tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-1154672749113578472006-08-04T07:25:00.000+01:002006-08-04T07:25:00.000+01:00Berend, fair point, and my first choice for the <I>Four Last Songs</I> would probably be the Janowitz version with Karajan and the BPO. <BR/><BR/>I really should have written <I><B>'arguably</B> the greatest soprano of the post-war period'</I>, but in the circumstances I decided to give Madame Schwarzkopf maximum respect in that one post.<BR/><BR/>Jerry, by one of those weird pieces of synchronicity the snail post yesterday brought a copy of Joshua M Green’s book <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/047169021X/sr=1-1/qid=1154670346/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-6965963-3409454?ie=UTF8&s=books" REL="nofollow">Here Comes the Sun – the Spiritual and Musical Journey of George Harrison</A> that I had ordered recently from an internet retailer.Pliablehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.com