COMPOSERS: Britten
LABELS: Decca
ALBUM TITLE: Britten Operas Vol II
WORKS: A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Rape of Lucretia, The Turn of the Screw, Death in Venice, Gloriana
PERFORMER: Benjamin Britten, Steuart Bedford, Charles Mackerras
CATALOGUE NO: 475 6029
Decca’s second
compendium of its
pioneering Britten
opera sets (plus the
cantata Phaedra),
conducted either by the composer
or his Aldeburgh associates and
featuring many of the original
singers. Even the 1955 Turn of the
Screw remains definitive, while
Mackerras and his 1993 cast
triumphantly vindicate Gloriana.
Superb value! Michael Scott Rohan