Peter Grimes - full audio
2h 31m
Music by kind permission of Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd
Prologue
1 ‘Peter Grimes!’
2 ‘You sailed your boat round the coast’ 00.01.46
3 ‘Peter Grimes, I here advise you!’ 00.05.28
4 ‘The truth… the pity… and the truth’ 00.07.50
5 Interlude I - Lento e tranquillo 00.09.45
Act I
Scene 1
6 ‘Oh, hang at open doors the net, the cork’ 00.13.14
7 ‘Hi! Give us a hand!’ 00.19.13
8 ‘I have to go from pub to pub’ 00.23.14
9 ‘Let her among you without fault’ 00.25.30
10 ‘Look, the storm cone!’ 00.28.44
11 ‘And do you prefer the storm?’ 00.31.25
12 ‘What harbour shelters peace?’ 00.36.40
13 Interlude II - Presto con fuoco 00.37.41
Scene 2
14 ‘Past time to close!’ 00:41:59
15 ‘We live and let live’ 00:43:48
16 ‘Have you heard? The cliff is down up by Grimes’s hut’ 00:45:12
17 ‘Now the Great Bear and Pleiades’ 00:49:02
18 ‘Old Joe has gone fishing’ 00:51:09
19 ‘The bridge is down’ 00:52:47
Act II
20 Interlude III - Allegro spiritoso 00:55:15
Scene 1
21 ‘Glitter of waves and glitter of sunlight’ 01:00:37
22 ‘Child you’re not too young to know’ 01:04:08
23 ‘This unrelenting work’ 01:09:04
24 ‘Fool! To let it come to this!’ 01:12:12
25 ‘People! No! I will speak!’ 01:14:16
26 ‘We planned that their lives should have a new start’ 01:16:52
27 ‘Swallow! Shall we go and see Grimes in his hut?’ 01:19:51
28 ‘From the gutter’ 01:24:59
29 Interlude IV - Passacaglia - Andante moderato (sempre un poco rubato) 01:30:56
Scene 2
30 ‘Go there!’ 01:38:49
31 ‘Now! Now!’ 01:41:10
32 ‘Peter Grimes! Nobody here?’ 01:45:11
Act III
33 Interlude V - Andante con moto e rubato 01:49:37
Scene 1
34 ‘Assign your prettiness to me’ 01:52:07
35 ‘Pah! Ahoy!’ 01:55:46
36 ‘Come along, Doctor!’ 01:58:40
37 ‘Embroidery in childhood was a luxury of idleness’ 02:04:07
38 ‘Mister Swallow!’ 02:05:59
39 ‘Who holds himself apart, lets his pride rise’ 02:09:24
40 Interlude VI - Lento 02:12:25
Scene 2
41 ‘Grimes! Grimes!’ 02:18:18
42 ‘Peter, we’ve come to take you home’ 02:21:19
43 ‘To those who pass, the Borough sounds betray’ 02:27:01