Peter Grimes  20827

This work contains the following individual pieces:

• Now the Great Bear and Pleiades

Holdings which refer to this drama

1. Chaos and Cosmos in Peter Grimes (chapter)
2. On Playing Peter Grimes (chapter)
3. Benjamin Britten on Camera (tv) • 00:01:25 • 1969 recording of Peter Grimes at Snape. Listeners' comments on BBC Radio broadcast of 1945 premiere. Composition especially for Pears. Colin Matthews: "trying to be the young fisherman was not so easy in close-up". Joan Cross and Brian Large as stage/TV directors. Tightness of space in the Maltings. Britten finding it frustrating/limiting medium. Deborah Bull: limitations in space released an intensity. Nicholas Kenyon: Britten as great humane composer of the century, poss due to not being at ease with himself / his position in society. Musical landscape. Oliver Knussen: Aldeburgh right on the edge, days with very low skies when you can physically feel the pressure, the tension before the storm.
4. Benjamin Britten: His Life and Operas (book) • p120 • Part Two, Chapter 2
5. Britten (book) • p41 • Chapter 7: The Borough
6. Remembering Britten (book) • p11 • Benjamin Britten on Verdi and Peter Grimes
7. Letters from a Life: Selected Letters and Diaries of Benjamin Britten, Volume 2, 1939-45 (book) • p1029 • 1942-45: The Return to England: The Writing of Grimes
8. Britten in America (book) • p33 • Peter Grimes: The Suffolk Opera

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