**** Bachtrack
’Moving and brilliant’

**** The Herald
’Given the limited range in the current diet of new work being created for television, it seems little short of incredible that Benjamin Britten's pacifist opera Owen Wingrave was commissioned by the BBC, reaching the screen 45 years ago. The brilliance of this staging of it by director Oliver Platt and designer Cordelia Chisholm, with lighting by Alex Kilgour, is that it responds directly to those origins, scenes changing perspective and "dissolving" using gauzes, while the set and costuming are only a few subtle tones away from the monochrome of the Cold War years original.’