Donald Satz wrote: >Sometimes I think that there's a negative perception of the British for >losing their Empire, but I consider that to have been an inevitable and healthy process. So do we and I'm rather surprised you should think anyone should think otherwise. Are there really people out there who would have admired us for trying to hang on to it? Taken all in all, I don't think we did a bad job of giving it all back. On the subject of Gramophone reviews you wrote: >although the reviews are relatively short.... The pity of it is that, many years ago, they used to be a lot longer. Then Gramophone reallly was worth buying. I fear that with the new management things will get even worse. Tony Duggan, England. My developing Mahler recordings survey: http://www.musicweb.force9.co.uk/music/Mahler/