Britten - Peter Grimes / Hickox, Langridge

Benjamin BRITTEN (1913-1976)

Peter Grimes Op 33

Alan Opie baritone

  Ameral Gunson contralto

  Anne Collins contralto

  Janice Watson soprano

  John Connell bass

  John Fryatt tenor

  Emily Hall tenor

  Matthew Best bass

  Pamela Helen Stephen mezzo-soprano

  Philip Langridge tenor

  Roderick Williams baritone

  Yvonne Barclay soprano

 

 

  London Symphony Chorus

  Opera London

  City of London Sinfonia

  Richard Hickox

 

  Recorded in:

  Blackheath Halls, London

  2-3, 5-7 July & 31 August 1995

Reviews

…[a] warm and involving performance, more atmospheric than any since the composers own… Hickox… is helped by an exceptionally rich recording, in which there is fine bloom on the voices and full, immediate and weighty orchestral sound from the City of London Sinfonia.

The Guardian ‘Classical CD of the Week’

…this is a self-evidently recommendable issue. It is superbly recorded as well

Opera Now

Richard Hickox conducts with a taut ,leanly projected appreciation of the long-spanning evolution of each scene and their connecting orchestral interludes… splendid performance…

Opera