David Harbin on Sinopoli: >Sometimes the results were risible, for example the awful Elgar recordings >with the Philharmonia.... I would agree regarding the 2nd, but not Elgar's 1st. Sinopoli lets Elgars score breath in a magnificent way--without every hyperventilating. I also enjoy his Enigma Variations, including the outrageously slow but thrilling coda. Awesome. >I love Sinopoli's Salome. The orchestra takes on real character. >Listen to the neurotic itchy sound in Herod's final scene with Herodias >or the dark howl of delight from the horns when Salome finally gets John >he baptists head. Also, his Elektra is a controversial classic. Completely in agreement here. His Elektra come off my shelf a lot. Those Vienna horns.... My Sinopoli favorites: Elgar's 1st Symphony DG Salome and Elektra DG Mahler 7th (you heard me ;) DG Scriabin Symphony 3/Poem of Ecstasy DG Puccini's Madame Butterfly DG John Smyth Sacramento, Ca