Richard Pennycuick posted an artilce that stated:

>Consider the track I just bought from iTunes. It's called "V.
>Lustig im Tempo und Keck im Ausdruck" ("Merry in Tempo and Bold in
>Expression"), and it's by Lucia Popp, Ortrun Wenkel and the Southend
>Boys' Choir.  Fortunately the name of the album it's from also
>appears on the download: "Mahler: Symphonies Nos. 3 >and 4." If you
>know the Mahler symphonies, you know that the Third has a fifth
>movement (and even a sixth), while the Fourth has only four; you
>also know that Popp and Wenkel do not sing on every track of both
>symphonies, as iTunes claims.

Indeed, the 4th only contains music for soprano (last mvt) and the 3rd
for alto (4th and 5th mvts).

>But it's up to you to figure out who's conducting.

Klaus Tennstedt.

>I still wonder what the market is. ...  Does anyone really want to
>download individual opera recitatives, or spend $40 on a download of a
>complete "Gioconda" that comes without a reliable cast list or libretto?

And in the compromised sound that is MP3...

Deryk Barker
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