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Britten - Death in Venice (Hickox)

Langridge is astonishing: his voice sounds positively youthful (which Pears didn’t in 1974) and his diction is as immaculate as that of the role’s creator. He identifies movingly with the character of the ageing author whose flagging inspiration and sensory passions are, momentarily, revived by an encounter with a beautiful Polish youth. Alan Opie brings more variety to the multiple characters of Aschenbach’s nemesis that did John Shirley-Quirk in the Decca recording. This is one of Hickox’s finest achievements on disc, and the recorded sound is spectacular.

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