Britten: The Turn of the Screw (complete opera)

Britten: The Turn of the Screw (complete opera)

Britten: The Turn of the Screw (complete opera)
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Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2002-09-17
Music Label: EMI Classics
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Prologue
  2. Act 1. Theme
  3. Act 1. Scene 1. The Journey
  4. Act 1. Variation 1
  5. Act 1. Scene 2. The Welcome
  6. Act 1. Variation 2
  7. Act 1. Scene 3. The Letter
  8. Act 1. Variation 3
  9. Act 1. Scene 4. The Tower
  10. Act 1. Variation 4
  11. Act 1. Scene 5. The Window
  12. Act 1. Variation 5
  13. Act 1. Scene 6. The Lesson
  14. Act 1. Variation 6
  15. Act 1. Scene 7. The Lake
  16. Act 1. Variation 7
  17. Act 1. Scene 8. At Night
Music CD 2
  1. Act 2. Variation 8
  2. Act 2. Scene 1. Colloquy and Soliloquy
  3. Act 2. Variation 9
  4. Act 2. Scene 2. The Bells
  5. Act 2. Variation 10
  6. Act 2. Scene 3. Miss Jessel
  7. Act 2. Variation 11
  8. Act 2. Scene 4. The Bedroom
  9. Act 2. Variation 12
  10. Act 2. Scene 5. Quint
  11. Act 2. Variation 13
  12. Act 2. Variation 14
  13. Act 2. Scene 7. Flora
  14. Act 2. Variation 15
  15. Act 2. Scene 8. Miles

Music reviews of Britten: The Turn of the Screw (complete opera)

Music Review: One of the best Britten recordings of the decade
Rating: 5 Stars

As a non-fan of Ian Bostridge and the owner of two very good recordings of 'The Turn of the Screw,' I had avoided buying this new set. Now that I have, I am amazed by its quality. Daniel Harding imparts riveting excitement to Britten's score, but more than that, the psychological intenisty from every singer, beginning with a Narrator who foreshadows the horrors to comes, hasn't been matched in any previous recording. Aided by crystal-clear sonics, each performer gives us every syllable of the all-important text by Myfawmy Piper. This can't be said even of the composer's classic (mono) recording or the excellent version under his disciple Steuart Bedford, where the resonant acoustic tends to garble the words.

This verbal clarity draws one vividly into th cloudy terrors of James's ghost story, one in which extreme psychological states are hinted at but which only occasionally erupt on the surface (in this regard, 'Turn of the Screw' is Britten's mini-version of 'Pelleas and Melisande'). Considering that Harding's conducting outdoes the composer, himself a great conductor, one expects great things from him in the future. The Amazon reviewer makes too much of Bostridge's pretty singing style--the tenor does a lot to change his tone into errie timbres when it's called for, and the very fact that he sounds boyish is creepy in and of itself. In sum, this performance is all but definitive.

Description of Britten: The Turn of the Screw (complete opera)

This clearly, carefully played performance of what is certainly one of the world's spookiest operas is just about everything but spooky. Conductor Daniel Harding has a feel for the music but not the atmosphere, and so some moments are rushed which ought to be lingered over and vice-versa. Star tenor Ian Bostridge sings the pivotal role of the ghostly Peter Quint with elegance and beautiful tone--certainly two attributes his predecessors on CD lacked--but these are traits that work against the character. His eerie calling of the boy's name over and over again early in the opera is a model of good singing of difficult music, but that's not what we should be noticing. A pity, since Joan Rodgers's Governess is near ideal in her combination of terror, sadness, and weirdness. The children are convincing (though the Miles is not as good as David Hemmings on Britten's own recording), and as mentioned, the playing is near perfect and all the instruments in this wonderfully, economically scored work are audible. This is a truly great opera. You should own the Decca version, led by the composer himself, despite that it isn't up to this new one sonically. Bostridge fans will not be disappointed here, but Britten fans will want to hear Peter Pears in the role of Quint. --Robert Levine

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