tracks

Peter Grimes!
You Sailed Your Boat Round The Coast
Peter Grimes, I Here Advise You!
The Truth... The Pity... And The Truth
Interlude I: On The Beach (Dawn)
Oh! Hang At Open Doors The Net, The Cork
Hi! Give Us A Hand
I Have To Go From Pub To Pub
Let Her Among You Without Fault Cast The First Stone
Look, The Storm Cone!
And Do You Prefer The Storm
What Harbour Shelters Peace
Interlude II: The Storm
Past Time To Close!
We Live And Let Live
Have You Heard? The Cliff Is Down
Now The Great Bear And Pleiades
Old Joe Has Gone Fishing
The Bridge Is Down, We Half Swam Over
Interlude III: Sunday Morning By The Beach
Glitter Of Waves And Glitter Of Sunlight
Let This Be A Holiday
This Unrelenting Work
Fool To Let It Come To This!
What Is It?
People!... No! I Will Speak
We Planned That Their Lives SHould Have A New Start
Swallow! Shall We Go And See Grimes In His Hut?
Now Is Gossip Put On Trial
From The Gutter, Why Should We Trouble At Their Ribaldries?
Interlude IV (Passacaglia)
Go There!
Now!... Now!...
Peter Grimes! Nobody Here?
Interlude V: Evening
Assign Your Prettiness To Me
Pah!... Ahoy!
Come Along, Doctor!
Embroidery In Childhood Was A Luxury Of Idleness
Mister Swallow! Mister Swallow!
Who Holds Himself Apart, Lets His Pride Rise
Interlude VI: Fog
Grimes! Grimes!
Peter, We've Come To Take You Home
To Those Who Pass The Borough

notes

Recording location: Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London, December 1958
℗ 1959 Decca Music Group Limited
© 2006 Decca Music Group Limited
Made in the EU

Booklet includes liner notes and synopsis in English, German and French. Libretto is in English.

Originally released as Decca SXL 2150-1-2, 1959.

credits

Baritone Vocals [Ned Keene] – Geraint Evans
Bass Vocals [Hobson] – David Kelly (7)
Bass Vocals [Swallow] – Owen Brannigan
Bass-Baritone Vocals [Captain Balstrode] – James Pearson
Chorus – Chorus Of The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Chorus Master – Douglas Robinson
Composed By – Benjamin Britten
Conductor – Benjamin Britten
Contralto Vocals [Auntie] – Jean Watson
Engineer [Recording Engineer] – Kenneth Wilkinson
Libretto By, Adapted By (Text) – Montagu Slater
Liner Notes – Philip Brett
Liner Notes [Deutsche Übersetzung] – Gerd Uekermann
Liner Notes [Synopsis] – Eric Walter White
Liner Notes [Traduction Française] – Madeline Jay
Mezzo-soprano Vocals [Mrs Sedley] – Lauris Elms
Orchestra – Orchestra Of The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Producer – Erik Smith
Remastered By – Andrew Wedman
Soprano Vocals [Ellen Orford] – Claire Watson
Soprano Vocals [Niece 1] – Marion Studholme
Soprano Vocals [Niece 2] – Iris Kells
Tenor Vocals [Bob Boles] – Raymond Nilsson
Tenor Vocals [John] – Marcus Norman (2)
Tenor Vocals [Peter Grimes] – Peter Pears
Tenor Vocals [The Rector] – John Lanigan
Text By [After The Poem By] – George Crabbe

companies

Phonographic Copyright (p) – Decca Music Group Limited
Copyright (c) – Decca Music Group Limited
Published By – Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd
Made By – EDC, Germany – 51760251
Made By – EDC, Germany – 51760253
Recorded At – Walthamstow Assembly Hall

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