Robert Peters:

>I have been listening now for four days to Benjamin Britten's Serenade for
>Tenor, Horn and Orchestra and I have come to the seemingly paradox result
>that I like and admire the work but do not think it is really good.  My
>main criticism is that the work is totally heterogenous, that the texts
>used do not match and that there is no clear thread running through it.
>But it nevertheless impresses me much.

Do you criticize Mahler's Das Lied for the same reason?

Steve Schwartz