Richard Pennycuick wrote about the quality of Nimbus records: >I've not had a problem with the limited number of Nimbus piano CDs I've >heard. I think "cavernous" suggests a piano being played in a room where >there's too much reverberation or as someone mentioned in another thread, >like listening to a piano trio in a large sparsely-populated hall. I got a Nimbus disc of Cherkassky playing Schumann from my library 2 days ago (nothing to get excited about, incidentally, although in the slower movements he does achieve a quiet and simple inwardness that is rather affecting, and the playing is astonishingly supple for a 76-year-old) - and I'm afraid I have to align myself with the nay-sayers: I'm not sure about the word 'cavernous' either, but Richard's above illustration fits my impression: the timbre becomes rather hard and clangerous above a certain dynamic level and in the upper register, as if Cherkassy were playing in an empty hall with a low ceiling and bare wooden floor. However, I'm more averse than some to reverberent recordings - the acoustic spoiled the Salomon Quartet's recordings for me, and I'm also having problems with Brendel's Schubert sonata D. 959 recommended by Don Satz for that reason. Felix Delbruck [log in to unmask]