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Posted by Martin Walker
on December 24, 2008, 3:38 pm
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Göran, please do not forget - unless you don't know it - Peter Anders's first recording of Winterreise for DG, far superior. I already knew the 1948 recording, quite fine but rather stiff, but was blown away when I finally got hold of the earlier recording. Otherwise I think you have covered a lot of the options; I would also point to Goerne's later live version with Brendel, which I am still coming to terms with, and Christoph Prégardien with Staier, essential, I think, as Pears and Britten are in a quite different way.. Hotter did in fact record the work again in Germany (in '43 I think, it's with all my LPs in France) as part of the huge Lieder project (now on 66 CDs!) that Raucheisen did for the wartime Berliner Rundfunk - it is slightly inferior to the DG.
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