The Turn of the Screw

by Benjamin Britten

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  • Type: Album
  • Released: April 1955
  • Label: Decca
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 8:22
  • Community rating: 3.7/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Conducted by the composer himself shortly after its world premiere, this definitive studio recording brilliantly captures the haunting, psychological terror of the chamber opera. The sparse, highly inventive orchestrations and Peter Pears' intensely unsettling vocal performance perfectly translate Henry James's ambiguous ghost story into a masterpiece of 20th-century musical suspense.

Genres

Tracklist

  1. Prologue; Act 1; On The Journey; The Welcome; The Letter; The Tower; The Window (Pt. 1) (25:00)
  2. Act I: The Window (Concl.); Lessons; The Lake At Night (27:30)
  3. Act 2: Colloquy And Soliloquy; The Belle; Miss Jessel; The Bedroom (Pt. 1) (26:00)
  4. Act 2: The Bedroom (Concl.); Quint; The Piano; Flora; Miles (27:30)

Credits

  • Benjamin Britten - Primary Artist
  • Jennifer Vyvyan - Primary Artist
  • Joan Cross - Primary Artist
  • Peter Pears - Primary Artist
  • Arda Mandikian - Primary Artist
  • Olive Dyer - Primary Artist
  • David Hemmings - Primary Artist
  • The English Opera Group - Primary Artist

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