Simon Rattle, soloists, Kate Royal, Bernarda Fink, Andrew Staples, Mark Padmore, Florian Boesch, and the London Symphony Orchestra rehearse the Peri at the Barbican London.

Here’s a classy new rendering of Britten’s five Canticles to set alongside those distinguished versions from the likes of Peter Pears, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Philip Langridge, Ian Bostridge and Mark ...