> It's in a journal - I can send you a PDF if you like.
It's his essay from 1928? I just grabbed it off JSTOR...
> The Adorno guy pointed out that "liking" had nothing to do with it - it was all about ideas or something.
You'd like this Peter Anders recording of _Wintereise_ done in 1945. It was the last recording that DGG made before the Russians' final assault on Berlin, and Zhukov's shelling from the Oder river constantly interrupted the sessions:
<http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=502884>
("Sweet" wouldn't be the 1st adjective that came to mind here.)
I gave a copy to my German teacher. She grew up in Alsace and as a kid, remembers her father and grandfather sitting around after dinner arguing about which art was superior, with music usually winning out because of its immateriality. She called the _Wintereise_ something like "the essential document of the German spirit."
Anders' daughter Sylvia can really sing too:
<http://www.amazon.com/Hanns-Eisler-Theres-Nothing-Quite/dp/B00005LKA5>
Best, Charles