Britten: Turn of the Screw, Op. 54 / Wilson, Sinfonia of London
Henry Jamesâs novella has become notorious as at once the most stylish and elusively ambiguous of all nineteenth-century ghost stories. In June 1932, the eighteen-year-old Benjamin Britten heard a radio adaptation of Jamesâs story and noted in his diary that it was âwonderful, impressive but terribly eerie & scaryâ. He read the novella for himself in January the following year, telling his diary that he still found it âglorious & eerieâ and judging it to be an âincredible masterpieceâ. His subsequent operatic setting is unequivocally a masterpiece, and here receives a first-class production made for television with an outstanding cast led by Robert Murray and Rhian Lois, accompanied by Sinfonia of London and conducted by John Wilson.
Henry Jamesâs novella has become notorious as at once the most stylish and elusively ambiguous of all nineteenth-century ghost stories. In June 1932, the eighteen-year-old Benjamin Britten heard a radio adaptation of Jamesâs story and noted in his diary that it was âwonderful, impressive but terribly eerie & scaryâ. He read the novella for himself in January the following year, telling his diary that he still found it âglorious & eerieâ and judging it to be an âincredible masterpieceâ. His subsequent operatic setting is unequivocally a masterpiece, and here receives a first-class production made for television with an outstanding cast led by Robert Murray and Rhian Lois, accompanied by Sinfonia of London and conducted by John Wilson.
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Henry Jamesâs novella has become notorious as at once the most stylish and elusively ambiguous of all nineteenth-century ghost stories. In June 1932, the eighteen-year-old Benjamin Britten heard a radio adaptation of Jamesâs story and noted in his diary that it was âwonderful, impressive but terribly eerie & scaryâ. He read the novella for himself in January the following year, telling his diary that he still found it âglorious & eerieâ and judging it to be an âincredible masterpieceâ. His subsequent operatic setting is unequivocally a masterpiece, and here receives a first-class production made for television with an outstanding cast led by Robert Murray and Rhian Lois, accompanied by Sinfonia of London and conducted by John Wilson.
