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Britten - Peter Grimes (LSO, Davis) [Box set]

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  • Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra
  • Conductor: Colin Davis
  • Composer: Benjamin Britten
  • Audio CD (12 Jul 2004)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 3
  • Format: Box set
  • Label: Lso Live
  • ASIN: B00026VQ7I
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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On this CD:
  1. Peter Grimes
    Composed by Benjamin Britten
    Performed by London Symphony Chorus
    with Anthony Michaels-Moore, Christopher Gillett, Glenn Winslade, Jill Grove, Janice Watson, Ryland Davies, Nathan Gunn, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, James Rutherford, Jonathan Lemalu, Sally Matthews, Alison Buchanan
    Conducted by Colin Davis

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Gramophone, August, 2004

A stunning achievement. No other set quite matches it for technical control and overwhelming firepower.


Classic FM Magazine, September, 2004

Another triumph from the LSO Live Label. A strong contender for recording of the year
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4.0 out of 5 stars "Man invented morals, but tides have none.", 17 Aug 2008
By Nicholas Casley (Plymouth, Devon, UK) - See all my reviews
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"Man invented morals, but tides have none": thus, the words of the apothecary Ned Keene that more or less sum up the lesson to be learned from Britten's greatest opera.

I was at one of the concerts back in January 2004, of which this is a recording. The concert performance was very good; and so is the recording. It does have, however, the clinical feel of a concert performance. Thus the atmosphere of a full-staged production is missing: we do not experience the crash of the pub door and the rattling of the window shutters in the storm sequence that closes act one, or the subsequent breaking of the bottle by Bob Boles, the fisherman and Methodist, nor the hustle and bustle of the barn dance that begins act three.

Occasionally we hear the audience react to the opera's humour, as in Mrs Sedley's agreement to meet Ned Keene in the Boar only seconds after pompously declaring she had never been in a pub in her life, or Captain Balstrode's imitation of Auntie's nieces. And if you listen carefully, we hear Colin Davis himself humming along in the interludes. At the beginning of Grimes's "In dreams I've built myself some kindlier home ..." someone (Davis?) is speaking.

Despite all this, there are some fine performances to praise, such as Ellen Orford's agreeing to go with Hobson to fetch the new boy, and the quartet of Ellen, Auntie and the nieces in "From the gutter" which is truly divine. Glenn Winslade as Grimes is very good, but perhaps not so good in the set pieces such as "Now the Great Bear ...", but being brought up on Peter Pears in the role, I am probably being unfair. The one disappointment is Balstrode's telling Grimes to sail out to see: it is said as if he is giving him instructions to put together a piece of furniture, or how to get to Ipswich.

The interludes are almost faultlessly played. Davis manages well the contrasts inherent in the drama. It is interesting how the great chorus scenes of the opera often verge on the musical, such as "Now is gossip put on trial" in act two: Peter Grimes was not so far distant from West Side Story with its equivalent tale of tragedy interspersed with comic moments.

The whole opera could have been fitted onto just two discs (just), so it is to be welcomed that each act has its own disc. At this price, this recording is recommended as an introduction for anyone wanting to listen to the opera for the first time, but for those who already know it - or have seen it in full performance - they may prefer something with a little more atmosphere. All the same, this is a very good recording.

The CD comes with an introduction to the opera by Wendy Thompson, a synopsis by Noel Goodwin and the full libretto. There are also the usual brief artist biographies.
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