Glyndebourne Festival:Garnder - The Turn of the Screw

Britten's operas have an interesting history at Glyndebourne beginning with the premiere of The Rape of Lucretia at Glyndebourne (1946) with Kathleen Ferrier as Lucretia. Glyndebourne also premiered Albert Herring (1947) then 34 years of the Glyndebourne Festival elapsed until another of Britten's operas, A Midsummer Night's Dream, was staged in 1981. It took over 50 years to stage The Turn of the Screw, which after a touring production in 2006 transferred to the Festival in 2007, from where this recording is captured. Every role is beautifully cast through tenor William Burden, as both Prologue and Peter Quint, and Camilla Tilling as the convincing troubled Governess. Anne-Marie Owens is an'The conducting of Edward Gardner is wonderfully alert and the playing by the LPO immaculate'. Daily Telegraph'Britten's marvellous score was played with virtuosic musicianship by members of the London Philharmonic, and the conductor Edward Gardner showed... that he is set to become the next major Britten interpreter.' Sunday