Chris Bonds wrote:
>I am just getting to know the orchestral song cycle Les Nuits d'ete of
>Berlioz (sorry about the lack of accents there!) Is anyone else a fan
>of this work? I think it's fantastic! I discovered I have an LP of
>the recording by Barbirolli/Janet Baker. (It's in the old Time-Life
>Story/Concerts of Great Music series.)
I have that one too but in another edition coupled with the Rueckert
Lieder. Janet Baker is *superb* in this repertoire, I think. I have other
good recordings of the Berlioz cycle, including Regine Crespin and Suzanne
Danco and, more recently, Von Otter, but I always end up with Baker.
Philip