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