The work of the Russian composer Anatol Liadov (1855-1914) is characterized by bizarre humour, originality, precision and imagination. 'The Enchanted Lake' is a mood picture in the manner of French musical Impressionism, imbued with a sense of eerie stillness and timelessness, and evocative of a mysterious world remote from any human habitation - somewhere in the vast expanses of southern Siberia, perhaps, with water nymphs playing in the depths of the dark waters.