Kevin Sutton wrote:

>By all means start with the Barbirolli recording recently reissued on EMI.
>The soloists are Richard Lewis, Janet Baker and Kim Borg.  Another very
>fine recording is conducted by Benjamin Britten with Sir Peter Pears,
>Sheila Armstrong and John Shirley Quirk as soloists.  Regrettably, the
>reissue does not contain Dame Janet's wonderful rendition of Sea Pictures
>which the old edition has, but this is available with DuPre's recording
>of the cello concerto.  All of the above are must haves!

I must correct myself, I said Sheila Armstrong was in Britten's recording
and I meant to say Yvonne Minton.  Sorry.  Everyone keeps praising the
Boult recording with Gedda, but I just can't concur.  I love Gedda as a
singer, but he just doesn't get this part and he does not sing with the
devotion and passion that this work needs.  I bought it once, but was very
disapointed with it and hardly every listened to it before it went to the
used shop.

Kevin Sutton