Ron Chaplin, who has discovered the very exciting combination of Mravinsky and Shostakovitch asks: >Where do I go from here? I was not a particular fan of Shostakovitch's 7th symphony until I got Mravinsky's recording on Omega Classics. It is mono, but it is spectacular. A lot of listeners find the long march sequence of the first movement to be merely annoying, but in this recording it is ominous and maniacal, aided in large part by that harsh Leningrad brass, and the symphony as a whole is just a wonderfully powerful and exhausting piece of music. Regards, John Parker