Almost fourteen years ago I reviewed the DVD of the 1994 ENO production of Britten’s Peter Grimes. The DVD was so bad technically that it was quite hard to decide much about the merits of the performance although it was obvious that Philip Langridge’s Grimes was something special. On June 1st this year the BBC rebroadcast the recording in HD on BBC4. I have a copy of that broadcast and it’s way better than the North American DVD release and so I wanted to clarify and, where appropriate, correct what I said in that earlier review.
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