This wonderful production of one of Shakespeare's most extraordinary tragedies is both true to the text and maintains the tempo of the piece. In every classically trained actors life there is a deep desire to play Hamlet. Lesser does a brilliant job with this performance. Personal and magestic - a must listen! Naxos
Shrewsbury, 1139. The bloody civil war between King Stephen and Empress Maud has swept through the country towards the rural security of Brother Cadfael’s monastery. The citizens of Worcester have fled, among them two orphaned children of noble stock, together with their tutor, a young nun. A Benedictine monk in whose care Lady Ermina...