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