Michael Cooper wrote: >I also find this with Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances (incidentally, >another of my "greatest pieces of music"... comments and flames welcome), >which I knew for years only as orchestral music, then fell in love with >as piano music through the Ashkenazy/Previn recording, and now I prefer >the two piano version, although I still love both. (Don't care much for >Argerich/Rabinovitch, which fact surprises me.) Ahah! I agree with you 100%, and I was surprised, too, after reading all the hoo-ha about Argerich. But Ashkenazy/Previn bring out important melody lines that are forgotten and swallowed up by the other pair. They are true chamber musicians. That Ashenazy/Previn set is one of my very all-time favorites! It's on a moderately priced two-fer and also contains the suites. Mimi Ezust