Ulvi Yurtsever wrote:

>When you add the Szell and Kubelik (both on Sony I think) sets to
>Goodman's I think the Schumann symphonies are just about covered for
>eternity; it's hard to see why any conductor would want to record
>them again in the face of such competition.

I hope Ulvi doesn't mind if I add Swallisch on EMI to the "covered
for eternity" list.  It is stiff competition, but new recordings of the
symhonies keep coming out; I recently noticed that Marriner has his second
cd out on Hanssler which completes his traversal of the Schumann
symphonies.

I don't have any problem with an active conductor who loves a work, no
matter how frequently recorded, wanting to perform and record it for
posterity.  But, that recording, in order to have any long-term viability
needs to be a very good one indeed.

Don Satz
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