Martin Pitchon wrote: >Achim Breiling said: > >>Do not wait any longer! This *is* recorded and DG just issued the new CD >>with Cartes Symphonia "Sum fluxae pretium spei" (BBC SO, Oliver Knussen). >>Also on this CD is the clarinet concerto! > >I like almost every work by Schnittke. (I don't like when his music >becomes depressive). I have not listen his 9th symphony yet. Could you >give me your opinion?... And what about the clarinet concerto? Could you >compare these works with others that I could know or even other composers? Oh, here you mix up some things! My reply was directed to a listmember asking for a recording of Eliot Carters Symphonia, which was just released by DG (I have to buy this disc myself..). Schnittkes ninth is not recorded and I have not heard a performance. Judging from the symphonies 6-8 which I know, the 9th is more in the depressive line, though I could be totally wrong....thats why I would really like to have this one recorded! Achim Breiling Ph.D. email: [log in to unmask]