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Record Review: Britten's Turn of the Screw on Building a Library with Simon Heighes and Andrew McGregor

Britten's Turn of the Screw on Building a Library with Simon Heighes and Andrew McGregor

BBC Radio 3 - Record Review, Britten's Turn of the Screw on Building a Library with Simon Heighes and Andrew McGregor

In Building a Library, Simon Heighes compares recordings of Britten's Turn of the Screw.

With Andrew McGregor. In Building a Library, Simon Heighes compares recordings of Britten's Turn of the Screw, and picks a winner. Plus Lucy Parham reviews new piano discs.

with Andrew McGregor

9.30am
Building a Library
Another chance to hear Simon Heighes discussing the available recordings of Britten's chilling Henry James adaptation, The Turn of the Screw, before picking a winner.

Britten was commissioned to write The Turn of the Screw by the Venice Biennale and it received its world premiere at the Teatro La Fenice in September 1954.  Myfanwy Piper wrote the libretto based on Henry James' horror novella of 1898, which tells the story of a young governess charged with looking after two children, Flora and Miles, at Bly House.  She is instructed by their uncle not to inform him about their wellbeing, never to abandon them, and not to enquire about the history of the house.  She soon discovers the supernatural goings on at Bly House, the ghostly disturbances of Peter Quint and Miss Jessel, before the opera reaches its chilling climax - 'the ceremony of innocence is drowned'.

10.45am
Pianist Lucy Parham joins Andrew McGregor to discuss new releases of piano music.

11.15am
Disc of the Week
Andrew recommends an outstanding new release.

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