Steve Scwartz asks the musical question, >Does anybody look forward to Spano's Brahms cycle, as good a conductor >as he is, when you can get Furtwaengler, Szell, Celibidache, Giulini, >Horenstein, Markevitch, Kubelik, Stokowski, Toscanini, and Walter? Steve has a point, but I am somewhat put off by the fact that most of the recordings he mentions are fifty years old or more. Is this a healthy state of affairs? Shouldn't the new generation of conductors have their shot if only because they bring a different sensibility to the music? On the other hand, do we really need another Brahms cycle? Bernard Chasan