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