Britten: Peter Grimes (complete opera)

GRAMOPHONE Award WINNER 2021 - Opera
GRAMOPHONE Award WINNER 2021 - Recording of the Year

"Britten's opera sounds huge and thrilling in a nuanced recording with sparkling interplay between singers and orchestra - it's rarely sounded better."
☆☆☆☆☆ - Erica Jeal, The Guardian

"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." BBC Music

'The burly Aussie tenor is now even more identified with this ill-fated protagonist than Peter Pears, the first Grimes. And everywhere Skelton has sung the part, whether at English National Opera, the Proms, the Edinburgh festival or now on this international tour of a concert staging mounted by the Bergen Philharmonic, the conductor has been Edward Gardner. Theirs is one of the great musical partnerships, and they continue to find compelling new depths in this tragic masterpiece.' - Richard Morrison - The Times

"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." Gramophone recording of the Month Oct 2020