Peter Grimes / Britten.

Author/creator Britten, Benjamin composer.
Format Audio (CD)
Publication[London] : LSO Live, [2004]
Copyright Date℗2004
Description3 audio discs (142 min., 43 sec.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Subjects

Other author/creatorWatson, Janice, 1964- performer.
Other author/creatorGrove, Jill performer.
Other author/creatorWinslade, Glenn, performer.
Other author/creatorMichaels-Moore, Anthony performer.
Other author/creatorRutherford, James, 1972- performer.
Other author/creatorDavis, Colin, 1927-2013, conductor.
Other author/creatorSlater, Montagu, 1902-1956, librettist.
Other author/creatorCrabbe, George, 1754-1832. Peter Grimes.
Other author/creatorLondon Symphony Chorus, performer.
Other author/creatorLondon Symphony Orchestra, performer.
Contents Disc 1. Prologue. Peter Grimes! (Hobson, Swallow, Peter, Sedley, Chorus, Ellen) (7:21) -- The truth... the pity... (Peter, Ellen) (1:46) -- Act I. Interlude I (3:49) -- Oh, hang at open doors... (Chorus, Auntie, Boles, Balstrode, Rector, Nieces, Sedley, Keene, Swallow, Peter) (6:17) -- I'll give a hand... (Balstrode, Keene, Auntie, Boles, Hobson) (4:47) -- Let her among you without fault (Ellen, Hobson, Sedley, Keene) (2:30) -- Look, the storm cone! (Balstrode, Chorus, Keene, Boles) (2:46) -- And do you prefer the storm...? (Balstrode, Peter) (6:15) -- Interlude II (4:33) -- Past time to close! (Auntie, Sedley, Balstrode, Boles, Nieces, Chorus) (4:23) -- We live and let live... (Balstrode, Chorus, Keene, Auntie, Sedley, Nieces) (3:18) -- Now the great bear and pleiades (Peter, Chorus, Nieces, Boles, Balstrode, Auntie) (4:08) -- For peace sake... Old Joe has gone fishing... (Balstrode, Keene, Auntie, Peter, Hobson, Ellen, Boles, Nieces, Chorus) (3:52).
Contents Disc 2. Act II. Interlude III (2:26) -- Glitter of waves (Ellen) (1:48) -- Now that the daylight fills the sky (Chorus, Rector, Ellen, Peter) (11:42) -- Fool to let it come to this! (Auntie, Keene, Boles, Sedley, Balstrode, Chorus, Swallow, Nieces, Rector, Ellen) (5:14) -- We planned that their lives... (Ellen, Rector, Sedley, Boles, Keene, Swallow, Nieces, Auntie, Balstrode, Hobson, Chorus) (5:12) -- From the gutter... (Nieces, Auntie, Ellen) (4:27) -- Interlude IV (5:22) -- Go there! (Peter) (3:04) -- In dreams I've built myself... (Peter, Boles, Rector, Swallow, Keene, Chorus) (6:51) -- The whole affair gives Borough talk... (Swallow, Rector) (2:23).
Contents Disc 3. Act III. Interlude V (4:31) -- Assign your prettiness to me (Swallow, Nieces, Keene, Sedley, Chorus, Rector, Ellen, Bastrode) (8:49) -- Embroidery in childhood... (Ellen, Bastrode) (5:02) -- Mr Swallow... (Sedley, Auntie, Swallow, Hobson, Chorus) (5:31) -- Interlude VI (2:42) -- Grimes! ... Steady. There you are. Nearly home. (Chorus, Peter) (5:07) -- Peter, we've come to take you home (Ellen, Chorus, Peter, Balstrode) (2:23) -- To those who pass the Borough sounds betray (Chorus, Swallow, Auntie, Boles) (4:58).
General noteOpera in three acts and a prologue.
General noteCompact discs.
General noteDuration: 2:22:43.
General noteIncludes program notes and performers' biographies in English with English words printed as text in booklet (48 pages : portraits) laid in container.
Performer Janice Watson as Ellen Orford ; Jill Grove as Auntie ; Glenn Winslade as Peter Grimes ; Anthony Michaels-Moore as Captain Balstrode ; James Rutherford as Swallow ; with supporting soloists ; London Symphony Chorus ; London Symphony Orchestra ; Colin Davis, conductor.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded live January 10-12, 2004, Barbican, London.
LanguageSung in English; libretto by Montagu Slater based on a poem by George Crabbe.
LCCN 2008646092
UPC 822231105428
Publisher numberLSO0054 LSO Live