Mitch Friedfeld:

>... on Naxos Historical 8.110152.  This disc also has the first
>recording of the Kindertotenlieder, Jascha Horenstein conducting
>Heinrich Rehkemper and the Berlin State Opera Orchestra.  The
>latter is in surprisingly good sound, all things considered.

Not to mention that it's also one of the greatest performances of
Kindertotenlieder around.  Certainly, my favorite.  Horenstein's
interpretation has a raw edge to it that evokes genuine, as opposed to
sentimental, desolate grief, and Rehkemper (this is the only performance
of his I've heard, and I know nothing more of him) interprets and sings
on or above the level of Fischer-Dieskau.  I had no idea it was the very
first recording.

Steve Schwartz