] – Kenneth Wilkinson
Libretto By, Adapted By (Text) – Montagu Slater
Liner Notes – Philip Brett
Liner Notes [Deutsche Übersetzung] – Gerd Uekermann
Liner Notes [Synopsis] – Eric Walter White
Liner Notes [Traduction Française] – Madeline Jay
Mezzo-soprano Vocals [Mrs Sedley] – Lauris Elms
Orchestra – Orchestra Of The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Producer – Erik Smith
Remastered By – Andrew Wedman
Soprano Vocals [Ellen Orford] – Claire Watson
Soprano Vocals [Niece 1] – Marion Studholme
Soprano Vocals [Niece 2] – Iris Kells
Tenor Vocals [Bob Boles] – Raymond Nilsson
Tenor Vocals [John] – Marcus Norman (2)
Tenor Vocals [Peter Grimes] – Peter Pears
Tenor Vocals [The Rector] – John Lanigan
Text By [After The Poem By] – George Crabbe
Notes
Recording location: Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London, December 1958
℗ 1959 Decca Music Group Limited
© 2006 Decca Music Group Limited
Made in the EU
Booklet includes liner notes and synopsis in English, German and French. Libretto is in English.
Originally released as Decca SXL 2150-1-2, 1959.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Barcode (Prined): 0 28947 57713 3
Barcode (EAN): 0028947577133
Label Code: LC 00171
Matrix / Runout (CD1): 00289 475 771-5 01 ✳ 51760251 [4 x Universal logo]
Mastering SID Code: IFPI LV26
Mould SID Code: IFPI 0139
Other (In mould area, CD1): Made in Germany by EDC B
Matrix / Runout (CD2): 00289 475 771-5 01 ✳ 51760253 [4 x Universal logo]
Other (In mould area, CD2): Made in Germany by EDC A
Price Code: D|O|R|2
SPARS Code: ADD
Rights Society: BIEM/SABAM
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