Ulvi Yurtsever:

>Two questions:
>
>- The Kertesz recording (Decca) seems to be no longer available.  Is it
>really OOP or am I just having a hard time locating it?

FWIW:  I have it on London 448 089-2 coupled with Simon Preston's organ
version of the Mass in D.  Publication date is 1996, and it's a good
transfer, as you'd expect.  I'd be surprised if it's been deleted but then,
we live in strange times.

>- There is an available version by Ancerl on DG (recording from the 60s).
>Does anyone know this and how it compares with the Kertesz?

I haven't heard the Ancerl for many a year but remember it compared
favourably as a performance.  I *think* it would have been a Supraphon
original licensed to DG and may well have had a fair amount of echo common
to many Supraphon recordings of the time.  Some people did not like this
but I thought it gave the music more presence.

Richard Pennycuick