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But it appears that her discography - though gratefully large and varied - does in no way fully reflect her repertory in the concert hall and the opera house. Thus, just to take one composer, where are the Mahler RllckertLieder and Das Lied von der Erde? Surely many of these concert performances...

As a correction to the obituary for Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (September), her last public performances were not of her husband's Neruda Songs with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. As romantic a story as it would have been, it is equally celestial that it was actually Mahler's Resurrection Symphony,...

How could your editor ever select Keith Davies Jones's letter "Stanford and Slavery" as letter of the month (October)? As a piece of politically correct (and almost pointless) pedantry, it certainly took a bit of beating. I write "pointless" because the point of the letter seemed only to be...

Armando lannucci mustn't feel guilty about his addiction to box-sets. ("Finding my place", September). It is a weakness that many of us share - if, indeed, it is a weakness. In my view it would be foolish to resist the wonderful bargains available: Martinon in Debussy/Ravel, Sir Colin Davis in...