Celebrating Benjamin Britten’s centenary, internationally renowned tenor Richard Edgar-Wilson presents his skilfully composed and colourful song cycle ‘Winter Words’. The recording is complemented by three other cycles from living composers, all of which are world premiere recordings. Each set of songs draws from poetry, including works by two of Britain’s most prominent poets – Thomas Hardy and R S Thomas.

“In Richard Edgar-Wilson, Pimlico Opera has a Peter Quint of quintessential Englishness, trying and tasting every graphically set word in a lightly-sprung, crisply enunciated tenor.” Hilary Finch / The Times - on a review of the ‘Turn of the Screw