[ Decca Records / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Wednesday 2 January 2002
*** Three Stars. Penguin Stereo Guide
"Pear's searching performance in the central role of Aschenbach is set against the darkly sardonic singing of John Shirley-Quirk in a sequence of roles as the Dionysiac figure who draws Aschenbach to his destruction and the whole presentation makes thsi a set to establish the work outside the opera house."
*** Three Stars. Penguin Stereo Guide