Steven Schwartz wrote: >Barbara Hendricks (soprano) >Philadelphia Orchestra/Franz Welser-Moest >EMI 56169-2 > >Munich Philharmonic Orchestra/Rudolf Kempe >Varese Sarabande VSD-5346 > >I can't choose between these two discs, as far as the accounts of the >Symphony go. ... I must agree with Mr. Schwartz on his recommendation of the two recordings of the Korngold symphony. I've loved the work ever since I bought the Kempe LP back in the '70s. To complicate matters, there is a third recommendable recording of this: the Sir Edward Downes/BBC Phil recording on Chandos. This the most sumptuously played and recorded performance I know of the 5 recordings that i've heard. To top if off, the coupling is the luscious Abschiedslider with Linda Finnie. This work is one I would love to hear a berlin phil or philadelphia O do with say Anne Sophie von Otter. This work would make a great disc mate to the Zemlimsky Maeterlinck Lieder. Aloha and Mahalo, Eric Nagamine