The Rake's Progress

Igor Stravinsky The Rake's Progress opera to libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman. Directed 2010 by John Cox at Glyndebourne. Stars Miah Persson, Topi Lehtipuu, Clive Bayley, Matthew Rose, Susan Gorton, Elena Manistina,  Graham Clark, and Duncan Rock. Vladimir Jurowski conducts  the London Philharmonic Orchestra (with leader Pieter Schoeman) and the Glyndebourne Chorus (with chorus master Jeremy Bines). Designs by David Hockney; lighting by Robert Bryan; produced by Toni Hajal; TV direction by François Roussillon. Released 2011, disc has 5.1 dts-HD Master Audio sound. Grade: Help!

Richard Fairman wrote an interesting review of the DVD version of this title. Alas, he apparently is in a complete fog as to what is going on. He compares this DVD to the Opus Arte DVD of the 2007 Monnaie De Munt production of Rake's Progress (OA0991D).  What Fairman didn't know was that both the subject of his review and his comparison title have been recently reissued in Blu-ray versions that are superior to the old DVDs. If you are interested in HD recordings of fine-art titles, you  can't rely on what you might read in print at even the most famous magazines. The reviewers and their editors are so mired in the past as to be incompetent to help you.

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