Roger Hecht:

>One I'd like to hear is Ormandy...

Well worth the trouble - it's a fine performance, and made doubly
attractive by the fact that it's in a twofer with a superb version of
the 4th, one of my favourites of the Shostakovich symphonies.

I think Ormandy is sometimes thought of patronisingly because he was
associated for so long with the very mainstream repertoire, and then
recorded a lot of it again when he moved to RCA.  Among my favourites are
his Prokofiev 4th, Mahler 10th, Hindemith Concert Music and Rachmaninov
1st.  I once decided not to buy his record of William Schuman's 9th - I
forget the coupling - and have always regretted it.

Further to the Karel Ancerl/Czech Philharmonic version on DG, a friend
has it (in mono) with this addition on the cover: Souvenir of the Tour
of Australia 1959.  It makes no mention of a stereo version.

Richard Pennycuick
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