Britten: The Rescue of Penelope & Phaedra

The Rescue of Penelope: Part 1 "Eight years have passed"

Kent Nagano, Dame Janet Baker, Hallé Orchestra

The Rescue of Penelope: Part 1 "Yet not all reached their homes"

Kent Nagano, Catherine Wyn-rogers, Dame Janet Baker, Hallé Orchestra

The Rescue of Penelope: Part 1 "Worse still, the island"

Kent Nagano, Dame Janet Baker, Hallé Orchestra

The Rescue of Penelope: Part 1 "Children have died of want"

Kent Nagano, Dame Janet Baker, Hallé Orchestra

The Rescue of Penelope: Part 1 "Yet some trust in an end"

Kent Nagano, Dame Janet Baker, Hallé Orchestra

The Rescue of Penelope: Part 1 "Your prayer is answered, Penelope"

Kent Nagano, Alison Hagley, Dame Janet Baker, Hallé Orchestra, John Mark Ainsley

The Rescue of Penelope: Part 1 "Long suffering Odysseus"

Kent Nagano, Dame Janet Baker, Hallé Orchestra

The Rescue of Penelope: Part 1 "Listen. The voices of the gods"

Kent Nagano, Catherine Wyn-rogers, Dame Janet Baker, Hallé Orchestra, John Mark Ainsley, William Dazeley

The Rescue of Penelope: Part 2 "I, Athene, rise to the edge of night"

Kent Nagano, Dame Janet Baker, Hallé Orchestra

The Rescue of Penelope: Part 2 "When I see the sorrow of mortal Odysseus"

Kent Nagano, Dame Janet Baker, Hallé Orchestra

The Rescue of Penelope: Part 2 "How loud the spring sounds all of a sudden"

Kent Nagano, Alison Hagley, Dame Janet Baker, Hallé Orchestra, John Mark Ainsley

The Rescue of Penelope: Part 2 "Bold. Telemachus, watch the shadow on the wall"

Kent Nagano, Dame Janet Baker, Hallé Orchestra

The Rescue of Penelope: Part 2 "There it is before you"

Kent Nagano, Dame Janet Baker, Hallé Orchestra

The Rescue of Penelope: Part 2 "Listen, Lords of Ithaca"

Kent Nagano, Dame Janet Baker, Hallé Orchestra

The Rescue of Penelope: Part 2 "Telemachus, be swift!"

Kent Nagano, Alison Hagley, Dame Janet Baker, Hallé Orchestra

The Rescue of Penelope: Part 2 "Now there is silence"

Kent Nagano, Alison Hagley, Catherine Wyn-rogers, Dame Janet Baker, Hallé Orchestra, John Mark Ainsley, William Dazeley

Phaedra, Op. 93: Prologue "In May, in brilliant Athens"

Kent Nagano, Hallé Orchestra, Lorraine Hunt

Phaedra, Op. 93: Recitative "My lost and dazzled eyes"

Kent Nagano, Hallé Orchestra, Lorraine Hunt

Phaedra, Op. 93: Presto "You monster !"

Kent Nagano, Hallé Orchestra, Lorraine Hunt

Phaedra, Op. 93: Recitative "O Gods of wrath"

Kent Nagano, Hallé Orchestra, Lorraine Hunt

Phaedra, Op. 93: Adagio "My time's too short"

Kent Nagano, Hallé Orchestra, Lorraine Hunt