Benjamin Britten - Peter Grimes

Description: Benjamin Brittens Peter Grimes not only single-handedly revitalized the genre of English opera, but was also the most profoundly original and dramatically groundbreaking opera in this century and possibly the most significant English dramatic musical work ever written. Its subject, a misfit fisherman whose confrontation with society and its unforgiving rules leads to his ultimate destruction, was a vehicle for more important subthemes, not least of which was Brittens ongoing near-obsession with the nature of innocence and its corruption. The phenomenal impact of Grimes on audiences and performers assured Brittens place as the centurys preeminent opera composer, and launched him on the path to creating many more successful stage works. This production, with Peter Pears in the role of Grimes and Britten conducting, remains the definitive recording, with an excellent performance by Pears, for whom the role was created, and fine sound. --David Vernier Disc: 1 1. Peter Grimes: Prologue: Peter Grimes! (Hobson) 2. Peter Grimes: Prologue: You Sailed Your Boat Round The Coast (Swallow) 3. Peter Grimes: Prologue: Peter Grimes, I Here Advise You! (Swallow) 4. Peter Grimes: Prologue: The Truth...The Pity...And The Truth (Peter) 5. Peter Grimes: Prologue: Interlude I 6. Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene 1: Oh! Hang At Open Doors The Net, The Cork 7. Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene 1: Hi! Give Us A Hand! (Peter) 8. Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene 1: I Have To Go From Pub To Pub (Hobson) 9. Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene 1: Let Her Among You Without Fault Cast The First Stone (Ellen) 10. Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene 1: Look, The Storm Cone (Balstrode) 11. Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene 1: And Do You Prefer The Strorm (Balstrode) 12. Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene 1: What Harbour Shelters Peace (Peter) 13. Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene 1: Interlude II 14. Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene 2: Past Time To Close! 15. Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene 2: We Live And Let Live (Balstrode) 16. Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene 2: Have You Heard? The Cliff Is Down 17. Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene 2: Now The Great Bear And The Pleiades (Peter) 18. Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene 2: Old Joe Has Gone Fishing 19. Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene 2: The Bridge Is Down, We Half Swam Over (Hobson) Disc: 2 1. Peter Grimes: Act II: Interlude III 2. Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene 1: Glitter Of Waves And Glitter Of Sunlight (Ellen) 3. Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene 1: Let This Be A Holiday (Ellen) 4. Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene 1: The Unrelenting Work (Ellen) 5. Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene 1: Fool To Let It Come To This! 6. Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene 1: What Is It? 7. Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene 1: People!... No! I Will Speak! 8. Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene 1: We Planned That Their Lives Should Have A New Start (Ellen) 9. Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene 1: Swallow! Shall We Go And See Grimes In His Hut? 10. Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene 1: Now Is Gossip Put On Trial (Swallow) 11. Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene 1: From The Gutter, Why Should We Trouble At Their Ribaldries? 12. Peter Grimes: Act II: Interlude IV (Passacaglia) 13. Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene 2: Go There! (Peter) 14. Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene 2: Now!...Now!... (Swallow) 15. Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene 2: Peter Grimes! Nobody Here? Disc: 3 1. Peter Grimes: Act III: Interlude V 2. Peter Grimes: Act III, Scene 1: Assign Your Prettiness To Me (Swallow) 3. Peter Grimes: Act III, Scene 1: Pah! Ahoy! (Swallow) 4. Peter Grimes: Act III, Scene 1: Come Along, Doctor! 5. Peter Grimes: Act III, Scene 1: Embroidery In Childhood Was A Luxury Of Idleness (Ellen) 6. Peter Grimes: Act III, Scene 1: Mister Swallow! Mister Swallow! 7. Peter Grimes: Act III, Scene 1: Who Hold Himself Apart, Lets His Pride Rise 8. Peter Grimes: Act III: Interlude VI 9. Peter Grimes: Act III, Scene 2: Grimes! Grimes! 10. Peter Grimes: Act III, Scene 2: Peter, Weve Come To Take You Home (Ellen) 11. Peter Grimes: Act III, Scene 2: To Those Who Pass The Borough

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