Deryk Barker in reply to me: >>...the old EMI transfers) and superb playing (mid price). The only >>draw-back is that these recordings are post Rostislav Dubinsky leaving the >>the band done in the 70'ties early eighties- We yet await the resurfacing >>of the incomplete (AFAIK) set with RD at the helm. > >The first Borodin set was recorded in 1967 (1-12) and 1972 (13). It omits >14 & 15 which weren't yet composed. You have them, right; amounts to tremendous envy from me - I've been looking for these on LP for Years, but they seem to be extra-tresured by all the owners as they never seem to surface on the SH-market. >>If You want to check the Dubindsky effect on the band there is a No 8 on >>Decca from the early 60'ies, stunning... > >Is that out on CD now? Well the disc is in the 1999 catalogue (425541-2), and has been there for some years, but I cant vouch for its universal availability. (I belive that this is The Gramophone Mags. recomended version of the 8 if You want a single issue of it - it got me started on the DSCH Qts.) Peter Lundin, Gothenburg, Sweden