nLive from the Royal Albert Hall , London.
Mendelssohn's incidental music to
Antigone is placed in its dramatic context, in a version devised by Eugenia Arsenis , based on Sophocles's original text.
Antigone quarrels with King Creon about her dead brother Polynices - with tragic results. Presented by Christopher Cook.
Roderick Williams and Stephan Loges
(baritones), BBC Singers (men's voices), City of London Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox
Mendelssohn Antigone (sung in English)