Title: Great production
Review: Great recording with great production values for it's time. My first full Britten opera so I think it will take some time for me to get a better appreciation of the score, but it is interesting how sympathetically Peter Pears plays Grimes. The Emroidery aria is amazing, with Claire Watson singing it brilliantly. Naturally she goes crazy with her rolled 'Rs' but, then again, this recording is from the 1950s. I would thoroughly recommend it, especially with Benjamin Britten doing the conducting.
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