John Smyth wrote in response to me:

>>It's good to have a Bach thread interspersed with the triple whammy
>>of Mendelssohn, Liszt, and Tchaikovsky.
>
>I could think of worse whammies!

Yes.  One day I had a kindney stone attack, migraine headache, and broken
finger.  I'd prefer to listen to a whole month of the above composers
rather than go through the kidney stone business.

Actually, there is a new Mendelssohn cd I might acquire; it's his string
quartets performed by L'Archibudelli on Sony.  They are a hard group to
resist.

Don Satz
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