Donald Satz wrote: >...I find Vainberg very interesting... an excellent mix of highly melodic >tonal passages and modernist angst-driven pronouncements. Vainberg's >melodies and harmonies are superbly memorable, and the connections between >tonal and modernist passages well made. I've enjoyed his music for a while now, and find it well-shaped and fun and full of passion. I'd recommend the Olympia discs with his piano quintet, the one with his trio, and that with his violin concerto. I find all of it very impressive music-making, muscular and lively, yet not without depth, and these three discs are very well paired -- with a string quartet; solo piano pieces; and his Symphony #4, respectively. I got the flute and cello concertos on two Russian Discs, however, since they were nicely paired -- with a Cello Fantasy and his Symphony #12, resp. The 2-CD EMI Rostropovich: The Russian Years also includes his version of V's Cello Concerto. I was not as impressed by (the renderings of?) his Cello Sonatas on Russian, but at Berkshire Record Outlet, where I got much of this trove, the price was very right. I'm now waiting for a disc of symphonies and one of string quartets. This last should also be interesting, as it includes #'s 1, 10 & 17 -- a survey of his excursions in the genre (which I got a taste of with the mentioned quintet/quartet disc). I wonder if it's the one you have... Happy listening! Bert B