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