Denis Fodor wrote:

>I have a DG cd that has her (along with, among others, Edith Mathis)
>doing Bruckner masses 1,2 & 3.  The conductor is Eugen Jochum and the
>orchestra the Bavarian Radio Symphony.  Here it's the orchestra that
>shines, as it should under a conductor who excelled at religious music
>and at handling Bruckner.  But the two sopranos contribute measurably.

I agree fully with Denis on this.  A couple of other Stader favourites of
mine - the Fricsay Figaro, which I think is still available on DG, and Igor
Markevitch's Coronation Mass, most recently on Belart from a DG original
and in which Stader is just sublime.

Richard Pennycuick
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