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The rape of Lucretia

Benjamin Britten

Reviews (3)

Diapason

2013 fevrier

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Didier van Moere

2013 fevrier

BBC music magazine

2013 April

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Bayan Northcott

2013 April

"Vurdering: BBC music opera choice" - "Without hurrying, Knussen conducts a tight, vivid account, surpassing Britten's own ... Ian Bostridge and Susan Gritton as Male and Female Chorus project their rhetorical commentaries with exemplary diction ... Kirchschlager's passionate, full-voiced Lucretia is beautifully balanced by Claire Booth's bright Lucia and Hilary Summers's more mature Bianca".

The gramophone

2013 April

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Richard Fairman

2013 April

"Vurdering: Gramophone choice" - "This performance springs into life from the opening bars. Ian Bostridge is on top form ... Knussen's keen sense of pacing tells in the grip of the drama ... [Kirchschlager] is the lightning rod for the electricity of the drama ... she creates a Lucretia entirely her own - not so much a formal classical Greek heroine, more a modern woman whose feelings are very close to the surface ... This new Virgin set ranks as one of the very best of the new generation of Britten opera recordings".