Expressive performances make these works dazzle

Clytemnestra

Berg: Altenberg Lieder; Mahler: Rückert-Lieder; Rhian Samuel: Clytemnestra Ruby Hughes (soprano); BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Jac van Steen

Ruby Hughes rises to the challenge with bombproof strength

gives this release its, composed in 1994, comes from Aeschylus’s play – about the Greek commander, back from the Trojan war, who is killed by his wife in revenge for his sacrifice of their daughter on the way to Troy ten years earlier.