COMPOSERS: Ades
LABELS: EMI
WORKS: Powder Her Face
PERFORMER: Jill Gomez, Valdine Anderson, Niall Morris, Roger Bryson; Almeida Ensemble/Thomas Adès
CATALOGUE NO: EMI 027 1702 (1996)
This mordant satire on the decline and fall of the Duchess of Argyll would be twice as incisive at half the length. But it is unlikely to be better done than here. Bayan Northcott