Ramon Khalona ([log in to unmask]) wrote: >I would never be counted as a Barenboim enthusiast (in fact, I was >secretly hoping that he would be chosen in Berlin so that Chicago could >find a better leader), but the last sentence above is simply not true. >Barenboim's repertoire, particularly in the Germanic repertoire, is much >broader than Rattle's and to say that Rattle is "without question superior" >can only be justified as a case of acute anglophilia. I may be comparing Golden Delicious to Macintosh, but Rattle's recent VPO Pastoral is streets ahead of Barenboim's Choral; seems to me SR is likely the better Beethoven conductor. Deryk Barker [log in to unmask]