Performer: Joan Rodgers

Nevill Holt Opera and Royal Northern Sinfonia offer a sumptuous production, with gorgeous singing, but one unafraid to make us confront the uncomfortable aspects of the plot.

Joan Rodger's idiomatic soprano and the surging cello obbligato were revelatory in this symbolist paean.

Two strongly atmospheric pieces create and hold a dreamy, intensely imaginative note on which to finish Tête à Tête for 2015.