In one of Berkshire Record Outlet's offerings of Brilliant's famous fire sales I purchased a 15-CD set called "Sanctus 1000 Years of Sacred Music", of which I've just listened to the first five. The fifth CD contained, in addition to J.S. Bach's *Magnificat* and Vivaldi's *Gloria*, a work I'd not heard before, whose composer was similarly unknown to me. It was a *Stabat Mater* by Antonio Caldara (1670-1736), a very impressive and lovely work, finding which reestablished that new gems can still be discovered even when rummaging among the more familiar stuff. Walter Meyer