Richard Pennycuickwrote: About the Basic Repertoire list: I have deliberately avoided adding other personal favourites and have attempted to be as unbiased as possible. Now then, looking at his list I do not think Richard has altogether succeeded in this. Although I very much sympathise with his choice, you cannot maintain the fact that inclusion of the Harris, Simpson, Schmidt, Simpson, Thompson and Tubin symphonies are not very personal choices. I also doubt that inclusion of the Glazounov instead of for example the Mendelssohn violin concerto in unbiased. Perhaps I may add a few choices of my own, I confess, that I am extremely biased. Classical: Mozart: Pianoconcerto in c, KV 491 Stringquartet in d, KV 421 Quintet for wind instr. and piano KV451(?) Romantic Schubert Pianosonata in Bes Alkan, Studies in the minor keys, op 39 Dvorak Celloconcerto 20th century: Janacek Symphonietta Stringquartets Nielsen: Clarinetconcerto Sibelius Symphony ## 2&4 Milhaud La carnaval d'Aix Korngold Stringquartets Quintet for piano & strings Rautavaara Violinconcerto This could be an item, that goes on and on and on.............. The main point of it is, that every now and then personal favourites of contributors surface, which may arouse the interest of the readers, as it does for me, for which I am grateful, e.g. it would have taken me much more time to discover the Rautavaara concerto if not for this list. Let us keep going Peter Wisse The Hague