Bernard Chasan ([log in to unmask]) wrote: >First of all, I agree completely with Mr. Bailey's high estimate >of Gerhard's Piano Concerto. Concerning the Fourth Symphony, it is >a formidable, elusive, yet fascinating work. There is indeed a strong I don't know the 4th, but I was at the 1967 Prom performance of the 3rd, which I see from the note to the Chandos recording was the one for which Gerhard prepared the stereo version of the tape. I was impressed then and was pleased to find that I still was when I got the CD. Of course the fact that like Gerhard (and Shostakovich and Rameau and Glenn Gould) I was born on September 25 has nothing to do with it. Deryk Barker [log in to unmask]