Michael Oliver compares available recordings of Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements. Paul Banks and John Warrack review some new vocal releases, including the first two volumes of a recording of all the Rachmaninov songs by mezzo Monica Groop and pianist llmo Ranta on Chandos: baritone
Dmitri Hvorostovsky 's recording of songs by Rachmaninov - and Sviridov's Russia
Cast Adrift - accompanied by pianist Mikhail Arkadiev ; Benjamin Britten song-cycles from tenor
Philip Langridge and Steuart Bedford (piano); the first recording of Britten's The
Rescue of Penelope, starring soprano Alison Hagley and the Halle Orchestra under Kent Nagano: and a selection of songs by Grieg and Diepenbrock from various performers.
Revised repeat tomorrow 11.45pm