Mitch Friedfeld ([log in to unmask]) wrote: >... Fried knew Mahler and worked on Mahler's music with the composer, >so these recordings are probably the closest we'll ever come to hearing >what Mahler had in mind. The symphony was recorded acoustically, With an orchestra of ~40 players... >... One of the singers, Sarah Charles-Cahier, was hired by Mahler >himself some 25 years before these recordings were made; she's caught >here after the prime of her career but who cares? This gives us a clue >as to what Mahler saw in her. My copy of the Pearl issue is at home, but is Mme Charles Cahier a soloist in the Resurrection? The Pearl set has her singing a group of lieder. Obviously well past her prime. Hired by mahler she may well have been; perhaps more significantly, she was the alto in the prmere of Das Lied. deryk barker ([log in to unmask], http://www.camosun.bc.ca/~dbarker)