John Smyth replies to me:
>>I still obsess over certain performers. I *will* buy any CD with
>>either George Szell's or Charles Munch's name on it.
>
>How is Munch's Berlioz Requiem? Do you remember? It's coming out in
>its original 3-channel format in Jan on SACD.
Which one? He recorded it twice: once for RCA, once for DG. The
DG (Munch's later recording) is fine, but pales (as does every other
recording) to Munch's first effort. The RCA is hands-down my favorite
performance of that work. Everything it should be -- wild, wooly, and
with the scent of limelight and greasepaint. Terrific.
Steve Schwartz