Peter Grimes

Tracklist

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

Disc 1

• 1 Peter Grimes: Prologue. "Peter Grimes!" (Hobson) 1:29
• 2 Peter Grimes: Prologue. "You sailed your boat round the coast" (Swallow) 3:04
• 3 Peter Grimes: Prologue. "Peter Grimes, I here advise you!" (Swallow) 2:10
• 4 Peter Grimes: Prologue. "The truth...the pity...and the truth" (Peter) 1:54
• 5 Peter Grimes: Prologue. Interlude I 2:57
• 6 Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene I. "Oh! hang at open doors the net, the cork," (Women and Fishermen) 5:36
• 7 Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene I. "Hi! Give us a hand!" (Peter) 3:19
• 8 Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene I. "I have to go from pub to pub" (Hobson) 1:57
• 9 Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene I. "Let her among you without fault cast the first stone" (Ellen) 3:09
• 10 Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene I. "Look, the storm cone!" (Balstrode) 2:41
• 11 Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene I. "And do you prefer the storm" (Balstrode) 4:56
• 12 Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene I. "What harbour shelters peace" (Peter) 1:12
• 13 Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene II. Interlude II 4:08
• 14 Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene II. "Past time to close!" (Auntie) 4:20
• 15 Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene II. "We live and let live" (Balstrode) 2:00
• 16 Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene II. "Have you heard? The cliff is down" (Keene) 1:23
• 17 Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene II. "Now the Great Bear and Pleiades" (Peter) 3:41
• 18 Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene II. "Old Joe has gone fishing" (Keene) 2:27
• 19 Peter Grimes: Act I, Scene II. "The bridge is down, we half swam over" (Hobson) 1:37

Disc 2

• 1 Peter Grimes: Act II. Interlude III 2:26
• 2 Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene I. "Glitter of waves and glitter of sunlight" (Ellen) 5:41
• 3 Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene I. "Let this be a holiday" (Ellen) 3:00
• 4 Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene I. "This unrelenting work" (Ellen) 4:41
• 5 Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene I. "Fool to let it come to this!" (Auntie) 2:16
• 6 Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene I. "What is it?" (Chorus) 1:04
• 7 Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene I. "People!... No! I will speak!" (Boles) 2:06
• 8 Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene I. "We planned that their lives should have a new start" (Ellen) 2:25
• 9 Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene I. "Swallow! Shall we go and see Grimes in his hut?" (Rector) 0:43
• 10 Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene I. "Now is gossip put on trial," (Mrs Sedley, Boles, Rector, Keene, Swallow and Chorus) 2:17
• 11 Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene I. "From the gutter, why should we trouble at their ribaldries?" (Nieces) 4:30
• 12 Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene I. Interlude IV, Passacaglia 5:29
• 13 Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene II. "Go there!" (Peter) 7:18
• 14 Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene II. "Now!... Now!..." (Boles, Rector, Swallow, Keene and Chorus) 2:09
• 15 Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene II. "Peter Grimes! Nobody here?" (Rector) 3:01

Disc 3

• 1 Peter Grimes: Act III. Interlude V 4:23
• 2 Peter Grimes: Act III, Scene I. "Assign your prettiness to me" (Swallow) 2:36
• 3 Peter Grimes: Act III, Scene I. "Pah! Ahoy!" (Swallow and Keene) 2:48
• 4 Peter Grimes: Act III, Scene I. "Come along, Doctor!" (First Burgess) 3:20
• 5 Peter Grimes: Act III, Scene I. "Embroidery in childhood was a luxury of idleness" (Ellen) 5:09
• 6 Peter Grimes: Act III, Scene I. "Mister Swallow! Mister Swallow!" (Mrs Sedley) 2:00
• 7 Peter Grimes: Act III, Scene I. "Who holds himself apart, lets his pride rise" (Chorus) 3:45
• 8 Peter Grimes: Act III, Scene I. Interlude VI 2:37
• 9 Peter Grimes: Act III, Scene II. "Grimes! Grimes!" (Chorus) 4:55
• 10 Peter Grimes: Act III, Scene II. "Peter, we've come to take you home" (Ellen) 2:28
• 11 Peter Grimes: Act III, Scene II. "To those who pass the Borough" (Chorus) 4:51

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