In a message dated 7/21/99 9:09:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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>Best known for their lugubrious _Hippopotamus Song_ (aka _Mud!  Mud!
>Glorious Mud!_), Flanders (sng) & Swann (p) jointly produced some of the
>funniest lied this century; as well as startlingly serious pieces such as
>_Slow Train_; while severally Flanders wrote a popular English narration
>for Stravinski's _Soldier's Tale_ while Swann produced a large body of more
>traditionally classical lied as well as a number of major choral scores...
>none of which (as far as i can tell) have been recorded....

Donald Swann also "polished" the slow movement of Haydn's "Surprise"
Symphony.  Many listers will have heard it, if they were fortunate enough
to have heard the recording of the original "Hoffnung Music Festival."
Nothing as musically informed and brilliant has ever existed, not even
PDQ Bach, whose efforts I do appreciate.

Michael Stein