Deryk Barker comments on my
>>flawed symphony (the Reformation), but Schumann may have written the
>>three finest symphonies between Berlioz and Brahms.
>
>Berwald? Liszt?
Don't get me started on Liszt's symphonies. Berwald I like quite a bit,
but not as much as Schumann's set. Berwald kind of reminds me of CPE Bach:
a great innovator, a very interesting musical mind, but ultimately others
used his ideas in better ways.
Steve Schwartz