Musik / opera

Peter Grimes


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Classics today

d. 17. okt. 2006

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David Vernier

d. 17. okt. 2006

"Peter Grimes arguably is the most profoundly original and dramatically groundbreaking opera of the 20th century ... This production, with Britten conducting and Peter Pears in the role of Grimes, remains the definitive recording, with an excellent performance by Pears, for whom the role was created".


The guardian

d. 3. sep. 2020

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Erica Jeal

d. 3. sep. 2020

"Skelton's tenor is on the heavy side for the role, but he makes a virtue of this ... His mad scene is beautifully done ... The huge choral forces sound thrilling ... This recording is extraordinarily well run-in, and the benefits are plain: even in audio only, it registers as a genuine music drama, the music leading us through the story in one urgent, vital sweep ... This insightful recording is up there with this opera's finest".


MusicWeb international

2020 October

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Simon Thompson (musikanmelder)

2020 October

"Recording of the month: It's brilliant. This is the best Peter Grimes we've had since Chandos' other recording, conducted by Richard Hickox ... This performance captures the best of Gardner ... with the warmth and intimacy that comes from working with his own Bergen Orchestra. He understands Britten's score as well as any conductor alive today, and there is a thrilling directness to his performance that brings the piece to vivid life ... The orchestra play out of their skins for him ... The singing is uniformly excellent, too ... And at the apex of the pyramid is Stuart Skelton's Grimes".


Presto classical

d. 30. sep. 2020

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Katherine Cooper

d. 30. sep. 2020

"Editor's choices - September 2020: You can practically smell the sea air (and the spit-and-sawdust fug of The Boar) on this wonderfully engineered Grimes, surely one of the most atmospheric accounts on record ... Grimes's descent into insanity is interestingly calculated - he's unusually calm and collected in the opening court-room scene, his composure gradually unravelling with each subsequent micro-aggression from the denizens of the Borough".


BBC music magazine

2013 November

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Hilary Finch

2013 November

"Vurdering: Recording of the month - Vurdering: BBC music choice" - "[Bedford] has the sea-swell of the work deep in his bones ... [Oke's] is a strong, ballasted performance, less purely plangent than many, but deeply moving in its simple strength and keen imagination ... There's much to relish throughout this hand-picked cast".


BBC music magazine

2010 Christmas

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David Nice

2010 Christmas

"This is a nuclear Peter Grimes. I lost count of the number of shocks and goosebumps it gave me".


BBC music magazine

2020 November

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Daniel Jaffé

2020 November

"The best feature of this new Grimes is the orchestral playing, similar in tempo and character to Britten's own recording. Where Edward Gardner really scores is the Bergen Philharmonic's precision, captured in detailed yet natural sound".


Fono Forum

2021 Januar

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Gerhard Persché

2021 Januar

"Die Schallplatte bescherte dem Werk ein günstiges Schicksal mit zahlreichen wichtigen Einspielungen: unter anderem - neben Brittens eigener mit Peter Pears von 1959 ... Nun kommt diese beispielhafte Aufnahme aus Bergen unter Edward Gardner hinzu, mit einer dynamischen Skala, die man selten so reich ausgehört erlebt. Und mit der sehr individuellen Interpretation der Titelfigur durch Stuart Skelton: eine intensive Seelen-Studie dieses in sich selbst gefangenen, autistisch anmutenden Charakters. Im Kontrast dazu Erin Wall als das Reine, Unschuldige dieser Figur berührend einbringende Ellen Orford ... Grossartig der aus verschiedenen Ensembles assemblierte Chor und natürlich das Orchester unter Edward Gardners aufregender und exemplarischer Leitung".


Operabladet Ascolta

(2005) 23. årgang nr. 6

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(2005) 23. årgang nr. 6


Fono Forum

2006 Dezember

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Bjørn Woll

2006 Dezember

"Ein ganz besonderer Platz im Museum der Schallplatte gebührt einer Aufnahme von Brittens "Peter Grimes", steht doch der Komponist selbst seinem Ensemble vor ... Faszinosum, das Werk quasi aus erster Hand zu erleben".


International record review

2013 November

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John T. Hughes

2013 November

"The youthful Britten-Pears Orchestra consistently achieves a quality of sound as magnificent as that in any complete Grimes on CD ... The title role is something of a disappointment ... The stand-out among the principals by some distance is Giselle Alln's Ellen Orford".


The gramophone

2013 November

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Richard Fairman

2013 November

"This is an expertly paced performance, as one might expect with Steuart Bedford as conductor, building the tension incrementally ... [Alan Oke] is heard to best effect when Grimes is peering deep into his soul ... Giselle Allen's urgent Ellen Orford is well in the picture, though she does not always sound ingratiating, and David Kempster is a stalwart Balstrode".


Operabladet Ascolta

(2004) 23. årgang nr. 2

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(2004) 23. årgang nr. 2


Kristeligt dagblad

d. 31. maj 1999

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d. 31. maj 1999


Operabladet Ascolta

(1999) 18. årgang nr. 3

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(1999) 18. årgang nr. 3


The gramophone

2011 January

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Richard Fairman

2011 January

"An impressive American Grimes leads the cast in a reading with an edge".


The gramophone

2020 October

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Mike Ashman

2020 October

"Recording of the month - Editor's choice: The net joy of this new recording is that Skelton, now a Grimes of considerable experience and range, has found in his vocalisation of the role a well-judged mixture of obsessive professional (sometimes rough) fisherman and troubled, confused and persecuted outsider ... All this is precisely framed by Gardner's conducting and his choice of cast ... An exciting, committed, necessary and brilliantly recorded version for our times".


Opus

2020, nr. 99

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Carl-Henric Malmgren

2020, nr. 99

"Edward Gardner och Bergenfilharmonikerna ger här Peter Grimes en närläsning som lyfter dramat till en ny nivå. Tolkningen skapar utrymme åt texten på ett sätt som man ibland går miste om vid stora operaproduktioner. Stuart Skelton sjunger titelrollen självklart och naket vilket får grymheten från det omgivande fiskarsamhället att framstå som än mer obegriplig och brutal. Ensemblen är lyxigt besatt ned till minsta roll, bland annat svenska Hannah Husáhr skymtar förbi".