Delighted to see Steve Schwartz's enthusiasm for this release! I conducted the local premiere of the Toch Dance Suite about 20 years ago with the all-star Theater Chamber Players at the Kennedy Center; we repeated it at the Library of Congress as well. We used solo strings, I recall that the score offers the option of small sections part of the time as well. I think that soli would work better. WONDERFUL piece; the waltz-finale is one of those fantastic syntheses of style, like the Busoni "Tanzwalzer" or the Strauss "Rosenkavalier" waltzes, with a Mahlerian bite. Nice interpretative issue to sort out what is parody and what isn't... I envy my Berlin colleagues having the opportunity to record it! Best wishes to all-- Joel Lazar Bethesda MD *********************************************** The CLASSICAL mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's HDMail High Deliverability Mailer for reliable, lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html