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