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
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