In response to James Arts' announcement of Mr. Small's performance of the Goldberg Variations next week in New York, I will offer my simple recommendation that Mr Small's rendition of the Goldberg Variations is excellent. I heard him perform the GV last year and when I came home I played Murray Perahia's rendition of the same. I could not say that one was truly better than the other, although there were some differences. FWIW (for what it's worth) I prefer both of them to the first Gould recording. Larry Sherwood