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Philip Peters <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 12 May 1999 01:25:02 +0200
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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

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