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 | | von Otter is a mezzo and the program was all twentieth-century except for a touch of Berlioz and Schubert: Peterson-Berger, Stenhammar, Grainger, Chaminade, Mahler, Korngold, and Kurt Weill. |
 | | von Otter had recourse only rarely to the full open-throated operatic high note—which is appropriate—but on the one or two occasions when she really leaned into one, well as I said, home audio doesn’t go there. |
 | | Had she lived in the golden age of Pop, she’d be a millionaire, the songs are light-hearted and melodious and give the singer a lot of room to work; Anne Sofie and Bengt have done a whole album of these things, I may decide to snap it up. |
| www.tbray.org /ongoing/When/200x/2004/01/26/AnneSofie (643 words) |
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