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Benjamin Britten: Peter Grimes, Op.33 / Prologue
"Peter Grimes!"
"You sailed your boat"
"Peter Grimes, I here advise you!"
"The truth...the pity..."
Interlude I: On the beach
Benjamin Britten: Peter Grimes, Op.33 / Act 1
"Oh, hang at open doors"
"Hi! give us a hand"
"I have to go from pub to pub"
"Let her among you"
"Look, the storm cone!"
"And do you prefer the storm"
"What harbour shelters peace"
Interlude II: The Storm
"Past time to close!"
"We live and let live"
"Have you heard?"
"Now the Great Bear and Pleiades"
"Old Joe has gone fishing"
Benjamin Britten: Peter Grimes, Op.33 / Act 2
Interlude III: Sunday morning by the beach
"Glitter of waves"
"Let this be a holiday"
"This unrelenting work"
Benjamin Britten: Peter Grimes, Op.33 / Act 3
Interlude V: Evening
"Assign your prettiness to me"
"Pah!"
"Come along, Doctor!"
"Embroidery in childhood"
"Mr.Swallow!"
"Who holds himself apart"
Interlude VI: Fog
"Grimes! Grimes!"
"Peter, we've come to take you home"
"To those who pass the Borough"
Benjamin Britten: Peter Grimes, Op.33 / Act 2
"Fool to let it come to this!"
"What is it?"
"People!...No! I will speak!"
"We planned that their lives"
"Swallow! Shall we go"
"Now is gossip put on trial"
"From the gutter"
Interlude IV: Passacaglia
"Go there!"
"Now!...Now!"
"Peter Grimes! Nobody here?"
July 2011
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“the cast is fine and the tension cumulative”
2010 edition
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“Sir Colin Davis takes a fundamentally darker, tougher view of Peter Grimes than the composer himself. Jon Vickers's powerful, heroic interpretation sheds keen new light on what arguably remains the greatest of Britten's operas...A genuine bargain.”
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"Peter Grimes!"
