Ed Zubrow wrote: >As to the 9th.: > >When the "Going Home" theme was playing my wife even got up from her >reading to walk over and check out the CD cover--which is virtually >unprecedented for her! When *my* wife heard that movement she said that the composer must have been saying, "The new country is good; the old country is better." >The background information in Steve's review was very helpful. Now I'm >eager to know: what are other great Szell recordings? And are there >dissenters on the list? I can't imagine your not getting a wealth of replies to this and I won't attempt any anticipatory duplication, but I'll risk it to make sure you're aware of the pre-WWII recording of the Dvorak Cello Concerto, played by Casals, w/ Szell conducting the Czech Philharmonic. The first entry of the cello after an extended orchestral introduction is simply electric. Walter Meyer