브리튼: 오페라 <피터 그라임스>
앤소니 딘 그리피(피터 그라임스), 비비엔 티어니(엘렌), 스티븐 페이지(발스트로드) 힐러리 서머즈(세들리) 외
마크 위글워스(지휘), 런던 필하모닉 오케스트라, 글라인드본 합창단


글라인드본 오페라 극장이 선보이는 실황 아카이브 시리즈의 새로운 음반은 2000년 여름에 열렸던 브리튼의 <피터 그라임스>이다. 1992년에야 <피터 그라임스>를 처음으로 무대에 올리며 화제를 불러일으켰던 글라인드본 프로덕션의 세 번째 리바이벌이었던 이 공연은 현실감이 넘치는 무대 장치와 지휘자 위글워스의 기복이 넘치는 극적인 지휘, 런던 필하모닉의 인상적인 연주력이 하나로 어우러져 인상적인 밤을 만들어냈다. 타이틀 역에서 피어스의 몽환적인 해석과 비커스의 정열적인 해석 사이에서 중용의 길을 지킨 앤소니 딘 그리피를 비롯해서 가수들 역시 서로에게 주의를 기울이는 좋은 앙상블을 들려주며, 실황의 열기 역시 놓칠 수 없다.


Anthony Dean Griffey (Peter Grimes), Vivian Tierney (Ellen Orford), Steven Page (Captain Balstrode), Susan Gorton (Auntie), Camilla Tilling (First Niece), Linda Tuvas (Second Niece), John Graham-Hall (Bob Boles), Stafford Dean (Swallow), Jard van Nes (Mrs Sedley), Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke (The Rev Horace Adams), Christopher Maltman (Ned Keene), Michael Druiett (Hobson) & Michael Haughey (Dr Crabbe)
London Philharmonic Orchestra & The Glyndebourne Chorus, Mark Wigglesworth

The Guardian 23rd September 2010 ***
“Mark Wigglesworth's conducting, wonderfully detailed and perfectly paced, is certainly worth hearing”


Financial Times 19th September 2010 ***
“Glyndebourne’s 2000 Peter Grimes has much to commend it, not least Mark Wigglesworth’s vividly theatrical conducting, Vivian Tierney’s sympathetic Ellen and a strong sense of ensemble. But Anthony Dean Griffey’s clean cut Grimes doesn’t quite shake the rafters.”


International Record Review November 2010
“Griffey has the perfect vocal weight and technique for the part; he can sing with Pears's wistfulness and (almost) with Vickers's power. He may just be the vocally perfect Grimes on disc and his voice is in pristine condition...The Borough's inhabitants are vivid...The penultimate scene of the opera is as frightening as it should be”


BBC Music Magazine Christmas 2010 *****
“This is the greatest conducting and playing - LPO on top form - of Britten's first masterpiece that I've ever heard...Griffey, though he occasionally has the visionary beauty of the late, great Anthony Rolfe Johnson, is very much his own man as Grimes...Tierney matches pristine truth with heroic-soprano firmness...this is an ideal presentation of a masterpiece at its unrelenting best.”


Gramophone January 2011
“[Wigglesworth's] volatile conducting is always to the fore...[Griffey] is an impressive performer who steers a convincing middle course, playing Grimes as a poetic dreamer like Pears but lit with flashes of Vickers's violence and Langridge's mental instability...as a Peter Grimes hot from the stage this Glyndebourne set makes a vivid souvenir.”


Classic FM March 2011 ****
“Wigglesworth draws some viscerally dramatic playing from the LPO. Anthony Dean Griffey makes a sound more powerful than luscious as Grimes (fortunately it's the kind of role which can take many kinds of approach) and he brings a fascinating touch of hysteria to the part...a performance that builds up a terrific dramatic momentum.”