' I'll straight run mad.....
A lunatic sequence of Mad Scenes and Songs, ranging from Purcell's Altisidora (From rosy bow'rs) to Peter Maxwell Davies's George III (Eight
Songs for a Mad King), which explores the similarities in operatic madness of Orlando, Tom Rakewell and Lucia di Lammermoor. Rationally selected from requests from listeners under 20 by Christopher hog wood : records