Chris Webber wrote:

>Anyone who enjoys Bruckner, late Brahms, or Zemlinsky, and is looking
>for a refreshing change, will likely find Schmidt very much to their
>taste.  I'd recommend the Piano Quintet and the two Quintets for Strings
>and Clarinet very highly indeed as starting points, followed by the
>Symphonies (if you can get them!  There's an excellent version of the
>monumental 4th on EMI conducted by Franz Welser-Most.)

I've been very impressed by the Fabio Luisi recordings of the symphonies
on Querstand.  Less so his recordings of the piano concertos, but I'm
not that fond of those works.

>Of course, his magnum opus is that huge oratorio "The Book of the Seven
>Seals" (Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln).  ...

Agreed. Try Welser-Most, Harnoncourt, Jarvi, and Stein. Don't know
the Luisi, sorry to say.

Roger Hecht

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