Chris Webber wrote: >Anyone who enjoys Bruckner, late Brahms, or Zemlinsky, and is looking >for a refreshing change, will likely find Schmidt very much to their >taste. I'd recommend the Piano Quintet and the two Quintets for Strings >and Clarinet very highly indeed as starting points, followed by the >Symphonies (if you can get them! There's an excellent version of the >monumental 4th on EMI conducted by Franz Welser-Most.) I've been very impressed by the Fabio Luisi recordings of the symphonies on Querstand. Less so his recordings of the piano concertos, but I'm not that fond of those works. >Of course, his magnum opus is that huge oratorio "The Book of the Seven >Seals" (Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln). ... Agreed. Try Welser-Most, Harnoncourt, Jarvi, and Stein. Don't know the Luisi, sorry to say. Roger Hecht *********************************************** The CLASSICAL mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's HDMail High Deliverability Mailer for reliable, lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html