Steven Schwartz ([log in to unmask]) wrote: >>Don't get me started on Liszt's symphonies. To which Deryk Barker replied: >Why not? I think the Faust Symphony is a masterpiece. Me too! Not only is it (in a good performance, needless to say) a thrill and delight to hear, but it is brilliant in formal design (just as much so as the Sym Fantastique if you ask me), and in it Liszt invents not only Wagner's so-called "Tristan chord", but also the first tone-row. Masterpiece: listening yields fascination and excitement, close examination yields a whole 'nother layer of same. Jon Lewis [log in to unmask]