King Lear : original score

"The playing of the four players (apparently not a regular, named quartet) is fine throughout, attentive to the subtleties of the score. Ruth Wilson sings/recites on three tracks, adopting an all-purpose Cockney probably spoken nowhere else than on the stage. Not that the accent matters very much, as none of us speaks English as Shakespeare's contemporaries did, not least as the plays predate the Great Vowel Shift of the eighteenth century. For repeated listening, some might wish the vocals had been omitted, but it is a tiny proportion of the whole, and unlikely to affect enjoyment".

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