Stuart Sinclair at [log in to unmask] wrote: >Well, this in my opinion is the find of the year. Before this came out I >had never heard of vanhal. In fact today I have also bought disc 1 of his >symphonies on Naxos. An eighteenth century singer named Frank Kelly wrote a memoir in which he recalled a pickup string quartet, consisting of Haydn, Mozart, van Hals and Ditters von Dittersdorf. They played, according to Kelly, "with no little art." Bernard Chasan