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Peter Grimes / Benjamin Britten.
- Format:
- Sound recording
- Author/Creator:
- Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976, composer, composer.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Operas.
- Live sound recordings--New York (State)--New York.
- Live sound recordings.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Genre:
- Sound recordings.
- Operas.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 audio file (2 hr., 23 min., 47 sec.))
- Other Title:
- Met Opera on Demand.
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, New York] : [Metropolitan Opera], [1969]
- Language Note:
- Sung in English.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- digital
- audio file streaming audio file
- Summary:
- The great Jon Vickers sings one of his most acclaimed roles, the tortured fisherman of the title, in Britten's powerful drama. Hounded by the small-minded local townspeople, with only Ellen Orford (Lucine Amara) and Captain Balstrode (Geraint Evans) on his sie, Peter's slow descent into madness is as searing as it is inevitable. Colin Davis conducts, with Lili Chookasian as Auntie and Jean Madeira as Mrs. Sedley.
- Contents:
- Prologue: Peter Grimes! Peter Grimes!
- Prologue: Peter Grimes, I here advise you
- Prologue: The truth, the pity
- Interlude I: Dawn
- Oh hang at open doors the net, the cork
- Hi! Give us a hand!
- Grimes, you won't need help from now
- Let her among you without fault cast the first stone
- Look! The storm cone!
- And do you prefer the storm
- Picture what that day was like
- What harbor shelters peace
- Interlude II: Storm
- Past time to close!
- We live and let live
- Have you heard?
- Now the Great Bear and Pleiades
- Old Joe has gone fishing
- The bridge is down
- Interlude III: Sunday morning
- Glitter of waves
- A bruise
- Well, it's begun
- This unrelenting work
- Fool to let it come to this
- We planned that their lives
- Now is gossip put on trial
- From the gutter
- Interlude IV: Passacaglia
- Go there! Go there!
- In dreams I've built myself some kindlier home
- Now! Now!
- Peter Grimes! Peter Grimes!
- Interlude V: Moonlight
- Assign your prettiness to me
- Pah!
- Come along, doctor
- Embroidery in childhood
- Mr. Swallow! Mr. Swallow!
- Who holds himself apart
- Interlude VI
- Grimes! Steady. There you are
- Peter, we've come to take you home
- To those who pass the borough sounds betray.
- Participant:
- Lucine Amara, Jon Vickers, Geraint Evans ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Colin Davis, conductor.
- Notes:
- Recorded live in 1969 at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, New York.
- Duration: 2 hr., 23 min., 47 sec.
- Description based on vendor-supplied metadata.
- OCLC:
- 865507476
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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