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Britten: Peter Grimes

Alan Oke (Peter Grimes), Giselle Allen (Ellen Orford), David Kempster (Captain Balstrode), Gaynor Keeble (Auntie), Alexandra Hutton (First Niece), Charmian Bedford (Second Niece), Robert Murray (Bob Boles), Henry Waddington (Swallow), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Mrs Sedley), Christopher Gillett (Rev. Horace...

[Bedford] has the sea-swell of the work deep in his bones...[Oke's] is a strong, ballasted performance, less purely plangent than many, but deeply moving in its simple strength and keen imagination...There's... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2013, 5 out of 5 stars More…
  • Release Date: 29th Jul 2013
  • Catalogue No: SIGCD348
  • Label: Signum
  • Length: 2 hours 17 minutes

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Contents

Britten: Peter Grimes

Work length2:17:30
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  • Christopher Gillett, Stephen Richardson, Gaynor Keeble, Charmian Bedford, Henry Waddington, Robert Murray, David Kempster, Alexandra Hutton, Alan Oke, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Charles Rice, Giselle Allen
  • Britten-Pears Orchestra, Chorus of Opera North, Chorus of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama
  • Steuart Bedford

Peter Grimes (Hobson, Swallow, Peter)

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You sailed your boat round the coast (Swallow, Peter, Mrs. Sedley, Hobson, Ellen, Chorus)

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Peter Grimes, I here advise you (Swallow, Hobson, Peter, Chorus)

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The truth - the pity - and the truth (Peter, Ellen)

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Interlude I

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Oh, hang at open doors (Auntie, Boles, Balstrode, Chorus)

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Good morning, good morning! (Rector, Nieces, Mrs. Sedley, Ned, Swallow, Auntie, Boles, Balstrode, Chorus)

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Hi! Give us a hand (Peter, Boles, Balstrode, Ned, Auntie, Hobson)

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I'll have to go from pub to pub (Hobson, Ellen, Ned, Chorus)

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Let her among you without fault (Ellen, Hobson, Mrs. Sedley, Ned)

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Look! The storm cone! (Balstrode, Ned, Boles, Chorus)

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And do you prefer the storm (Balstrode, Peter)

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They listen to money (Peter, Balstrode)

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What harbour shelters peace (Peter)

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Act I: Interlude II

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Past time to close (Auntie, Mrs. Sedley, Balstrode, Boles, Nieces)

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Loud man (Auntie, Nieces, Mrs. Sedley)

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There's been a landslide up the coast (Fisherman, Boles, Balstrode, Auntie)

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No, I mean love (Boles, Balstrode, Chorus)

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Pub conversation should depend (Balstrode, Chorus)

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Have you heard the cliff is down (Ned, Auntie, Mrs. Sedley, Chorus)

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Now the Great Bear and Pleiades (Peter, Nieces, Boles, Balstrode, Auntie, Chorus)

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For peace sake (Balstrode, Peter)

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The bridge is down (Hobson, Ned, Ellen, Boles, Auntie, Nieces, Peter)

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Act II: Interlude III

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Glitter of waves (Ellen)

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Now that the daylight fills the sky (Ellen, Rector, Chorus)

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Child you're not too young (Ellen, Rector, Peter, Chorus)

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This unrelenting work (Ellen, Peter, Chorus)

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Fool to let it come to this (Auntie, Ned, Boles, Mrs. Sedley, Balstrode, Swallow, Nieces, Rector, Chorus)

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People ... No! I will speak! (Boles, Balstrode, Rector, Auntie, Ellen, Chorus)

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We planned that their lives (Ellen, Rector, Mrs. Sedley, Boles, Ned, Nieces, Auntie, Balstrode, Hobson, Swallow, Chorus)

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Shall we go and see Grimes in his hut? (Rector, Swallow, Balstrode, Mrs. Sedley, Boles, Chorus)

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Now gossip is put on trial (Chorus)

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From the gutter (Nieces, Auntie, Ellen)

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Act II: Interlude IV

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Go there (Peter)

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They listen to money (Peter)

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Now! Now! (Peter, Chorus)

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Peter Grimes (Rector, Swallow, Ned)

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Act III: Interlude V

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Assign your prettiness to me (Swallow, Nieces, Ned)

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Mr. Keene (Mrs. Sedley, Ned)

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Murder most foul it is (Mrs. Sedley, Ned)

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Come along, Doctor (Burgess, Burgesses, Rector, Mrs. Sedley, Ellen, Balstrode)

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Embroidery in childhood was (Ellen, Balstrode)

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Mr. Swallow (Mrs. Sedley, Auntie, Swallow, Hobson)

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Who holds himself apart (Chorus)

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Act III: Interlude VI

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Grimes! (Voices, Peter)

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Peter, we've come to take you home (Ellen, Peter, Balstrode)

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To those who pass the Borough (Swallow, Fisherman, Auntie, Boles, Chorus)

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