Mats Norrman wrote:

>Richard Strauss
>
>* Eine Alpensinfonie op.64
>
>European Community Youth Orchestra/James Judd
>Nuova Era 6706 DDD 51:40
>
>Summary for the busy executive: Eine Alptraumsinfonie
>
>This will be a short review.  The playing is nice and the performance is
>indeed full of "Fahrvolle Augenblicke".  It is the first time the European
>Youth Symphony Orchestra has come up with such a powerful and convincing
>performance, and I thought I should write this review so short like this
>just to ask the panel for more.

With a review so short and otherwise sweet, why call it "Eine
Alptraumsinfonie" which looks like "Eine Alptraumsymphonie" which
would be German for "A Nightmare Symphony"?

Walter Meyer