Donald Satz wrote in reply to D. Stephen Heersink: >>Noticeably absent from the "standards" way Roy Goodman with the Hanover >>Band on RCA. After hearing Goodman, everything else became "also rans." > >I didn't include the Hanover Band in my comparisons to Marriner's Schumann, >because I do not possess it. I have had a desire to get it, but other cd >priorites keep taking precedence. It also might also have something to do >with the Hanover's recordings of the Beethoven symphonies which I did not >appreciate. I've only just recently received this set, after the generally positive comments about it on this List, and whatthehey, BMG had it on "clearance" for $5.98 plus shipping. My impressions so far are quite positive. Not sure if it will displace Szell et al., but I do enjoy the difference in sonorities and balances that Goodman and the Hanovers bring to this music. And hearing the original version of #4 is worth the price of the entire set for me. Bill H.