The Ferrier is I think unmatched, amidst a field crowded with good to
great versions. Walter's conducting doesn't hurt. I'm not as crazy
about Patzak. Ferrier also does a mean Alto Rhapsody (among much
else, of course), though the Marian Anderson is equally amazing and
very different. An Anderson Das Lied would have been nice to hear. Alas.
I'm not sure that Eliot added any value to the commonplace. But I'm
decidedly not a fan.
Mark
At 04:18 PM 3/27/2006, you wrote:
>>Singing Grass
>
>interesting, thanks - I suppose it must indeed be a common phrase in
>grassland areas - which Eliot picks up and imbues with his own
>thunder-speaking thing -
>
>>In mid-voyage I never knew Das
>Lied von der Erde to fail me.
>
>I am fully here but I was listening to this earlier today, the
>Kathleen Ferrier version. Not that i venerate that above other recordings!
>
>Edmund
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