Chrisopher Rosevear wrote: >Sadly, I can find little to enthuse about in what I perceive as a cold, >angular work with mockery, derision, repetition and deliberate >triteness as its central tenets. I'll grant that all these qualities are apparent, as they are in other works by Shostakovich, but I don't regard them as negatives. I too had trouble with the work when I first heard it, but I now regard it as one of his finest, and urge Christopher to give it another chance. I also agree with Bill Strother about the quality of the Ormandy version, which has the added attraction of an equally good version of the 10th as its coupling in a Sony Essential Classics package. Richard Pennycuick [log in to unmask]