Felix Delbrueck wrote: >What gave you the 'revelation'? Was it a particular performance? I think it might have been the first symphony or the first piano concerto, which I don't think is as bad as all that. A romantic concerto where the piano has a less despotic role. I like it. Not the piece that the second is obviously, but I think Rachmaninov has a nerve for berating anyone for playing it, when he can get away with writing a load of pants in HIS first piano concerto. The symphonies I have on RCA cheapie. The ones with the maps on the front. It is Kurt Sanderling conducting the Staatskapelle Dresden or whatever. MILES better than Herb's, IMO. >Brahms'or Wagner's transitions and developments sound mechanical rather >than organic, I don't actually know of any composer who writes more organically than Brahms. One of the problems I found when listening to Brahms was the inability to detect the structure, BECAUSE it's so organic. David Stewart [log in to unmask]