'Britten's score requires a performance of the utmost intensity and cohesion to wholly convince – which, in this edited live performance from the 2011 Aldeburgh Festival, it emphatically gets.' Bayan Northcott
Britten The Rape of Lucretia Ian Bostridge (ten), Susan Gritton (sop), Christopher Purves (bass), Benjamin Russell (bar), Peter Coleman-Wright (bar), Angelika Kirchschlager (mz), Hilary Summers (c.alto), Claire Booth (sop); Aldeburgh Festival Ensemble/Oliver Knussen
Virgin Classics 602 6722 105:33 mins
Audio clip: from 'My horse! My horse!'
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