Mitch Friedfeld: >... on Naxos Historical 8.110152. This disc also has the first >recording of the Kindertotenlieder, Jascha Horenstein conducting >Heinrich Rehkemper and the Berlin State Opera Orchestra. The >latter is in surprisingly good sound, all things considered. Not to mention that it's also one of the greatest performances of Kindertotenlieder around. Certainly, my favorite. Horenstein's interpretation has a raw edge to it that evokes genuine, as opposed to sentimental, desolate grief, and Rehkemper (this is the only performance of his I've heard, and I know nothing more of him) interprets and sings on or above the level of Fischer-Dieskau. I had no idea it was the very first recording. Steve Schwartz