Bert Bailey:

>Strongly recommended.  Any compositions by Markevitch you'd like to
>recommend?

The piece generally thought to be Markevitch's best, 'Icare' ('Icarus'
for soprano, men's voices and orchestra) will be issued next month in
the U.S.  by Marco Polo, I believe, along with his piano concerto and
his 'Cantata.' You can hear if, it you're registered at their site, at
the Naxos site here:

http://www.naxos.com/scripts/newreleases/naxos_cat.asp?item_code=8.225076

The performers are generally the same as those on the 'Musical Offering'
CD - Christopher Lyndon-Gee and the Arnhem (Netherlands) Philharmonic.

Scott Morrison