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Overwhelming despair in Britten's Rape of Lucretia

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Reviewed at Muziekgebouw aan’t IJ: Main Hall, Amsterdam on 15 June 2011
Britten, The Rape of Lucretia (concert version)
Ian Bostridge, Male Chorus
Susan Gritton, Female Chorus
Christopher Purves, Collatinus
Benjamin Russell, Junius
Peter Coleman-Wright, Tarquinius
Angelika Kirchschlager, Lucretia
Hilary Summers, Bianca
Claire Booth, Lucia
Oliver Knussen, Conductor
A bracing density of musical incident
*****
Prom 26: Romanticism Triumphs as the Modernists come to the Proms
*****
A dream-inspired cocktail of works from Knussen and Benjamin
****1
Birtwistle's early gems mesmerise
****1
Edinburgh International Festival: The Opening Concert
****1
Barbican’s Birtwistle at 80 over-eggs the pudding during its exploration of the chamber works
***11
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