Deryk Barker comments on my

>>flawed symphony (the Reformation), but Schumann may have written the
>>three finest symphonies between Berlioz and Brahms.
>
>Berwald? Liszt?

Don't get me started on Liszt's symphonies.  Berwald I like quite a bit,
but not as much as Schumann's set.  Berwald kind of reminds me of CPE Bach:
a great innovator, a very interesting musical mind, but ultimately others
used his ideas in better ways.

Steve Schwartz