Peter Grimes

Tracklist

Best experienced from track one — press play and let it unfold.

Disc 1

• 1 Peter Grimes, op. 33: Prologue: "Peter Grimes!" 1:36
• 2 Peter Grimes, op. 33: Prologue: "You sailed your boat" 3:23
• 3 Peter Grimes, op. 33: Prologue: "Peter Grimes, I here advise you!" 2:10
• 4 Peter Grimes, op. 33: Prologue: "The truth...the pity..." 2:01
• 5 Peter Grimes, op. 33: Prologue: Interlude I: On the beach 3:44
• 6 Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act 1: "Oh, hang at open doors" 5:16
• 7 Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act 1: "Hi! give us a hand" 3:31
• 8 Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act 1: "I have to go from pub to pub" 2:01
• 9 Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act 1: "Let her among you" 2:30
• 10 Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act 1: "Look, the storm cone!" 2:42
• 11 Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act 1: "And do you prefer the storm" 5:21
• 12 Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act 1: "What harbour shelters peace" 1:31
• 13 Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act 1: Interlude II: The Storm 4:22
• 14 Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act 1: "Past time to close!" 4:02
• 15 Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act 1: "We live and let live" 1:55
• 16 Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act 1: "Have you heard?" 1:25
• 17 Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act 1: "Now the Great Bear and Pleiades" 4:08
• 18 Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act 1: "Old Joe has gone fishing" 3:54
• 19 Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act 2: Interlude III: Sunday morning by the beach 2:37
• 20 Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act 2: "Glitter of waves" 5:58
• 21 Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act 2: "Let this be a holiday" 2:39
• 22 Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act 2: "This unrelenting work" 4:39

Disc 2

• 1 Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act 2: "Fool to let it come to this!" 2:17
• 2 Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act 2: "What is it?" 0:59
• 3 Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act 2: "People!...No! I will speak!" 1:59
• 4 Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act 2: "We planned that their lives" 2:31
• 5 Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act 2: "Swallow! Shall we go" 0:49
• 6 Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act 2: "Now is gossip put on trial" 1:54
• 7 Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act 2: "From the gutter" 4:38
• 8 Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act 2: Interlude IV: Passacaglia 5:24
• 9 Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act 2: "Go there!" 8:16
• 10 Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act 2: "Now!...Now!" 1:59
• 11 Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act 2: "Peter Grimes! Nobody here?" 2:56
• 12 Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act 3: Interlude V: Evening 4:47
• 13 Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act 3: "Assign your prettiness to me" 2:30
• 14 Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act 3: "Pah!" 2:54
• 15 Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act 3: "Come along, Doctor!" 3:33
• 16 Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act 3: "Embroidery in childhood" 4:57
• 17 Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act 3: "Mr.Swallow!" 1:45
• 18 Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act 3: "Who holds himself apart" 3:38
• 19 Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act 3: Interlude VI: Fog 2:43
• 20 Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act 3: "Grimes! Grimes!" 7:16
• 21 Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act 3: "Peter, we've come to take you home" 2:34
• 22 Peter Grimes, op. 33: Act 3: "To those who pass the Borough" 4:28

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Britten: Cantata misericordium / Deus in adjutorium meum / Chorale on an Old French Carol / Finzi: Requiem da camera / Holst: Psalms 86 & 148

1991

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The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra / Variations on a Theme by Frank Bridge / Four Sea Interludes & Passacaglia from Peter Grimes

1991