Steve Schwartz wrote of Barber's Toccata Festiva: >Second that! The classic recording is E. Power Biggs and (I dimly >recall) Ormandy leading the Philadelphia. Dimly perhaps, but accurately. The LP also had Richard Strauss's Festival Prelude (bombast, it's true, but I used to think it was *very* tongue-in-cheek), and Poulenc's Organ Concerto, the first version of this I ever heard. The further we get from the LP era, the less it will be remembered that Ormandy did record a wide range of stuff and not the standard repertoire by which he's largely represented on CD. I still regret passing on a couple of Cowell symphonies (8 and 9, were they? on RCA? - anyone remember? Karl?) years ago and spending the money I had on something else. Richard Pennycuick [log in to unmask]