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~ Benjamin Britten (Composer), Richard Hickox (Conductor), London Symphony Chorus (Orchestra), City of London Sinfonia (Orchestra), Philip Langridge (Performer), et al.
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  • Performer: Philip Langridge, Janice Watson, Alan Opie, Ameral Gunson
  • Orchestra: London Symphony Chorus, City of London Sinfonia
  • Conductor: Richard Hickox
  • Composer: Benjamin Britten
  • Audio CD (1 Oct 1999)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Label: Chandos
  • ASIN: B000000AYW
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Disc 1:

Samples
Song TitleArtist Time Price
Listen  1. Peter Grimes, Op. 13: Prologue: Peter Grimes (Hobson, Swallow, Peter)Janice Watson 1:25£0.59
Listen  2. Peter Grimes, Op. 13: Prologue: You sailed your boat round the coast (Swallow, Peter, Mrs. Sedley, Hobson, Ellen, Chorus)John Connell 3:05£0.59
Listen  3. Peter Grimes, Op. 13: Prologue: Peter Grimes, I here advise you (Swallow, Hobson, Peter, Chorus)Janice Watson 2:05£0.59
Listen  4. Peter Grimes, Op. 13: Prologue: The truth - the pity - and the truth (Peter, Ellen)John Connell 1:55£0.59
Listen  5. Peter Grimes, Op. 13: Prologue: Interlude IJanice Watson 3:13£0.59
Listen  6. Peter Grimes, Op. 13: Act I Scene 1: Oh, hang at open doors (Auntie, Boles, Balstrode, Chorus)Yvonne Barclay 4:42£0.59
Listen  7. Peter Grimes, Op. 13: Act I Scene 1: Good morning, good morning! (Rector, Nieces, Mrs. Sedley, Ned, Swallow, Auntie, Boles, Balstrode, Chorus)Janice Watson 1:04£0.59
Listen  8. Peter Grimes, Op. 13: Act I Scene 1: Hi! Give us a hand (Peter, Boles, Balstrode, Ned, Auntie, Hobson)John Connell 3:42£0.59
Listen  9. Peter Grimes, Op. 13: Act I Scene 1: I'll have to go from pub to pub (Hobson, Ellen, Ned, Chorus)Janice Watson 1:59£0.59
Listen10. Peter Grimes, Op. 13: Act I Scene 1: Let her among you without fault (Ellen, Hobson, Mrs. Sedley, Ned)Yvonne Barclay 3:13£0.59
Listen11. Peter Grimes, Op. 13: Act I Scene 1: Look! The storm cone! (Balstrode, Ned, Boles, Chorus)Janice Watson 2:47£0.59
Listen12. Peter Grimes, Op. 13: Act I Scene 1: And do you prefer the storm (Balstrode, Peter)John Connell 3:30£0.59
Listen13. Peter Grimes, Op. 13: Act I Scene 1: They listen to money (Peter, Balstrode)Janice Watson 1:32£0.59
Listen14. Peter Grimes, Op. 13: Act I Scene 1: What harbour shelters peace (Peter)John Fryatt 1:04£0.59
Listen15. Peter Grimes, Op. 13: Act I Scene 1: Interlude IIJanice Watson 4:11£0.59
Listen16. Peter Grimes, Op. 13: Act I Scene 2: Past time to close (Auntie, Mrs. Sedley, Balstrode, Boles, Nieces)John Fryatt 2:16£0.59
Listen17. Peter Grimes, Op. 13: Act I Scene 2: Loud man (Auntie, Nieces, Mrs. Sedley)Janice Watson 1:04£0.59
Listen18. Peter Grimes, Op. 13: Act I Scene 2: There's been a landslide up the coast (Fisherman, Boles, Balstrode, Auntie)John Fryatt 1:08£0.59
Listen19. Peter Grimes, Op. 13: Act I Scene 2: No, I mean love (Boles, Balstrode, Chorus)Janice Watson0:37£0.59
Listen20. Peter Grimes, Op. 13: Act I Scene 2: Pub conversation should depend (Balstrode, Chorus)John Fryatt 1:35£0.59
Listen21. Peter Grimes, Op. 13: Act I Scene 2: Have you heard the cliff is down (Ned, Auntie, Mrs. Sedley, Chorus)Janice Watson 1:39£0.59
Listen22. Peter Grimes, Op. 13: Act I Scene 2: Now the Great Bear and Pleiades (Peter, Nieces, Boles, Balstrode, Auntie, Chorus)John Fryatt 3:42£0.59
Listen23. Peter Grimes, Op. 13: Act I Scene 2: For peace sake (Balstrode, Peter)Janice Watson 2:29£0.59
Listen24. Peter Grimes, Op. 13: Act I Scene 2: The bridge is down (Hobson, Ned, Ellen, Boles, Auntie, Nieces, Peter)John Fryatt 1:44£0.59
Listen25. Peter Grimes, Op. 13: Act II: Interlude IIIJanice Watson 2:29£0.59
Listen26. Peter Grimes, Op. 13: Act II Scene 1: Glitter of waves (Ellen)John Fryatt 1:32£0.59
Listen27. Peter Grimes, Op. 13: Act II Scene 1: Now that the daylight fills the sky (Ellen, Rector, Chorus)Janice Watson 3:40£0.59
Listen28. Peter Grimes, Op. 13: Act II Scene 1: Child you're not too young (Ellen, Rector, Peter, Chorus)John Fryatt 3:15£0.59
Listen29. Peter Grimes, Op. 13: Act II Scene 1: This unrelenting work (Ellen, Peter, Chorus)Alan Opie 4:26£0.59
Listen30. Peter Grimes, Op. 13: Act II Scene 1: Fool to let it come to this (Auntie, Ned, Boles, Mrs. Sedley, Balstrode, Swallow, Nieces, Rector, Chorus)John Fryatt 3:18£0.59
Listen31. Peter Grimes, Op. 13: Act II Scene 1: People . . . No! I will speak! (Boles, Balstrode, Rector, Auntie, Ellen, Chorus)Janice Watson 2:07£0.59


Disc 2:

Samples
Song TitleArtist Time Price
Listen  1. Peter Grimes, Op. 13: Act II Scene 1: We planned that their lives (Ellen, Rector, Mrs. Sedley, Boles, Ned, Nieces, Auntie, Balstrode, Hobson, Swallow, Chorus)Ameral Gunson 2:30£0.59
Listen  2. Peter Grimes, Op. 13: Act II Scene 1: Swallow - shall we go and see Grimes in his hut? (Rector, Swallow, Balstrode, Mrs. Sedley, Boles, Chorus)Janice Watson0:44£0.59
Listen  3. Peter Grimes, Op. 13: Act II Scene 1: Now gossip is put on trial (Chorus)Ameral Gunson 2:18£0.59
Listen  4. Peter Grimes, Op. 13: Act II Scene 1: From the gutter (Nieces, Auntie, Ellen)Janice Watson 4:35£0.59
Listen  5. Peter Grimes, Op. 13: Act II: Interlude IVAmeral Gunson 5:48£0.59
Listen  6. Peter Grimes, Op. 13: Act II Scene 2: Go there (Peter)Janice Watson 2:03£0.59
Listen  7. Peter Grimes, Op. 13: Act II Scene 2: They listen to money (Peter)Ameral Gunson 5:03£0.59
Listen  8. Peter Grimes, Op. 13: Act II Scene 2: Now! Now! (Peter, Chorus)Janice Watson 2:14£0.59
Listen  9. Peter Grimes, Op. 13: Act II Scene 2: Peter Grimes (Rector, Swallow, Ned)Ameral Gunson 3:27£0.59
Listen10. Peter Grimes, Op. 13: Act III: Interlude VJanice Watson 5:09£0.59
Listen11. Peter Grimes, Op. 13: Act III Scene 1: Assign your prettiness to me (Swallow, Nieces, Ned)Ameral Gunson 3:02£0.59
Listen12. Peter Grimes, Op. 13: Act III Scene 1: Mr. Keene (Mrs. Sedley, Ned)Janice Watson 1:31£0.59
Listen13. Peter Grimes, Op. 13: Act III Scene 1: Murder most foul it is (Mrs. Sedley, Ned)Ameral Gunson 1:32£0.59
Listen14. Peter Grimes, Op. 13: Act III Scene 1: Come along, Doctor (Burgess, Burgesses, Rector, Mrs. Sedley, Ellen, Balstrode)Janice Watson 2:57£0.59
Listen15. Peter Grimes, Op. 13: Act III Scene 1: Embroidery in childhood was (Ellen, Balstrode)Ameral Gunson 5:49£0.59
Listen16. Peter Grimes, Op. 13: Act III Scene 1: Mr. Swallow (Mrs. Sedley, Auntie, Swallow, Hobson)Janice Watson 2:03£0.59
Listen17. Peter Grimes, Op. 13: Act III Scene 1: Who holds himself apart (Chorus)Ameral Gunson 3:57£0.59
Listen18. Peter Grimes, Op. 13: Act III: Interlude VIJanice Watson 2:46£0.59
Listen19. Peter Grimes, Op. 13: Act III Scene 2: Grimes! (Voices, Peter)John Connell 5:22£0.59
Listen20. Peter Grimes, Op. 13: Act III Scene 2: Peter, we've come to take you home (Ellen, Peter, Balstrode)Janice Watson 2:41£0.59
Listen21. Peter Grimes, Op. 13: Act III Scene 2: To those who pass the Borough (Swallow, Fisherman, Auntie, Boles, Chorus)John Connell 5:06£0.59

On this CD:
  1. Peter Grimes
    Composed by Benjamin Britten
    Performed by London Symphony Chorus, City of London Sinfonia
    with Philip Langridge, Janice Watson, Alan Opie, Ameral Gunson, John Graham-Hall, John Connell, Anne Collins, Roderick Williams, John Fryatt, Matthew Best, Yvonne Barclay, Pamela Helen Stephen
    Conducted by Richard Hickox

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Grimes to surpass the composer's own vision., 30 Mar 2001
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Most opera on disc tries, vainly, to take the listener into the theatre; this performance bypasses the stage and transports the listener to the Suffolk coast, to the very source of the action itself. Not only can you hear the ebb and flow of the tide in every bar, but you can smell the salt water pulsing through the score's veins.

Langridge's performance as the fisherman estranged from his community is simply unsurpassable. Listening to "Now the great bear and Pleiades..." or the final "mad" scene can be a harrowing and emotional experience. Langridge also brings to the role an innocence, a childishness, which both reviles and yet earns sympathy - Langridge's Grimes is no monster, he is vulnerable and frightened. In short, his Grimes is human.

Alan Opie's Captain Balstrode is also worthy of commendation; more sympathetic than some interpretations, it allows the character to stand more apart from the powerful chorus in his relationship with the doomed Grimes.

The chorus itself, as the voice of the Borough, is thrilling in its menace; as threatening and unpredictable in its behaviour as the sea itself. It is they, and not the waves, which wash over the dead Grimes, closing as though nothing had ever disturbed them.

The only slight doubt concerns Janice Watson's Ellen Orford; she sings beautifully, but her tone is too lovely for a widowed schoolteacher with grown-up children; compare her rendition on "Embriodery in childhood..." with that of Heather Harper under Colin Davis on Phillips and you might see what I mean. However, like Opie, she does succeed in separating herself from the voice of the Borough, and provides a believable object for Grimes' desires.

In all, this is a powerful cast with strong orchestral and choral support, which, given the excellent recording quality and two-disc price (opposed to the composer's own three-disc set), must make a top recommendation for this materpiece of twentieth century opera.

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