Poul Ruders's opera on Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale was, unfairly I thought, not a great success here; Phyllida Lloyd's superb production would communicate far better with surtitles and the Offred Suite of extracts reminds just how pungent and eloquent Ruders's score is, with Susanna Phillips the chillingly accurate soprano. Ruders deals in exciting, dramatic gestures and though the harmonic direction may sometimes be unclear, the music sweeps us powerfully along. The Third Symphony deals more in vivid effects than in symphonic argument, but Tundra, his five-minute homage to Sibelius, is a concentrated thriller.