William Hong corrects me:

>Art Scott wrote:
>
>>...  I became acquainted with the Holst suites & the RVW via the 1978
>>Telarc recording (which was with the Cleveland Symphonic Winds, not the
>>EWE) and that's the version I was "imprinted" with.
>
>Not to nitpick, but the Telarc didn't have the Vaughan Williams Folk Song
>Suite on it.  To have a Fennell-conducted performance of that masterwork,
>you have to go with the "original" mono Eastman recording.

He's correct that the Folk Song Suite wasn't on the first Telarc Cleveland
Symphonic Winds recording.  But Fennell did remake Folk Song Suite on the
second Cleveland Symphonic Winds LP (1980), along with RVW's Toccata
Marziale & Grainger's Lincolnshire Posy.  The Suite & Posy were reissued
on CD as "Stars and Stripes", together with some marches from the third
CSW LP, "Macho Marches".

By now Fennell has redone much of the original EWE material on CD, with the
Telarc recordings and the later Dallas Wind Symphony discs for Reference
Recordings.  But the Eastmans are still must-haves.

-- Art Scott
Livermore, Cal.