Lavrenti Vachnadze wrote:

>And Vivaldi, Salieri, and Rossini are "immediate turn-offs" if I hear
>them on my local public stations.  I just wonder who like them, along
>with early Haydn or Mozart symphonies, that we almost get daily dose
>here.

I do, but I'm not responsible for the programming on your local stations:-)

I'd like to add that "early Mozart" and "early Haydn" symphonies (or
other works) are very different kettles of fish.  Mozart started early
and his early symphonies comes from the time when he was a child or a
teenager.  At that age Haydn didn't even know how to compose.  What we
call Haydn's early symphonies are works written by an at least 30-years-old
person.  There is a difference.

You're lucky you can listen to Salieri often.  There are very few
recordings of his music.

And Rossini is great and very underrated or perhaps treated condescendingly.

-MM