John Smyth replies to me: >>I still obsess over certain performers. I *will* buy any CD with >>either George Szell's or Charles Munch's name on it. > >How is Munch's Berlioz Requiem? Do you remember? It's coming out in >its original 3-channel format in Jan on SACD. Which one? He recorded it twice: once for RCA, once for DG. The DG (Munch's later recording) is fine, but pales (as does every other recording) to Munch's first effort. The RCA is hands-down my favorite performance of that work. Everything it should be -- wild, wooly, and with the scent of limelight and greasepaint. Terrific. Steve Schwartz