Steven Martin wrote:

>While I was looking at all these CDs that I can't afford, I also saw
>a Tring disk of MacKerras conducting Symphony Fantastique, a disk of
>Mackerras conducting Sibelius Symphony #2 and Boult's Philharmonia
>recording of the Planet Suite.  The Boult was a real surprise because it
>is usually the L.S.O.  recording that one sees in stores and I recall
>once hearing that the Philharmonia was perhaps even better than the
>LSO recording.  Is anybody familiar with any of these recordings?

Watch out for those Tring recordings.  I have heard two and the sound is
very white and bloodless.

I have both Planets.  I haven't played the earlier one in a while, though
I just heard the newer one, but I seem to remember it as lighter in weight
and faster.  An interesting performance, but the LSO recording was more
noble, deeper and broader.  If there is anything to object to on the part
of some, it might be the quite slow Mars.

If I get a chance to play the earlier one, I'll respond off list.

Roger Hecht