Anne Ozorio wrote:

>Berlin isn't an obscure label.  It's very good - very rarely do they
>present anything that isn't top notch.  Their recording standards are
>high too.  It's not expensive because they use a lot of East German
>material often recorded in pre Wende days.  Thye also specialise in
>composers with East German connections - hence Schumann.  The Berlin
>recording you mention is Staatskapelle Dresden, a very good band.  I
>don't know the conductor though.  But it should be reliable.  There are
>several DG recordings of Op 86 with JE Gardiner and with Thielemann.

I only meant obscure in the fract that I have hardly ever seen a Berlin
Classics CD here in South Africa.  We have very few stores that actually
stock classical CD's and as you can imagine, they don't have that much
variety.

Thanks to all who replied.  I checked out the arkivmusic website, but
see that they only ship to the USA and Canada.  I will try and get a
recording from another supplier.

Gustav Styger