Eight Songs for a Mad King

Sir Harrison Birtwistle's 'Virelai'; 'Secret Theatre'; and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies's 'Eight Songs for a Mad King' (a monodrama based on the words of George III, the British king who succumbed to periods of insanity. Scored for baritone, it ranges more than five octaves). London Sinfonietta under Baldur Brönnimann, with Leigh Melrose (baritone).