I've been listening the past few days to a DG Galleria recording of Haydn's "Surprise" and "Clock" symphonies performed by Eugen Jochum and the London Philharmonic. These poerformances were originally recorded in the early 1970's. Although I had good memories of the disc, it sounds even better to me now (must be my additional maturity). Colin Davis has been and remains my favorite conductor of Haydn symphonies, but Jochum has such superb pacing and understanding of the Haydn idiom that I feel that I'm not listening to Jochum's Haydn, but to Haydn himself. Just a few words about the recorded sound. Being recorded almost 30 years ago, I'm finding that boosting the bass response and lowering the treble response results in a very fine and rich sound. In my car, I just put it on "super bass" and power my way around town. Don Satz [log in to unmask]