Скачать или смотреть Peter Grimes - Britten (ENHANCED) w/ Eng. Subs (2/3)

My attempt at enhancing the 1969 recording of Benjamin Britten's "Peter Grimes", with Peter Pears and Heather Harper. Using Topaz Labs Video Enhancer, Audacity, and Kdenlive, I was able to get a pretty decent enhancement out of it! Hope you all enjoy!

Synopsis:

[Act 2]

The same, some weeks later

On a sunny Sunday morning (the Third Orchestral Interlude), while most Borough townspeople are at church, Ellen talks with John the apprentice. She is horrified to find a bruise on his neck. When she confronts Grimes about it, he brusquely dismisses it as an accident. Growing angry at her concern and interference, he strikes her and runs off with the boy. This does not go unseen: first Keene, Auntie, and Bob Boles, then the chorus comment on what has happened, the latter developing into a mob which sets off to investigate at Grimes's fisherman's hut. As they march off, Ellen, Auntie, and the nieces sing despairingly of the town's menfolk. The Fourth Orchestral Interlude (Passacaglia) follows as the scene changes.

At the hut, Grimes impatiently demands John change out of his Sunday clothes and into fisherman's gear. Though it is a Sunday he hastily prepares to set out to fish as he has seen a large school of herring. Grimes becomes lost in his memories of his previous apprentice, reliving the boy's death of thirst. When he hears the mob of townspeople approaching, he quickly snaps back to reality. He is angry and defiant, stirred by a paranoid belief that John has been gossiping with Ellen, so provoking the anger of the town against him. He warns John to be careful as they climb down the cliff to the boat, but in their haste the boy slips to his death below. When the mob reaches the hut, Grimes and the apprentice are not to be found, so they disperse, curious and suspicious.

(Synopsis provided by Wikipedia)

©BBC Recording DVD
©Decca

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