Reynier Bordes wrote: >When you are talking about woman-interpreters of Winterreise, it seems >to me that you are leaving out a singer who enters to the bone into the >'winter' drama: Brigitte Fassbaender and pianist Aribert Reimann. I >find her superior to Christa Ludwig. I have never heard a recording >of Gerhardt's Winterreise... Fassbaender sure did a good one but I think you never heard the 1980 Ludwig/Werba. Ludwig/Levine is not nearly as good IMO. Philip