Ying Liu: >I realised that Kempe has seldom appeared in this list or I missed posts >regarding him but per my understanding, he should be ranked somewhere on >the Great conductors board, I have only heard about his other two pieces >from Great German Tradition Album except this one, one is Wagner's Die >Meistersinger, another is Richard Strauss' Tod und Verklarung. Do any >memebers know more about him and recommend more of his conducting works >and give me some advice? Thanks in advance. I agree. Kempe was superb, especially in Strauss. I recommend much of his 3-CD set of Strauss on EMI. Almost every performance can stand with the best company. I also think he did the best Korngold Symphony. Steve Schwartz