I wrote (a few hours ago):

>In my country it will cost a lot anyway, cause of the import taxes and
>the small market for them (a Naxos I will pay around US$ 13,00 eq.
>probably) so I want to buy Only if it is really good.

For Murphy's Law!, I wrote it at morning; at lunch time I went to eat
in the Shopping Center and I found the Haydn quartets opus 74 (1, 2 &
3"Rider") with the Kodaly Quartet on Naxos on a promotion price and I
bought it, as other two CDs (Beethoven, Var. Diabelli, Igor Lebedev,
Audiophile and Chopin, Polonaises 1 - 6 and the "Andante Spianatto &
Great Brillant Polonaise" op. 22, Rubinstein II1934-35, AF, Collection
Great Masters).  By the way, I paid R$ 30,00, the three, or US$ 5,42
each! It seems that with the growth of the sales by Internet, the
stores are just finishing with their stocks of CM CDs. Better for me!

>In Brazil the Naxos CD's are imported, that's why are so expensive. On
>the other hand, this Tuesday I bought a CD of Daniel Barenboim playing
>Schubert's sonatas D960 and D840, on Deutsche Gramophone for US$ 4,50 eq.)

Some doubts on these CDs; if you could help me, please...

1 - The CD with Haydn quartets opus 74 (1, 2 & 3"Rider")
    These three quartets, with the three opus 71 were done to a Haydn's
    friend Annody - or something like that. Which are there numbers of
    these quartets opus 74 among ALL Haydn Quartets? And How many did
    he write.  I didn't find that information on my encyclopedia nor in
    the text on the CD cover.

2 - The CD with Beethoven's Var. Diabelli, Audiophile
    It has written on the right top "Contain SBM gold disc". Does that
    really mean something relevant or just nothing, as I suppose? The
    text on the cover said Diabelli made a sword of competition for
    variations on the theme of his waltz. Is that truth? I never heard
    that? Did LvB win? Who else composed?

3 - The CD with Chopin, Polonaises 1 - 6 and the "Andante Spianatto &
    Great Brillant Pollonaise" op. 22, Rubinstein II1934-35, AF, Collec.
    Great Masters Do any of you know this label AF? This is a
    collection, as the name says, of Great Masters and it has from
    recordings of the own Verdi conducting into many CDs of Heifetz,
    Stokowski, Celebidache, Kreisler, Richter, Toscanini (I got his
    Mozart's Magic Flute on this Collection), Goodman, Grummiaux
    etc...  This CD I bought has the polonaises (6 first) and this
    strange "Andante Spianatto & Great Brillant Polonaise"op. 22,
    WITHOUT THE ORCHESTRA.  I have it with Arrau and orch, and I saw
    it in the encyclopedia and it IS with orchestra and there is no
    arrange that Chopin did for it without Orch.  But the version on
    the CD is without. Is it an arrange of Rubinstein?  Do anyone know
    this recording?

Thank you
Renato Vinicius
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