Help
Skip to main content
Basket 0 items, $0.00
  • Trust pilot, 4 point 5 stars.

  • WORLDWIDE shipping

  • FREE UK delivery over £35

  • PROUDLY INDEPENDENT since 2001

Listen on Presto Music. Free thirty day trial. Find out more.

Britten: Peter Grimes

Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Grimes), Felicity Lott (Ellen Orford), Thomas Allen (Balstrode), Patricia Payne (Auntie), Sarah Walker (Mrs Sedley), Simon Keenlyside (Ned Keene), Stafford Dean (Swallow), David Wilson-Johnson (Hobson), Maria Bovino (First Niece), Gillian Webster (Second Niece)

Chorus...

A wonderfully sung Peter Grimes, with superb orchestral support — BBC Music Magazine, June 2010, 4 out of 5 stars
  • Release Date: 8th Mar 2010
  • Catalogue No: 4569432
  • Label: Warner Classics
  • Series: The Opera Series
  • Length: 2 hours 24 minutes

Downloads

What are FLAC and MP3?

This release includes a digital booklet

Contents

Britten: Peter Grimes

Work length2:24:20
$58.50
$76.50
  • Anthony Rolfe Johnson (vocals), Christopher Lackner (bass-baritone), Donaldson Bell (bass-baritone), Edward Parry (vocals), John Winfield (vocals), Stafford Dean (bass), Neil Jenkins (vocals), David Wilson-Johnson (bass-baritone), Stuart Kale (vocals), Jonathan Coad (bass-baritone), Sarah Walker (mezzo-soprano), Christopher Keyte (bass), Dame Felicity Lott (soprano), Richard Hazell (bass-baritone), Jonathan Fisher (bass-baritone), Simon Keenlyside (bass-baritone), Patricia Payne (mezzo-soprano), Maria Bovino (soprano), Tom Cregan (vocals), Thomas Allen (bass-baritone), Robbie Gill (vocals), Gillian Webster (soprano), Lola Biagioni (soprano), Betty Allen (lead vocals), Karen Robertson (soprano)
  • Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Orch.Of Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Royal Opera House Covent Garden Chorus
  • Bernard Haitink
  • Recorded: 1992-06-28
  • Recording Venue: 22-28 June 1992: Watford Town Hall

Peter Grimes (Hobson / Swallow / Peter)

Track length1:36
$1.30
$1.70

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

Track length3:26
$1.30
$1.70

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

Track length2:13
$1.30
$1.70

The truth ... the pity (Peter / Ellen)

Track length1:57
$1.30
$1.70

Interlude I: Dawn

Track length3:19
$1.30
$1.70

Oh hang at open doors the net (Chorus / 1st Fisherman / Auntie / Boles / Balstrode / 2nd Fisherman / Rector / Nieces / Mrs Sedley / Swallow)

Track length5:01
$1.30
$1.70

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

Track length3:33
$1.30
$1.70

I have to go from pub to pub (Hobson / Chorus / Ellen / Ned)

Track length1:57
$1.30
$1.70

Let her among you without fault cast the first stone (Ellen / Hobson / Mrs Sedley / Ned)

Track length2:56
$1.30
$1.70

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

Track length2:42
$1.30
$1.70

And do you prefer the storm

Track length3:52
$1.30
$1.70

They listen to money (Balstrode / Peter)

Track length1:29
$1.30
$1.70

What harbour shelters peace (Peter)

Track length1:06
$1.30
$1.70

Interlude II: Storm

Track length4:20
$1.30
$1.70

Past time to close! (Auntie / Mrs Sedley / Balstrode / Boles / Nieces / Fisherman)

Track length4:39
$1.30
$1.70

Come on, boy! (Balstrode / Chorus)

Track length2:12
$1.30
$1.70

Have you heard? The cliff is down (Ned / Auntie / Mrs Sedley / Balstrode / Chorus)

Track length1:37
$1.30
$1.70

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

Track length3:42
$1.30
$1.70

Old Joe has gone fishing (Ned / Chorus / Peter)

Track length2:18
$1.30
$1.70

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

Track length1:45
$1.30
$1.70

Peter Grimes Op. 33, ACT 2: Interlude III: Sunday morning

Track length2:28
$1.30
$1.70

Glitter of waves and glitter of sunlight (Ellen / Chorus / Rector)

Track length5:34
$1.30
$1.70

Child you're not too young to know (Ellen / Chorus / Rector / Peter)

Track length3:28
$1.30
$1.70

This unrelenting work (Ellen / Peter / Chorus)

Track length4:42
$1.30
$1.70

Fool to let it come to this! (Auntie / Ned / Boles / Chorus / Mrs Sedley / Balstrode / Lawyer / Swallow / Fisherwoman / Nices / Rector)

Track length3:20
$1.30
$1.70

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

Track length2:01
$1.30
$1.70

We planned that their lives should have a new start (Ellen / Rector / Mrs Sedley / Boles / Ned / Nieces / Auntie / Balstrode / Hobson / Swallow)

Track length3:04
$1.30
$1.70

Now is gossip put on trial (Chorus / Mrs Sedley / Boles / Rector / Ned / Swallow)

Track length2:21
$1.30
$1.70

From the gutter (Nieces / Auntie / Ellen)

Track length5:03
$1.30
$1.70

Interlude IV: Passacaglia

Track length5:20
$1.30
$1.70

Go there!

Track length3:14
$1.30
$1.70

In dreams I've built myself some kindlier home (Peter)

Track length3:57
$1.30
$1.70

Now! ... Now! (Chorus / Peter / Boles / Rector / Swallow / Ned)

Track length2:09
$1.30
$1.70

Peter Grimes! Nobody there? (Rector / Swallow / Ned)

Track length3:17
$1.30
$1.70

Peter Grimes Op. 33, ACT 3: Interlude V: Moonlight

Track length4:21
$1.30
$1.70

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

Track length2:57
$1.30
$1.70

Mister Keene! Mister Keene! Can you spare a moment (Mrs Sedley / Ned)

Track length2:45
$1.30
$1.70

Come along, Doctor! (First Burgess / Burgesses / Rector / Mrs Sedley / Ellen / Balstrode)

Track length2:50
$1.30
$1.70

Embroidery in childhood was a luxury of idleness (Ellen / Balstrode)

Track length5:07
$1.30
$1.70

Mister Swallow! Mister Swallow! (Mrs Sedley / Auntie / Swallow / Hobson)

Track length1:59
$1.30
$1.70

Who holds himself apart, lets pride rise (Chorus)

Track length3:44
$1.30
$1.70

Interlude VI

Track length2:34
$1.30
$1.70

Grimes! Grimes! (Chorus / Peter)

Track length5:10
$1.30
$1.70

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

Track length2:47
$1.30
$1.70

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

Track length4:28
$1.30
$1.70

Download queue