John Smyth: >While continuing to search the remotest corners of the late 19th Century >on my hands and knees, happy to find even the most insignificant speck of >glitter or petal of rose, once non-chalantly cast away as if the store of >good melodies were endless...(sigh); I came across a 3 CD set of Jarvi >conducting the suites of Rimsky Korsakov on Chandos. I agree with John's assessment of this set. He probably already knows - but just in case - that Naxos has been exploring even more of those remote corners in several CDs of Rimsky's music. The obscure stuff is never less than interesting. For years, I resisted buying a CD of his Antar because I still used as a benchmark my Paray version on a Mercury LP of relative antiquity. Finally, I decided to try the Jarvi set of the symphonies on DG which are played for all they're worth, and I commend them to John and other Rimsky enthusiasts. Richard Pennycuick [log in to unmask]