Peter Schledorn responded to me: >> And, in a parallel universe: >> >> Furtwangler, London Ring, complete, 1930s, w/ Leider and Melchior ... >> Tristan u. Isolde w/ Gustav Mahler (or, if not available, Richard Strauss) >> Tristan and Parsifal w/ Toscanini (Bayreuth) > >While we're in a parallel universe, see if you can get them in good stereo >;-). DDD, naturally! More seriously, I need to correct myself: in case anyone is interested in the live Arrau CD I mentioned (AFAIK Arrau didn't record Gaspard commercially and in my experience his live recordings are far more interesting than his studio efforts - not only are the performances freer and more spontaneous, but Arrau's sound, which is often too closely miked in his Philips recordings, turns out, in the more natural concert hall surroundings, to be an extraordinarily rich and complex web of voices and timbres creating an almost opalescent effect) - as I began to say, if anyone is interested, it is not on Dante at all, but on a rather obscure Italian label called Aura Classics. You can find it on Amazon. Felix Delbruck [log in to unmask]