Special offer. Britten: The Turn of the Screw
Joan Rodgers (Governess), Ian Bostridge (Prologue/Peter Quint), Jane Henschel (Mrs Grose), Vivian Tierney (Miss Jessel), Julian Leang (Miles), Caroline Wise (Flora)
Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Daniel Harding
Awards:
-
Building a Library, November 2013, First Choice
-
Gramophone Magazine, October 2002, Editor's Choice
-
Gramophone Awards, 2003, Winner - Opera
This performance captures the sense of dislocation essential to this chilling ghost story
Special offer. Britten: The Turn of the Screw
Joan Rodgers (Governess), Ian Bostridge (Prologue/Peter Quint), Jane Henschel (Mrs Grose), Vivian Tierney (Miss Jessel), Julian Leang (Miles), Caroline Wise (Flora)
Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Daniel Harding
Purchase product
Awards:
-
Building a Library, November 2013, First Choice
-
Gramophone Magazine, October 2002, Editor's Choice
-
Gramophone Awards, 2003, Winner - Opera
This performance captures the sense of dislocation essential to this chilling ghost story
About
The mid-price collection presents some of the most important and admired recordings of the EMI Classics and Virgin Classics catalogue which make EMI 'The Home of Opera'. This performance of The Turn of the Screw was recorded in 2002 at the Maltings Concert Hall, Snape, Suffolk.
Contents and tracklist
- Ian Bostridge (tenor), Joan Rodgers (soprano), Caroline Wise (soprano), Jane Henschel (mezzo-soprano), Julian Leang (soprano), Vivian Tierney (soprano)
- Mahler Chamber Orchestra
- Daniel Harding
- Recorded: 2002-01-19
- Recording Venue: 17 - 19 January 2002 / Maltings Concert Hall, Snape, Suffolk
Scene 8 : Miles (Governess / Mrs. Grose / Miles / Quint)
Track length11:10
This track is only available as an album download.
Awards and reviews
-
Gramophone MagazineOctober 2002Editor's Choice
June 2010
This performance captures the sense of dislocation essential to this chilling ghost story
20th November 2002
The beauty of [Bostridge's] calls to Miles from the tower in the First Act convince you that he could cast a spell over the boy...Vocally Rodgers is dependably secure, often very beautiful, and always intelligent...Top marks to the lot: well-paced, atmospheric, and detailed
2010
Harding extracts the greatest tension from both the finely wrought writing for the chamber ensemble and from the well-balanced and, by and large, exemplary cast...This is an utterly absorbing version. Given its masterly engineering and sense of atmosphere it's, by a hair's-breadth, preferable to the Bedford among stereo recordings.
26th July 2002
The whole achievement...seems as remarkable on disc as it did in the theatre...Harding knits together the strands of the chamber orchestration with great adroitness...Rodgers is arguably the finest Governess of all, projecting an intriguing amalgam of hysteria, common sense and obsessive protectiveness in elegantly chiselled lines and unfailing beauty of tone.
