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Peter Grimes
Jon Vickers' contribution to advancing Peter Grimes from curio to staple of the repertory cannot be overstated. The downside to Vickers' domination of that part was that it tended to drown out other valid approaches from other gifted singers. Richard Cassilly's Grimes is more human in scale and his ability to float high lying phrases with the sweetness of an Irish tenor (which he was by ancestry) gave the role a softer and more sympathetic tone. Although he may not have been as dynamic on stage as Vickers, his approach is more of a return to the sensitive outsider that Peter Pears created. Heather Harper reprises her celebrated Ellen Orford along with Norman Bailey as Balstrode. The smaller roles are filled with the likes of Thomas Allen as Ned Keene, Robert Lloyd as Hobson and Forbes Robinson as Swallow.
Track List
Prologue
1. Peter Grimes! Peter Grimes! Peter Grimes!
2. Peter Grimes, I hear advise you...
3. The truth… the pity… and the truth...
2. Peter Grimes, I hear advise you...
3. The truth… the pity… and the truth...
Act I
4. Interlude - Dawn
5. Oh, hang at open doors the net, the cork
6. Hi! Give us a hand! Haul the boat!
7. Let her among you without fault cast the first stone
8. Look, the storm cone!
9. And you prefer the storm to Auntie's parlour and the rum?
10. Interlude - Storm
11. Past time to close!
12. Loud man, I never did have time
13. Now the Great Bear and Pleiades
14. Old Joe has gone fishing
5. Oh, hang at open doors the net, the cork
6. Hi! Give us a hand! Haul the boat!
7. Let her among you without fault cast the first stone
8. Look, the storm cone!
9. And you prefer the storm to Auntie's parlour and the rum?
10. Interlude - Storm
11. Past time to close!
12. Loud man, I never did have time
13. Now the Great Bear and Pleiades
14. Old Joe has gone fishing
Act II
15. Glitter of waves and glitter of sunlight
16. There's a tear in your coat
17. Come boy!... Peter, what for?
18. Fool to let it come to this!
19. We planned that their lives should have a new start
20. From the gutter why should we trouble at their ribaldries?
21. Interlude - Passacaglia
16. There's a tear in your coat
17. Come boy!... Peter, what for?
18. Fool to let it come to this!
19. We planned that their lives should have a new start
20. From the gutter why should we trouble at their ribaldries?
21. Interlude - Passacaglia
Act III
22. Go there!
23. In dreams I've built myself some kindlier home
24. Peter Grimes! Peter Grimes! Nobody here?
25. Interlude - Moonlight
26. Assign your prettiness to me
27. Mister Keene! Mister Keene! Can you spare a moment?
28. Embroidery in childhood
29. Mister Swallow! Mister Swallow! Mister Swallow!
30. Steady! There you are! nearly home!
31. Peter, we've come to take you home
32. To those who pass, the Borough sound betray
33. Glitter of waves and glitter of sunlight
34. There's a tear in your coat
35. Come boy!..., what for?
23. In dreams I've built myself some kindlier home
24. Peter Grimes! Peter Grimes! Nobody here?
25. Interlude - Moonlight
26. Assign your prettiness to me
27. Mister Keene! Mister Keene! Can you spare a moment?
28. Embroidery in childhood
29. Mister Swallow! Mister Swallow! Mister Swallow!
30. Steady! There you are! nearly home!
31. Peter, we've come to take you home
32. To those who pass, the Borough sound betray
33. Glitter of waves and glitter of sunlight
34. There's a tear in your coat
35. Come boy!..., what for?
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✓ Top Reviewer
United Kingdom
Superb Cassilly
Having seen all these performances ,it was wonderful to hear it again.Having seen Pears,Lewis,Kollo,Tear and Vickers as Grimes ,I found Cassilly deeply moving and a better actor than any of them.The whole cast is fabulous, a real company who work together for the opera in question.My only wish. was that Ava June had sung Ellen, possibly the finest ever.
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✓ Top Reviewer
United States
Excellent Performance in Excellent Sound!
Richard Cassilly is known to most opera lovers as the tenor who kept Tannhauser alive at the Met in the 1980's. Here he is a couple of years earlier before all those Tannhausers took their toll, creating a formidable Peter Grimes. His singing actually reminds me of Peter Pears, but he has his own ideas about Grimes' psychosis. At any rate, he's very different from Vickers' portrayal. It's good to have his interpretation documented for posterity. The other singers are all superb, a veritable Who's Who of Covent Garden's best. Harper is a moving Ellen, Bailey a terrific Balstrode. The chorus and orchestra are equally good. David Atherton leads a dynamic performance. The sound is excellent broadcast stereo. Highly recommended to all lovers of this opera!
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