Sea Interludes

[anteros_lmc]

(About time someone raised the tone in this fandom.... ;)

I am a complete philistine when it comes to opera. Unless it's Monteverdi's L'Orfeo which I adore. I just can't be doing with classical opera in general and English libretto in particular. Which is why, despite being intrigued by the music and the subject matter, I just can't listen to Britten's Peter Grimes. So I was really rather delighted to discover the Sea Interludes recently. Yeah, I know, they're hardly a secret, but like I said, I'm an operatic philistine. So now I can listen to beautiful evocative sea music without any of that pesky singing.

And here they are played by the English Symphony Orchestra courtesy of last.fm:

Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes: Dawn

Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes: Sunday Morning

Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes: Moonlight

Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes: The Storm

Comments

[black-hound.livejournal.com]

if you try and raise the tone i probably won't recognize the place. XD

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Och, don't worry it'll never last. We'll be back in the gutter before you can say "deck showers" ;)

[esmerelda-t.livejournal.com]

Okay, I shall raise to the bait to be educated, what's Peter Grimes about?

The music here reminds me quite a bit of the music to various ballet scrores. I feel vaguely sea sick listening to The Storm, you can almost feel the boat rocking under you.

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Erm.... well y'know there's this bloke who may or may not be, ummm, bumping off his apprentices and its got boats and stuff in it and there's a storm and it all ends tragically. Or something like that.... oh go and look it up in wikipedia! I told you I'm a philistine when it comes to opera, I just like the music :}

Although wikipedia does say it's a "a powerful allegory of homosexual oppression".....

Oh and sorry for making you sea sick ;)

[esmerelda-t.livejournal.com]

In wacky coincidence, the Guardian TV reviewer mentioned Peter Grimes yesterday (I read it after I posted)and said to go look it up.

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

You see? It's all connected! :D