Hanne Mari Ørbaek reviews

This fresh performance, recorded in 1994, places the accent on giving meaning and colour to every word of the text. Those who are looking for big-voiced singers - big-voiced even within the restricted remit of most period-style performance practice - will be disappointed. But not I. Casting Ben Parry as Aeneas was a minor masterstroke. Parry will never strut the stage of the Met - his singing is more akin to what one might expect in a carefully cast musical - but his youthful, slightly husky Aeneas is wholly