Rod DeCecco wrote: >Stefan Askenase (not noted for his technical prowess), one of the finest >interpreters of Chopin's music ever to make a recording of same. I agree, though I have never seen any recordings of Askenase, but I heard him a couple of times, in an all-Chopinrecital, in The Hague, Askenase was defenitely wonderful, not always technically perfect, he was not very young any more, but his Chopin-playing was really exceptional. Another in the same class, although technically much more reliable, but also not in the great pianists series, I can't imagine why not, is Alexander Uninski, I have old vinyl records, of the Chopin ballades and two sides of mazurkas, never heard them better. Peter Wisse The hague