Mitch Friedfeld responds to mmeennee: >>There's also a recent version by Natalie Stutzman, which I haven't >>heard because I don't like Stutzman's voice and her rather heavy >>style. > >This was reviewed in the same article that lauded the Goerne/Brendel. >The reviewer gave it three stars for both performance and sound, but >it was a grudging three. "For paid up Stutzmann fans only," was the >reviewer's verdict. I guess that rules me out. (grin) I think, though, it is a cycle only for an exceptionally convincing female voice, however good. Try a few tenor versions, too, as Schubert was a tenor and wrote it for the voice. Schreier, definitely - Pregardien too if you can handle the fortepiano. Somewhere have a very good recording where Pregardien also talks through how he feels the cycle develops. However auf Deutsch only. Goerne, Hotter and Fischer-Dieskau (Demus or Moore) will never let you down. Anne [log in to unmask]