Britten - The Turn of the Screw | Alpha ALPHA828

Britten - The Turn of the Screw

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Label: Alpha

Cat No: ALPHA828

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 27th May 2022

Contents

Artists

Sally Matthews
Julian Hubbard
Carole Wilson
Giselle Allen
Ed Lyon
Henri de Beauffort
Katharina Bierweiler
La Monnaie Chamber Orchestra

Conductor

Ben Glassberg

Works

Britten, Benjamin

The Turn of the Screw, op.54

Artists

Sally Matthews
Julian Hubbard
Carole Wilson
Giselle Allen
Ed Lyon
Henri de Beauffort
Katharina Bierweiler
La Monnaie Chamber Orchestra

Conductor

Ben Glassberg

About

Nothing is as it appears in the old English manor house of Bly. A new governess takes up her post and discovers that the children who are her new charges are under the influence of the ghosts of the previous governess and her depraved lover. As one disturbing event unfolds after another, the questions become more pressing: What horrors happened here before her arrival? Are the children innocent? Do we really see what we are seeing? Based on Henry James’s strange ghost story, Benjamin Britten’s The Turn of the Screw is a psychological thriller in the form of a chamber opera. The Orchestre de la Monnaie, under the British conductor Ben Glassberg, took up this masterpiece in a staging which, despite the Covid crisis, received rave reviews. We now present a version recorded in studio conditions immediately after the performances. The two leading singers, Ed Lyon and Sally Matthews, are utterly convincing: together they push the audience’s imagination to unbearable levels of tension…

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