Margaret Mikulska wrote:

>I don't think there is a single composer or work that is an absolute
>must for everybody.

That's true enough.  But I think that everybody might well have a single
composer that is a must for them as an individual.  For me it's Benjamin
Britten, and I would kill for a complete edition done under the auspices
of say, the Aldeburgh festival, for example.  Steuart Bedford would be
the ideal fellow to head up such a project, and he had a good start on
it before Collins Classics met with its very sad demise.

By the way, I heard a rumor that Naxos was buying up at least the Maxwell
Davies portion of Collins' catalogue and will be reissuing it.  Along with
that they have allegedly commissioned a new set of string quartets to cap
the venture.  Is this true? Anyone know the lowdown?

Kevin Sutton