You may recall Tony Duggan reviewing a recording of Mahler's 5th symphony
conducted by Rudolph Barshai which became his top recommendation.

   http://www.musicweb.uk.net/classrev/2001/Apr01/Mahler5.htm

This review coupled with a silmilar review by Dave Hurwitz on Classics
Today dragged this Laurel recording from obscurity and gave it coverage
in the press:  Norman Lebrecht in the Daily Telegraph

   http://www.scena.org/columns/lebrecht/010418-NL-mahlerlegend.html

as well as the Sunday Times and yesterday morning on BBC Radio3 where
MusicWeb and Classics Today were described as being part of a musical
underground.  This disc is now in its second repressing.

Today we present a Tony Duggan review of Mahler's Song of the Earth with
Peter Schreier, Birgit Finnila and the Berliner Sinfonie-Orchesterconducted
by Kurt Sanderling.  Tony declares "This is one of the finest recordings
of this inexhaustible work.  No Mahlerite should be without it."

Will this recording be as successful? Read the review at

http://www.musicweb.uk.net/classrev/2001/July01/MahlerDasLied.htm

Len Mullenger
Founder of MusicWeb
www.musicweb.uk.net