5 JANUARY 2008, Page 20

Korngold uncut

Sir: Michael Tanner wrote that Decca’s recording of Das Wunder der Heliane, released in 1993, was ‘heavily and mercifully cut’. As the producer of the CDs, I can assure you that we recorded the opera uncut. Tanner should know better than to pass off opinion as fact. But then, by his own admission, he didn’t stay for the final act.

Michael Haas

London SW8