Anne wrote:

>Thanks for that!  I really enjoyed the translation, rhyming couplets and
>all!  Are you sure it was "snarling doves" following the organ grinder?

Ack, it's "dogs," not doves.  And they are definitely snarling.  Sorry
bout that.

>That is why I like the relatively new Ian Bostridge version.

This got a surprisingly lukewarm review in the BBC Music Magazine a
couple of months ago.  The reviewer was not happy with Bostridge's
near-Sprechtstimme delivery of some songs.  I have not heard this
performance.

Mitch Friedfeld