Speaking of highly sophisticated stuff: the other day I saw and heard Britten's Peter Grimes (with a libretto by Crabbe/Slater). It blew me away.
It was a world enhancing experience comparable to those served to me earlier by Douglas Adam's Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy dramatised by BBC Radio Something (probably 4) over two decades ago, John Betjeman's Banana Blush* (with music by Jim Parker) or some of Chopin's more complicated piano antics.
*well, well, well: me promoting the bonkers Guardian? I must be going bonkers too (age)...
