Virginia Knight: >I think it was the Bellini one, though I found out by asking my husband who >was nearer to the radio at the time and heard the preceding announcement. >If it's complete (and not reconstructed by additions from less gifted >composers) I'm surprised it isn't performed more often. So am I. Donizetti certainly completed his 1835 Requiem in memory of Bellini, if my sources are to be believed. Maybe I am wrong, but I must admit that I have honestly never doubted them: the French musicologist and critic Francois-Rene Tranchefort, for instance, or Gottfried Kraus, Andante's music recording and archive specialist, who also wrote the notes to the Orfeo recording I have (1984). Vilmos Lesko edited a score for Ricordi (1975) from the original manuscript and two copies preserved in the Naples Conservatory Library and in Bergamo respectively - once more if I am right to believe my sources... Regards, Christine Labroche