Unfortunately it looks as if it's going to be rather difficult, at least in the short term, to get the fabled Horenstein 1966 performance over here. So now it's probably a toss-up between Klemperer and Walter 1938 (my library has the Dohnanyi recording that Steve Schwartz so admired). Is this comparing apples and pears, or is one a better first buy than the other? If the Walter, is there much in it between the cheaper EMI and the Dutton transfer? Felix Delbruck [log in to unmask]