Peter Wisse:

>Always useful information, but I wonder if the distribution and
>availability of NAXOS CD's are as poor in other coutries, as they are
>in mine, The Netherlands...Is NAXOS now really becoming a threat for the
>full-priced CD? The only shop I know, which has a more than decent stock
>of NAXOS, is the Department store 0Ahlens in Stockholm.

Well, if you can get to Stockholm, pop over to Canterbury which, when I
was last there, had the best supply and best display--at eye level on the
wall--I have ever seen.  Where I shop, in Milwaukee, the Naxos discs are on
a wretched turning rack with one behind the other, such that you have to
crouch and turn sideways at the same time.  Quite difficult with bifiocals.
And yes, I am sure the lower return on cheap Naxos discs affects the
quantity in some outlets.

Jim Tobin