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 [log in to unmask]