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 [log in to unmask]