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Peter Grimes
Steuart Bedford, Benjamin Britten

Chorus of Opera North, Britten–Pears Orchestra / Bedford

Peter Grimes

Price: € 25.95
Format: CD
Label: Signum Classics
UPC: 0635212034828
Catnr: SIGCD 348
Release date: 01 September 2013
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Label
Signum Classics
UPC
0635212034828
Catalogue number
SIGCD 348
Release date
01 September 2013
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Artist(s)
Composer(s)
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About the album

Britten’s powerful and masterful evocation of the North Sea in all its moods has to audiences all over the world become inextricably linked with the Aldeburgh that was home to George Crabbe (author of the ‘The Borough’ from which the story originates) in the eighteenth century and Britten in the twentieth.

Steuart Bedford leads a vast and accomplished ensemble on this new live recording, created shortly before the group’s unique staging of the work on the beach at Aldeburgh as part of the town’s world-renowned festival.

Live-opname van een unieke uitvoering van Peter Grimes
Brittens krachtige en meesterlijke uitbeelding van de Noordzee in al zijn stemmingen in zijn opera Peter Grimes wordt door het publiek in alle hoeken van de wereld onlosmakelijk verbonden met het 18e-eeuwse Aldeburgh van George Crabbe (de auteur van The Borough, waarop het libretto gebaseerd is).

Peter Grimes werd tijdens zijn première in 1945 succesvol ontvangen, maar critici vonden de ambigue aard van het hoofdpersonage verontrustend. Ook Britten en Peter Pears (die de eerste schetsen voor het scenario maakte) worstelden met de hoofdpersoon die in Crabbes boek een schurk zonder verzachtende eigenschappen was. Pears beschrijft Peter Grimes in het uiteindelijke resultaat als volgt: “hij heeft veel weg van een gewone zwakke persoon die in tegenspraak is met de samenleving waarin hij zich bevindt, probeert dit te boven te komen en daardoor tegen de conventionele code ingaat en door de samenleving gezien wordt als een crimineel, en zo ook vernietigd wordt.”

Steuart Bedfort, een van de vooraanstaande experts op het gebied van de werken van Britten, leidt een enorm en getalenteerd ensemble op deze live-opname, die kort voor de unieke opvoering van Peter Grimes op het strand van Aldeburgh als onderdeel van het wereldberoemde festival van de stad werd gemaakt.

Composer(s)

Benjamin Britten

Benjamin Britten is one most important British composers from the second half of the twentieth century. Remarkably, he focused on opera, a dying genre, at least in its current form. Britten's contributions however, among which Peter Grimes, The Rape of Lucretia, Gloriana, The Turn of the Screw, and Death in Venice, managed to remain core repertoire for opera companies to this day. Many of these productions included a role for his artistic partner and life companion Peter Pears. Britten also wrote a number of lieder for this tenor, among which his Serenade for tenor, horn and string orchestra. Yet, Britten excelled in many more genres. He wasn't even 20 years old when he composed his brilliant Phantasy for hobo quartet and his friendship with...
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Benjamin Britten is one most important British composers from the second half of the twentieth century. Remarkably, he focused on opera, a dying genre, at least in its current form. Britten's contributions however, among which Peter Grimes, The Rape of Lucretia, Gloriana, The Turn of the Screw, and Death in Venice, managed to remain core repertoire for opera companies to this day. Many of these productions included a role for his artistic partner and life companion Peter Pears. Britten also wrote a number of lieder for this tenor, among which his Serenade for tenor, horn and string orchestra. Yet, Britten excelled in many more genres. He wasn't even 20 years old when he composed his brilliant Phantasy for hobo quartet and his friendship with the legendary cellist Rostropovich led to a Cello sonata, three Suites for cello solo and a Symphony for Cello and orchestra in the 1960s.

Britten never became Master of the Queen's Music, yet he surely had feeling for public sentiments. For example, as a pacifist, he taught his people about world peace through his War Requiem from 1962. Britten was an excellent interpreter of his own work, just like Bartók and Stravinsky. Many of his recordings have been matched, but never exceeded.


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Disc #1
01.
Peter Grimes: Prologue: Peter Grimes (Hobson, Swallow, Peter)
01:32
(Benjamin Britten)
02.
Peter Grimes: Prologue: You sailed your boat round the coast (Swallow, Peter, Mrs. Sedley, Hobson, Ellen, Chorus)
03:20
(Benjamin Britten)
03.
Peter Grimes: Prologue: Peter Grimes, I here advise you (Swallow, Hobson, Peter, Chorus)
02:10
(Benjamin Britten)
04.
Peter Grimes: rologue: The truth - the pity - and the truth
01:55
(Benjamin Britten)
05.
Peter Grimes: Prologue: Interlude I 'Dawn'
02:47
(Benjamin Britten)
06.
Peter Grimes: Act I Scene I: Oh, hang at open doors
04:21
(Benjamin Britten)
07.
Peter Grimes: Act I Scene I: Good morning, good morning!
01:05
(Benjamin Britten)
08.
Peter Grimes: Act I Scene I: Hi! Give us a hand
03:22
(Benjamin Britten)
09.
Peter Grimes: Act I Scene I: I'll have to go from pub to pub
01:54
(Benjamin Britten)
10.
Peter Grimes: Act I Scene I: Let her among you without fault
03:00
(Benjamin Britten)
11.
Peter Grimes: Act I Scene I: Look! The storm cone!
02:35
(Benjamin Britten)
12.
Peter Grimes: Act I Scene I: And do you prefer the storm
03:24
(Benjamin Britten)
13.
Peter Grimes: Act I Scene I: They listen to money
01:35
(Benjamin Britten)
14.
Peter Grimes: Act I Scene I: What harbour shelters peace
01:02
(Benjamin Britten)
15.
Peter Grimes: Act I: Interlude II
04:05
(Benjamin Britten)
16.
Peter Grimes: Act I Scene II: Past time to close
02:22
(Benjamin Britten)
17.
Peter Grimes: Act I Scene II: Loud man
01:00
(Benjamin Britten)
18.
Peter Grimes: Act I Scene II: There's been a landslide up the coast
00:59
(Benjamin Britten)
19.
Peter Grimes: Act I Scene II: No, I mean love
00:32
(Benjamin Britten)
20.
Peter Grimes: Act I Scene II: Pub conversation should depend
01:19
(Benjamin Britten)
21.
Peter Grimes: Act I Scene II: Have you heard the cliff is down
01:34
(Benjamin Britten)
22.
Peter Grimes: Act I Scene II: Now the Great Bear and Pleiades
03:34
(Benjamin Britten)
23.
Peter Grimes: Act I Scene II: For peace sake
02:29
(Benjamin Britten)
24.
Peter Grimes: Act I Scene II: The bridge is down
01:27
(Benjamin Britten)
25.
Peter Grimes: Act II: Interlude III 'Sunday Morning'
02:26
(Benjamin Britten)
26.
Peter Grimes: Act II Scene I: Glitter of waves
01:29
(Benjamin Britten)
27.
Peter Grimes: Act II Scene I: Now that the daylight fills the sky
03:39
(Benjamin Britten)
28.
Peter Grimes: Act II Scene I: Child you're not too young
03:11
(Benjamin Britten)
29.
Peter Grimes: Act II Scene I: This unrelenting work
04:18
(Benjamin Britten)
30.
Peter Grimes: Act II Scene I: Fool to let it come to this
03:13
(Benjamin Britten)
31.
Peter Grimes: Act II Scene I: People ... No! I will speak!
02:09
(Benjamin Britten)

Disc #2
01.
Peter Grimes: Act II Scene I: We planned that their lives
02:15
(Benjamin Britten)
02.
Peter Grimes: Act II Scene I: Shall we go and see Grimes in his hut?
00:47
(Benjamin Britten)
03.
Peter Grimes: Act II Scene I: Now gossip is put on trial
02:02
(Benjamin Britten)
04.
Peter Grimes: Act II Scene I: From the gutter
04:01
(Benjamin Britten)
05.
Peter Grimes: Act II: Interlude IV 'Passacaglia'
05:29
(Benjamin Britten)
06.
Peter Grimes: Act II Scene II: Go there
01:54
(Benjamin Britten)
07.
Peter Grimes: Act II Scene II: They listen to money
05:02
(Benjamin Britten)
08.
Peter Grimes: Act II Scene II: Now! Now!
02:09
(Benjamin Britten)
09.
Peter Grimes: Act II Scene II: Peter Grimes
02:50
(Benjamin Britten)
10.
Peter Grimes: Act III: Interlude V 'Moonlight'
03:39
(Benjamin Britten)
11.
Peter Grimes: Act III Scene I: Assign your prettiness to me
03:12
(Benjamin Britten)
12.
Peter Grimes: Act III Scene I: Mr. Keene
01:27
(Benjamin Britten)
13.
Peter Grimes: Act III Scene I: Murder most foul it is
01:24
(Benjamin Britten)
14.
Peter Grimes: Act III Scene I: Come along, Doctor
02:43
(Benjamin Britten)
15.
Peter Grimes: Act III Scene I: Embroidery in childhood was
04:47
(Benjamin Britten)
16.
Peter Grimes: Act III Scene I: Mr. Swallow
01:55
(Benjamin Britten)
17.
Peter Grimes: Act III Scene I: Who holds himself apart
03:27
(Benjamin Britten)
18.
Peter Grimes: Act III: Interlude VI
02:08
(Benjamin Britten)
19.
Peter Grimes: Act III Scene II: Grimes!
05:09
(Benjamin Britten)
20.
Peter Grimes: Act III Scene II: Peter, we've come to take you home
02:23
(Benjamin Britten)
21.
Peter Grimes: Act III Scene II: To those who pass the Borough
05:13
(Benjamin Britten)
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