Donald Satz <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >So, Albie needs to expand his horizons and find that there are always >more and more recordings to get excited about; the true fanatic knows >no boundaries. Ummm... well I did at least a little... I'd already exhausted Penguin's top recommendations in my favorite genres (genres meaning mainly Mahler/Bruckner, symphonies of the other romantics, with some French 20th Century thrown in) a year ago... so for the past year I'd been buying, within my genres, based on my past experiences with the performers or composers on a disc... I admit, with each year and as my collection grows (with ever more copies of Mahler's 6th or Bruckner's 9th) it's becoming more and more rare that I can look at what's available and find something new that interests me... But new editions of the Penguin guide almost always give my collecting a little kick. Albie